Jack Paar walks off the Tonight Show - 02/11/1960 (Video)
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- Tonight Starring Jack Paar / The Jack Paar Show : Season 3, Episode 95, 02/11/1960, 14:27 minute video clip. The night Jack Paar walked off the show in protest against one of his jokes being cut from the previous nights show.
The footage was taken from the UA-cam channel "KJM" who uploaded a video recording of this kinescope being played at a distance on a wall. The footage was not stationary and the camera often moved or zoomed in and out. I was able to fix this through video editing in addition to fixing the black & white contrast to be more visually appealing.
Source of the footage: • Jack Parr’s resignatio...
The original audio had a loud projector playing in the background and I replaced it by using a segment from a high quality radio recording of the full episode that was uploaded to UA-cam by "epaddon". The idea to replace the audio was already successfully done by "epaddon" and the credit goes to them for thinking to do that.
Source of the audio: • February 12, 1960-Jack...
If either "KJM" or "epaddon" decide they would rather this video be taken down I will immediately remove it. Just trying to help preserve what little remains of Tonight Starring Jack Paar.
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The footage was taken from the UA-cam channel "KJM" who uploaded a video recording of this kinescope being played at a distance on a wall. The footage was not stationary and the camera often moved or zoomed in and out. I was able to fix this through video editing in addition to fixing the black & white contrast to be more visually appealing.
Source of the footage: ua-cam.com/video/ip12LI0BhAY/v-deo.html&ab_channel=KJM
The original audio had a loud projector playing in the background and I replaced it by using a segment from a high quality radio recording of the full episode that was uploaded to UA-cam by "epaddon". The idea to replace the audio was already successfully done by "epaddon" and the credit goes to them for thinking to do that.
Source of the audio: ua-cam.com/video/kXjF6oOzjr4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=epaddon
If either "KJM" or "epaddon" decide they would rather this video be taken down I will immediately remove it. Just trying to help preserve what little remains of Tonight Starring Jack Paar.
I cannot believe you edited this from the source video you linked; you did a great job. Thank you for preserving a very important piece of television history.
@@aiborland4835 I very much appreciate it!
And we thank you!
dude, you did a great job !!!! my wife said so !!!!!!!!
Thank you very much - I've been looking for video of this forever. It was on here once many years ago but taken down.
On his first show back, Jack said: “When I walked off, I said there must be a better way of making a living. Well, I’ve looked, and there isn’t."
Yep, Jack was a rather impulsive fellow. Johnny would never have done this and never did!
@@bobjohnson205 So what? Johnny was Johnny. Jack was Jack.
True johnny only ever walked out on and left his wifes
@@pkune5158 wives
Carson wouldn't have put up with NBC cutting parts out of a show.
Amazing footage. Thanks for posting. You know, this is footage that is very hard to find. To this very day, NBC absolutely refuses to show Jack Parr walking off, the actual moment of him getting up and saying goodbye to Hugh Downs. They will show a segment of him talking and then fade to black. But it is hilarious that as powerful a company as NBC, after all these years, doesn't have the guts to face up to its own history.
Let's see if it takes them longer than it took the Catholic Church to pardon Galileo.
This is a real treasure, a privilege to see this extended clip with the visuals. The watchable version only had the main announcement cut way down before this (in my experience). This version is historically significant, worthy of its place here. Many thanks.
I pray that no one objects to this. We have only had the audio of this, recorded off of WMC Channel 5 in Memphis. Seeing the video is great.
I agree 100%. I think as long as the original uploaders are credited (which the person that uploaded this did in the description) it will hopefully stay up.
This is a part of television history and, as such, it deserves to be shown uncut and unedited. Paar was an emotional soul who brooked no babbling. He endured many caustic remarks from journalists valiantly but this ridiculous censorship was beyond the pale.
Pray..to what?
I don't think that gawd fella cares to be bothered with prayers about people objecting to you. He's got more important things to do.
The cat's out of the bag. This will be seen by generations to come - a very important artifact of pop culture history.
When I was eleven or twelve, I used to watch Jack Parr when it was possible. He was one of my favorite people. This feels so real to me, like it just happened. Now, as a so-called adult for quite sometime, it’s so meaningful to hear his thoughts. I want him to come back! 🎭
Outstanding! This is a piece of broadcast history that was thought to be long lost. Congratulations to you for your fine effort in bringing this!
Amazing piece of television history thanks for putting this on.
The man stood up for what he believed. Kudos to him & much respect.
He made his contribution to lowering standards and played victim before it was trendy.
