Johnny Carson, Low-Key King of Late-Night TV, Dies at 79
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The droll, puckish, near-effortless comedian dominated late-night television for 30 years as the host of the "Tonight" show.
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Hollywood stars pay tribute to legendary US TV host Johnny Carson, who has died at the age of 79.
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The "Tonight Show" TV host served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years.
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Stars who spent time on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" couch came away with a shared insight: America's late-night TV buddy was a singular talent and man.
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"Heeere's Johnny!" -- the introduction for U.S. talk-show host Johnny Carson for 30 years -- has been ranked the most memorable TV catchphrase in a Top 100 list covering 60 years of American television shows, cartoons, commercials and quotes from news programs.
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Johnny Carson was remembered Monday on "The Tonight Show" with an affectionate lookback at his nearly 30 years as host, including tributes by comedians and former guests that left many in the audience teary-eyed.
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Howard Keel, star of post-war US musicals, and later in the hit television series Dallas, dies of cancer.
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Jay Leno, America's leading  late-night comedian as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show," will  retire in 2009 and be replaced by Conan O'Brien, an offbeat  comic whose own show airs an hour later, the network said on  Monday.
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The veteran comedian and broadcaster Cyril Fletcher has died aged 91, his family announced today.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years, died on Sunday at age 79 after a long  battle with emphysema.
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Country and Western singer Jerry  Scoggins, whose baritone rendition of the theme song of "The  Beverly Hillbillies" became one of television's favorite tunes,  has died in Los Angeles at age 93, his family said on Thursday.
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After his retirement in 1992, Johnny Carson focused on tennis, his yacht, languages and a monthly poker game.
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Red Buttons, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in early television and then won a 1957 Oscar with a surprising dramatic turn in &quot;Sayonara,&quot; died Thursday. He was 87.
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Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died. Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.
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David Letterman paid tribute to Johnny Carson on Monday by telling his jokes.
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Legendary television entertainer  Johnny Carson has died of emphysema at age 79, the NBC  television network reported on its Web site on Sunday.
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Law and Order and Dirty Dancing actor Jerry Orbach dies of prostate cancer at the age of 69.