Hugh Downs on the Unpredictability of Jack Paar

From TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ed robertson

TVC 500.1: From September 2013: Broadcast legend Hugh Downs talks to Ed and Phil Gries about his years as announcer/sidekick on The Jack Paar Tonight Show (NBC, 1957-1962), including the night of Feb. 10, 1960, when Downs found himself suddenly filling in as host after Paar walked off the set of The Tonight Show seven minutes into the broadcast to protest NBC's decision to censor an on-air joke Paar had told the night before concerning a water closet. This segment includes audio highlights from the Feb. 10, 1960 Tonight Show broadcast, as well as a clip from Downs' 1953 interview with Frank Lloyd Wright for the NBC program Wisdom. Hugh Downs passed away on July 1, 2020 at age 99.

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