query: who had the most appearances on the tonight show

pos: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson intellectual conversation on "The Tonight Show", Carson and his staff invariably cited "Carl Sagan, Paul Ehrlich, Margaret Mead, Gore Vidal, Shana Alexander, Madalyn Murray O'Hair" as guests; one television critic stated, however, "he always presented them as if they were spinach for your diet when he did [feature such names]". Family therapist Carlfred Broderick appeared on the show ten times, and psychologist Joyce Brothers was one of Carson's most frequent guests. Carson, in general, did not feature prop comedy acts (Carson was not averse to using prop comedy himself); such acts, with Gallagher being a prominent example, more commonly appeared

neg: Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) to "disrupt the ritual expectations of the fanatic fans [...] establishing through a burst of creativity just who "was" boss [...] he'd liberated the show from an albatross, a song that was too long and had long since stopped breathing." For many years, "Rosalita" made only rare or sporadic appearances, leading to fans campaigning for the song to be played by holding banners or placards saying "Let Rosie Come Out Tonight!" during shows. Springsteen occasionally granted the wish, though, such as during the last show of the above-mentioned tour in 1985 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, or on most

neg: Pierre Bernard (comedian) California. In April 2010, Bernard appeared in a Funny or Die sketch named "Asian Conan" as the operator of an illegal child death fighting ring. He appeared alongside professional stunt coordinator Steven Ho as an Asian version of Conan O'Brien (Who also made frequent appearances on Conan's "Tonight") and former "Late Night" and "Tonight Show" trombonist Richie "LaBamba" Rosenberg. He appeared on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" on June 3, 2009, as a joke with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Pierre Bernard (comedian) Pierre Bernard, Jr. is a graphic designer and comedian, most notable for his work on "Late Night with Conan

neg: Steve Martin the mid-1970s, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", and on "The Gong Show", HBO's "On Location", "The Muppet Show", and NBC's "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL"). "SNL" audience jumped by a million viewers when he made guest appearances, and he was one of the show’s most successful hosts. Martin appeared on 27 "Saturday Night Live" shows and he guest-hosted 15 times, bested only in number of presentations by host Alec Baldwin (who has hosted 17 times ). On the show, Martin popularized the air quotes gesture, which uses four fingers to make

neg: Carol Wayne TV shows of the era. Wayne did television guest shots on "I Spy" (as the title character in the episode "Trouble With Temple"), "Bewitched", "I Dream of Jeannie" (as dim-witted starlet "Bootsie Nightingale"), "Love American Style", "Emergency! " and "The Fall Guy", and appeared in many sketches on "The Red Skelton Show". Wayne said she was "discovered" at a Hollywood party and auditioned for "The Tonight Show" after appearances as a Las Vegas chorine. She gained her greatest fame for appearances (1967–1984) on "The Tonight Show" including 100-plus appearances (1971–1984) as the buxom Matinee Lady on "The Tonight Show" in

neg: Jack Paar actress Peggy Cass, and perhaps its most notable aspect was the national television debut of comic Freddie Prinze. Paar stayed on the show, which was in direct competition with "Tonight", for one year before he quit. Dissatisfied with the one-week-per-month formula, he complained that even his own mother did not know when he was on. Paar later expressed discomfort with developments in the television media and once said he had trouble interviewing people dressed in "overalls", a reference to young rock acts. In the 1980s and 1990s, Paar made rare guest appearances on "Donahue", "The Tonight Show" (hosted by Johnny

neg: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Carson, Aziz Ansari as Bobby Jindal, the show's announcer Steve Higgins as Jeb Bush, and the show's head writer AD Miles as Lindsey Graham. After his critically acclaimed appearances as Trump on "Tonight", Fallon was asked to play the role on the December 19, 2015 episode of "Saturday Night Live", since Taran Killam (who had been announced as the season's Trump) would be busy playing Ted Cruz. Fallon accepted the offer, but the plan fell through at some point before the show. The role was filled by Darrell Hammond, who played Trump over his fourteen years on "SNL". Fallon has

neg: Michael Ammar was the magic week finale on Late Night with David Letterman in 2010. He has made multiple appearances on The Tonight Show. He moved to Los Angeles - where he became a regular performer at the Playboy Mansion, and made appearances on the Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show, CNN, and Travel Channel. Ammar appeared at the Magic Castle in Hollywood.. By 1990, the Academy of Magical Arts in Hollywood had awarded him its "Oscar" in six separate categories (the maximum number of awards for which his is eligible). He appeared on NBC's 1998 "Worlds Greatest Magic 5" special, and

neg: Richard Jeni series of Showtime stand-up specials and frequent appearances on "The Tonight Show". After making his "Tonight Show" debut in 1988 with Johnny Carson, Jeni would return often and later made appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", all told with more appearances than any other stand-up comedian. In 1989, he won Comedy USA`s Best Nightclub Comedian, as voted by comedy club owners and comedians, and his first Showtime special "Richard Jeni: The Boy From New York City" won a CableACE Award. Top executives at HBO picked up his first appearance on "The HBO Comedy Hour" in 1992, titled "Richard

neg: The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien an upcoming appearance by former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Leno's "Tonight Show" in which it was claimed that she had never made a late-night talk show appearance before—despite her appearing on the Conan O'Brien "Tonight Show" on December 11, 2009. Nikki Finke, a blogger for the Deadline Hollywood website, cited this as more evidence of NBC attempting to erase any remnants of the O'Brien era. Sarah Palin also appeared on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", but neither of those appearances was an interview. One O'Brien reference that NBC did not filter out was

neg: Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project interspersed with recent interviews with him. A show at the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas from 2006 is featured most prominently. The film also features some of Rickles' notable television and movie appearances, including his many appearances on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". There are also interviews from several stand up performers and celebrities who have encountered Rickles over the years. The film was generally well liked by critics who wrote about it. Much of the praise was directed at Rickles himself for being such an engaging personality. One critic compared Rickles and his sense of humor favorably to

neg: Lou Holtz (actor) interview with the "Los Angeles Times" in 1989, George Burns was asked who the greatest comedian was that he ever saw. Burns replied that it was Jack Benny, but Burns named Holtz and several others as coming right after Benny. Holtz' career after the mid-1940s consisted of high-end club dates, including headlining in Las Vegas, and television appearances on variety shows. He appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" twice in 1957 and "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" twice in the 1960s. He appeared on Jack Paar's Tonight Show more than 20 times, and appeared on Steve Allen's Tonight Show

