Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everybody who was anybody landed on Johnny's couch, clockwise from upper left: Richard Pryor, 1986; Drew Barrymore, 1982; Bette ...

ED MCMAHON: And now, ladies and gentlemen, here's Johnny. It might be hard to grasp today just how big Johnny Carson was. He hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1962 until 1992, a bedtime companion for 9 ...

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Everybody who was anybody landed on Johnny's couch, clockwise from upper left: Richard Pryor, 1986; Drew Barrymore, 1982; Bette Midler, 1992; then-Gov. Jerry Brown, 1979. (Ron Tom, Gene Arias, Alice S ...

It might be hard to grasp today just how big Johnny Carson was. He hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1962 until 1992, a bedtime companion for 9 million viewers each night. And as famed names lined up to ...

NPR's Scott Simon interviews Mike Thomas about the new Johnny Carson biography, "Carson the Magnificent," co-written by Bill Zehme. It might be hard to grasp today just how big Johnny Carson was. He ...