Just because Johnny Carson’s company produced Late Night with David Letterman doesn’t mean he actually cared about the show. In a new interview with Vulture, Letterman reflected on his early days in ...

Late Night With David Letterman had only been on the air for two months when it demonstrated how it might do things a little differently than Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. While Carson’s guests in ...

We discuss the Midwest origins of the "King of Late Night," plus the time a whole Iowa town came on Letterman's show. Then, we speak to a current producer for Seth Meyers. The late Johnny Carson would ...

Well, this is it, kids. After a 22-year run at the Ed Sullivan Theater, another 11 at Studio 6A at Rockefeller Center... After 6,000 editions, 20,000 guests, after 5,600 hundred Top Ten lists... After ...

Like his late night successor and main influence Johnny Carson, David Letterman has long remained one of the most respected and universally loved names in talk show history. Delighting millions of ...

Late-night talk shows are a uniquely American invention that blend humor, the news of the day, and celebrity guests. While Johnny Carson was not the first late-night ...

For nearly two decades, Jay Leno and David Letterman became bitter late-night rivals after Leno was picked to succeed Johnny Carson as The Tonight Show host on NBC in 1993, when Letterman had the ...