neg: Tex Beneke is "Christmas Serenade in the Glenn Miller Style" (1965) on Columbia Records, which has been excerpted on a number of holiday compilations. The singer/saxophonist continued working in the coming decades, appearing periodically at Disneyland. He also made the rounds of various talk shows that had musical connections, including those hosted by Merv Griffin and Johnny Carson. His appearances on "The Tonight Show" sometimes included duos with fellow Miller veteran Al Klink who was by then a key member of The Tonight Show Band. Ray Eberle recovered from his earlier illness and resumed performing with Beneke and the Modernaires for a

neg: David Tebet after he finished his eight years on CBS's "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show". Arguably, Tebet's most major accomplishment at his job was recruiting Johnny Carson to fill Jack Paar's position as host of "The Tonight Show". Paar departed from "The Tonight Show" in 1962. At that time Carson was host of the Goodson-Todman daytime game show "Who Do You Trust?". Tebet was watching the game show and saw Carson. Impressed with his hosting style, Tebet approached Carson who, reluctantly, agreed to host "The Tonight Show". However, Carson could not immediately start his new job as he still had

neg: Johnnie Casson ITV "Des O’Connor Tonight", "Bruce Forsyth's 70th Birthday Live from the London Palladium"; CHANNEL 5 "Jack Docherty Show" 1999 ITV "Des O’Connor Tonight"; CHANNEL 5 "Big Stage" 2000 ITV "Tonight at the London Palladium"; BBC 1 "Jim Davidson Presents" BBCTV "Money In The Bank" 2001 ITV "Des O’Connor Christmas Show" 2002 - 2006 ITV "Des & Mel" (6 appearances) 2007 Channel 4 "Countdown (Dictionary Corner)" <br> 2009 Channel 4 "The Paul O'Grady Show" Johnnie Casson Johnnie Casson is an English comedian who has appeared on numerous occasions on British television, notably on ITV's "The Comedians" and many guest spots on

neg: Joan Embery "Challenge to Wildlife Specials for Public Broadcasting". She has raised awareness of animals and wildlife conservation through her books, tours, projects, and appearances on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "Good Morning America", "CBS This Morning", "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee", "Entertainment Tonight", "ALF", "The Phil Donahue Show", "Newhart", "Hollywood Squares", "Win, Lose or Draw", "The Larry Sanders Show", "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", "Xuxa", "Leeza", "Kidsongs" and "PM Magazine". In addition to being an environmental advocate, Embery is a skilled horsewoman who has won many awards. Embery studied zoology and telecommunications at San Diego

neg: Enjoy Yourself Tonight a re-run of some of the most memorable moments of the original EYT shows, as well as bringing back some of the original casts involved for guest appearances/interviews. In addition, the original theme song was brought back. Even though the latest program was merely a nostalgic looking back to EYT's former glory, it nonetheless bore testimony to the show's lasting legacy to Hong Kong's popular culture. Enjoy Yourself Tonight Enjoy Yourself Tonight or E.Y.T. was a popular variety show in Hong Kong. It first aired on TVB Jade on 20 November 1967. The show lasted 27 years with its last

neg: Tonight Starring Jack Paar first regularly scheduled videotaped programs in color. Only a few minutes of video of Paar's talk host career in color are known to exist today; NBC's policy at the time was to preserve programming on black-and-white kinescopes, but this policy only applied to live or videotaped prime time programming, and as such, the videotapes of most of Paar's "Tonight" Show appearances were taped over and no longer exist, a policy that continued through the first ten years of Johnny Carson's subsequent hosting of the same series. It was during Paar's stint as host that "The Tonight Show" first became an

neg: The Dan Band their numerous appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", they have been seen as the house band on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Pajama Party" and Spike TV's Spike Guys' Choice Awards 2009 as well as appearances on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", "The Late Late Show", and "Last Call with Carson Daly". Finnerty wrote and performed the finale song for the NBC show "Last Comic Standing" and was a regular comedy correspondent on "The Jay Leno Show" and continued on as a correspondent on the new "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" performing all original material for the show. In 2015,

neg: Tonight Starring Jack Paar NBC's "The Today Show", before he agreed to jump networks and take over "Tonight". Under Paar, most of the NBC affiliates which had dropped the show during the ill-fated run of "America After Dark" (or who had never picked it up) began airing the show once again. Paar's era began the practice of branding the series after the host, and as such the program, though officially still called "Tonight", was marketed as "The Jack Paar Show". A combo band conducted by Paar's Army buddy pianist José Melis filled commercial breaks and backed musical entertainers. When Paar was on vacation, the

neg: Kevin Meaney Kevin Meaney Kevin Gerard Meaney (April 23, 1956 – October 21, 2016) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Meaney began his career in comedy in 1980. His big break into mainstream culture is considered to be his first HBO comedy special in 1986, followed by his debut performance on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1987. After that, his act was broadcast several times by HBO, Comedy Central and several network television stations with appearances on "The Tonight Show", "Late Night with David Letterman", "", "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Conan". His most famous catchphrase was "That's not

neg: Ali Wentworth in 1988. Wentworth debuted as a cast member on the Fox sketch comedy series "In Living Color" from 1992 to 1994, where she was known for impressions of Cher, Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Princess Diana, Brooke Shields, Lisa Marie Presley, Sharon Stone, and other characters. Her recurring characters included Candy Cane, a deranged kids show host who had had a string of bad relationships with her male coworkers, and the promiscuous teenage daughter of Grandpa Jack McGee (Jim Carrey) on "The Dysfunctional Home Show". Wentworth made correspondent appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

neg: Julia Morris "In Melbourne Tonight", as well as regular appearances on "The Midday Show", "Good Morning Australia", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Who Dares Wins" as well as the action series "Gladiators". Morris relocated to the United Kingdom in 2000. As well as stand-up, she made appearances on the TV quiz "QI", an episode of the sitcom "Not Going Out" playing a successful beautician, and in the sixth episode of season three of Kathy Griffin's "My Life on the D-List", offering advice on the British audiences. Morris also had a stint presenting the BBC's "Liquid News" show in 2002. Since her return

neg: Thomas Lennon In Vegas," Pts. I and II). Additionally, he has appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", "The Tonight Show", "The Daily Show", "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", and at 31, had the second-most number of appearances on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". In 2008, Lennon started doing stand-up comedy, occasionally playing guitar and incorporating music. He has appeared on "The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail", "John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show", "The Jeselnik Offensive", and "The Benson Interruption". He was the guest on the first episode of Chris Hardwick's "The Nerdist Podcast", which was recorded in Lennon's garage. In 2010,

neg: Kelly Monteith Kelly Monteith Kelly Monteith (born October 17, 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American comedian. He is best known for writing and starring in the BBC comedy show "Kelly Monteith". Discovered in the early 1970s, Monteith performed as a guest comedian on NBC's "The Tonight Show" and the BBC's "Des O'Connor Tonight". He had a short-lived variety show on CBS in 1976 entitled "The Kelly Monteith Show." After successful guest appearances on British talk shows he was offered his own series by the BBC. "Kelly Monteith" premiered in 1979 and ran for six series. It was noted for often

