The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson is synonymous with being curled up between my parents in bed, warm, safe, just barely awake after being asleep a while already, only to open my eyes some and see the flicker of the screen and hear those voices, and that friendly self-deprecating, wry delivery that always meant to me “go back to sleep, everybody’s laughing, everybody’s happy, everything’s fine.”

Yahoo! News - Late-Night King Johnny Carson Dies at 79