Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everybody who was anybody landed on Johnny's couch, clockwise from upper left: Richard Pryor, 1986; Drew Barrymore, 1982; Bette ...

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 ...

Offstage, nobody called him Johnny – not even when he was a boy. It was always John. Johnny was only for TV. In “Carson the Magnificent,” by the late Bill Zehme, you will get to know Johnny Carson ...

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 ...

The prologue or foreword to a biography can usually be skipped without penalty. It most often serves as a curtain-raiser where the author explains how the biography came to be, expresses thanks to ...

Johnny Carson was so popular during his heyday that a late-night quip about a toilet paper shortage caused a run on the product at grocery stores across the country in 1973, nearly a half-century ...

ED MCMAHON: And now, ladies and gentlemen, here's Johnny. It might be hard to grasp today just how big Johnny Carson was. He hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1962 until 1992, a bedtime companion for 9 ...

“Love Johnny Carson” is the new book by Carson Mark Malkoff, created in partnership with David Ritz. The work explores moments from the host’s career, including a list of major personalities who were ...