- Jay Leno
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program "The Tonight Show". He also owns Big Dog Productions, a company that co-produces the show. He earns $30 million per year. - David Letterman
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series 1994 "Late Show with David Letterman"David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an award-winning American comedian, late night talk show host, television producer, philanthropist, and IRL IndyCar Series car owner. His first major success occurred on the long-running NBC television program, "Late Night with David Letterman", … - Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 - January 23,2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". - Ed McMahon
Edward "Ed" Peter Leo McMahon, Jr. (born March 6, 1923) is a popular American comedian, game show host, announcer and television personality most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's announcer on the "Tonight Show", from 1962 to 1992, and as the host of the talent show "Star Search", from 1983 to 1995. - Steve Allen
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen was an American musician, comedian and writer instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. Allen is called the father of TV talk shows. - Jack Paar
Jacques Harold "Jack" Paar (May 1, 1918 - January 27, 2004) was an American radio and television talk show host. - Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers is an American comedian, talk show host, businesswoman, and celebrity. She is known for her brash manner and loud, gruff voice with a heavy metropolitan New York accent. Rivers is the National Chairwoman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is a board member of God's Love We Deliver. Like the ground-breaking Phyllis Diller, whose career preceded and overlapped hers, Rivers' act relied heavily on poking fun at herself. - Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen has been the principal pops conductor for The Phoenix Symphony since 1983. - Kevin Eubanks
Kevin Tyrone Eubanks (born November 15, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American jazz guitarist who has been the leader of the "Tonight Show" Band with host Jay Leno since 1995. He played with Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Slide Hampton, and Sam Rivers before starting to lead his own groups in 1983. Like his brother Robin Eubanks, a jazz trombonist, he has played on record with Dave Holland. - Dick Cavett
Drunken female heckler: I pay your salary, buddy, with my hard-earned money.<br />Cavett: And I'm tempted to guess at your profession. His most famous line from this period may have been the following: He also played Mr. Kelly's in Chicago and the Hungry i in San Francisco, during which latter time he met Lenny Bruce, about whom Cavett said: In 1965, Cavett did some commercial voiceovers, … - John Melendez
John Melendez, formerly known as "Stuttering John" (b. October 4, 1965 in New York City), is the announcer for "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. He currently lives in the city of Calabasas, CA with his wife, Suzanna Keller, and three children - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis (August 26, 1960, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana) is an American jazz and classical saxophonist. He was born the oldest of six sons to Delores Ferdinand Marsalis and famed pianist Ellis Marsalis, Jr.. He is the oldest of the six Marsalis brothers: Wynton Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis III, Delfeayo Marsalis, Mboya Kinyatta, and Jason Marsalis. Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason are also jazz musicians. Ellis is a poet, photographer, & network engineer based in Baltimore. - David Steinberg
David Steinberg, born into a Jewish family August 9, 1940, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, writer and author. He was one of the best-known stand-up comics in the USA during the late 1960s and appeared on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" 140 times. Steinberg also directed episodes of many the most successful television comedies of the last fifteen years, including" Seinfeld", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Mad About You", … - Amy Adams
Amy Christina Adams (born July 25, 1979 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American singer who is best known as the tenth-place finalist on the third season of the television series "American Idol". Adams was born in Kansas City and presently lives and works in Bakersfield, California as a professional makeup artist. Adams auditioned for "American Idol" in Atlanta, Georgia and was a member of the third group of semifinalists. - Marie Rudisill
Marie Rudisill, (March 13, 1911 - November 3, 2006), was a writer and television personality, best known as the nonagenarian woman who appeared in the "Ask the Fruitcake Lady" segments on "The Tonight Show" on American television. She was an aunt to novelist Truman Capote (his mother, Lillie Mae Faulk, was her elder sister). Rudisill helped to raise Capote, who lived with her at times during his childhood, both in Alabama and New York City. - Ernie Kovacs