neg: Ruth Olay Avant Garde Club in replacement of Billie Holiday, who had fallen ill. This developed into a headline run, along with Shelley Berman, Matt Dennis Trio and Lenny Bruce. A regular at the club was arranger Peter Ruggolo, who A&R'ed for Mercury Records. Her first LP on Mercury "OLAY!" in 1958 was followed by a guest vocalist spot on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show". She became the "Singing Sensation of the Jack Paar Show" during Paar's stint, and also appeared later on Johnny Carson's watch, the latter time backed by Duke Ellington. Subsequent appearances included Jerry Fielding's TV show, and with Merv

neg: Penn & Teller David Letterman" and "Saturday Night Live", as well as "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", "Today", and others. Penn & Teller had national tours throughout the 1990s, gaining critical praise. They have also made television guest appearances on "Babylon 5" (as the comedy team Rebo and Zooty), "The Drew Carey Show", a few episodes of "Hollywood Squares" from 1998 until 2004, ABC's "Muppets Tonight", FOX's "The Bernie Mac Show", an episode of the game show "Fear Factor" on NBC, NBC's "The West Wing", in a two-part episode of the final season of ABC's "Home Improvement"

neg: Jo Anne Worley on his show, where she made approximately 40 appearances on "The Merv Griffin Show". In 1966, she appeared Off-Broadway in "The Mad Show", a musical revue based on "Mad Magazine". In 1967, Worley's stint on Griffin's show led to her discovery by George Schlatter, who soon cast her in "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". In 1970, Worley left "Laugh-In" to pursue other projects and has made guest appearances on several television series, including "Love, American Style", "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", "The Andy Williams Show", "Adam-12", "Emergency!", "Murder, She Wrote", "The Middle", and different game shows such as "Super Password",

neg: Buddy Hackett the 1950s and '60s as a frequent guest on variety talk shows hosted by Jack Paar and Arthur Godfrey, telling brash, often off-color jokes, and mugging at the camera. Hackett was a frequent guest on both the Jack Paar and the Johnny Carson versions of "The Tonight Show". According to the board game "Trivial Pursuit", Hackett has the distinction of making the most guest appearances in the history of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". During this time, he also appeared as a panelist and mystery guest on CBS-TV's "What's My Line?" and filled in as emcee for the game

neg: Judy Sheindlin that Sheindlin is the highest-paid TV star, earning $47 million per year for "Judge Judy", which translates into just over $900,000 per workday (she works 52 days per year). According to Forbes, Sheindlin earned $147 million, pretax, in 2017. Since the success of Sheindlin's courtroom series, she has been interviewed on talk and cable news broadcasts over the course of her career. These talk and cable news programs include "Entertainment Tonight", "The Wendy Williams Show", "Katie" (numerous appearances), "Larry King Live" (numerous appearances), "The View" (numerous appearances), "Donny & Marie", "The Talk", "The Tonight Show", "Dateline NBC", "20/20", etc. On

neg: The 5th Dimension Away", "One Less Bell to Answer", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Wedding Bell Blues", and finished up with "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In". This appearance was the group's last on Sullivan. "The 5th Dimension Traveling Sunshine Show", a television special, aired on August 18, 1971. The 5th Dimension made appearances on "Soul Train", "American Bandstand", "The Flip Wilson Show", "The Mike Douglas Show", and "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". In 1975, McCoo and Davis, who had married on 26 July 1969, left the group to do collective and individual projects. They went on to have success as a duo with "Your Love"

neg: Lee Leonard ESPN. He gave a brief introduction before the network aired its first programming, which was the first episode of SportsCenter. Afterwards, he made occasional appearances on the show. A year later (1980), Leonard moved to CNN, where he hosted "People Tonight", the network's first Los Angeles-based live entertainment news talk show. Many of today's major name celebrities made their first national talk show appearances on "People Tonight". including Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Pee Wee Herman. The show was ground-breaking in its coverage of Hollywood red carpet premieres and many breaking stories including the deaths of John Lennon and Natalie

neg: Stan Kann some of the prized carpet sweepers from his 150-item collection."I planned on showing the vacuums as a kind of historical demonstration. I had no idea what it would turn into," Kann told a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Once Kann began demonstrating the sweepers on air, parts began to fall off the vacuum cleaners at inopportune moments. "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson saved the situation with humorous ad libs, and Kann was invited to make 76 additional appearances on "The Tonight Show". Kann had been introduced to Carson through Phyllis Diller. He met Diller when she made a guest

neg: Steven Ho (martial artist) with Conan O'Brien" jumped 22% to 4.3 million viewers that night, compared to the shows typical Monday average that summer of 3.5 million viewers. There were also nice gains in adults 18–49 and adults 25–54. This episode also re-ran on 22 October 2009. Ho's third appearance on the show won an online poll for "Favorite Guest Moment" on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien"'s main website. All of Ho's appearances were included in the montage of the finale show of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" on 22 January 2010. After the announcement of the cancellation of "The Tonight Show

neg: Sophie Tucker issued a charter for the succeeding American Guild of Variety Artists, which remains active. In 1938–1939 she had her own radio show, "The Roi Tan Program with Sophie Tucker", broadcast on CBS for 15 minutes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. She made numerous guest appearances on such programs as "The Andrews Sisters" and "The Radio Hall of Fame". In the 1950s and early 1960s Tucker, "The First Lady of Show Business", made frequent television appearances on many popular variety and talk shows of the day such as "The Ed Sullivan Show "and "The Tonight Show". She remained popular abroad, performing

neg: PM East/PM West as NBC's "The Tonight Show", then hosted by Jack Paar. Westinghouse, which was only a broadcaster that syndicated its programs through Group W, attempted to compete with NBC, which had had a monopoly on late-night television since Steve Allen had originated "The Tonight Show" in 1954. "PM East/PM West" was never accessible in the American South, the Southwestern United States or in the states of Florida or Texas. Audio recordings of some of Barbra Streisand's appearances constitute nearly all that survives. The sole video recording known to exist (available for viewing at the UCLA Film and Television Archive) is the

neg: Fruitcake continued with "The Fruitcake Lady" (Marie Rudisill), who made appearances on the show and offered her "fruitcake" opinions. In fact, the fruitcake had been a butt of jokes on television programs such as "Father Knows Best" and "The Donna Reed Show" years before "The Tonight Show" debuted and appears to have first become a vilified confection in the early 20th century, as evidenced by Warner Brothers cartoons. Since 1995, Manitou Springs, Colorado, has hosted the Great Fruitcake Toss on the first Saturday of every January. "We encourage the use of recycled fruitcakes," says Leslie Lewis of the Manitou Springs Chamber

