On the 33rd anniversary of the last episode of 'The Tonight Show,' read an excerpt from 'My Friend Johnny: The Last 20 Years ...

Despite millions of people watching him for decades, Johnny Carson kept a relatively small inner circle. One friend of the ...

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” which set a standard for late-night programming that might never be matched. Carson wasn’t the ...

Three decades have passed since Johnny Carson stepped down as host of The Tonight Show. After chatting with tens of thousands of guests, including the biggest stars in the world, he offered his ...

Fred de Cordova, a longtime producer of NBC’s “Tonight Show” when it was hosted by Johnny Carson, has died. He was 90. De Cordova died Saturday of natural causes at the Motion Picture and ...

Update 4 p.m. 08/13/15: As I suspected, Tribune executive Sean Compton grew up as a huge Johnny Carson fan in Connersville, Ind., watching “The Tonight Show” while listening to his father ...