This article was updated at 7:39 p.m. Jack Paar, the mercurial raconteur who invented the modern talkshow format as host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show” from 1957 to 1962, died Tuesday at his home in ...
You won’t hear much talk on the network talk shows these days–not much real conversation to broaden the mind or upset the rigid format. In TV’s robust youth it was different, in large part because of ...
NEW YORK - Jack Paar, the smart-alec comic who pioneered late-night talk on "The Tonight Show" in the 1950s and paved the way for Johnny Carson and others before walking away from television while ...
Journey back in time with us as we walk the line between the fantasy and reality of one infamous night in Good Night, Oscar. It's 1958, and Jack Paar hosts the hottest late-night talk show on ...
Jimmy Kimmel opened his return to Jimmy Kimmel Live! with a line ripped from late-night lore, staring into the camera after nearly a week off the air and borrowing another host’s defiant comeback. As ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Paar, the smart-alec comic who pioneered late-night talk on ‘‘The Tonight Show'' in the 1950s and paved the way for Johnny Carson and others before walking away from television ...
Jack (“I’m live!”) Paar had hardly launched himself as NBC’s bright weeknightly answer to late movies when he began playing Pygmalion to a professionally addled Galatea from Ohio, orange-topped ...
Jack Paar, who kept millions of Americans up past their bedtimes as the mercurial host of the "Tonight" show in the late '50s and early '60s and set the standard for the talk-show format with his ...
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