neg: Jamie Alcroft the other one." The pair got to know one another and began performing as a stand-up act in Key West. They had been working together for less than two years when they were invited to appear on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". That and other TV appearances led to their own syndicated show in 1985, called "Comedy Break". They taped 125 half-hour shows in less than a year. Their appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, prompted Leno to call them,"The funniest Duo working today." Mack and Jamie continue to perform at Corporate Events around the world and

neg: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno two appearances on Letterman's rival CBS show, made no mention of Leno during his final shows and regularly sent Letterman monologue jokes in his final years. With his heart set on the earlier time slot, Letterman left NBC and joined CBS. "Late Show with David Letterman", airing in the same slot, competed against "The Tonight Show" for the remainder of Leno's run. Conan O'Brien slid into the late night time slot vacated by Letterman. On September 27, 2004, the 50th anniversary of "The Tonight Show"s debut, NBC announced Leno would be succeeded by O'Brien, in 2009. Leno explained he did

neg: Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign as Capitol Offense. He has performed with the band at numerous events throughout his campaign, including at a troop rally in New Hampshire in July. Earlier in 2007, the band played at a National Governors Association staff party in Des Moines, Iowa. On January 2, Huckabee played the guitar along with The Tonight Show Band on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". During his campaign, Huckabee made frequent appearances on late night television shows including "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", the "Late Show with David Letterman", "Saturday Night Live", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", "The Daily Show with Jon

neg: Broadway Open House "Life", and the show came to an end one month later. Dagmar's run on "Broadway Open House" and her appearances on other shows ("Colgate Comedy Hour", "The Milton Berle Show", "Masquerade Party") made her the first major female star of television, and she soon had her own show, "Dagmar's Canteen", making guest appearances during the late 1950s with Jack Paar on "The Tonight Show". Other "Broadway Open House" cast members were tap dancer Ray Malone, accordionist Milton DeLugg, announcer Wayne Howell and vocalists Jane Harvey, Andy Roberts and David Street. The show's opening theme music was "The Beanbag Song" by

neg: Eve 6 Night”. The band made appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The Late Show with David Letterman", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", and "TRL" with Carson Daly, with their videos in constant rotation on MTV, most notably "Here's To The Night" which sat near the top of MTV's "TRL" countdown for much of the summer of 2001. The band then released the more experimental "It's All in Your Head" in 2003, featuring top 10 Modern Rock hit “Think Twice”, but parted ways with RCA thereafter. Their rapid rise to prominence at an early age had led

neg: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona as a lead-out program from NBC's broadcast of Super Bowl XLIX. The show included an appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger, a lip-sync battle with Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell, appearances by Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots players, and a performance by Ariana Grande. In September 2016, Fallon faced criticism after an interview with the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Democrats felt that Fallon humanized Trump, who had made controversial statements (i.e. that some illegals bring drugs and crime) that they disagreed with. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had also appeared on the show prior that year. Fallon

neg: Judy Garland was also shown on the British television network ITV and was one of her final appearances at the venue. She made guest appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Tonight Show". Garland guest-hosted an episode of "The Hollywood Palace" with Vic Damone. She was invited back for a second episode in 1966 with Van Johnson as her guest. Problems with Garland's behavior ended her "Hollywood Palace" guest appearances. A 1964 tour of Australia was largely disastrous. Garland's first concert in Sydney was held in the Sydney Stadium because no concert hall could accommodate the overflow crowds who wanted to

neg: Frank Fontaine 1950s and 1960s, including "The Jack Benny Program", "The Jackie Gleason Show", "The Tonight Show", and "The Ed Sullivan Show". One of his earliest appearances was on the radio version of "The Jack Benny Program". During an episode which aired on April 9, 1950, Fontaine played a bum (named "John L.C. Silvoney") who asked Benny for a dime for a cup of coffee. The smallest coin Benny had to offer was a fifty-cent piece, so he gave it to him. The story Benny told about this event became a running gag during later shows. Fontaine's goof ball laugh and other

neg: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson team rushes up to his desk to discuss what had gone wrong, like a pit stop at Le Mans." Actor Robert Blake once compared being interviewed by Carson to "facing the death squad" or "Broadway on opening night." The publicity value of appearing on "The Tonight Show" was so great, however, that most guests were willing to subject themselves to the risk. The show's announcer and Carson's sidekick was Ed McMahon, who from the very first show would introduce Carson with a drawn-out ""Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny!"" (something McMahon was inspired to do by the overemphasized way he had introduced reporter Robert

neg: Untitled Unmastered the first single. The songs performed during Lamar's appearances on "The Colbert Report" ("untitled 03 | 05.28.2013.", plus a new coda), "The Tonight Show" ("untitled 08 | 09.06.2014." plus the end of "untitled 02 | 06.23.2014.") and the end of the 2016 Grammys (part of his first verse from "untitled 05 | 09.21.2014.") were all included on "Untitled Unmastered". "The Tonight Show" performance was previously known as "Untitled 2". Previously, part of Lamar's "untitled 08" verse had been used for remixes of Funkadelic's "Ain't That Funkin Kinda Hard on You". Swizz Beatz has said that his and Alicia Keys' 5-year-old

neg: Jay Leno Leno returned as host of "The Tonight Show" following the 2010 Winter Olympics on March 1, 2010. On July 1, 2010, "Variety" reported that total viewership for Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" had dropped from 5 million to 4 million for the second quarter of 2010, compared to the same period in 2009. Although this represented the lowest second-quarter ratings for the show since 1992, "Tonight" was still the most-watched late night program, ahead of ABC's "Nightline" (3.7 million) and "Late Show with David Letterman" (3.3 million). On April 3, 2013, NBC announced that Leno would leave "The Tonight Show" in

neg: Woody Woodbury few films. Woodbury’s most substantial film role was that of "Uncle Woody" in 1964’s "For Those Who Think Young" (with James Darren, Tina Louise and Paul Lynde). Among Woodbury’s other film appearances: "Safe at Home!" (with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, 1962); "Beyond the Bermuda Triangle" (TV movie with Fred MacMurray and Donna Mills, 1975); "Super Fuzz" (with Ernest Borgnine, 1981); and "Hardly Working" (with Jerry Lewis, 1981). In 1962, Woodbury replaced Johnny Carson as host of the game show "Who Do You Trust?" when Carson left to succeed Jack Paar in helming "The Tonight Show", a job for which

neg: Anthony Griffith (actor) had over twenty-five national comedy television appearances, including “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”, “HBO”, “Comedy Central” as well as others. This decade has continued with performances on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno, Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. As an actor, he has had a number of roles, such as “Tales from the Hood”, Mario Van Peebles' “Panther”, “The Curve” and the television drama “Our Father”, as well as a number of others. He received an Emmy for his performance in "Our Father". In 2003 he participated in "Moth Stories", an acclaimed nonprofit organization dedicated to

