According to Carson, he quickly noticed and grew unhappy with the way NBC treated The Tonight Show. In a 1967 Playboy interview with ROOTS author, Alex Haley, Carson said, “Tonight was and is the ...

In 1967, Tonight Show host, Johnny Carson, said it was “ludicrous” for laws to declare premarital sex wrong. Though it was still a time when he couldn’t say that on air, he shared his opinions on the ...

Nebraska Gov. Norbert Tiemann, left, and Johnny Carson on Feb. 15, 1967, on "The Tonight Show." During his appearance, Tiemann proclaimed April Fools' Day as Johnny Carson Day in Nebraska. In February ...

One of the most unusual images of Johnny Carson appeared on the cover of the May 19, 1967 issue of TIME. Carson had just received a million-dollar contract to continue The Tonight Show on NBC, and ...

Johnny Carson's time as the host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" is memorialized in the new book "Love Johnny Carson." Written by Carson aficionado Mark Malkoff, with David Ritz, the book covers Carson's ...

An elderly woman in Columbus, Neb., turned on her color TV set, tuned in the Tonight show, and settled back to watch Johnny Carson. “And now—here’s Johnny!” called Announcer Ed McMahon as the star ...