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The Johnny Carson Show is a 1955–56 half-hour primetime television variety show starring Johnny Carson. While working as a staff writer on The Red Skelton Show , local Los Angeles television comedian Carson filled in as host when Skelton was injured during a show rehearsal.
Carson forgoes monologue, opting to sit on the front of his desk and talk about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who had been a guest on the show eight weeks earlier. Later in the program, King's appearance from February 8, 1968 is replayed.
Carson's official Tonight Show website; Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress; The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson at IMDb The Man Who Retired a June 2002 Esquire article also available here; Johnny Carson, late-night TV legend, dies at 79, a January 2005 CNN article; A profile of Carson in The New Yorker from 1978
Johnny Carson, the man who made “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” an American institution, has been off the late-night air longer than he was on it.
Johnny Carson's Tonight Show established the modern format of the late-night talk show: [5] a monologue sprinkled with a rapid-fire series of 16 to 22 one-liners (Carson had a rule of no more than three on the same subject) was sometimes followed by sketch comedy, then moving on to guest interviews and performances by musicians and stand-up comedians, in no fixed order.
That's funny because it's true. Carson announced his retirement in May 1991, a full year before taping his final show.And the ensuing 12 months were consumed by a succession drama that played out ...
No. Original release date Guest(s) Musical/entertainment guest(s) 1597: January 1, 1969 (): Godfrey Cambridge, Pat McCormick, Alejandro Rey: N/A: 1598: January 2, 1969 (): Flip Wilson, David Susskind, Parker Fennelly
Late-night television changed forever when Johnny Carson handed over "The Tonight Show" to Jay Leno in May 1992. Laughs, tears and Bette Midler: How Johnny Carson left 'The Tonight Show' 30 years ...