The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)

Genre

late-night talk show

Country

United States

Length

31 seasons, 3756 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 92 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Johnny Carson hosts a late-night talk show where he interviews celebrities, performs comedy sketches, and chats with his sidekick Ed McMahon. The show features musical performances from the house band and gives guest comedians a chance to perform for a national audience.

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What happens

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC. The show was the third installment of The Tonight Show. Hosted by Johnny Carson, it aired from October 1, 1962, to May 22, 1992, replacing Tonight Starring Jack Paar and was replaced by The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Ed McMahon served as Carson's sidekick and the show's announcer. For its first decade, Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show was based at the RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, with some episodes recorded at NBC Studios in Burbank, California; on May 1, 1972, the show moved to Burbank as its main venue with extended returns to New York for several weeks over the next 12 months. After May 1973, however, the show remained in Burbank exclusively until Carson's retirement. The show's house band, the NBC Orchestra, was led by Skitch Henderson, until 1966 when Milton Delugg took over, who was succeeded by Doc Severinsen less than a year later. Carson's Tonight Show was the longest-running late-night show of all time. The show played a significant role in launching the careers of numerous comedians by introducing them to a national audience. The series was ranked as one of the greatest TV shows of all time in polls from 2002 and 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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