Carson pioneered a new style of late-night hosting—relaxed, improvisatory, risk-averse, and inscrutable.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln found a way to incorporate comedy legend — and NU alum — Johnny Carson's iconic voice into a new TV advertisement.

"Carson the Magnificent," by Bill Zehme with Mike Thomas. (Simon & Schuster/TNS) For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight ...

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The trailblazing late-night show host Johnny Carson's life is pieced together in a new biography "Carson the Magnificent." For decades, Carson dominated late-night television with "The Tonight ...

Not so with “Carson the Magnificent,” the long-awaited life of the late-night talk show legend Johnny Carson by Bill Zehme, completed by Mike Thomas. Its prologue, written by Thomas ...

"Johnny was Nebraska's favorite son for so ... particularly in Lincoln and at the Lied Center and on the university, the Carson Foundation has helped develop their media centers and the ...

remembers the ill-received speech and his wife Linda's idea to have Clinton redeem himself by going on the Johnny Carson show.

One of television's best-known personalities, Johnny Carson, the iconic host of "The Tonight Show" for 30 years, was born on this day in history, on Oct. 23, 1925. Carson had Midwestern roots and ...

NPR's Scott Simon interviews Mike Thomas about the new Johnny Carson biography, "Carson the Magnificent," co-written by Bill Zehme.