The Tonight Show

By Chris DeLine Audio & video of the Flaming Lips' performance of "Watching The Planets" on the Oct. 13 edition of The Tonight Show.

By Chris DeLine Footage of Grizzly Bear's performance with Victoria Legrand of "Two Weeks" on the Oct. 12 episode of The Tonight Show.

By Paul Conan O’Brien returned to host The Tonight Show last night following the cancellation of last Friday’s episode because of his accident whilst filming the show. Conan got a concussion during Friday’s taping when Teri Hatcher was racing him in a triathlon for a segment to go out that evenin...

By Paul Monday 5th October – Ellen Page, Dierks Bentley Tuesday 6th October – Kristen Bell, Anvil Wednesday 7th October – Jason Bateman, Selena Gomez, Toby Keith Thursday 8th October – Jimmie Johnson, the Backstreet Boys Friday 9th October – Lady Antebellum

By Paul The Barack Obama episode of the Late Show With David Letterman on Monday night received phenomenal ratings. TV Guide – “Take That, Conan! Obama Gives Letterman Huge Ratings Boost” The New York Times – “Obama Leads Letterman to Ratings Win”

By Paul The Jay Leno Show made its debut on NBC last night – 17.7 million people watched it. Leno has faced some negative reviews of the opening show though, as critics thought it was lazy of him to stay with a very similar format to The Tonight Show (for example Headlines is featured on the new show, as i...

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Michelle Seltzer holds a portrait of Jay Leno as she and other fans wait in line for Leno's final appearance as the host of "The Tonight Show ... www.sacbee.com

 MI Giving Mr. Leno a primetime Monday-Friday show was designed in part to keep the comedian from going to another network when he stepped down as host of “The Tonight Show,” a move that could have damaged NBC's profitable late-night franchise. ...

 ND Speaking on "The Tonight Show," Foxx tells host Jay Leno he was trying to be funny when he described Cyrus as "the one with all the gums" and told her to "make a sex tape and grow up." But he acknowledged that he went too far. ...

The Associated Press  MA At 5, he dribbled for Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show.” In high school, he played for his father and starred at point guard. At Pitt, he was Big East Freshman of the Year in 1988 and helped the Panthers reach three NCAAs and one NIT. ...

 MA Buck was once a fixture on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (61 appearances, as he never tires of reminding people). Now he's reduced to playing out-of-the-loop community centers and half-filled small-town auditoriums. ...

By Mark Murray “The Costa Mesa visit — to be followed Thursday by trips to Los Angeles and Burbank, where he will tape ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ — is part of the White House effort to sell the budget to America before the expected fight in Congress. The White House announced Wednesday that Mr. Obama wil...

New York Times  WA Just as Marsalis was on the verge of being pigeonholed exclusively as a jazz master, he started the hip-hop-bebop group Buckshot LeFonque, and worked as the music director for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for nearly three years. Over the past decade, ...

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 CA - NBC, for instance, has obliterated its 10pm primetime slot so that Jay Leno can stay with the network, doing essentially what he did on The Tonight Show ...

So now we come to the Leno situation, and NBC once again is betting on less-expensive programming. Here's the upside: - Leno's "The Tonight Show" costs ... Discuss: Has Jay Leno Stolen Conan O'Brien's Thunder? New York Post Leno ready to rule the NBC airwaves Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

He also launched a full-scale assault on rival talk-show warlord Conan O'Brien, who had been set to succeed Leno as "The Tonight Show" host next year. ... News of Prime-Time ‘Leno’ Drives Ratings for Late-Night ‘Leno’ Television Week

NBC also benefits by preventing Leno from jumping to a rival network while maintaining the deal NBC struck with Conan O'Brien in 2004 to take over The Tonight Show next year. NBC has been building O'Brien a new studio in Los Angeles on the Universal Studios lot, which he will move into when Th...

By Tempo I've known about this for a while.  I've talked a lot about this with Jay.  I am thrilled," O'Brien told his studio audience during the taping of Tuesday's show. Letterman also made a little joke in his monologue about NBC's late-night moves, Verne Gay writes. UPDATE: Leno talked about the new...

Now that the what-will-he-do drama is over, Jay Leno seems eager to begin the next chapter in his TV career. In an exclusive interview with TelevisionWeek Monday night, just hours before NBC made his new deal official, Mr. Leno seemed even more relaxed and upbeat than usual. If he bore any lin...

The host of “The Jay Leno Show” doesn’t expect to beat first-run versions of the scripted drama it will compete with at 10 p.m. weeknights starting in fall 2009. He doesn’t have to, said Marc Graboff, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, at a Burbank press conferenc...

By Alan Sepinwall(asepinwall@starledger.com) Oookay, this is just slightly jaw-dropping: NBC is on the verge of handing over the 10 p.m. timeslot, Monday to Friday, to Jay Leno. Some thoughts on the most unexpected chapter of the ongoing late-night wars -- or, in this case, primetime wars -- coming up after the jump...

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By Jake Kalish 2) And this is the big one - Branford Marsalis as the original musical director for The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Branford Marsalis is a world-renowned jazz musician, and hearing him follow up one of Leno's patented dumb Bill Clinton double entendres with a virtuosic rendition of  'R...

