New book "Love Johnny Carson" reveals the infamous banned celebrity list from "The Tonight Show," including Jay Leno, Ellen ...

Before becoming a household name as a pillar of late-night television, Johnny married Joan "Jody" Morrill Wolcott in 1949 after they met as students at the University of Nebraska. The pair welcomed ...

Friends called him Johnny. They called her Jody. But not so on Oct. 1, 1949, when John William Carson and Miss Joan Morrill Wolcott were wed in North Platte in formal church ceremonies. The altar of ...

He-e-e-e-re’s Johnny … and some of Johnny Carson’s capers in Omaha. Johnny Carson, left, uses a magic trick while filming a Falstaff beer commercial for WOW-TV while he worked in Omaha from 1949 to ...

Among the remarkable alumni of the University of Nebraska, no star has shone brighter, for longer, than that of the King of Late Night, Johnny Carson ’49. Carson’s Tonight Show was, not to exaggerate, ...

NPR's Scott Simon interviews Mike Thomas about the new Johnny Carson biography, "Carson the Magnificent," co-written by Bill Zehme. It might be hard to grasp today just how big Johnny Carson was. He ...

The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson was married four times. Before becoming a household name as a pillar of late-night television, Johnny married Joan "Jody" Morrill Wolcott in 1949 after they met as ...