Johnny Carson, the iconic host of "The Tonight Show," died in 2005 at age 79 from respiratory failure caused by emphysema. He ...

Frank Abagnale appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1978, stunning the audience and Johnny himself with unbelievable stories about his time as a professional 'con man'.

Illinois oldest farmer Merritt Heaton appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on February 3rd, 1988.

Johnny Carson presented a confident, quick-witted persona on “The Tonight Show” but his personal life was not so smooth. He ...

Johnny Carson used his affable personality and keen gift for comedy to become no less than the King of Late-Night Television ...

"Carson the Magnificent," by Bill Zehme with Mike Thomas. (Simon & Schuster/TNS) For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight ...

The pioneering late-night show host lived a troubled life behind closed doors, revealed in "Carson the Magnificent" ...

Carson pioneered a new style of late-night hosting—relaxed, improvisatory, risk-averse, and inscrutable.

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. For people of a certain age — you ...

Carson the Magnificent” delivers the famous talk-show host in full while keeping the mystery of what made him tick alive ...

Biographer Bill Zehme died before completing his magnum opus, ‘Carson the Magnificent.’ Then his former research assistant ...

One of television's best-known personalities, Johnny Carson, the iconic host of "The Tonight Show" for 30 years, was born on this day in history, on Oct. 23, 1925. Carson had Midwestern roots and ...