The Tonight Show
Sign in to saveAmerican late-night talk show hosted by Jimmy Fallon
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Within Vinony's link graph, The Tonight Show is referenced by 1,571 other articles, and connects out to Universal Television, The Daily Show and Today.
It sits within the topics 1950s American late-night television series, 1950s American sketch comedy television series and 1950s American variety television series.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Genre
- Talk Variety show
- Created by
- Steve Allen Dwight Hemion William O. Harbach Sylvester "Pat" Weaver
- Presented by
- Steve Allen Jack Paar Johnny Carson Jay Leno Conan O'Brien Jimmy Fallon
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English
- Number span no of episodes
- 601 (under Allen) 1,066 (under Paar) 4,531 (under Carson) 3,775 (under Leno, first tenure) 146 (under O'Brien, 1 unaired) 835 (under Leno, second tenure, 4,610 total) 2,301 (under Fallon) Total : 13,359 ( list of episodes )
- Running time
- Varies
- Network
- NBC
- Release
- September 27, 1954 ( 1954-09-27 ) –, present
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television program
- Genre
- talk show
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- American English
- Production company
- NBC
- Filming location
- New York City
- Official website
- www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show
- Image
- Laura Bush on The Tonight Show.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Tonight Show
- presenter
- Jimmy Fallon
- topic's main category
- Category:The Tonight Show
- original broadcaster
- NBC
- start time
- 1954-09-27
- color
- black-and-white
- language of work or name
- English language
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has been broadcast on NBC since 1954. The program has been hosted by six comedians: Steve Allen (1954–1957), Jack Paar (1957–1962), Johnny Carson (1962–1992), Jay Leno (1992–2009 and 2010–2014), Conan O'Brien (2009–2010), and Jimmy Fallon (since 2014).
Besides the main hosts, a number of regular "guest hosts" have been used, notably Ernie Kovacs, who hosted two nights per week during 1956–1957, and a number of guests used by Carson, who curtailed his own hosting duties back to three nights per week by the 1980s. Among Carson's regular guest hosts were Joey Bishop, McLean Stevenson, David Letterman, David Brenner, Garry Shandling, and Joan Rivers, with his final regular guest host being his eventual successor Jay Leno. The practice of hiring guest hosts has been mostly discontinued by Leno and his successors, who prefer airing reruns to showcasing potential rivals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Tonight Show” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.