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Jack Harold Paar was an American talk show host, writer, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the second host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's obituary of Paar r
Paar in the early 1950s
Paar appearing on Dick Cavett's show in January 1973, when he announced his return to television
Paar (left) with Senator John F. Kennedy on The Tonight Show in 1959
Dick Cavett
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Richard Alva Cavett is an American television personality, comedian and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States from the 1960s through the
Jack Paar
…105-minute program difficult to sustain for more than five years, and his weariness caused him to end his tenure as host. He later confided to fellow host Dick Cavett that leaving the program was the greatest mistake of his life. Paar's final show aired on March 29, 1962, during which he derided his enemies in the…
Cavett in 2010
Cavett, Alan King and Johnny Carson in 1968
With Anthony Quinn in 1971