Jack Paar

Jack Paar (born May 1, 1918, Canton, Ohio, U.S.—died Jan. 27, 2004, Greenwich, Conn.) was an American humorist who, as host (1957–62) of The Tonight Show (later called The Jack Paar Show), was one of the pioneers of late night television. Paar quit school when he was 16 years old and went to work first as a radio announcer and later as a comic and disc jockey on a series of radio stations. He entered...