GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!
FROM THE ICY STATE OF MARYLAND!
1847 Thomas Alva Edison's birthday
1960 Jack Paar walks off The Tonight Show
Jack Paar, host of NBC's The Tonight Show, walks off the program to protest censorship on this day in 1960. NBC had recently started taping the show, rather than airing it live, and censors now had the power to edit segments. Infuriated when censors cut a joke about a "water closet," claiming it was in poor taste, Paar stormed off the set in tears and did not return to the show for a month. Oh brother have we come a long way in the wrong direction...
GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!
FROM THE ICY STATE OF MARYLAND!