Johnny (Sorry, Jay) Top TV Icon

The famous faces of TV are (nearly) all present in this Hall of Fame
By Sophie Goldstein,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 15, 2007 1:49 PM CST
Johnny (Sorry, Jay) Top TV Icon
Homer Simpson, here pictured with Jay Leno, who did not make the list.   (Associated Press)

Letterman and Stewart made the cut, but Leno got stiffed when Entertainment Weekly and TV Land did their list of the top 50 TV icons. Leading the list, of course, the guy who started it all:

  1. Johnny Carson
  2. Lucille Ball
  3. Oprah Winfrey

  1. Bill Cosby
  2. Walter Cronkite
  3. Carol Burnett
  4. Mary Tyler Moore
  5. Jerry Seinfeld
  6. Homer Simpson
  7. Dick Clark
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