If Johnny Carson were alive today, he’d be 100 years old — and you can almost hear him delivering a sly, perfectly timed monologue about it. To celebrate the centennial of the King of Late Night, as he has come to be known, the Museum of Broadcast Communications is rolling out the red carpet and reopening its doors with two exhibits: “The Johnny Carson Centennial” and “The Evolution of Late-Night Television.”
The exhibits will debut at the museum’s pop-up location at 440 W. Randolph Street in Chicago, which opens to the public on Oct. 24 and will remain open through January 2027. But before the lights officially come up, the museum is hosting a media preview and benefit event on Oct. 23, which would have been Carson’s 100th birthday, had he not died at 79 of respiratory failure in 2005. The celebration will support the Mbc’s educational and archival mission.
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