Jimmy Kimmel could learn how to disagree without being so disagreeable from the comedian who launched late-night television. Letters from “The Tonight Show” founding host Steve Allen I discovered ...

If you’re reading this on the day of its publication, September 27, 2024, The Tonight Show has just turned 70. And oh how things have changed in late night over those seven decades. Strikingly, there ...

Tonight Starring Steve Allen is a talk show hosted by Steve Allen. It was the first version of what eventually became known as The Tonight Show. Tonight was the first late-night talk show, as well as ...

At the end of the 1960s, when I was a student at Berkeley, I took breaks by traveling down to Los Angeles to sit in the audience of the Steve Allen Show. This was the second of two syndicated ...

Steve Allen, the droll comic who composed more than 4,000 songs, wrote 47 books and pioneered late night television with the original Tonight Show, died at his son's home. He was 78. Bill Allen ...

The thing about Steve Allen was, he looked so deceptively? ordinary. Who would guess that this bespectacled 6 foot 3 inch gent with a fondness for tweed jackets and jazz could abruptly break out in ...