Ernest Edward Kovacs was a creative and innovative entertainer in the early days of television. His on-air antics would influence later TV shows such as "Laugh-In", "the Uncle Floyd Show", "Saturday Night Live" and TV hosts like David Letterman. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, the Hungarian-American Kovacs became a pioneer of television comedy as a distinct medium. Earlier television comedians had mainly continued the comedy styles of vaudeville, … - Rich Little
Richard Caruthers "Rich" Little is a Canadian comedian best known for his celebrity impersonations. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Little was one of three sons of a physician, he had a gift for impersonations since his school days and began performing professionally in night clubs at 17. He acted in Ottawa's Little Theatre and became a successful disc jockey who frequently incorporated impersonations into his show. In 1963, he was asked to audition by Mel Tormé, … - Skitch Henderson
Lyle Russell Cedric “Skitch” Henderson, was a pianist, conductor, and composer. His nickname ("Skitch") reportedly derived from his ability to quickly "re-sketch" a song in a different key. It is also rumored that the name “Skitch” came from something that a young Skitch and his buddies would say, “skitchadoodawawa,” which they thought was cool and hip. - Ross Mathews
Ross Mathews (born September 24, 1979 in Mount Vernon, Washington) is an American television personality known mostly for his role as a correspondent for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". A former intern on that show, he is referred to by Jay Leno as "Ross the Intern". He is also known for contributing commentary to the E! networks various "101..." specials, and as a member of the Red Team on the 2003 incarnation of the reality television show, … - Hugh Downs
Hugh Malcolm Downs (born February 14, 1921) is a retired American broadcaster, television host, producer, and author. He served as anchor of "20/20", host of "The Today Show", announcer for the "Tonight Show" with Jack Paar, host of "Concentration" game show, and co-host of the PBS talk show "Not for Women Only". - Ed Shaughnessy
Edwin Thomas "Ed" Shaughnessy (b. January 29, 1929) is a swing music and bebop drummer best known for his long association with Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band on the "Tonight Show with Johnny Carson". He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and grew up in the New York City area, working in the 1940s with George Shearing, Jack Teagarden, and Charlie Ventura. In the 1950s he worked in the Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey bands. - Richard Engel
Richard Engel is NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads fluent Arabic and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book "A Fist in the Hornet's Nest", published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq war from Baghdad. A winner of the Edward R. Murrow award, … - Edd Hall
Edd Hall (born December 7th, 1958) was the announcer for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" from 1992 to 2004. He was replaced by John Melendez. He often introduced himself saying "...And me, I'm Edd Hall." Like other regular performers on the show, Hall frequently appeared in skits during the opening monologue. These skits often involved slapstick injury to Hall (by using a stunt double, dummy, or film clip), such as vehicles running him over in the studio parking lot. - Stefan Raab
Stefan Raab (full name Stefan Konrad Raab, born on October 20, 1966 in Cologne, Germany) is a German entertainer and comedian. He attended Jesuit boarding school Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn. Before entering the media world, he worked as a butcher and studied law before dropping out of college after five semesters. Stefan Raab became popular as the host of the comedy show "Vivasion" for the German music TV channel VIVA in 1996. - Vicki Randle
Vicki Randle, born December 11, 1954 in San Francisco, California is a singer, multi-instrumentalist (primarily acoustic guitar and percussion) and composer, most well known as as the only female member of the Tonight Show Band, starting with host Jay Leno in 1992. She has recorded and/or toured with Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Lionel Richie, Kenny Loggins, Celine Dion, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Branford Marsalis, Lyle Mays, and many others. - Vlad
- Matt Young
I just like to ride my dirtbike and just to hang out with my friends,and playing football. - Alexander King
Alexander King (1899-1965), born Alexander Koenig, was an illustrator and author based in the United States. A frequent guest on the Tonight Show hosted by Jack Paar, wherein he seemed to have an endless trove of amusing anecdotes and stories, he was also the author of several books, including "May This House Be Safe from Tigers", "Mine Enemy Grows Older", (an account of his addiction to morphine, and his recovery), and "I Should Have Kissed Her More", … - Lynn Anderson
