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Johnny Carson, beloved host of The Tonight Show, famously joked about his difficulties in love, casting the blame, at one point, on his most iconic role.

“If I had given as much to marriage as I gave to The Tonight Show, I’d probably have a hell of a marriage,” he once said, per PEOPLE.

Prior to becoming a household name as a pillar of late-night television, Carson married Joan "Jody" Wolcott in 1949 after they met as students at the University of Nebraska.

The pair welcomed three sons and split in 1963.

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The year after Carson took on the mantle of The Tonight Showin 1962, he met and married model and TV host Joanne Copeland, who encouraged him to pursue the host role full-time. She and Carson divorced in 1972.

The comedian married model Joanna Holland that year, and the pair lived together in New York with