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Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American talk show host, writer, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the second host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962.
Jack Paar. Actor: Walk Softly, Stranger. Became host of the Tonight Show in 1957 and quickly grew very popular with viewers. So popular, in fact, that the show was renamed "The Jack Paar Show" after only one year of hosting.
Tonight Starring Jack Paar (in later seasons The Jack Paar Tonight Show) is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under the Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It aired during late-night.
On February 11, 1960, Jack Parr walked off The Tonight Show for a month after NBC censors edited out a segment, taped the night before. As he left his desk, he said, “I am leaving The Tonight Show. There must be a better way of making a living than this.”
Jan 27, 2004 · 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 still...
Jan 25, 2019 · Jack Paar, a wry, spontaneous and brainy broadcaster whose “The Tonight Show” and “The Jack Paar Program” pioneered the late-night television talk show in the 1950s and early 1960s, died ...
Jan 28, 2004 · Jack Paar, prickly, often emotional and always unpredictable humorist who turned late-night television into national institution, dies at age 85; Paar hosted Tonight Show on NBC from 1957 to...
Jack Paar. Actor: Walk Softly, Stranger. Became host of the Tonight Show in 1957 and quickly grew very popular with viewers. So popular, in fact, that the show was renamed "The Jack Paar Show" after only one year of hosting.
Apr 30, 2024 · Jack Paar was an American humorist who, as host (1957–62) of The Tonight Show (later called The Jack Paar Show), was one of the pioneers of late night television. Paar quit school when he was 16 years old and went to work first as a radio announcer and later as a comic and disc jockey on a series.
Jan 27, 2004 · Jack Paar, who pioneered late-night talk TV on The Tonight Show, dies at 85. Paar hosted the show from 1957 to 1965, turning Steve Allen's comedy variety show into a more...
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