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The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has been broadcast on NBC since 1954. The program has been hosted by six comedians: Steve Allen (1954–1957), Jack Paar (1957–1962), Johnny Carson (1962–1992), Jay Leno (1992–2009 and 2010–2014), Conan O'Brien (2009–2010), and Jimmy Fallon (2014–present).
It aired under the name Tonight for several of its early years, eventually settling on The Tonight Show after the seating of long-time host Johnny Carson in 1962. In later decades, network programmers, advertisers, and the show's announcers would refer to the show by including the name of the host; for example, since 2014 it is called The ...
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He was named host of The Tonight Show in 2014, and he's up to the challenge of eclipsing the late Johnny Carson for the longest tenured host of the iconic late-night series. "Well, this is 10 years.
Conan O'Brien, left, during an interview with Jay Leno in 1995. O'Brien's tenure as "Tonight Show" host was short-lived after a dispute over the time slot.
In his first year as host, Fallon's Tonight Show improved on ratings delivered by his predecessor Jay Leno. [102] The series' post- Super Bowl episode in 2015 averaged 9.8 million viewers, and the following week's shows from Los Angeles maintained their highest ratings since their premiere. [ 109 ]
He indeed succeeded Leno and renamed the show The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on June 1, 2009, and resigned as host just over seven months later, a result of the 2010 Tonight Show conflict. O'Brien's last season on Late Night attracted an average of 1.98 million viewers, compared to 1.92 million viewers for The Late Late Show with Craig ...
Jay Leno had been the regular substitute Tonight Show host since 1987, but Carson was well known to favor the comedian who occupied the following time slot, David Letterman.