The Tonight Show

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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. ...

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, ...

 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

 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

 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. ...

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 ...

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

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.