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 ...

This 1973 time capsule in the heart of suburban Connecticut was the longtime home of Jack Paar, the second host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” and the next owner, the late Spiros “Sig” Segalas, liked it ...

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 ...

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Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was ...

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 ...

Jack Paar, the man who made late-night television talk shows a national institution, died this week. He now adds another "late" to his name, which seems sadly redundant. An anarchist in the corporate ...

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Ben Rappaport, who plays the role of Jack Paar in Good Night, Oscar. We discussed what it’s been like to be a part of the show since 2022, how he has worked ...

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 ...

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 ...