Lynn Rene Anderson (born September 26, 1947) is a Grammy Award-winning, American country music singer. She was a consistent hit maker during the 1970s, but is perhaps best known for her 1970 crossover hit, "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden", which topped the country and pop charts around the world. Her sophisticated image and Countrypolitan sound helped her to become one of the first female country artists to achieve mass crossover appeal. - Jan Murray
Jan Murray (October 4, 1916 - July 2, 2006) was an American stand-up comedian and actor who made his name on the Borscht Belt. - Frederick de Cordova
Frederick "Fred" Timmins de Cordova (October 27, 1910 - September 15, 2001) was a motion picture and television director and producer. He was best known for his work on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". - Milton Delugg
Milton DeLugg (born December 2 1918 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer and arranger. A talented accordionist, he appeared in short Soundies musicals and occasional movies (like 1949's "Jolson Sings Again"). He quickly became a successful arranger and composer. His clients ranged from the American Junior Miss Pageant to Jackie Wilson, and he was a musician on such radio programs as "The Abe Burrows Show". - Kelly Monteith
Kelly Monteith (born 1943 in St Louis, Missouri) is an American comedian. He is best known for writing and starring in the BBC comedy show, "Kelly Monteith". Discovered in the late 1970s, Monteith performed as a guest comedian on NBC's "Tonight" and BBC's "Des O'Connor Tonight". He had a short-lived variety show on CBS in 1976 entitled "The Kelly Monteith Show" before being picked up by the BBC for "Kelly Monteith" in 1978. - Dave Mordal
Dave Mordal is a comedian from Elk River, Minnesota. He was a contestant on the first and third seasons of NBC's "Last Comic Standing". He was fourth eliminated in the first season after losing in a head-to-head competition to Dat Phan, the eventual winner of Last Comic Standing season 1. He was first runner-up in the third season. On the show he was known for his great friendship with Rich Vos, with whom he was seen taking baths and ironing. - Grady Tate
Grady Tate, (born January 14, 1932 in Durham, North Carolina), is a hard bop and soul-jazz drummer. He has played with Lena Horne, Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Chris Connor, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Cal Tjader, Peggy Lee, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Stanley Turrentine, Charles Earland, Quincy Jones, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith, as well as many other famous jazz artists. - Lil' Jj
Lil' JJ (born James Charles Lewis on October 31, 1990) is an American stand-up comedian. Lil' JJ won BET's comedy talent search "Comin' To The Stage". Since being discovered at his middle school in Little Rock, Arkansas, he has performed at comedy clubs across the country and made an appearance on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show". He became a cast member on Nickelodeon's All That in its 10th and final season. - Jose Melis
José Melis was born José Melis Guiu. Melis studied at the Havana Conservatory of Music and a Cuban government scholarship enabled him to continue his education in Paris. When he was 16, he arrived in America, graduated from the Juilliard School of Music and worked as a lounge pianist. During World War II, while he was serving as the musical director for the USO's New York City branch of the USO, he met Jack Paar, and the two remained friends for years. - Paul Block
Paul Block is an American executive producer most recently known for his work on the now defunct San Francisco, California based TechTV (now known as G4) television network. He was executive producer and show runner of such shows as "The Screen Savers", "Call for Help", and "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent". He produced at the network from early 2001 until late 2004 when, as a result of the merger between G4 and TechTV, … - Kip Addotta
Kip Addotta is an American comedian notable for often being featured on the The Tonight Show Show and the syndicated Show Make Me Laugh. Also featured on The Dr. Demento Show for his novelty music, the biggest hits of which are "Wet Dream" and “Life in the Slaw Lane” a series of fish puns and vegetable puns respectively that, together, form a storyline. Kip Addotta was born in Rockford IL. and is the father of three children: Victor, Frank and Kathy. - Jim McCawley
Jim McCawley (May 31, 1942 - May 3, 1997) was a screenwriter and former television producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". McCawley began his showbiz career as a production assistant for the Broadway productions of "Bye Bye Birdie" and "All American", and joined "The Tonight Show" in 1977.
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