Jack Paar
Jack Paar
Jack Harold Paarwas an 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'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."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth1 May 1918
CityCanton, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
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The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.
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Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.
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Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.
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It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.
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We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal."
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Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was nearly knocked out and might have been even more seriously hurt but my fall was broken by the smog.
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... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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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!
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She should get a divorce and settle down.
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It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.
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Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.