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 ...

ABC suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in the wake of comments that the titular host made about the fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. Kimmel began his highly-anticipated return monologue ...

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 ...

“Five-four-three-two-one.” Announcer Hugh Downs did the Canaveral countdown, then launched his rocket: “Here’s Jack!” Into public view again loomed Jack Paar, returning to his bereft nighttime ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...