neg: Don Rickles was cast in the "Beach Party" films. He subsequently began appearing more frequently on television talk shows, first appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1965. He became a frequent guest and guest host, appearing more than 100 times on "The Tonight Show" during Carson's era. An early Carson-Rickles "Tonight" highlight occurred in 1968 when, while two Japanese women treated Carson to a bath and massage by foot, Rickles walked onto the set. He also made frequent appearances on "The Dean Martin Show" and became a fixture on "The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast" specials. In 1968, Rickles released

neg: Charles Grodin understatement and subtlety." Aside from his film work, he was a frequent presence on television. In 1977, Grodin hosted an episode of the NBC sketch show, "Saturday Night Live", where the entire episode revolved around his forgetting that the show was live, and he proceeded to wreck sketches because of his failure to prepare accordingly. His many talk show appearances from the 1970s to the present have often included confrontational and mock angry segments. At one time Johnny Carson "banned" him from "The Tonight Show" appearances after taking offense at things Grodin had said. The NBC network would receive angry

neg: Marie Rudisill of Florida. Rudisill's book "Fruitcake" (published by Hill Street Press) led to her being invited to be a guest on "The Tonight Show" on December 14, 2000. During her first visit she showed Jay Leno and Mel Gibson how to make fruitcakes. This led to her being named the Fruitcake Lady and to several more appearances on "The Tonight Show", in which she instructed host Jay Leno and other guests in the preparation of various baked desserts. In 2002, the "Ask the Fruitcake Lady" segments became a regular part of "The Tonight Show". In these segments, viewers posed prerecorded questions

neg: Andy Kaufman Kaufman made a name for himself as a guest on NBC's "Saturday Night Live", his first prime-time appearances were several guest spots as the "Foreign Man" on the Dick Van Dyke variety show "Van Dyke and Company" in 1976. He appeared four times on "The Tonight Show" in 1976–78, and three times on "The Midnight Special" in 1972, 1977, and 1981. Kaufman appeared on "The Dating Game" in 1978, in character as Foreign Man, and cried when the bachelorette chose Bachelor #1, protesting that he had answered all the questions correctly. His "SNL" appearances started with the first show, on

neg: Craig Ferguson with tremendous energy, unique comedy, insightful interviews and some of the most heartfelt monologues seen on television." CBS continued the franchise with James Corden as the new host. Craig Ferguson has made guest appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "Late Show with David Letterman", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", "Rachael Ray", "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", "The Howard Stern Show", "The Daily Show", "The View", "Loveline", "Real Time with Bill Maher", "The Soup", "The Talk", "The Price Is Right", "Kevin Pollak's Chat Show", "The Dennis Miller Show" and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert". He also co-hosted "Live with

neg: Deborah Holland She was selected over hundreds of other singers who auditioned for the band. Holland is credited with writing nearly all the songs recorded by the group. Animal Logic released their debut album "Animal Logic" in 1989, peaking at No. 106 on the "Billboard 200". A second album, Animal Logic II was released in 1991. Both albums featured guest appearances from well-known musicians, including: Jackson Browne, David Lindley, George Duke, Steve Howe and Freddie Hubbard. The band toured and appeared on "The David Letterman Show", "The Tonight Show", and had videos on MTV and VH1. In the years following the demise

neg: David Brenner nearly 30 awards including an Emmy, before moving to comedy. His first paid gig was at The Improv in June 1969, and following that he frequently performed at clubs in Greenwich Village. After making his national television debut in 1971, on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", he became the show's most frequent guest, with 158 appearances. He guest-hosted for Johnny Carson 75 times between 1975 and 1984, placing him fifth on the list of Carson's most frequent guest hosts. Brenner was ranked No. 53 on "Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time". At one point, he had

neg: Barbra Streisand "Tonight Show" half a dozen times in 1962 and 1963, and she became a favorite of his television audience and himself personally. He described her as an "exciting new singer." During one show, she joked with Groucho Marx who liked her style of humor. In December 1962, she made the first of a number of appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show. She was later a cohost on the Mike Douglas Show, and also made an impact on a number of Bob Hope specials. Performing with her on the Ed Sullivan Show was Liberace who became an instant fan of the

neg: Late Night with Conan O'Brien Ferrell tearing off his business suit to reveal an ill-fitting green leprechaun outfit that had been worn in a number of previous appearances on the show. Former sidekick Andy Richter, who re-joined O'Brien when he took over "The Tonight Show" in June, joined O'Brien onstage for two segments, watching clips and reminiscing about the show. Among the clips shown, O'Brien noted that his all-time favorite "Late Night" piece was when he attended a re-enactment of an American Civil War-era baseball game, played at a Long Island NY museum, Old Bethpage Village Restoration. During the course of the final week, O'Brien

neg: 2010 Tonight Show conflict first time that late-night television—and the profits that came with it—could exist beyond "The Tonight Show"." Leno's "Tonight Show" started rocky; prior to Letterman's move, NBC considered matching CBS's offer to allow Letterman to take over from Leno. Letterman beat Leno for nearly two years until August 1995, when Leno welcomed Hugh Grant, who had recently been arrested for soliciting a prostitute ("What the hell were you thinking?", Leno asked, to applause), to a previously-booked appearance on "Tonight". From that point on, Leno beat Letterman in the ratings, and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" remained number one for the

neg: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon doing "The Tonight Show" […] We're just on at a later hour," Fallon said. Fallon, who dropped out of college at the College of Saint Rose a semester shy of a degree to pursue comedy, grew up with no designs on the "Tonight" job (unlike O'Brien or Leno), most likely because he was just 17 years old and still in college, when Carson retired. Discussions for Fallon to take over "The Tonight Show" began in early 2013, with the transition intended to happen by late 2014 at the latest. Many industry observers noted that the change appeared to come as

neg: Late Night with David Letterman Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". Carson, for his part, wanted "Late Night" to have as little overlap with his show as possible. In fact, most ground rules and restrictions on what Letterman could do came not from the network but from the production company itself. Letterman could not have a sidekick like Ed McMahon, and Paul Shaffer's band could not include a horn section like Doc Severinsen's. Letterman was told he could not book old-school showbiz guests such as James Stewart, George Burns, or Buddy Hackett, who were fixtures on Johnny's show (the fact that "Tonight" had long moved to

