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  The Tonight Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The show is shot in 16:9 aspect ratio with a 4:3 center-cut for standard definition TV viewers.
The Tonight Show is also seen around the world on many channels, although an early attempt at airing the show in the United Kingdom in the 1980s was unsuccessful, sparking jokes by Carson.
Tonight With Des O'Connor was considered by many the UK equivalent of the show, as was Wogan (hosted by Terry Wogan).
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 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was the full name of NBC's The Tonight Show during the years that Johnny Carson hosted from 1962 to 1992.
The show's announcer and Carson's sidekick was Ed McMahon, who from the very first show would introduce Carson with a drawn-out "Heeeeeeeeerrrreeee's Johnny!" (something McMahon was inspired to do by the over-emphasized way he had introduced reporter Robert Pierrepoint on the NBC Radio show Monitor).
George Carlin was a frequent guest on the "Tonight Show", so when the debut of Saturday Night Live was in preparation there was supposedly an agreement that SNL's producers would not have Carlin on their show.
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 The Tonight Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The show was reinvented with each host, and (at least) in the case of Carson and Leno unjumped the shark that the predecessor host had jumped.
The Tonight Show totally jumped the second Carson left and Leno took over.Seeing those infomercials where you can buy Carsons greatest bits on video or DVD only further solidify the painful truth that Leno is a no-talent hack.Even one of Letterman's off nights are by far funnier than any of Leno's night.
Yes, the Tonight Show can use a few improvements--the chats with the guests could be more spontaneous, with less emphasis on their plugging new projects--but that's always been the case, even with Johnny Carson.
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 The Tonight Show starring Jay Leno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Although the "Tonight Show" airs locally at 11:35 PM (on KNBC, Channel 4), the show is actually taped much earlier on the same day, usually from 5 PM to 6 PM, Tuesday through Friday on most weeks.
And if a popular rock star happens to be performing on the show that night, you can expect the star's teenage fans to camp out in line early to see their idol in the flesh.
Tickets to live tapings of the "Tonight Show" are available in-person from the NBC Ticket Counter, on the actual day of taping.
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 The Tonight Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A kinescope exists of the very first broadcast of The Tonight Show (then called simply, Tonight), and Steve Allen welcomed viewers with the warning, "This show is going to last forever." So far, he has yet to be proven wrong.
Music is provided by The Tonight Show Band, led since 1995 by Kevin Eubanks (no relation to Bob Eubanks of "The Newlywed Game" fame), who replaced Leno's original musical director, Branford Marsalis.
Unfortunately for Joan Rivers, her new show flopped and was immediately cancelled, and when she tried to call Johnny Carson he refused to speak to her.
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 Tonight Show, The
More a conversationalist than comedian, audiences were drawn to Paar's show because of the interesting guests be brought on, from entertainers to politicians, and for the controversy that occasionally erupted there.
Passed over for the host position on The Tonight Show when Leno was chosen for the post, Letterman moved to CBS where his new show ran in direct competition with Leno.
After four decades The Tonight Show was still outlining and defining, even when not at the forefront of, the essence of contemporary televised culture.
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 Tonight Show Band: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits....
The tonight show is nbcs dramatically long-running late-night talk and variety show....
Jose melis (1920?-2005) served as the musical director of the tonight show during jack paars tenure as host....
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 Leno promises smooth transition to O'Brien - DAYTIME AND TALK SHOWS - MSNBC.com
The comedian and NBC on Monday chose the 50th anniversary of the first “Tonight” show to set a special date for the 55th — when Leno will step down and Conan O’Brien becomes the fifth host of the television institution.
He never missed a show until he had to, when NBC had him trade jobs for a day with Katie Couric in a promotional gimmick, and does live stand-up comedy dates when he’s not working on TV.
The last time he was up for a renewal, Fox tried to lure him with an earlier show, but O’Brien turned it down at the last minute.
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 Learn more about The Tonight Show in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Tonight Show is the name of NBC's long running nightly hour long comedy variety show.
Originally 90 minutes long, the show features at least two or three guests each night, usually including a comedian or musical guest.
Miller was a regular in the studio audience, who became such an integral part, she was forced to join the TV actors union.
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 The Official Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson web site
Tonight Show Memories is filled with hilarious highlights and classic moments from 30 years of late night.
For three decades, The Tonight Show ruled late night TV and Johnny Carson was the King.
The Tonight Show Comedians Volume 2 is a laugh-filled collection of great stand-up routines from some of the best comedians to appear on The Tonight Show.
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 The Tonight Show
With the help of the show's incredible staff, we reserve a spot for our class ahead of time, not knowing who the guests will be.
A BC journalism student appeared on the show as part of a short skit with Jay Leno and Ed McMahon.
She luckily was seated in one of the first rows close to the stage.
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 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV Show - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Television Show - TV.com
Six months after Jack Paar made a stormy departure from "The Tonight Show" (over jokes about Communism, among other issues) and viewers enduring a succession of "substitute" hosts (and an ill-fated attempt at a magazine-type show), NBC (and middle America) finally got the comedian they were waiting for.
As the show closed he sat alone on a stool in the middle of the stage and said, "And so it has come to this.
The 30 years of the NBC TONIGHT SHOW with Johnny were simply fantastic.
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 "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Trivia: The last guest on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962), Bette Midler, sang a show tune parody.
"The, Tonight Show" band is the best the most interesting things about Jay are the many segments of the show he does.
Believe me just watch this show one time and become a regular viewer Jay Leno is that great of a host.
