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

Johnny Carson‘s sacred legacy was invoked over and over as Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien vied for his “Tonight Show” throne this month. But who was Johnny, really? The lawyer, known to Carson ...

“Johnny packs a tight suitcase.” A reactive comedian, Carson stood just outside of a joke in case it tanked—and he could play off of that, too. It’s an ideal quality for a man tasked with ...

As his senior thesis, Carson produced a 45-minute recording, “How to Write Comedy for Radio,” which examined an approach to comedy and timing that would play out for the ... the idea of Johnny Carson, ...

Fifty years ago, Johnny ... Johnny Carson truly was. I thought that after having access to all this material, I would be able to pull the curtain a little bit further and see the man.

Offstage, nobody called him Johnny – not even when ... Zehme describes Carson, a loner who guarded his emotions, as “the man who wasn’t there, except that he was always there, night after ...

He was 86. Perhaps best known as Johnny Carson's straight man, whose bellowing "H-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Johnny!" opened NBC's Tonight Show, McMahon had dreamed of being a radio announcer since he was a ...