As host of "The Tonight Show" for 30 years, Johnny Carson was the king of late-night TV. But the public rarely saw his private side. A new biography, "Carson the Magnificent," examines the late-night ...

Among the remarkable alumni of the University of Nebraska, no star has shone brighter, for longer, than that of the King of Late Night, Johnny Carson ’49. Carson’s Tonight Show was, not to exaggerate, ...

It wasn’t always like this. Johnny Carson, the king of late night for three decades until his 1992 retirement, steered clear of political controversies to cultivate a mass audience. This was also when ...