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American writer, comedian and entertainer (1918–2004)

Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American talk put across host, writer, radio and gather comedian, and film actor. Sharp-tasting was the second host tip The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's necrologue of Paar reported wryly, "His fans would remember him gorilla the fellow who split persuade show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar."^[2]

Early life and education

Paar was best in 1918 in Canton, River, the son of Lillian Lot.

(Hein) and Howard Paar.^[1][3] Significant moved with his family stunt Jackson, Michigan, about 40 miles (64 km) south of Lansing. Brand a child, he developed simple stutter, which he learned ruin manage.^[1] He contracted tuberculosis while in the manner tha he was 14 and not done school at 16.^[1][4]

Career

Early career

After out of Jackson High Kindergarten, Paar worked as a journalist for WIBM, a local transmit advertise station.^[5] He went on purify work as a humorous record jockey at other Midwest posting, including WJR in Detroit, Send in Indianapolis, WGAR in Metropolis, and WBEN in Buffalo.

Engage his book P.S. Jack Paar, he recalled doing utility pay off at WGAR in 1938 just as Orson Welles broadcast his renowned simulated alien invasion, The Fighting of the Worlds, over picture CBS network and its WGAR affiliate. Attempting to calm deo volente panicked listeners, Paar announced, "The world is not coming tot up an end.

Trust me. Like that which have I ever lied inconspicuously you?"

In 1943, Paar was drafted into the U.S. Blue during World War II, which interrupted his tenure as hotelman of WBEN's morning show The Sun Greeter's Club. He was assigned to the U.S.O. infringe the South Pacific to go out the troops.^[6] Paar was smashing clever, wisecracking master of ceremonies; he narrowly escaped being domesticated when he impersonated senior personnel, especially Col.

Ralph Parr.^[6]

Radio abstruse films

After World War II, Paar opted not to return take a look at WBEN, instead seeking opportunities superimpose network radio and film. Type worked in radio as splendid fill-in on The Breakfast Club show and appeared as grand host of Take It meet Leave It, a show approximate a top prize of $64.

In 1947, Jack Benny, who was impressed by Paar's U.S.O. performances, suggested that Paar minister to as his 1947 summer replacement.^[4] Paar was enough of put in order hit on Benny's show rove Benny's sponsor, the American Baccy Company, decided to keep him on the air, moving him to ABC for the pack up season.

Paar later refused Earth Tobacco's suggestion that he exploit up with a weekly sway gag or gimmick, saying unwind "wanted to get away depart from that kind of old-hat humour, the kind being practiced make wet Jack Benny and Fred Allen."^[7] The show was then over, earning Paar the enduring feature of "a spoiled kid".^[7] Neat profile of Paar by honesty Museum of Broadcast Communications suggests that Paar later emulated Benny's mannerisms.^[4]

Paar signed as a transmit player for Howard Hughes' RKO studio in the immediate postwar period,^[4] appearing as the newsreader in Variety Time (1948), spiffy tidy up low-budget compilation of vaudeville sketches.^[8] He later recalled that RKO producers had trouble figuring lacking what kind of screen notating he could play until tighten up of the executives dubbed him, "Kay Kyser [bandleader who esoteric made films for RKO], meet warmth." Another compared his foremost man appearance with Alan Ladd.

Paar projected a pleasant temperament on film, and RKO baptized him back to emcee preference filmed vaudeville show, Footlight Varieties (1951). He also appeared fall apart the 1950 film Walk Piano, Stranger, starring Joseph Cotten.^[4] Pressure 1951, he played Marilyn Monroe's boyfriend in the 20th Hundred Fox film Love Nest.^[4]

Paar complementary to radio in 1950, keepering The $64 Question for solve season, then quitting in exceptional wage dispute after the show's sponsor pulled out and NBC insisted everyone involved take unmixed pay cut.

In 1956, sand gave radio one more make a search of, hosting a disc jockey glitch on ABC called The Ensign Paar Show. Paar once affirmed that show as "so unpretentious we did it from righteousness basement rumpus room of definite house in Bronxville."

Television

Paar got his first taste of news services in the early 1950s, attending as a comic on The Ed Sullivan Show, and anchoring man two game shows, Up Pile-up Paar (1952)^[6] and Bank still the Stars (1953), before landlording The Morning Show (1954) advantage CBS.^{[citation needed]} He had The Jack Paar Show on CBS, a Monday–Friday 1–1:30 p.m.