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 USATODAY.com - 'Stuttering' John to announce 'Tonight Show'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jay Leno's new announcer on NBC's The Tonight Show will be "Stuttering" John Melendez from Howard Stern's radio show, a spokeswoman said.
He is working with a speech coach to control his stutter, a Tonight Show spokeswoman told The Associated Press Wednesday.
Tonight Show executives became interested in Melendez after seeing him on the ABC reality show I'm a Celebrity: Get Me out of Here.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2004-02-19-stuttering-john_x.htm   (188 words)

  
 Tonight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The show's orchestra was first conducted by Bobby Byrne and then Skitch Henderson.
Steve Allen hosted the Tonight Show from 1954-1957, when he turned the reins over to Jack Paar so he could focus on his new hit primetime comedy hour, “The Steve Allen Show,” also on NBC.
There's a chapter on Allen's award-winning PBS series Meeting of Minds, and reports on his other comedy-and-talk shows, series and specials, in which he relates on-the-air TV boners, mistakes, and technical mishaps that are now part of the comic folklore of television history.
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 CNBC Europe - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
CNBC Europe - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Tonight Show with Jay Leno is shown three weekdays after broadcast in the States, (i.e.
The show starts with Emmy Award-winning comedian Jay Leno's 20-minute stand-up comedy routine followed by interviews with his famous guests.
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 ** The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Free Tickets & Information
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is taped at NBC Studios in "beautiful downtown Burbank" - as Johnny Carson used to say.
Over three million people have sat in the studio audience and enjoyed the show, and you can be a part of that history.
The minimum age is 16 for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Tickets.
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 CNN.com - Johnny Carson's final 'Tonight Show' monologue - Jan 23, 2005
The show tonight is our farewell show; it's going to be a little bit quieter.
What I did was ask the members of the staff and the crew to invite their family, relatives and friends, and they did; with some other invited guests.
We are going to show you a little excerpt of how the show is put together, so go get some more cheese dip and we'll be back in just a moment.
www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/23/carson.monolgue   (923 words)

  
 ipedia.com: The Tonight Show Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Tonight Show is NBC 's long running nightly hour-long comedic talk show.
Miller became such an integral part, she was forced to join the TV actors union.
Music is provided by The Tonight Show Band, currently led by Kevin Eubanks.
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 Tonight Show Trivia
The show was marginally anchored by Jack Lescoulie, who had previously worked the other end of the broadcast day, hosting The Today Show.
When it became apparent that three game shows could not be perfected in time, the only answer seemed to be to try a talk show and pray.
This statistic should be asterisked with the fact that his show is an hour, whereas they did the hour-and-forty-five minute broadcasts.
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 Late-Night Lord Johnny Carson Dies - Jan 23, 2005 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The show was, he pointed out, the place where he spent two-thirds of his adult life.
When Paar famously--and abruptly--quit the Tonight Show in 1962, Carson was enlisted, becoming the program's third host.
After a farewell week highlighted by appearances from Bette Midler (who won an Emmy for crooning until Carson got misty-eyed), Robin Williams and Elizabeth Taylor, the last show was for the inner circle only: Carson, McMahon and band leader Doc Severinsen, who showed clips and said their good-byes.
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 "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As great as Steve Allen and Jack Paar were, Carson took the ball, reshaped it, and sent it in for a shot heard round the world.
There is a reason he hosted the show for 30 years, 4 times longer than his 2 predacessors behind him.
Originally, the Carson's show was 90 minutes, and it was trimmed to 60 in the early 80's since he felt he could not keep the level up like he had in the past, which made the way for David Letterman.
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 Entertainment Tonight TV Show - Entertainment Tonight Television Show - TV.com
ET is a daily, half-hour, nationally syndicated entertainment newsmagazine, reporting on breaking news events, exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes first looks, and Hollywood's hottest stories from the worlds of film, television, fashion, literature and interactive media.
Entertainment Tonight is now also on MTV and VH1 daily.
Although the show "is what it is" and can be counted on to show or expose the big stars, it tends to insult everyone's intelligence...more and more often.
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 The Tonight Show
In an otherwise ordinary day at work, an NBC producer phoned me and suggested that a segment on me and my world record navel fluff collection would be a great addition to the Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
When the interview ended it felt much shorter than six minutes: there was so much more I could have said, but it would have lost impact had it been longer.
I remained in the hot seat while Kylie Minogue performed a song, then moved to the couch while she spoke to Jay, then the show was over.
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 BRAVO > Queer Eye for the Straight Guy > Episodes > Special: The Tonight Show Makeover
Carson was given the task of sprucing up The Tonight Show cast, including Jay, announcer Edd Hall, Kevin Eubanks and the rest of the band.
Thom felt that the Tonight Show set, along with the guest dressing room, were in desperate need of a style update.
The set, which Thom compared to the Department of Motor Vehicles, lacked the style and flair of The Tonight Show and needed a look that was hip, unique and modern.
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 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Before he became the permanent host of the program, Leno had been the exclusive guest host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson since September 1987.
He began appearing as a guest host in 1985 after having made numerous guest appearances, the first of which was on March 2, 1977.
One of the country's premier comedians, Leno has appeared in hundreds of comedy shows around the United States for the past 20 years.
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 Tonight Show Tickets Free with Jay Leno Print out Online!!!
America's late-night leader, NBC's "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" continues its proud half-century tradition of entertaining viewers with late night laughs.
"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" is the number one late night talk show in the country.
You will be putting yourself on a list to be called IF we are allocated seating for that date, so please include a phone number where you can be reached on the morning of the show.
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