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Barnhart: America Has Changed Since 2014. The Tonight Show Hasn’t.
Remember when the new kid arrived on the late-night scene? He was a phenomenon! Everyone, it seemed, was staying up...
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Barnhart: How Stephen Colbert Became the New Jay Leno
Early in his career Jay Leno fell out of favor with Johnny Carson.
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Watch: Johnny Carson Announced His Retirement 30 Years Ago Today
On May 23, 1991, Johnny Carson confirmed rumors that had been swirling at the time and announced at an NBC...
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Barnhart: Doc Severinsen’s Triumphant Post-Carson Career Is the Inspiration We Need Now
PBS is generating a lot of to-do for Hemingway, the next big thing from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, arriving...
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Barnhart: Why is Antenna TV Thriving in the Age of Netflix?
This month marks the tenth anniversary of Antenna TV, and I know that to many that will sound like nonsense.
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Posted Friday 10/23/20 at 2:31PM EDT
To celebrate Johnny Carson's 95th birthday today, two museums announce plans to keep his legacy alive
The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York and the Elkhorn Valley Museum in Norfolk, Nebraska say they will preserve...
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Posted Friday 9/11/20 at 2:22AM EDT
Peacock's The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show captures an astonishing moment in the history of Black culture
People who criticize current late-night shows for being too political often point to Johnny Carson saying on 60 Minutes in...
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Barnhart: Peacock's The Sit-In Looks Back at a Remarkable Week in Late-Night
A few years ago, the historian Jill Lepore cobbled together a brilliant book about Jane Franklin (Ben’s sister) from a...
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Posted Monday 7/27/20 at 7:45AM EDT
Watching old episodes of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show is oddly calming during the pandemic
"Since the pandemic put normal life on pause, the only talk show I have regularly watched is, oddly enough, The...
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Posted Saturday 3/21/20 at 2:01AM EDT
Recalling Johnny Carson's "Great Toilet Paper Panic"
On the December 19, 1973 edition of The Tonight Show, Carson sent America into a mass panic with a joke...
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Barnhart: Ellen DeGeneres Has Perfected the Late-Night Talk Show — in Daytime
For as long as I’ve been a fan of late-night talk shows — basically all my life — there’s always been a...
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Posted Wednesday 6/26/19 at 1:25AM EDT
A Kickstarter aims to turn the time Johnny Carson created a toilet-paper shortage into an animated short film
In 1973, Carson made an offhand Tonight Show monologue joke about a toilet paper shortage, prompting consumers to buy toilet...
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Posted Thursday 3/14/19 at 10:42PM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel fires back at Trump again in response to his tweet about "the three very weak and untalented late night 'hosts'"
The president was quoting from Fox & Friends this morning when he tweeted that three late-night "hosts" are "fighting over...
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Burt Reynolds, Emmy-winning acting icon, dies at 82
The legendary movie star and sex symbol, who died this morning from cardiac arrest, was best known for his big-screen...
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Stephen Colbert responds to Trump's "lowlife" slam with a clip of Johnny Carson mocking him
President Trump was speaking in Colbert's home state of South Carolina on Monday when he attacked late-night hosts describing The...