Well for two weeks anyway.
@@cba4389 Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen and Jay leno made fun of everybody and anybody. To this day, I don't know if any of the mentioned hosts were conservative or liberal. Now we have lefty smart ass commie shills like little stevie colbert and jimmy "the jackass" kimmel who's careers hinge on the destruction of one Donald J. Trump or any other conservative who dare buck the established and entrenched bureaucratic evil weasels in DC.
@@mayshackHe probably wanted to take full control over NBC by bloody coup
In that case you'll surely lose all respect for Paar to learn that he later told Dick Cavett that it was the biggest mistake of his life.
The problem was that what Paar believed in was always about himself. The very idea that HIS not being able to tell a toilet joke was the end of the world is something few comedians would had the ego to believe.
Last time I checked this out it was the entire show in audio only. I later saw a portion of this on a Letterman segment. Thanks for doing this. It's so hard to find old footage.
Back then they used heavy duty metal coils to record on and they simply recorded over any broadcasts to save money , very few old shows when mechanical TVs existed were saved .
@@chinabluewho I think it was Steve Allen whom I saw a clip of lamenting such dearth. But, yeah, that's how it was.
WOW. What balls of integrity!
Never saw though or knew that he left like this.
Hazaa, my good man.
Fascinating piece of history.
My Mom was a big fan of his show, watching every night. She was overjoyed when he returned.❤
As a recall one of Jack Parr's "Controversial" statements on the show was to mention that "Winston Churchill" and "Water Closet" have the same initials.
I have never seen this, nor even really knew why he left. WOW, what a piece of history. And Jack came across quite the class act, and put his foot down for being humiliated. I also had no idea Hugh Downs was on the show. (I've never watched many Paar episodes over my life, although I love the Tonight show with Carson.) Thanks for the great work! and for Sharing.
Wow!!! Thank you for sharing this. Poor Hugh Downs. Talk about being "put on the spot", and on live tv no less!!
Boy that's for sure. He looked like a ten year old kid watching his father shoot his pet dog. He handled it well but was certainly the biggest wtf moment in his professional career with the possible assassination of Kennedy.
Years later, Joey Bishop walked off his late night show. I don't remember what the reason was. Bishop's sidekick was Regis Philbin.
@@brachiator1 And both Regis Philbin and Hugh Downs went on to have TV careers that lasted for decades!!!!
@@brachiator1 I remember Regis Philbin walking off, not Bishop. There was a lot of speculation at the time that it was a "publicity stunt."
@@Myshcan You're right. Philbin walked off, supposedly because of criticism of him by network executives. And it may have been a publicity stunt. But later, when it was announced that the show would be cancelled, Bishop walked off after the monologue, leaving Philbin to carry on. Crazy.
The look on Downs's face immediately after Paar walks away is priceless. He remains stoic and professional but you can tell he's thinking, "What the [bleep] do I do now?" From what I've read Paar did indeed inform Downs before the show that he intended to walk off but Downs didn't believe he was serious. (I have a soft spot for Downs because he was born the same day as my grandmother.)
Not just [bleep] but every single word you can't say on television!
it was a real diva move to not allow Hugh to say something, and then leave him holding the bag.
This was broadcast on the night before my mother's 42nd birthday. I was 3 years old and asleep when this was broadcast. My parents used to watch Jack Paar, and I had heard and read about this. This is the first time that I've been able to see this segment. Thanks for posting this. It's greatly appreciated.
My mom was 42 then; she's 98 now. I was 6.
Thanks, Ragged Jack 2, for running this. I remember this as a little kid but had never seen this clip. Today, the network would have cut to commercial. NBC totally screwed up and let Parr down. Parr had principals that are greatly lacked today. "Subscribed".
It's difficult to imagine any of the current talk show hosts taking such an heroic stand against censorship. It's important to remember this was a LIVE show. Hugh Downs was somewhat left in the lurch. God bless Paar for his courageous stand and the years of entertainment he provided.
Craig Ferguson was the last of the improv hosts for a big 3. He left because CBS was going to script him. After the Tutu interview they saw his ability and they decided to harness it in 2012 for the committee to reelect the president....setting up guests and situations in his Scotland Week which he worked hard on and found himself surprised by news editorials had been fed to celebrities and locals.
He left a few years later, slowly and courteously.
Post 2015 hosts are just script reading, mostly written from the news room editorial table. An evening is a 451 experience.
You get heavily edited and editorial news segments.
Then a meaningless reality show just like Guy Montag's wife watched.
