A new book about Johnny Carson has pulled back the curtain on the Tonight Show host’s banned list. Love Johnny Carson ...

New book "Love Johnny Carson" reveals the infamous banned celebrity list from "The Tonight Show," including Jay Leno, Ellen ...

Other bans stemmed from more personal disputes. Barbra Streisand, for example, reportedly clashed with Johnny after ...

Among the many prominent names banned from appearing on The Tonight Show were accomplished comedians like Jerry Lee Lewis and ...

But despite his pleasant demeanor, a new book written by Carson aficionado Mark Malkoff, with David Ritz titled “Love Johnny ...

One of the names allegedly on the list was fellow late night host Leno, who made his Tonight Show debut in March 1977 and was once a regular on the talk show. The book claims that after the “audience ...

As Malkoff described it, a heavily inebriated Carson, fresh off his divorce to his second wife Joanna, walked into New York ...

In the new book Love Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan's Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend, author Mark Malkoff goes backstage and behind the scenes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny ...

While Carson himself always viewed Rivers as one of his personal favorite guests, the two's once inseparable relationship ...

A special episode of 'Daily Variety' podcast marks the 100th anniversary of the TV legend's birth Throughout the 1950s, Carson hosted a number of local and network series for CBS, including “Platter ...

Craig Tennis, who booked acts including Billy Crystal, Tiny Tim, Freddie Prinze, Bill Withers and Gabe Kaplan as the head ...

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 ...