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''The Tonight Show'' is an American late-night talk show broadcast from the Rockefeller Center in New York City and airing on NBC since 1954. It is the world's longest-running talk show, and the longest running, regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States. It is the third-longest-running show on NBC, after only the news and talk shows ''Today'' and ''Meet the Press''. Over the course of more than sixty years, ''The Tonight Show'' has undergone only minor title changes. It aired under the name ''Tonight'' for several of its early years, eventually settling on ''The Tonight Show'' after the seating of long-time host Johnny Carson in 1962. In later decades, network programmers, advertisers, and the show's announcers would refer to the show by including the name of the host; for example, it is currently announced as ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon''. In 1957, the show briefly tried a more news-style format. It has otherwise remained a talk show throughout its run. ''The Tonight Show'' began broadcasting in 1954. It has had six official hosts, beginning with Steve Allen (1954–57), followed by Jack Paar (1957–62), Johnny Carson (1962–92), Jay Leno (1992–2009, 2010–14), Conan O'Brien (2009–10), and Jimmy Fallon (2014–present). It has had several recurring guest hosts, a practice especially common during the Paar and Carson eras. Johnny Carson is the longest-serving host to date. ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' aired for 30 seasons between October 1962 and May 1992. Leno, however, has the record of having hosted the greatest number of total televised episodes. Leno's record accounts for the fact that unlike Carson (who only produced new shows three days a week), Leno never used guest hosts and produced new shows five days a week; Leno himself was also Carson's primary guest host for the last five years of Carson's tenure, giving him even more episodes to his credit. Outside of its brief run as a news show in 1957, Conan O'Brien is the shortest-serving host. O'Brien hosted 146 episodes over the course of less than eight months. Current host Jimmy Fallon took the helm on February 17, 2014. Fallon had previously hosted ''Late Night'', and before ''Late Night'' he was a popular member of the cast on ''Saturday Night Live''. ==Hosting history== From 1950 to 1951 NBC aired ''Broadway Open House'', a nightly variety show which was hosted primarily by comic Jerry Lester. ''Broadway…'' demonstrated the audience potential for late-night network programming. The format of ''The Tonight Show'' can be traced to a nightly 40-minute local program in New York, hosted by Allen and originally titled ''The Knickerbocker Beer Show'' (after the sponsor). It was quickly retitled ''The Steve Allen Show''. This premiered in 1953 on WNBT-TV, (now broadcasting as WNBC-TV), the local station affiliate in New York City. Beginning in September 1954, it was renamed ''Tonight!'' and began its historic run on the full NBC network. Notes for hosting history 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Tonight Show」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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