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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...
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Posted Thursday 12/21/17 at 10:23PM EST
Late-night talk shows are “the last bastion of the patriarchy”
“Late-night talk shows remain firmly in the grip of the patriarchy,” says Aaron Barnhart, who notes that the last time...
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Posted Wednesday 11/22/17 at 10:51PM EST
There’s… Johnny! does TV history a disservice by refusing to engage in Johnny Carson’s dark side
Paul Reiser’s new Hulu series seems even more out of place in the post-Harvey Weinstein era considering Carson’s bad reputation...
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Posted Monday 11/06/17 at 10:48PM EST
Watch the trailer for Paul Reiser’s Johnny Carson-inspired comedy There’s… Johnny!, starring Tony Danza
The seven-episode series launches on Hulu next week, set behind the scenes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson with...
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Posted Monday 10/16/17 at 9:51PM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel thinks Johnny Carson would’ve tackled Trump, complains about the perception that he’s suddenly into politics
“It seems like that’s a narrative that people have seized on, and it’s not at all true,” he tells Variety.
