It was exactly 25 years ago tonight that Johnny Carson signed off for the ... People watched Carson for Carnac The Magnificent, Floyd R. Turbo, and Aunt Blabby. But most of all, people watched ...

As host of "The Tonight Show" for 30 years, Johnny Carson was the king of late-night TV – the pre-eminent Hollywood talent broker, monologist, and national taste-maker. But the public rarely saw ...