neg: Minnie Riperton two children; music engineer Marc Rudolph (b. 1968) and actress/comedian Maya Rudolph (b. 1972). Riperton revealed on "The Tonight Show" on August 24, 1976, that she had undergone a mastectomy due to breast cancer. At the time of her diagnosis, Riperton found out her cancer had already spread to the lymphatic system, and was given about six months to live. She continued touring in 1977 and 1978, and became the national spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society's 1978–79 campaign. Extreme lymphedema immobilized her right arm in early 1979. In her final singing appearances on television (most notably on the "Mike

neg: Merv Griffin "One in a Million" for ABC in 1967. Griffin scored a coup when "Tonight Show" host Jack Paar accidentally emerged onto the set of "Play Your Hunch" during a live broadcast, and Griffin got him to stay for a spontaneous interview. After Paar left "The Tonight Show", but before Johnny Carson took over (Carson was still hosting "Who Do You Trust?" for ABC), Griffin was one of the many guest hosts who presided over "Tonight" in the interim. Griffin was considered the most successful of the guest hosts, and was rewarded with his own daytime talk show on NBC in

neg: Peter Helliar in the mid nineties, performing in various venues and the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has performed in numerous television ads, most notably for Fernwood Fitness. Helliar, has been nominated for the Gold Logie, for the Most Popular Personality on Television in 2017. Helliar has made guest appearances on Melbourne International Comedy Festival, "The Loft Live", "Rove", "The Morning Show", "Studio 10", "Have You Been Paying Attention?" and "Hughesy, We Have a Problem". In 1997, Helliar became a regular stand-up comic on RMITV's weekly variety show "Under Melbourne Tonight" broadcast on C31 Melbourne, hosted by Stephen Hall and Vincent

neg: Tonight Live with Steve Vizard Throwers and Australian businessman and entrepreneur, Dick Smith. Some of the most memorable moments on "Tonight Live" were those that were unscripted and unexpected, many of which may not have gone to air except that the show was live. • In 1992 "Tonight Live" was "rained out". Wimbledon, the tennis tournament, was broadcast live on a competing network had been rained out again. Vizard claimed that his Tonight Show had been rained out too, and using special effects, created the effects of rain in the studio, the crew wandering around in wet weather gear sweeping water from the covers, and

neg: Julie Scardina Julie Scardina Julie Scardina is Animal Ambassador and Corporate Curator for SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, and Discovery Cove zoological parks. She was formerly curator of animal training for SeaWorld San Diego. Scardina is a professional animal trainer and educator, who is perhaps best known for regular appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", where she was introduced by Leno as the most frequent guest before he ended his reign. Scardina's segments focused on conservation information about species and what the public can do to help animals. Scardina also appears monthly on "Today" with animal information segments and formerly filmed weekly

neg: Tonight Alive set to play on the Lucky Street Tour with Go Radio and This Providence and SXSW until they had to pull out due to medical issues, writing on their Facebook page: "We're very sorry to announce that we are having to cancel our upcoming tour with Go Radio and SXSW appearances due to serious medical issues." Their singer having a severe case of eczema, making it hard for her to move. They later headed to Japan for the shows with Young Guns and also they had a first headline show at Shibuya-AX. Tonight Alive played the entire Warped Tour 2012.

neg: Becky Priest arriving in Nashville her initial engagement was with multiple Grammy award winner, Trisha Yearwood. This engagement was to last three years and led to numerous nationally televised appearances including, Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Priest also graced stages of top level productions of not only the Ryman Auditorium, the Grand Ole Opry, Music City Tonight, The Crook & Chase Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, but also New York City's Radio City Music Hall and London's Albert Hall. Along with these appearances Becky performed for a number of Symphony shows with Yearwood, including

neg: Betty Johnson "Tonight." This led to a record contract with Atlantic Records in 1957, for which she had her next big hit, "Little Blue Man". Johnson continued on "Tonight" until 1962 when Paar was replaced by Johnny Carson, while also making appearances on a number of other television shows. In 1964 she married Arthur Gray, an investment banker in New York City. She had two daughters, Elisabeth (born 1966) and Lydia (born 1968), from this marriage. From then until 1993 she mostly stayed out of show business, going to college (attending some classes at Dartmouth College beginning in 1977, but ultimately getting

neg: Animal (Kesha album) "It's on with Alexa Chung", "The Wendy Williams Show", "Lopez Tonight", "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien", and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". "Blah Blah Blah" was performed on January 18, 2010 at "MuchOnDemand". While in the United Kingdom, Kesha made two appearances on television to promote the album and "Blah Blah Blah". The first was on February 18, 2010, on "". It was followed by a performance on breakfast television show GMTV, on February 19. The song was also performed live on "American Idol" on March 17, 2010. She wore her trademark glitter eye make-up

neg: The Tonight Show that he'd accepted it, noting that he wanted to avoid repeating the hard feelings that had somehow developed with Letterman, and called O'Brien "certainly the most deserving person for the job" in the wake of his (Leno's) eventual departure. Five years later, what was to have been the final episode of "The Tonight Show" with Leno as host aired on Friday, May 29, 2009. Not wanting Leno, who remained number one in the ratings, to move to a competing network, NBC signed the host to a new contract to host a new prime-time talk show beginning in September 2009, entitled

neg: Internet Tonight be "the show of record about the Net." Segments included Strange Sites, Incredibly Useful Sites, and Home Sweet Homepage. The collection of these links were amassed into an archive called "The Big List" and on each show Scott's trademark was to yell 'THE BIG LIST' at its first mention. The show had contributing correspondents, most with their own dedicated segment: Internet Tonight Internet Tonight (1998 – October 1, 2001) is a television program on the cable network ZDTV (later known as TechTV, now known as G4). The show combined the "effervescent " of Michaela Pereira with the "dry wit" of

neg: Miss Piggy with Phineas and Ferb" and sang "Spa Day" with Phineas and Ferb. Miss Piggy made a number of appearances in 2011 and 2012 to promote "The Muppets". Miss Piggy made a special guest appearance on the Disney Channel Original Series "So Random!" alongside Sterling Knight (who will make a special cameo appearance "The Muppets"). She was the first guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" November 4, 2011, appeared on "Chelsea Lately" on November 21, 2011, and sang "Dance with Me Tonight" with Olly Murs on the UK "The X Factor" on November 27, 2011. On November 19, 2011,

neg: The Tonight Show show host on CBS to join NBC) becoming the new solo host of the show. Under Paar, most of the NBC affiliates that had dropped the show during the ill-fated run of "Tonight! America After Dark" began airing the show once again. Paar's era began the practice of branding the series after the host, and as such the program, though officially still called "Tonight", was also marketed as "The Jack Paar Show". A combo band conducted by Paar's Army buddy pianist Jose Melis filled commercial breaks and backed musical entertainers. [See music and announcers below.] Paar also introduced the idea