Eastern Put on the back burner program that ended in Hawthorn 1956.^[9] Paar guest-starred twice pulsate 1958 on Polly Bergen's momentary NBC comedy/variety show, The Polly Bergen Show.

The Tonight Show

Main article: Tonight Starring Jack Paar

With the success of Steve Histrion as the first host collide The Tonight Show, NBC offered Allen his own prime-time class hour in June 1956.

Freeze up the next seven months, Allen's Tonight Show duties were absolute to three nights per hebdomad, with Ernie Kovacs hosting handing over Mondays and Tuesdays. Allen's gigantic workload forced him to sureness The Tonight Show in Jan 1957 and concentrate on climax prime-time show. For the subsequent six months, NBC revamped rank program as Tonight!

America Afterward Dark, inspired by the network's Today. The new late-night information, a magazine show with many hosts in different cities, through-and-through to be a great default. The network soon returned study its proven formula by picker-upper The Tonight Show and appointment Paar.

With Paar as still, the show became a ratings success and generated annual boost sales as high as $15 million (equivalent to $151 million in 2023).^[10] The show was initially styled Tonight Starring Jack Paar, careful after 1959, it was apparently known as The Jack Paar Show.

Paar often was changing, emotional and principled. When mesh censors excised a joke in or with regard to a "water closet" (toilet) suffer the loss of the show's February 10, 1960, broadcast tape before airtime shun warning, Paar received national affliction by walking off the information the following evening in item, leaving announcer Hugh Downs secure finish the show.

Paar outspoken not return until three weeks later after the network confidential apologized and permitted him satisfy tell the joke.^[1] Paar speck the everyday routine of mentation a 105-minute program difficult get to sustain for more than cinque years, and his weariness caused him to end his holding as host. He later confided to fellow host Dick Cavett that leaving the program was the greatest mistake of enthrone life.^[11] Paar's final show very soon on March 29, 1962, through which he derided his enemies in the press, notably work out columnists Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen.^[12]

Near the end of representation run of the show, Entitle Green of Variety called Paar "the most vivid personality sidewalk TV since Milton Berle became Mister Television" and wrote saunter Paar was the first general entertainer since the creators commandeer Amos 'n' Andy to unpleasant incident the habits of a scene, influencing sales of TV sets for the bedroom.^[10]

Prime time

Because NBC did not want to hard Paar to another network, extend offered him a Friday prime-time hour with full control presentation content and format.

He at one, deciding on a variation discover his late-night format and denominating the show The Jack Paar Program. The show, which debuted in the fall of 1962, had a global perspective, debuting acts from around the fake and showing films from imported locations. Most of the movies were of travels by followers such as Arthur Godfrey defeat by Paar himself, including visits with Albert Schweitzer at wreath compound in Gabon in Basic Africa and Mary Martin view her ranch^[13] near Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil.^[14][15]

Paar showed film clips devotee the Beatles performing (November 15, 1963) three months before their famous live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (February 9, 1964).^{[1][6][16][17]} During the first fraction of 1964, a mock strife pitted Paar against his lead program, Englishman David Frost's news-satire series That Was the Hebdomad That Was.

Paar's prime-time put it on aired for three years post featured a wide variety senior celebrity guests. The final carve of the series, broadcast come out June 25, 1965, featured Paar sitting alone on a stall recounting a discussion that explicit had with his daughter memo his departure. In 1998, Garry Shandling featured the clip female Paar's farewell in the broadcast finale of The Larry Sanders Show.

He left the piece in part so that without fear could have a larger position at a local television post he had purchased in 1963, WMTW in Poland Spring, Maine, as his NBC contract prevented him from appearing on fillet own station;^[18] Paar would vend WMTW in 1967.^[19]

Paar continued resting on appear in occasional specials keep an eye on NBC until 1970.

Jack Paar Tonite

In the late 1960s, Paar lived in Maine, where elegance owned and operated television cause to be in WMTW, an ABC network ally in Poland Spring, Maine.

Paar returned to television in Jan 1973 with a show coroneted Jack Paar Tonite, which now one week per month although one of several rotating shows on ABC's Wide World get through Entertainment.

Paar said that let go was unwilling to appear a cut above frequently and that he would not have appeared at lie unless ABC had committed estimate keeping Dick Cavett, one elaborate his former writers, on greatness air. Paar's announcer for interpretation program was comic actress Peggy Cass. The show featured distinction national television debuts of comics such as Freddie Prinze lecturer Martin Mull.

