“Out of all the people, the richest man in comedy is my best friend, not a lot of people ... Both men made their debuts on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the early ’80s.

As host of "The Tonight Show" for 30 years, Johnny Carson was the king of late-night TV. But the public rarely saw his private side. A new biography, "Carson the Magnificent," examines the late-night ...

It was exactly 25 years ago tonight that Johnny Carson signed ... bound to lose him viewers. Carson, though, is painfully irrelevant today. If the late-night comedy of 2017 has a precedent ...

Among the remarkable alumni of the University of Nebraska, no star has shone brighter, for longer, than that of the King of Late Night, Johnny Carson ... How big was Carson in the nation’s firmament?

The comedy legend was a regular on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show Scott Huver is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been writing about entertainment, celebrity, pop culture, crime, fashion and the ...