The Jack Paar Interview - Part I

Jack Paar talks about JFK, RFK and Jimmy Hoffa.

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[Nataloff]

Jack Paar was something that was becoming scarce on television in his day but has since become almost entirely absent: he was human. He spoke from his heart, not from a focus group, and he talked with people, not celebrities. There's a great DVD called "Jack Paar: Smart Television" that explores this complex, mercurial, riveting man.

[catholicpriest1]

Too bad NBC didn't save the color video tape.

[tom500k]

Not Paar's best here. Just a trivial interview with Fidel. Servile worship of two war mongering Kennedys. The 2nd divided the pro peace movement assuring the election of Nixon thus dooming more than 25K U.S. troops to their deaths as well as over a million Asians.

[greg5566]

I can't believe the theme music is Maynard playing Birdland! Wow!

[PhiberOptik001]

Paar had the good sense to be friendly with Castro while the ignorant policy of the US government was to vilify Castro, as if a tiny island in the US backyard was capable of overthrowing or even undermining the US government. Paar was way the hell too good for a lot of us, and compared to the garbage being spewed on the current crop of 'talk shows' is far more brilliant than realized.

[oldenoughvideo5]

There's Allen, Paar, Johnny, Letterman, briefly Dick Cavette, briefly Chevy Chase, briefly Pat Sajak, Jay, Conan, Ferguson, Lopez, Chelsea Handler, etc. ABOVE ALL - Paar is my favorite... and I'm 14 years old. (15 in about 2 hours and 25 minutes, lol)

[NFitalianGuy]

Jack Paar was very entertaining and He really was a sensitive and humorous he brought out the best in his guests. I often wonder what the Tonight Show would have been like if He didn't leave the show. His interviews with Judy Garland are classic and made great Television memories. He did three interviews with her during the last yrs of her life..

[icaruspnw]

"I have no right to talk of politics: I'm an entertainer."

Now of course every journalist is an entertainer, and every entertainer - male or female - a beauty queen in a sequined g-string and plastic breasts, pundefecating on everything from world hunger to the national debt, while a numb populace sits in rapt attention, waiting for the next inanity to fall from their collagen-implanted lips.

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[grainofsandfan]

He couldn't find his voice and then he had to deal with a lot of people who adopted anyone's voice who could get them to a better paycheck. Paar was an artist and he was too new to know it. Bless his heart.

[fromthesidelines]

Actually, his prime-time "JACK PAAR PROGRAM" {the successor to his 1957-'62 late-night series; if he and his guests are sitting in swivel chairs with floor mikes in front of them, that's his prime-time Friday night program} ended in 1965, 'vidon'- he just didn't want to do a regular TV show anymore- although he continued to appear in occasional specials on NBC until 1970. Then, he did a brief late-night series on ABC- "JACK PAAR TONIGHT", during 1973, and "retired" at the end of that year....