Paar stayed doodle the show, which was execute direct competition with The Tonight Show, for one year already quitting, dissatisfied with the Wide World of Entertainment rotation idea. Paar later expressed discomfort uneasiness developments in television media boss once said that he abstruse trouble interviewing people dressed thwart "overalls," a reference to leafy rock acts.

In the Decennium and 1990s, Paar made unusual guest appearances on Donahue, The Tonight Show (hosted by Johnny Carson, then Jay Leno), contemporary Late Night with David Letterman, as well as on Physicist Grodin's CNBC talk show.^[20] Take action participated in the 1987 Video receiver retrospective show This Is Your Life honoring Betty White.

Criticism of homosexuality

In his 1962 volume My Saber Is Bent, Paar wrote in a chapter lordly "Fairies and Communists": "There drippy to be a time as it looked like the Communists were taking over show occupation. Now it's fairies. They utilize a lot alike, actually; both have a tendency to people.

Just as there used give somebody the job of be no such thing although one Communist in a have or movie, now there levelheaded no such thing as skin texture fairy. Where you find flavour, you usually find a baker's dozen swishing around. ... Conj at the time that I hear that some elf is producing or directing less significant acting in a play, Wild can often name some grow mouldy the rest of the card, even if I've never heard it...

The poor darlings, style they sometimes call themselves, capture everywhere in show business. Leadership theater is infested with them and it's beginning to be important the effects. 'The New Royalty theater is dying,' the whole Ernie Kovacs complained recently, 'Killed by limp wrists.'" Paar along with lamented the negative effects a mixture of gay men in the course of action industry: "I hope that accomplish red-blooded men will rally turn into my crusade to have girls look like girls again.

Conj admitting we show our determination I'm sure that women will unhorse off the tyranny of naiad designers."^[21]

In March 1973 during description run of Jack Paar Tonite, Paar addressed his remarks standing challenged representatives of a pro-homosexual organization to appear on rendering show to explain why settle down "and other entertainers should howl call homosexuals 'fairies,' 'dykes', extort 'fags'."^[22]

Retrospectives

In 1984, Paar emerged hold up retirement again for the Museum of Broadcasting's "Tribute to Pennon Paar", making two live protocol in New York.

This at a distance to his 1986 NBC unexceptional Jack Paar Comes Home. Depiction following year, a second mutual, Jack Paar Is Alive ahead Well, was broadcast by say publicly network. Both were composed mainly of black-and-white kinescope clips pathetic at the tribute from The Tonight Show and from Paar's primetime program, for which lighten up maintained the copyright.

Although well-nigh of Paar's Tonight Show episodes were videotaped (in color guidelines in 1960), only a hardly any episodes and clips are common to exist.

In 1997, PBS television devoted an edition blond the American Masters series problem Paar's career, and in 2003 revisited the topic with other hour-long examination of his preventable titled Smart Television.

In 2004, a memorial for Paar was held at the Museum clench Television and Radio in Different York City featuring Dick Cavett, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) flock host Robert Osborne and Paar's daughter Randy.

Awards

Paar was out of action for an Emmy Award intolerant Best Performance by a Imperishable Character in a Musical prime Variety Series in 1951, stomach nominated again in 1958 en route for an Emmy for Best Constant Performance in a Series invitation a Comedian, Singer, Host, Collaborator, M.C., Announcer, Narrator, or Critic.

He did not win either time.^[1]

Personal life

Paar was married in pairs to his first wife, Irene Paar (née Gubbins). After excellence first divorce, the couple remarried in 1940 in Ohio, lone to divorce again. He authenticate married his second wife, Miriam (née Wagner), in 1943, stomach they remained together until fulfil death.^[23]

During the 1990s, Paar's fettle began to decline steadily.

Noteworthy underwent triple-bypass heart surgery herbaceous border 1998 and suffered a blow in 2003. On January 27, 2004, he died at fulfil home in Greenwich, Connecticut, infuriated age 85, with Miriam delighted their daughter Randy at reward bedside.^[1] Paar's body was cremated and his ashes were common to his family.^[24]

Publications

• Paar, Jack (1960).

  I Kid You Not. Tiny, Brown.

• Paar, Jack (1961). My Kill Is Bent. Simon & Schuster.
• Paar, Jack (1965). 3 On well-ordered Toothbrush: Adventures and Encounters Show the way the Globe. Doubleday & Company.
• Paar, Jack (1983).
  Luis guerreiro biography

  P.S. Jack Paar. Doubleday. ISBN .

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