13 Facts About The Tonight Show

Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954.

The Tonight Show is the world's longest-running talk show and the longest-running, regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson aired for 30 seasons between October 1962 and May 1992.

Format of The Tonight Show can be traced to a nightly 40-minute local program in New York, hosted by Allen and originally titled The Knickerbocker Beer Show .

The Tonight Show's would continue to perform the same service for most of the major talk shows for decades, including those hosted by Paar, Carson, Merv Griffin, and Mike Douglas, among others.

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The Jack Paar The Tonight Show was moved to the evening's prime time and aired weekly on Friday nights through the 1965 season.

Lewis subsequently wound up hosting a lavish 2-hour prime time talk show for ABC entitled The Jerry Lewis The Tonight Show, which was famously unsuccessful, and continued his more successful movie career.

David Letterman not only wanted to move into that earlier time slot from his Late Night spot after The Tonight Show, and was considered personally by Carson as his natural successor despite Leno having been Carson's permanent guest host for several years.

Jay Leno Show debuted in September 2009, three months into O'Brien's Tonight Show tenure, performing to significantly lower ratings than the primetime dramas it had replaced on NBC and trailing the competition.

One publicist reported that the aggression was such that The Jay Leno The Tonight Show had signaled to potential guests that doing O'Brien's program before Leno's would be punished with secondary placement in the line-up.

Fallon's Tonight Show has gone on the road to produce episodes remotely in its first year, spending four days at Universal Orlando Resort in Florida in June 2014 to promote new attractions at NBCUniversal's theme parks there.

In 1992, The Tonight Show Band welcomed its first female member, Vicki Randle.

Tonight Show became the first American television program to broadcast with MTS stereo sound in 1984, at first sporadically, by audio engineer Ron Estes.