An esteemed Latenight-ologist on why NBC always knifes its beloved talk show hosts—and a never-before-seen note Leno once sent to Johnny Carson about it.
Bill Zehme co-wrote Jay Leno’s bestselling autobiography Leading with My Chin and is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’. He is at work on the first definitive biography of Johnny Carson— Carson the Magnificent—for Random House.