Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just because Johnny Carson’s company produced Late Night with David Letterman doesn’t mean he actually cared about the show. In a ...

Johnny Carson invented the modern late-night format so thoroughly that every host since has borrowed from his blueprint. Letterman deliberately dismantled that blueprint, turning irony and awkwardness ...

He became the king of late night but the many highs of his career never seemed to offset the lows, and the failure to succeed Johnny Carson on the Tonight show ...

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 ...

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 ...