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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late night television veteran Hal Gurnee looks back on his fifty-year career, telling stories of directing from the sets of such comedic staples as The Tonight Show with Jack Paar and Late Show with ...

Emmy and Tony Award-winner Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) brings his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning performance to the Barbican this Summer in Good Night, Oscar – direct from a critically acclaimed Broadway ...

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 ...

The headlines were blacker than the Congo—and why not? The combatants, after all, were a lot more famous than Gizenga, or even Adlai Stevenson. They were Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan, two of TV’s major ...

This 1973 time capsule in the heart of suburban 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 so much ...

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 ...