LISTEN: Johnny Carson Centennial: Tracing His Path to ‘The Tonight Show’ Through the Pages of Variety

On the day of his 100th birthday, a special Vintage Variety episode looks back at the arc of Johnny Carson’s early career and his rise to becoming a TV icon, as chronicled in the pages of Variety. Carson’s first mention in Variety came in the Oct. 20, 1952, edition. By early 1953, he was noted […]