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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.
Tonight Starring Jack Paar (in later seasons The Jack Paar Tonight Show) is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC. The show is the second installment of The Tonight Show . Hosted by Jack Paar , it aired from July 29, 1957 to March 30, 1962, replacing Tonight Starring Steve Allen and was replaced by The Tonight Show Starring Johnny ...
The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has been broadcast on NBC since 1954. The program has been hosted by six comedians: Steve Allen (1954–1957), Jack Paar (1957–1962), Johnny Carson (1962–1992), Jay Leno (1992–2009 and 2010–2014), Conan O'Brien (2009–2010), and Jimmy Fallon (2014–present).
Jack Lescoulie: Tonight! America After Dark (Jan 28, 1957 – Jun 21, 1957) Al "Jazzbo" Collins: Tonight! America After Dark (Jun 24 1957 – Jul 26, 1957) Jack Paar: Tonight Starring Jack Paar (Jul 29 1957 – Mar 30 1962) Art Linkletter: The Tonight Show (Apr 2 1962 – Apr 27,1962) Merv Griffin
Downs became a bona fide television "personality" as Jack Paar's announcer on The Tonight Show from mid 1957, when he replaced Franklin Pangborn, until Paar's departure in March 1962, [12] and then continued to announce for The Tonight Show until the summer of 1962, when Ed Herlihy took the announcing reins.
Jack Paar hosted the show from 1957 to 1962, but the show's longest-running and most famous host was Johnny Carson, who hosted the show for three decades and received six Emmys. Following Carson's 1992 retirement, "vast quantities of brainpower, money, and column inches were devoted to the issue of who was truly best suited to carry the ...
Mimi Hines — the legendary singer, rubber-faced comedian, television star and Broadway performer who famously replaced Barbra Streisand in the original cast of Funny Girl — died on Monday, Oct ...
John Crosby described Paar's work as quizmaster as "a sort of weak mixture of Bob Hope and Arthur Godfrey — Telling jokes like the former and exuding charm like the latter". [7] Crosby wrote that none of the questions that he saw were "hard enough to tax the intellect of a six-year-old child, though they occasionally tax those of the ...