Showing 1 - 15 of 16 articles tagged "Johnny Carson"
PBS is generating a lot of to-do for Hemingway, the next big thing from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, arriving...
This month marks the tenth anniversary of Antenna TV, and I know that to many that will sound like nonsense.
The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York and the Elkhorn Valley Museum in Norfolk, Nebraska say they will preserve...
People who criticize current late-night shows for being too political often point to Johnny Carson saying on 60 Minutes in...
A few years ago, the historian Jill Lepore cobbled together a brilliant book about Jane Franklin (Ben’s sister) from a...
"Since the pandemic put normal life on pause, the only talk show I have regularly watched is, oddly enough, The...
On the December 19, 1973 edition of The Tonight Show, Carson sent America into a mass panic with a joke...
For as long as I’ve been a fan of late-night talk shows — basically all my life — there’s always been a...
In 1973, Carson made an offhand Tonight Show monologue joke about a toilet paper shortage, prompting consumers to buy toilet...
The president was quoting from Fox & Friends this morning when he tweeted that three late-night "hosts" are "fighting over...
The legendary movie star and sex symbol, who died this morning from cardiac arrest, was best known for his big-screen...
President Trump was speaking in Colbert's home state of South Carolina on Monday when he attacked late-night hosts describing The...
“Late-night talk shows remain firmly in the grip of the patriarchy,” says Aaron Barnhart, who notes that the last time...
Paul Reiser’s new Hulu series seems even more out of place in the post-Harvey Weinstein era considering Carson’s bad reputation...
The seven-episode series launches on Hulu next week, set behind the scenes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson with...