The Tonight Show hasn't had a guest host since the Johnny Carson years when Jay Leno was the permanent guest host. Katie Couric was a one time guest host when she & Jay Leno switched jobs for a publicity stunt. In 2003, she filled in on The Tonight Show & he filled in on TODAY. There has not been a guest host since then.
No one died on Carson's show.
However, a man died on Dick Cavett's show, and Cavett went to Carson for advice. He was Jerome I. Rodale, the publisher of (among other things) Today’s Health Magazine. (Laugh.) The irony gets thicker.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/when-that-guy-died-on-my-show/
Bette Midler is considered to be the last guest on the Tonight Night Show when Johnny Carson was the host. Robin Williams also appeared on the show that night.
Joey Bishop
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Yes, he appeared on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson four times but all his guest spots were prior to his presidency.
The mostfrequent guest hosts during the first 21 years were:Joey Bishop (177 times), Joan Rivers (93 times),Bob Newhart (87 times), John Davidson (87 times),David Brenner (70 times), McLean Stevenson (58 times),Jerry Lewis (52 times), and David Letterman (51 times).Joan Rivers was the "permanent" (and only) guest hostfrom September 1983 until 1986. The Tonight Showreverted to various guest hosts after Joan left, withJay Leno the most frequent. Leno then became theexclusive guest host in the fall of 1987, a positionhe held for the remainder of Johnny's rein.
After appearing in both series one and two, McLaren left the show during the third series to begin filming Packed_to_the_Rafters. He reappaears in the last episode of season 3 as a guest star
Yes he was a guest.
Jay Leno was Johnny's permanent guest host.
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I believe that was Dr. Joyce Brothers.
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Yes, he appeared on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson four times but all his guest spots were prior to his presidency.
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Janice Harper has: Played Herself - Singer in "The Steve Allen Show" in 1956. Played herself in "The Dick Clark Show" in 1958. Played herself in "The Mike Douglas Show" in 1961. Played Musical Guest in "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1962. Played herself in "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1962.
Eloise Laws has: Played Musical Guest in "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1962. Played Guest Opera Vocalist in "Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine" in 1962. Performed in "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1962. Played herself in "The Merv Griffin Show" in 1962. Played herself in "The David Frost Show" in 1969. Played herself in "Tom Jones and Some Fancy Dressers" in 1971. Performed in "Betrunner" in 2004.
Johnny Carson never did "reruns" of his shows; every show was new and fresh. Carson took plenty of vacations, but whenever he was away, one of a number of "guest hosts" would take the big seat. Jay Leno was one; Don Rickles and actress Joan Rivers were others. When Carson announced his impending retirement, NBC tried a number of different people who had guest-hosted the Tonight Show, and settled on Leno pretty quickly. So the straight answer would be "There were no permanent hosts of the Tonight Show between Carson and Leno." My complaint with Leno is that when he took over, he "pulled up the ladder behind him", and never allowed anybody else to guest-host the show, and never allowed new talent a chance to develop their own styles. Like a professor who refused to teach, he tried - intentionally or not - to block any competition from developing.
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