84 years ago -- on October 23, 1925 -- Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa. The late night legend would go on to deliver his Tonight Show monologue an astounding 4,531 times. In light of NBC's current woes, we've been...

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This is a 1975 clip in which Johnny Carson and...

Television was different in the old days. A sidekick could down a few martinis at lunch and still go on the air to be the butt of Johnny's jokes. Awesome old-school Tonight Show hijinks.

To the big Irishman, we hope when you...

Some of you young folks may not know that Ed McMahon was more than the old guy in the Cash4Gold ads. A decorated World War II veteran, McMahon defined the role of "sidekick." Sitting next to Johnny Carson for some 30 years,...

In 1993, mere hours after Conan O'Brien was plucked from The Simpsons writers' room obscurity to take over for Letterman, he went on the Tonight Show. It is a brilliantly awkward, yet endearing, clip that explains why it took...

This is a nice touch for Leno in his waning days as host of the Tonight Show. 

We aren't entirely convinced this is what Johnny would've wanted, but what the hell? Kevin Spacey does a killer impression and it's got a good...