 AR - Oct 20, 2008 He spent two years touring and recording with Sting and was the musical director of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for two years in the 1990s. ... MUSIC REVIEW : Marsalis shines with Brazilian beat Arkansas Democrat Gazette all 2 news articles

By Roger Catlin Millions have watched the debates that are now over, but there's still some fireworks to be had on late night TV where John McCain, for one, is to have his makeup appearance tonight on "Late Show with David Letterman" (CBS, 11:35 p.m.).

By Roger Catlin The year 2009 seemed so far away when it was announced back in 2004, on the 50th anniversary of "The Tonight Show" no less, that Jay Leno would be replaced as host by Conan O'Brien. Of course by then, we'd... The year 2009 seemed so far away when it was announced back in 2004, on the 50th anniversary...

By Tempo The Tonight Show" continues to be the most dominant late-night institution in television history.  Since it first premiered on September 27, 1954 with Steve Allen, "The Tonight Show" has had just four permanent hosts, including Leno.  Allen, host of the then titled "Tonight," eventual...

 CA - This isn't like The Late Shift, the HBO movie about how David Letterman left NBC and Jay Leno became the host of The Tonight Show. ...

By Roger Catlin NBC announced plans for O'Brien taking over the "Tonight" show years ago, when 2009 seemed eons away, in part to make sure he didn't stray from the network, as David Letterman did when the "Tonight" successor to Johnny Carson was being discussed.

NBC made it official today: Jimmy Fallon will become the third host of “Late Night” in June 2009, setting in motion the high-stakes late-night shift that will send Conan O’Brien to Jay Leno’s desk on “The Tonight Show” and a new studio on the NBC Universal lot in Los Angeles next year. The New...

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ABC, Fox, Sony Want Leno After ‘Tonight’ (New York Times) ABC and Fox have each contacted Jay Leno through intermediaries to indicate their interest in “The Tonight Show” host after he’s succeeded by Conan O’Brien next year, the New York Times reports. Sony Pictures Television has also a...

Leno’s Art of Late-Show Maintenance New York Times, United States - 2, “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on NBC has averaged about 5.2 million viewers while the “Late Show With David Letterman” on CBS has averaged 4.1 million ...

DVD Review: Pioneers of Television Blogcritics.org, OH - Jan 28, 2008 Steve Allen was the first host of Tonight. The show was renamed The Tonight Show when Jack Paar took over the reins for several years. Johnny Carson was ...

By Wayne Friedman Take the one about “Late Show with David Letterman” returning to late night TV with proper union writers and “A”-list stars. All this was supposed to get him closer in viewership to the likes of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” because Leno’s show would be returning without writers and with...

The return of network late-night talk shows during the TV writers strike provided a ratings bounce for most of the competitors, with NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” scoring wins in their time slots, according to early Nielsen ratings numbers. Th...

Memories of The Tonight Show" with Ed mcmahon  CA - Dec 5, 2007 Jack Paar did that before Johnny was involved. Paar would have Oscar Levant on. Well, Oscar Levant was like a crazy man. "I think the current talk shows are ... Heeere's Johnny, The Definitive Collection - DVD review TV Squad

KT Tunstall, who performs on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' on Wednesday Alicia Keys, who performs on 'Today' on Tuesday, 'Live with Regis and Kelly' on Wednesday and 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' on Friday, and co-hosts 'Total Request Live' on Tuesday

By Hartford Courant Reruns changed the schedules, too, for NBC’s "Late Night with Conan O’Brien," ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live,"  CBS' "The Late Late Show" with Craig Ferguson, as well as Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report."  (Carson Daly had already planned to show a rer...

By constituent more…) Coming off the heels of a dynamite appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the campaign now prepares to take South Carolina by storm. In a three day blitz beginning the afternoon of November the First with the Grand Opening of the campaign office in Greenville, SC. That evening t...

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The TMCG problem has another effect. It separates Hollywood from its audience. A talent agency head boasted that half his interns come from Ivy League schools. Well, that's wonderful, and I'm sure they're good, intelligent young people. But I've seen that, too often, they don't think of the...

William Katz has had a long and varied career, as an assistant to a U.S. senator; an officer in the CIA; an assistant to Herman Kahn, the nuclear war theorist; an editor at The New York Times Magazine; and a talent coordinator at The Tonight Show. He is the author of ten books, translated into 15 l...

The Tonight Show was planned spontaneity. Carson didn't "go with the flow." He created it. He swore by the show business adage that the best ad libs are planned. And, like a good lawyer, he rarely asked a question unless he already knew the answer.

Doc Severinsen is a sweet guy who ran one of the best bands in the business. You could not appreciate the Tonight Show Band through those tinny TV speakers, but in the studio it was spectacular. Just a few weeks ago we lost Tommy Newsom, the saxophonist who led the band in Doc's absence. Johnny us...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. Tommy Newsom, the former backup bandleader on The Tonight Show whose Mr. Excitement nickname was a running joke for Johnny Carson, has died. He was 78.

By info@mysportsradio.com (MSR - MySportsRadio.com) In this edition, Jon disects Alex’s appearance on “The Tonight Show” with all of the care and sensitivity that you have come to know him for. It’s really quite beautiful. Also tackled is the price of beer and stadiums. The Nats took it pretty hard on the chin. Where do they go from here? Are [...]

Johnny Carson, who hosted The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992, has died at the age of 79. While the Carson family released few details of his death, it was reportedly the result of complications stemming from emphysema.