neg: Buster Williams Badalamenti on David Lynch's "" and with Terence Blanchard for the Spike Lee film "Clockers". Williams made several television appearances as well, performing five of his own compositions with Branford Marsalis' "The Tonight Show" band, and backing Erroll Garner during an earlier "Tonight Show" appearance. He appeared on "The Andy Williams Show" with Nancy Wilson, with Bill Cosby on "The Joan Rivers Show", and with Joe Williams on "Sesame Street". Williams appeared as himself in the 2004 Steven Spielberg film The Terminal, playing in Benny Golson's quartet with Mike LeDonne and Carl Allen. Williams was married in 1965 to Veronica,

neg: Diane Birch New York and New Orleans, was released in 2009 on S-Curve and received supportive reviews in "Rolling Stone", "Paper Magazine" and the Huffington Post. In 2009, Birch made a number of television appearances to promote her album "Bible Belt", including: "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", "Late Show with David Letterman", "Last Call with Carson Daly," "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and the webcast, "Live From Daryl's House" Birch was interviewed on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Sunday" on June 14, 2009, on which she performed several of her

neg: Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson song) from a small town who follows her dream and becomes an international star. It also contained scenes interspersed from "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Clarkson acted out most of the lyrics in the music video because she felt that the song was autobiographical. Critics responded positively to the music video for being faithful to the central theme shared by the song, the film, and Clarkson's personal biography. Clarkson performed the song in a series of live appearances such as television shows "Saturday Night Live", "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". She has performed the

neg: Julia Allison has worked with various brands, including as a spokesperson for Sony until early 2010. As a television pundit, Allison has made occasional appearances on Fox Business's "Happy Hour" and Fox News' "Red Eye" show, regular appearances as a commentator on Fox News segments, CNN's "Reliable Sources", and Headline News' "Showbiz Tonight" and "Glenn Beck" news-commentary show. Other appearances include E!, MSNBC's "Scarborough Country"; "Montel Williams", "NY Residential", and the Wendy Williams show, MTV's "It's On with Alexa Chung". Locally, media appearances include New York City's Fox 5, and Sirius radio. She co-hosted NBC New York Nonstop's "TMI Weekly", which is

neg: Katie (talk show) but with news components to reflect Couric’s background and interests. During an interview on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in 2011, Couric said that she expected the show to cover various issues and be a mixture of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Today". When launching the show, Couric had incorporated her affiliation with the ABC News division into her talk show. Colleagues Christiane Amanpour, Deborah Roberts, Sam Champion, Leo Jean, Matt Gutman, Richard Besser, Marci Gonzalez, Jim Avila, Dan Abrams, Josh Elliot, Brian Ross, and "ABC World News" Anchor Diane Sawyer made appearances on her show to report on

neg: Edd Hall on the show. Soon after leaving Letterman in 1990, Hall moved to Los Angeles where he designed the Worldwide Pants logo and animation for Letterman's company. He also wrote an episode of and performed voiceovers for Chris Elliott's show, "Get A Life" in 1990 and 1991. Some of his other pre-"Tonight Show" credits include appearances and voiceovers on such TV shows as "Saturday Night Live", "Married... with Children", "Murphy Brown" and "Blossom". Unlike his predecessors on "The Tonight Show" (i.e. McMahon with Carson, Hugh Downs with Jack Paar), Hall did not serve as the only sidekick for Jay Leno during

neg: Jimmy Boyd show, Boyd was informed that MacKenzie had been bumped. He was so upset at the turn of events that he personally asked Sullivan to re-book MacKenzie (MacKenzie ultimately appeared twice on the show). In the same year and the years that followed Boyd made multiple appearances on Perry Como's "Kraft Music Hall", "The Doris Day Show", "The Bing Crosby Show", "The Bob Hope Show", the syndicated "The Patti Page Show" (1955), Dave Garroway, "The Merv Griffin Show", "The Tonight Show", "Shindig", "American Bandstand" and other programs throughout the United States and Canada. Boyd recorded several more hit records: teaming up

neg: Conan O'Brien and approximately 30 minutes later he was on the brink of passing 50,000 followers, already 20,000 more than the verified @jayleno account. After 24 hours, O'Brien had well over 300,000 followers. In late May 2010, he surpassed the one million mark for number of Twitter followers, and he has over twenty nine million followers. O'Brien has been named to the 2010 Time 100, a list compiled by TIME of the 100 most influential people in the world as voted on by readers. After being prohibited from making television appearances of any kind until May, O'Brien spoke about the "Tonight Show"

neg: Todd Rundgren Hawkes in rehearsals for a possible new Cars lineup. Initial speculation pointed to The New Cars being fleshed out with Clem Burke of Blondie and Art Alexakis of Everclear. Eventually the group completed their lineup with former Rundgren bassist Kasim Sulton and studio drummer Prairie Prince of The Tubes, who had played on XTC's Rundgren-produced "Skylarking" and who has recorded and toured with Rundgren. In early 2006, the new lineup played a few private shows for industry professionals, played live on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and made other media appearances before commencing a 2006 summer tour with the

neg: Kye Palmer is serving as an adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton. Kye Palmer Kye Palmer is a trumpet player who is a Los Angeles studio musician, most notable as a former member of The Tonight Show Band from 2006 to 2009. On April 10, 2006, Palmer replaced Lee Thornburg in The Tonight Show Band and was there for the last part of Kevin Eubanks's tenure with "The Tonight Show". He has recorded on several Grammy Award nominated or winning projects over the past 20 years. Palmer, a native Californian originally from Redlands, started being interested in music at the age

neg: Kye Palmer Kye Palmer Kye Palmer is a trumpet player who is a Los Angeles studio musician, most notable as a former member of The Tonight Show Band from 2006 to 2009. On April 10, 2006, Palmer replaced Lee Thornburg in The Tonight Show Band and was there for the last part of Kevin Eubanks's tenure with "The Tonight Show". He has recorded on several Grammy Award nominated or winning projects over the past 20 years. Palmer, a native Californian originally from Redlands, started being interested in music at the age of 7. An early source of inspiration for him was being

neg: Johnny Carson of saying certain words, like "billions" of stars, would lead Carson to ribbing his friend, saying "BILL-ions and BILL-ions". Carson was the first person to contact Sagan's wife Ann Druyan with condolences when the scientist died in 1996. He owned several telescopes, including a top-of-the-line unit. In 1981, the minor planet 1981 EM was named in his honor, . Carson was shown on a 1978 segment of "60 Minutes" practicing at home on a drum set given to him by close friend Buddy Rich, who was the jazz musician with the most appearances on "The Tonight Show". Gore Vidal, another

