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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...