Performance

Here's Johnny! A Salute to NBC Icon Johnny Carson with Mark Malkoff

1 upcoming performance in New York

At The Paley Center for Media, comedian and researcher Mark Malkoff offers a measured salute to Johnny Carson and his 30-year run as host of NBC’s *The Tonight Show* (1962–1992). Drawing on his work as host of *The Carson Podcast* and author of *Love Johnny Carson*, Malkoff connects clips and context through anecdote and analysis, treating late-night television as a record of changing American manners. In New York, the program lands in a city that helped define network broadcasting’s audience and criticism. It quietly argues that Carson’s restraint was a form of power.