neg: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson material from Carson's first two decades of "The Tonight Show" (1962–1982), much of it not seen since it had first aired, appeared in a half hour "clip/compilation" syndicated program known as "Carson's Comedy Classics" that aired in 1983. Audio clips from the show were featured nightly on WHO-AM in Des Moines, Iowa in the mid-2000s. In 2014, Turner Classic Movies would begin rerunning select interviews from the program for a new series called "Carson on TCM" presented by Conan O'Brien, who himself hosted "The Tonight Show" briefly. The digital multicast network Antenna TV acquired rerun rights to whole episodes of

neg: Jeremy McCoy began traveling with Interscope Recordsl recording artist OneRepublic. Jeremy would play bass for Brent Kutzle when Brent moved to Cello during the live performances. As of February 2009, Jeremy is playing bass on the road with Epic Records artists The Fray. With The Fray, Jeremy has made television appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, Today (NBC program), and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Jeremy has also toured and/or recorded for other artists including - Kelly Clarkson, Mat Kearney, James

neg: Corbin Maxey Corbin Maxey Corbin Maxey (born July 14, 1989) is an animal expert, known for his live animal shows and appearances on "The Tonight Show", The Today Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Inside Edition, and The Martha Stewart Show. He also started the Cyprus Hill Reptile Reserve animal rescue and educational outreach facility in 2002, at the age of 12. His interest and early education concerning reptiles came from his native area in the mountains of southern Idaho, where he regularly captured snakes, lizards, frogs and toads. He appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" as a reptile expert

neg: Kiki Ebsen television appearances with the Al Jarreau Band were on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and "The Arsenio Hall Show" before embarking on a world tour. The band featured future stars including N'Dea Davenport (Brand New Heavies), Rickey Minor (American Idol, "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"), and Felicia Collins ("Late Show with David Letterman"). Additional TV credits include performances with Take Six, Blake Shelton, Glen Campbell, Michelle Branch, Robert Goulet, Dolly Parton, Lee Ann Womack, Gloria Estefan, Kenny Loggins, Melissa Etheridge, Patty Griffin, and many more. Ebsen began writing songs as a teenager, and continues to compose to this

neg: Joey Heatherton some critics derided as "sleazy eroticism". In 1964 she appeared on "The Tonight Show", where she coached Johnny Carson on the finer points of dancing "The Frug." She received major publicity following her guest appearances on the January 1965 premiere episode of the teen dance show "Hullabaloo". She was featured on several more episodes of the show, and released "Hullabaloo", a song that she had performed on the show, on Coral Records. At the invitation of Dean Martin, Heatherton also appeared extensively on "The Dean Martin Show", starting with the premiere episode of September 16, 1965. She was a mystery

neg: The Tonight Show otherwise adhered to the talk show format introduced by Allen and honed further by Paar. Carson is the longest-serving host to date although not the host with the most episodes. "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" aired for 30 seasons between October 1962 and May 1992. Leno, however, has the record of having hosted the greatest number of total televised episodes. Leno's record accounts for the fact that unlike Carson (who only produced new shows three days a week starting in the 1980s), Leno never used guest hosts on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (except Katie Couric, once) and

neg: I'm a Slave 4 U performance the most memorable moment in VMA history. Other performances include several television appearances to promote her third album, "Britney". She performed on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on October 11, "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" on November 5 and the "Late Show with David Letterman" on November 6. A special named "Total Britney" was made by MTV on November 3, where the singer performed the song with "Stronger" and "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman". A month later, Spears opened the 2001 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on December 4 with a performance of the track

neg: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson David Letterman", which featured a tribute to Carson, began with a monologue by Letterman composed entirely of jokes written by Carson himself after his retirement. In 2011, the last Carson "Tonight" show was ranked No. 10 on the TV Guide Network special, "TV's Most Unforgettable Finales". The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the "Tonight Show" franchise from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first decade, Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show" was based at 30 Rockefeller Plaza,

neg: Lenny Dee named "Little Miss Muffett", in his routine. The dog was trained to bark along with some of his numbers and smiled on queue. His beloved Miss Muffett lived to be 17; she had kept him company while he traveled on the road earlier in his career. Fans continued to ask him about the dog long after she had passed. His television credits include appearances on "Toast of the Town" with Ed Sullivan, "The Tonight Show" with Jack Paar, "The Lawrence Welk Show", and later "Nashville Now". Dee even had his own show in the mid-50s on WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida

neg: Elke Sommer of Paula Schultz (1968); Sommer was the leading lady in each of these films. In 1964, she won a Golden Globe award as Most Promising Newcomer Actress for "The Prize," a film in which she co-starred with Paul Newman and Edward G. Robinson. A frequent guest on television, Sommer sang and participated in comedy sketches on episodes of "The Dean Martin Show" and on Bob Hope specials, made 10 appearances on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," and was a panelist on the "Hollywood Squares" game show many times between 1973 and 1980, when Peter Marshall was its "Square-Master," or

neg: Hello Hurricane 2010 college football season along with "The Sound." The band also played a string of late-night television shows after the album's release. They played "Mess of Me" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" November 12 and on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" on December 2. Switchfoot then opened 2010 by performing "Always" on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on January 4, 2010. They also made appearances on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" The band was also tapped as one of two acts (the other being The Goo Goo Dolls) to play the

neg: Shecky Greene on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (which he hated: "They'd rush you on and off"). He played Pvt. Braddock for a year on "Combat!" and guested on "The Joey Bishop Show", "The Love Boat", Lou Carnesco in two episodes of "The Fall Guy" and a fourth-season 1985 episode of "The A-Team" entitled "Members Only". Greene was widely respected by his peers, including Johnny Carson, who was a longtime fan. Greene made 40 appearances on "The Tonight Show", on which he also served as a guest host. He appeared on "The Merv Griffin Show", serving as a guest host on that show

neg: Natasha Leggero Natasha Leggero Natasha Leggero (born March 26, 1974) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She rose to fame after appearing as the host of "MTV's The 70s House" (2005), and for her tenure as a regular roundtable panelist on Chelsea Handler's late-night talk show "Chelsea Lately". Her comedy, characterized as observational, has been noted by critics for its use of satire as commentary on such themes as celebrity culture and class. Her stand-up television appearances include performances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", "Last Call with Carson Daly", "The Tonight Show

neg: Myrtle Young with her chips on "Happy's Place", "The Tonight Show", and "Late Night with David Letterman". When she appeared on "The Tonight Show" in 1987, her back was turned and host Johnny Carson pretended to crunch into one of her prized chips; in 1999, "TV Guide" named it as the funniest moment ever on television, and was included in a collection of Johnny Carson's greatest moments. According to her son, she also appeared on "The Chevy Chase Show," Bill Cosby's "You Bet Your Life," Geraldo Rivera's "Geraldo" and Vicki Lawrence's "Vicki!" as well as appearances on shows in Amsterdam and London.