A 1965 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson changed Joan Rivers‘ life in a minute (well, 90 minutes). After years of struggle —including sleeping in her car, working as a temp ...

Johnny Carson might have been furious with Don Rickles for busting his cigarette box, but Rickles wasn’t the comedian Carson ...

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, ...

Whose Word Is It Anyway? He treated political humor gingerly, making The Tonight Show something all of America could enjoy together. It was exactly 25 years ago tonight that Johnny Carson signed ...

The comedy legend was a regular on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show Scott Huver is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been writing about entertainment, celebrity, pop culture, crime, fashion and the ...

The Tonight Show debuted in 1954 as Tonight and was hosted by Steve Allen until 1957. Jack Parr took over until 1962, followed by Johnny Carson until his retirement in 1992.

Sean Miller is in the middle of a long career coaching college basketball, but he was once a dribbling wiz kid on Johnny ...

Iconic talk show host Johnny Carson could be cold and aloof and treat aspiring comedians in a way that left them riven with insecurity, a new book claims. Writer Mike Thomas's new book Carson ...

David Letterman was famously denied the chance to take over The Tonight Show when Johnny Carson retired in 1992, but he made his way to the show 33 years later on Monday evening when he crashed ...

In 1985, Roseanne Barr made her debut on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson at a time when few women were given the opportunity. I and millions of others watched this domestic goddess slay a ...