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.

Following his appearance on The Steve Allen Show, Kreskin became a television regular throughout the 1970s, featuring on the likes of The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show, and Live with ...

This week on Late Night Last Century, Steve Allen, the original host of The Tonight Show, recounted absurd network notes to a young Letterman.

13. Ann Sothern, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Lou Costello, Steve Lawrence, Milt Kamen December 15th, 1957 1 hr ...

His first TV show appearance in 1964 was on The Steve Allen Show during which he tripped while walking over to shake Allen’s hands as he became blinded by the stage lights.

Allen was a generous straight man who, particularly on ”The Tonight Show” (1953?57) and the syndicated ”Steve Allen Show” (1962?64, 1968?72), worked in peak comic form, assembling a stock ...

Steve Allen was the original host of The Tonight Show. Allen claimed that being a talk show host is "the easiest job in show business." But fans and critics appreciated his innovative use of ...

January 7 -- A minor traffic accident was apparently to blame for the October death of comedian and television pioneer Steve Allen, according to a just-released coroner's report.

Joan Benedict, who starred on the original Steve Allen Show and Candid Camera and portrayed the tyrannical hotel queen Leona Helmsley in a one-woman stage show, has died. She was 96. Benedict died ...

"The Allen Report to the Nation" topic is the common cold. As the Question Man, Steve blows a line. Jack Kerouac reads a few lines from his book, "On The Road".