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To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the landmark talk show, revisit this emmy magazine tribute to Johnny Carson from 1992, the year the comedian retired from late night.

There’s … Johnny! immersed viewers in the golden age of late-night talk, when Johnny Carson reigned.

In Ed McMahon's memoir, he shared memories of the phone call he received about Johnny Carson's death and how he spent the next day mourning.

Dick Carson died in December after a brief illness at the age of 92.

When you buy a buffalo, what do you get at the first of the month? Decades before Letterman was lowered into a huge water vat wearing an Alka-Seltzer suit, Allen was covered with tea bags and submerged into warm water. The Story Of Late Night – which repeats 10 p.m. this Saturday, May 8 – airs a clip of Allen showing the proper technique for smashing a cream pie into a mannequin's face. A stage hand then volunteers to do it, but instead slammed the pie into Allen's face. So Allen chased him into the studio audience, where everyone tossed a pie at him.