The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is the American late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson on NBC from 1962 to 1992, combining an opening comedy monologue, celebrity interviews and recurring comic characters and sketches in a nightly format broadcast after the local evening news. Carson's three-decade run established the now-standard structure of the American late-night talk show and made the program the dominant ratings leader in its timeslot for the length of his tenure. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is widely regarded as the template against which nearly every later American late-night talk show has been measured.
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1. Wikidata: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Wikidata Q6057742, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 2. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.The Tonight Show topic page, list of hosts
Johnny Carson (1962-1992)
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The Tonight Show is a long-running American late-night television talk show.
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC.
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC.
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