Then a crime drama with a contrived plot "ripped from the headlines" but really hacky one sided exaggerated propaganda.
Then the evening news....then the point they were trying to make at 6:30pm 5:30central...but facts got innthe way is played our as an editorial lie as "comedy" which the FCC allows.
Hugh knew. Listen !
@@PatrickHughes-r4i I know Hugh was aware. The expression leave in the lurch means to abandon someone in difficult straits.
It wasn't live, it opens with an NBC voiceover announcing that the walk-off happened "during the taping" and issuing the network's response to it as a pre-emptive measure. And the material was deleted because they could do that with tape. None of this was live.
You nailed it. We are now living in the dystopian future predicted back in the late forties and successive decades. For years the predictions seemed possible, yet it was still easy to think "nah, people are too well educated and informed" . Then the bulwark against "groupthink and the associated stifling of individuality" was stripped away by "educators" . When the "Minority Report" came out in 2003 I knew right then that the Future had arrived.
RaggedJack 2, thanks for all your work on this, and for posting -- what a piece of television history!
...And I would love to hear the joke that started all this!
This is a wonderful piece of history. Being 47 in 2024, I only know Hugh Downs from 20/20.
I'm 60. I know him from Concentration.
People were tuning in every week night, watching Paar having a building nervous breakdown. They wondered if tonight would be the night it happened.
Anyone besides me see a similar demeanor and mannerisms between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, as if Johnny had admired and studied Jack and wished to emulate him?
The years of Steve Allen, Jack Paar, and Johnny Carson was the best of late night. I like Fallon and Colbert, but while their humor is top notch, there's not quite the flair and style that the above trio had.
@@billgrandone3552 Colbert has it, as did (does) Trevor Noah.
@@-oiiio-3993 Yeah, I can see that to a certain extent but not quite Maybe its because i have grown older, and the guest on their show are now much younger, so I'm nor in awe of them as I was with the people Paar and Carson had.
@@billgrandone3552 I was born under the 49 star flag.
@@-oiiio-3993 So was I - almost no one knows about that flag. Dad always talked about how much he liked Steve Allen and Jack Paar.
Good to see this. Johnny Carson was great (maybe the greatest), but Jack Parr was something else. More thoughtful, way more personal and emotional, quieter...something we'll never see again.
Jack Paar was very special, and I believe he was much better than Carson.
Look at the Judy garland and Robert Goulet appearance on the Jack Parr show and you'll see why Jack Parr was as great as he was.
@@beeenn649 An era of politeness and erudition, now gone.
IF he had stuck it out another 5-10-15 years, Carson just might have also had had to stick it out longer, to catch up.
Criminal that NBC sent all of Paar's shows to landfill.
They did the same with Carson' s first 10 years as well. Suffice it to say, Johnny was furious when he found out.
The story is that back then they kept using the same tape to record and broadcast the show then recording over the previous show. They did this with the first 10 years of Carson as well..
Paar himself PAID to have his personal kinescopes thrown away, bit by bit, in the garbage.
@@jasonbeard4713 Actually, the master tapes that Paar threw in the garbage were from his prime time show, not the Tonight Show.
18 months before I was born. Had no idea this happened. I knew of Jack Paar but my whole experience has been with Johnny.
I was a developing fetus when this aired, born four months later (when the U.S. flag had 49 stars).
Mom never was fond of Johnny Carson, whenever we 'channel surfed' (all seven channels; UHF if one felt adventurous) past The Tonight Show she'd often lament that it was better with Paar. Dad agreed.
I never saw this clip before, but have read TV histories about it. Very fascinating.
I've heard about this, but this is the first time I've seen the video. Felt bad for Hugh Downs who was left hanging. My mom actually did see this. She used to watch Jack Parr while waiting for dad to come home when he was working swing shift at the time.
Professional on all counts, both Paar and Downs.
How we have descended since.
Wow! I never knew about this. Kudos to Jack Paar to standing up for his beliefs and against the mutton-headed machinations of the network (which still goes on to this day).
My mom used to LOVE Jack Paar. I was very young at this time and not in school yet but the Jack Paar Show is one of my earliest memories. Censorship was a problem back in those days as it is in these days. A few people take a stand against it. Jack Paar is one of the early ones.
Would love to see him on a talk show today! Would be number one!
He did an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman on NBC in the 80's. Jack Paar passed away in 2004.
Thanks for this, jack! Great job!
