Jack Paar, the man who essentially began late-night talk on television, died. The NewsHour airs a clip from his days of hosting NBC's "Tonight Show." Before we go tonight, remembering Jack Paar, who ...

In one of the contemporary interviews on the three-DVD The Jack Paar Collection set, a former NBC page tells a story about Paar's appeal: On the night that the talk-show host famously walked off The ...

SOUTH EGREMONT — Television star Jack Paar learned to ski yesterday at Catamount ski area here. It was his first visit to the Berkshires and his first time on skis. By the end of the day he was ...

GREENWICH Jack Paar, the smart-aleck 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 ...

Television icon Johnny Carson was an excellent fit for hosting The Tonight Show. But in the early ’60s, when he was considering the possibility of moving from an afternoon game show to a late-night ...

For five years Jack Paar stood TV’s most remorseless watch for NBC, the nightly Tonight show. Then by choice he tapered off the last three seasons with a mere weekly caper. Last week, at 48, Paar went ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dody Goodman, the delightfully daffy comedian known for her television appearances on Jack Paar's late-night talk show and as the mother on the soap-opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," has died ...