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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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Popularized the phrase "I kid you not . . ." with which he regularly certified his flow of self-revealing stories as host of The Tonight Show.

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..."

He and his wife, Miriam, had a daughter named Randy.

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