(CNN) -- Johnny Carson, host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years, died Sunday of emphysema ... Carson was never open publicly with the details of his personal life.

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

Johnny Carson’s longtime friend and neighbor Howard Smith is reflecting on their friendship 20 years after the late-night ...

Offstage, nobody called him Johnny – not even when he was a boy ... That’s laying it on rather thick, but there’s no doubt that Carson, who died in 2005 at 79, became not just a habit ...