Borrowing liberally from Jonathan Winters, Jackie Gleason and Red Skelton (it was Skelton who gave Carson his first big break), he played a host of characters including Aunt Blabby; Art Fern, the ...

When the famous late "The Tonight Show" host first dubbed Bob Uecker — who died Thursday at the age of 90 — "Mr. Baseball," Johnny Carson actually did not know whether Uecker actually played ...

Johnny Carson hosts "The Tonight Show" in 1964. "Some critics have said that our show doesn't have great sociological value, it's not controversial, it's not deep," he once said.

Joanne Carson, who died at age 83 in 2015, is played in the series by actress Molly Ringwald, and portrayed as one of the central characters in the circle of “swans” (the tag Capote used for ...

Johnny Carson, born in Iowa on this day in history, Oct. 23, 1925, went on to become the iconic and Emmy Award-winning host of "The Tonight Show." Here's his story.

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 ...