Johnny Carson

He seemed just as happy yukking it up with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show – or making goofy cameos in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie and Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), the latter of which saw him playing the role of Sperm Switchboard Chief ...

Rose Marie "saved everything" and also was a great camera buff, Brown says, which was a great help to the filmmakers, who used color film from her personal collection — including backstage antics from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and rare footage from "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.".

Music legend Paul Anka was just a teenager when his song “Diana” became a #1 hit in 1957. Since then, the singer/songwriter has penned over 500 songs including iconic hits like “Put Your Head On My Shoulder”, “My Way”, and the famous theme song from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

DawnMarie Moe, known on stage as Dawn Benz, has been acting professionally for many years. The Aurora native is the daughter of Ross and Joni Beins. Upon moving to New York City at 18 to begin her acting career, she found that people pronounced Beins many ways, but rarely correct, so she ...

Growing up in New York City, Paul Reiser was a huge fan of Johnny Carson and The Tonight Show. "It was just the coolest place in the world to be. People would seemingly just drop by. It was like a great party we were never invited to," Reiser joked. In 1982, Reiser made his debut on The Tonight Show as ...

On the verge of her 90th birthday, Marilyn Maye treats aging with extravagant defiance. It's not that she's taken up skydiving or started running marathons. Rather, the vocalist whom Ella Fitzgerald often hailed as “the greatest white singer in the world” keeps setting the standard for jazz-inflected ...

Drew Barrymore made her first talk show appearance 36 years ago, and she's been charming hosts ever since. When she stopped by on CBS' The Late Show Monday, the 43-year-old Santa Clarita Diet actress shared some of her favorite late-night memories with host Stephen Colbert. "I did Johnny Carson ...

Many people claim (and many others question) the existence of ESP -- Extra Sensory Perception. Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" has gone searching for answers: In the 1970s, a handsome ex-Israeli army paratrooper popularized extrasensory perception, or ESP. Uri Geller claimed he could bend spoons with ...

... gospel groups. In 1976, Jones convinced WSM-TV in Nashville to let him launch a gospel show. He spent years highlighting singers from churches in the region on a shoestring budget. "I just thought I could do it," Jones says. "I always wanted to ... growing up watching Johnny Carson and all those guys." ...

Many people claim (and many others question) the existence of ESP -- Extra Sensory Perception. Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" has gone searching for answers: In the 1970s, a handsome ex-Israeli army paratrooper popularized extrasensory perception, or ESP. Uri Geller claimed he could bend spoons with ...

The daytime television host was interviewed by Dax Shepard for his "Armchair Expert" podcast, where the close friends discussed the highs and lows of Ellen's early days in the comedy world. DeGeneres admitted to falling into a depression after she came out publicly in 1997, and described the "really ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (March 12, 2018) — “Heeeeere's Johnny!” That lead-in, followed by a big-band trumpet blast, was the hallmark of late-night television for three decades. “Johnny” was Johnny Carson, the announcer was Ed McMahon and the bandleader was Doc Severinsen. Beginning in 1962, “The ...

But it was executive producing shows hosted by Craig Ferguson, Tom Snyder, David Letterman and before that Johnny Carson that earned him the moniker "The Host ... Late-night TV's Peter Lassally, executive producer of shows hosts by Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Tom Snyder and Craig Ferguson.

Rivers' last major interview airing now on Entertainment Weekly Radio, and the Fashion Police star covers everything from her feud with Johnny Carson to her thoughts on plastic surgery. In the mid-1950s, at age 23, Rivers ran away from home to become an actress. By 1958, she had decided to pursue ...

The myth: In a Tonight Show interview where she inexplicably had a cat on her lap, Zsa Zsa Gabor asked Johnny Carson if he'd like to “pet [her] pussy,” to which he said that he'd love to if she removed “that damn cat.” The fact of the matter: As was the case with the Groucho line, this one wouldn't have ...