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Tonight Starring Jack Paar

As he left his desk in the middle of the program, he said, "I am leaving The Tonight Show. There must be a better way of, uh, making a living than this."

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The most salient example of this kind of on-screen behavior was demonstrated on the February 10, 1960, show, when one of his jokes was cut from a broadcast by studio censors.

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Two years later, he broadcast his show from Berlin just as the Berlin Wall was going up.

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