Johnny Carson’s longtime friend and neighbor Howard Smith is reflecting on their friendship 20 years after the late-night ...

Even the tragic death of his son Rick, who died in a car accident in 1991, is given relatively short shrift. Carson’s longtime friend and band leader, Doc Severinsen, said later that “Johnny ...

“We must have inherited the privacy gene,” Cory told PEOPLE in February 2005 after Carson’s death. Here's everything to know about Johnny Carson’s children: sons Chris, Rick and Cory.

Carson retired from The Tonight Show in May of 1992 and lived quietly with Maas until his death 20 years ago from emphysema at age 79. Here’s a look back at Johnny Carson’s four wives.

It was a book about Johnny Carson, the late-night television ... interview he conducted after retiring. In the wake of Carson’s 2005 death, Zehme signed a book deal and began work, never ...

After Carson’s death, Zehme began working on a biography ... and Zehme spends nine of them on the lunch that forms the centerpiece of “Johnny Carson: The Man Who Retired,” and four on ...

Johnny Carson was so popular during his heyday that ... who finished the book after Zehme’s death. Thomas had worked for Zehme as a research assistant on the Sinatra, Leno, Philbin and Kaufman ...