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Actor, Jack Paar, was born Jack Harold Paar on May 1, 1918 in Canton, OH. Paar died at the age of 85 on Jan 27, 2004 in Greenwich, CT .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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In 1960, he abruptly quit the show 4 minutes into programming after discovering that a joke of his that included the words "WC", meaning water closet (a polite term for a flush toilet) had been censored. As he left his desk, he said, "I am leaving The Tonight Show. There must be a better way of making a living than this." Several weeks later, after a formal apology from the NBC network executives, he triumphantly returned to a standing ovation from the audience. The first words he spoke were, "As I was saying before I was interrupted..."

At the beginning of a live commercial for a sponsor's cigarette, Paar took a drag off the cigarette, exhaled a plume of smoke, faced the camera and said "Man, that's great coffee."

His TV late night show helped ignite the young careers of Carol Burnett, Woody Allen and Liza Minnelli. He also made solid enemies of columnists Dorothy Kilgallen and Walter Winchell.

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