I liked Jack Paar very much. He was a likable guy with a very engaging personality. Funny anecdote. When my dad heard of Carson taking over the show he said, he won’t make it. He’s no Jack Paar.
Lol, that music box was adorable and funny.
Well, Jack came back several weeks later. I've read the text of the water closet joke. I don't see what the big deal was, but I guess things were different in 1960.
Paar did return a couple of weeks later and hosted for two more uears years before Johnny took over the reigns.
I’m 72 and remember seeing him,but I grew up watching Johnny Carson.. HE managed to make a living doing that show and NO ONE has ever come close to matching Johnny.
What a Guy he was great
We need him today.
The best thing to come out of Jack Paar’s career was the formatting of the tonight show, all the comedians he got on his show and the hiring of Dick Cavett. Everything else Paar did in his career was either to belittle, whine, or mislead the public about his character and that of others.
That's a great magnetic music box
This is my very first time watching Mr. Paar. I really enjoyed it and was fascinated by their enjoyment of the wind up/ music box. I'm not sure what it's called.
Wow, I have a small box like that with the SAME little figures on it!!!~ I was 9 years old in 1960!!
It sounds as though you might have a valuable collector's item. I just noticed your channel's name - the greatest horse ever! You might recognize mine as well. Cheers! 😃
@@rivaridge7211 yes, the one who ACTUALLY saved the farm!! I wrote about my pilgrimage to Sec's birthplace and grave...wept unabashedly...find it on the link to blog on my channel
@@secretariatgirl4249 Thank you - I will look for it.
He walked off to protest priggish overbearing censorship. He quit on principal, and that was egg on NBCs face.
principle
11:08 I'm Hugh Downs and this is 20/20
You have to love this, some honest characters being real!
The applause sounds so strange.
No it doesn't.
Yeah, it sounds like they’re all clapping in unison or something.
This is Jack sitting at a desk. My memories of Jack Paar were of him sitting on a stool, smoking, and being one of the sharpest wits in show business. All talk show hosts who followed weren’t innovators, they were following in the tracks of the great Jack Paar.
Back when TV was TV. And we were all the better for it.
Dang, and we thought we invented the Mic Drop! Really interesting to see this happen in 1960.
In many ways this marked the end of the 1950's, a palpable change in the zeitgeist that would have repercussions from Wall Street to Main Street.
Historic.
(I seem to recall that the offensive phrase in the previous night's deleted anecdote was "water closet.")
And, over 18 months later, Johnny Carson begins his 30 year tenure behind that desk.
(I have to say that Hugh Downs' remarks, after Paar's departure, may be the best thing that I have ever seen him do.)
This was 1960. Carson didn’t take over till October 1962.
@@brianherrington7226 My mistake:
Paar is listed in every history of the TONIGHT Show as hosting till 1962, even though he never returned after this incident.
I had no idea that the show didn't actually have a host for a year and a half.
I'll edit my comment.
@@tuxguys He did return three weeks later. Where are you getting that he didn't?
If you don't know what you're talking about, why post?
@@randallbrown8495 I apologize for my shortcomings, and perhaps, some day, if I live long enough, I may earn your gracious, forgiving largesse, but, until that day comes...
Go Kiss A Duck.
🤣
All these years of us waiting for Fallon to walk off the Tonight Show, and not return! 😄 Can you imagine it happening?? Fallon should have been out, 6 years or so ago, and they should have flat out GIVEN it to Conan for a 10 year run, right there and then, to make up for what happened.
Yeah, sorry to say, but Fallon is just too goofy for my tastes.
What was the joke that was presumed to be so bad !?
Very strange. Did they continue the show the next day or remove it? Obviously, they eventually brought in Carson. Hugh Downs went on to do the game show Concentration and, eventually, the Today Show. But this is about as bizarre as TV could get.
After all these years I finally know why Jack Parr left. Jack hit all the right elements, the Hearst Press and the columnists he mentioned.
He stood on principle🤩🤩🤩
So what was the story, I've forgotten?
If I was on time, this was 3 days before I was conceived! If I was late, I was gestating 3-4 days
A little bit of pride can be a great undoing.
Music box was so cool !!!
No it wasn't.
@scarygary-qq1pj Yes it was. So there.
@@DK-ub5ph No, it wasn't. So there. I FFed past it.
I wonder how Ed McMahon would have handled this situation if Johnny Carson stormed out in the middle of a broadcast.
I’m surprised that didn’t happen Johnny was know to be hard to work with and if he was drunk. Joe Namath said he was very mean whole on a boat.
He was an emotional guy. He was notorious for getting upset, and crying.
