Playboy Interview: Johnny Carson

December, 1967

There are few television personalities as engaging--and none as paradoxical--as Johnny Carson, the suave, boyish, 42-year-old star of NBC's "Tonight Show." Five nights a week, for 90 minutes--under the scrutiny of nearly 10,000,000 viewers and a studio audience of 234--Carson wittily and assuredly converses with guests ranging from Bobbie Gentry to Bobby Kennedy, in a style so ingratiating that the average viewer, according to one psychologist, feels he belongs to the "Tonight Sho...

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