Richard Dawson
Inside Richard Dawson’s Promising, Ill-Fated Bid to Be Tonight Show Host
Feb 19, 2026
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Aug 12, 2025
Richard Dawson’s Tonight Show Cigarette Box Is Up For Auction
Dawson, who guest hosted The Tonight Show 14 times (and was once seen as a contender to replace Johnny Carson), was gifted the inscribed blue velvet-lined cigratte box in 1979.