Jack was emotional, always unpredictable, no talk show host would behave this way today
Hugh Downs was the type of guy who when you asked him what time it was he tell you how to make a watch!
Hugh Downs always seemed an honest journalist.
Fast forward to 2024 where anything goes!
I have never seen The Tonight Show with Jack Paar.
If this is who he really was. I'm sad that he left. He appears to be a genuine man who cares about his viewers and his Integrity. I see why NBC tried to drive him out of the business.
Hugh Downs was such a classy man.
I feel bad for Hugh Downs all eyes were set on him when Jack Paar left but he did the whole show pretty well I think and, to be honest, and I am guessing people tried to stop Jack Paar backstage from leaving the building
TV has come a long ways down the garbage trail since this time.
What happened? 😮
Times sure have changed
So ... anyone know the story/joke that was cut making him walk off the show ?
Does anyone know the story that precipitated this?
Paar really was quite the drama queen, wasn't he?
The joke he told wasn't even in bad taste. People (nbc) must have been very, very sensitive back then if they were offended by it. Of course, this was the time when husbands and wives on sitcoms weren't allowed to be shown sharing a bed, and houses weren't allowed to be shown having a toilet. 😂😂 Still, I absolutely love old TV programs & movies.
You take a look at the classic sitcom "Leave It To Beaver ". On that show, Beaver's parents were never shown in bed together since network censors wouldn't allow it.
@@AllenJones-w3p I watch that show all the time! It's one of my favorites.
Hugh Downs was brought in to babysit Paar, warm-up the audience, be a foil for his gags, ask questions of guests that Paar didn't want to ask etc - pioneering aspects of sidekicks on late night talk-shows to the present. Downs hosted gameshows and did commercials too back then. Somehow this was requisite experience for him to anchor 20/20 - ABC'S schlock version of 60 Minutes, 20 years later. They needed somebody to babysit that other notorious wildcard/egocentric Barbara Walters.
Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny!
Times and what was appropriate to air sure have changed.
Why did he actually walk out? What did NBC do?
Really nice way to treat his cohost - while a talent, Jack strikes me as a whiner.
WOW!!!!!!
A man of principles.
Unlike today...
Now I'm more curious than ever; WHAT was the censored joke about?
Jack Parr tells an "inappropriate joke", gets embarrassed by NBC, then responds by criticizing other celebrities as being inappropriate and denying that he would never be inappropriate.
Nothing ever changes.
Damn… my mom was 12 days old at the time of this airing
I guess I was waisting my time watching bonanza at 8pm on Sunday nights !
What were the previous shows with the T&A that he refers to?
Broadway Open House, the first late-night network show (on NBC, btw) in the earlyish 50s. Pretty raunchy for it's time.
That took guts.
Sounds like Johnny, or visa versa
I knew heard about this.
A real piece of television history found. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Great watching.
As impressed as I am by what Mr. Parr said, even more by his evident emotion in his ending remarks, I was pleasantly surprised by the *immediate* applause (with occasional cheers and whistles) of support from the audience, which lasted the better part of a minute before Mr. Downs quelled the crowd, and himself delivered his thoughtful and frank perspective.
When adults ran the world.
@@-oiiio-3993more like before libtards took over
@@-oiiio-3993Amen!
An amazing moment in tv history. Glad i was able to see it.
I can still remember this as a child and the uproar it caused. Jack Parr was great.
Talk About WOW ! A classic example of class and dignity and walking out was a Gd decision on his part.
Please avoid curse words.
Shocking how honest Hugh was about Jack’s faults.
Hugh Downs was always a class act. Over his long career at NBC he was superb at everything he did.
@@superdave1949: I agree. I watched him on “20/20”? Early 80’s. Have always enjoyed him.
On the very light side of 60, I can honestly say that all things “entertainment” the very best of the best was 60’s, 70’s, 80ish…. After that? Not so much.
Our once great nation has fallen. In a hundred million ways.
I remember him from hosting Concentration for like 10 years
@@TERoss-jk9ny Spoiled boomers and the politicians who promised us something for nothing our whole lives, and told us it was our RIGHT, while they used the help they were giving as the vehicle to steal our rights. Government is why transportation that should be cheap costs $80,000.
Hugh was always class act ! But in this case I don't think he was very happy about being left holding the bag !
Hey! I wanted to see Shelly Bernan. ☹️
Have heard about this my whole life, but never "knew" what the hub-bub was about until now. Thanks so much for sharing this video! Good for Jack Paar!