According to Carson, he quickly noticed and grew unhappy with the way NBC treated The Tonight Show. In a 1967 Playboy interview with ROOTS author, Alex Haley, Carson said, “Tonight was and is the ...

In 1967, Tonight Show host, Johnny Carson, said it was “ludicrous” for laws to declare premarital sex wrong. Though it was still a time when he couldn’t say that on air, he shared his opinions on the ...

Nebraska Gov. Norbert Tiemann, left, and Johnny Carson on Feb. 15, 1967, on "The Tonight Show." During his appearance, Tiemann proclaimed April Fools' Day as Johnny Carson Day in Nebraska. In February ...

One of the most unusual images of Johnny Carson appeared on the cover of the May 19, 1967 issue of TIME. Carson had just received a million-dollar contract to continue The Tonight Show on NBC, and ...

New book "Love Johnny Carson" reveals the infamous banned celebrity list from "The Tonight Show," including Jay Leno, Ellen ...

An elderly woman in Columbus, Neb., turned on her color TV set, tuned in the Tonight show, and settled back to watch Johnny Carson. “And now—here’s Johnny!” called Announcer Ed McMahon as the star ...

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 can do ...

When many of us think of Johnny Carson, the man who dominated late-night TV for decades, memories of our family pop into our heads. "My dad would always say the same thing," former late-night host ...

NPR's Scott Simon interviews Mike Thomas about the new Johnny Carson biography, "Carson the Magnificent," co-written by Bill Zehme. It might be hard to grasp today just how big Johnny Carson was. He ...