Steve Allen, the co-creator and first host of The Tonight Show, was largely responsible for late-night television as we know it.Remember Johnny Carson’s Carnac The Magnificent?
Well, take a look at Allen’s The Question Man (below).“Steve Allen was the generator of a lot of ideas that were ahead of its time,” says Billy Crystal in CNN’s documentary series The Story of Late Night.The six-part series is a historical deep dive into the origins of the genre that still resonates today as well as a love letter to the medium.
It has been overseen by Bill Carter, a man who knows a thing or two about late-night, as the former New York Times media correspondent and author of The War For Late Night and The Late Shift.Carter is currently a CNN
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