Johnny Carson

Lowell, Massachusetts is the place where Ed McMahon, longtime sidekick of Johnny Carson on 'The Tonight Show,' spent his formative years.

Saturday is National Presidential Joke Day, but it's getting harder and harder for people to take any joke these days, let alone one about the president.

There are those who will argue that the world of television hasn't suffered such a loss in nearly a generation, and they're right. When David Letterman signed off CBS' "Late Show" for good Wednesday, he closed the book on more than his own incomparable career in late night...

Legendary comedy diva Joan Rivers is dead at the age of 81. Rivers, best known for her caustic humor and outspoken candor, passed away after suffering complications during surgery on her throat at a New York clinic. Reports say Rivers stopped breathing during the procedure and was rushed to Mount Sinai hospital in cardiac and respiratory arrest...