Howard Smith, author of My Friend Johnny

TVC 708.6: Ed welcomes Howard Smith, a retired tech mogul who not only found himself living four doors down the street from Johnny Carson in 1985, but became tennis buddies and, later, best friends with the legendary King of Late Night for the next twenty years. Howard shares many stories of the Johnny Carson he knew—a funny, kind, generous, modest, shy, yet deeply complex man that he knew simply as John—in My Friend Johnny: The Last 20 Years of a Beautiful Life with Johnny Carson and Friends, which you can find right now at MyFriendJohnny.com Calendar year 2025 marks not only the twentieth anniversary of Carson's passing, but the 100th anniversary of his birth.