It's now been 20 years since Johnny Carson died and 33 years since he hosted The Tonight Show for the last time. Naturally, it's only fitting that his friend, Howard Smith, has written a new book ...

The Museum of Broadcast Communications is located at 440 W. Randolph in Chicago, very near the Oglivie train station. You can ...

Offstage, nobody called him Johnny – not even when he was a boy. It was always John. Johnny was only for TV. In “Carson the Magnificent,” by the late Bill Zehme, you will get to know Johnny Carson ...

NPR's Scott Simon interviews Mike Thomas about the new Johnny Carson biography, "Carson the Magnificent," co-written by Bill Zehme. It might be hard to grasp today just how big Johnny Carson was. He ...

Brian Noonan, Wally Podrazik, Justin Kulovsek and Chris Pokorny (the museum exhibit team) join WGN Radio’s (and MBC chair, president and CEO) Dave Plier to talk about the new exhibits at the Museum of ...

While the world knew famed late-night host Johnny Carson as the funny man who America welcomed into their homes for 30 seasons, Howard Smith knew him as a kind, down to earth neighbor in Malibu. The ...

This week, we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Johnny Carson by remembering a rare appearance in New Orleans nearly 50 years ago by the king of late-night television. Carson, born ...

Many of us worried it might never return after shuttering its previous location, but in October, the Museum of Broadcast Communications made a triumphant comeback in a new location, with an assortment ...

Johnny Carson, the man who made “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” an American institution, has been off the late-night air longer than he was on it. For people of a certain age — you can do ...

Hi-yoooo! Big news for Johnny Carson fans — and anyone interested in late-20th-century pop-culture time capsules: A hefty batch of 50 not-seen-in-decades Johnny Carson–hosted episodes of The Tonight ...