Jack Paar
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"Jack Harold Paar" was an United States/American author, radio and television comedian and talk show host, best known for his stint as host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time (magazine)/Time magazine's obituary noted that: "His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar."

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To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.