NBC’s The Tonight Show has been hosted by some big names over the years, including Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon and Jack Paar. In 1960, Paar was the host ...

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 ...