Howie Mandel recalls being ... Rivers,’ rather than any episode of ‘The Tonight Show,’ and I come from the era where ’The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson’ was the end all and be all ...

(CBS Local)-- Howie Mandel has been in the public eye since the 1970s. The stand-up comedian got his start when he accepted a dare from a friend to go out on stage at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club in ...

Though it earned him a legion of die-hard fans, as Mandel tells it, it turned off certain comedians and the bookers at Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show. Mandel, however, showed them, eventually ...

Howie Mandel has a bone to pick with his longtime friend Jay Leno. ... Leno, who hosted “Tonight” for a combined 22 years after Johnny Carson retired, ...

But within months of its 1972 opening, the storied institution had already begun cultivating its reputation as a pathway to advance comedy careers thanks to Johnny Carson’s regular recruitment ...