Tonight Show

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will honor comedian Jay Leno with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the nation's top award for humor, according to the Associated Press.

As a stand-up comic, David Brenner's trademark line was "Did you ever notice ... ?"

Eydie Gormé was the sort of entertainer that you could imagine a young  Don Draper taking his first wife Betty to see in some swank late- 1950s nightclub - or better yet, curling up with her on the couch to watch on the Philco TV as Gormé  appeared with husband-to-be Steve Lawrence on The Tonight…

In celebration of the 500th performance of the Off-Broadway hit Old Jews Telling Jokes, we grabbed a few minutes with cocreator Daniel Okrent.