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Johnny Carson: Host of The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. Jay Leno: Permanent guest host of The Tonight Show since 1987. Chosen by NBC to succeed Carson as host. David Letterman: Host of NBC's 12:30am show Late Night with David Letterman since 1982. After being bypassed as Carson's successor in favor of Leno, moves to rival network CBS in 1993 ...
Johnny Carson has hosted The Tonight Show since 1962, but he and his audience are both growing older, leaving NBC to anticipate the day when a new host will be needed. Carson's then-permanent guest host, Jay Leno, and the host of the show that follows Carson's each night, David Letterman, both vie for Carson's job. It is widely assumed that ...
On May 13th, 1994, beloved talk show host Johnny Carson made his last TV appearance ever on his friend David Letterman's "The Late Show." The last episode of Carson's "The Tonight Show" had aired ...
Starting in 1986, Leno was a regular substitute host for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. In 1992, he replaced Carson as host [9] amid controversy with David Letterman, who had been hosting Late Night with David Letterman since 1982 (which aired after The Tonight Show), and
Late-night television changed forever when Johnny Carson handed over "The Tonight Show" to Jay Leno in May 1992. ... where he hosted The Late Show With David Letterman from 1993 through 2015. In ...
List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes; No. of episodes: 74: ... Clint Eastwood, David Letterman, Bob Hope [1] N/A: Thesaurus Writers Funeral (from ...
In 2002, Late Show with David Letterman was ranked No. 7 on TV Guide ' s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. [4] As host of both Late Night and Late Show for more than 30 years, Letterman surpassed Johnny Carson as the longest running late-night talk show host in 2013. [5]
David Letterman (guest host), Richard Lewis: Jim Stafford: 4617: July 3, 1981 () David Letterman (guest host), Margot Kidder, Richard Simmons: Natalie Cole: 4618: July 21, 1981 () Suzanne Pleshette, Dr. Robert Altman with the opera singing bird named Nino: N/A