NBC's venerable late-night talk show The Tonight Show has provided a unique window into the changing times and mores of contemporary American culture. Beginning in 1954, its four principal hosts have used the program as a pulpit for nightly...

When Jack Paar was chosen to host NBC's faltering Tonight Show in July 1957, the program had been reduced to two sponsors and was carried by only 62 network stations. Within eighteen months, the antics of the witty, unpredictable Paar had...

The Tonight Show is NBC's long-running American late-night talk and variety show which has been hosted by Jay Leno since 1992. Now in its 52nd season, The Tonight Show is the third longest-running entertainment program in U.S. television history (after...

What a disappointment. After the carnival of clawing ambition, ham-fisted negotiations and bitter grudge-holding that erupted the last time the job of hosting The Tonight Show went up for grabs, we expected something more entertaining than this. An orderly transition from Jay Lend...

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Tommy Newsom, the former backup bandleader on "The Tonight Show" whose "Mr. Excitement" nickname was a running joke for Johnny Carson, has died. He was 78.Newsom died of cancer Saturday at his home in Portsmouth, the city of his birth, according to his nephew, Jim...

NBC Universal plans to sell much of its 34-acre site in "beautiful downtown Burbank," the longtime home of "The Tonight Show," and move operations to Universal City, the company said Thursday.The move may consign to trivia books the long-running jest that gave the Los Angeles...