Scandals From The Johnny Carson Show

When The Jokes Are Not Paar For The Course

Jack Paar was the second host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Paar underwent numerous controversies throughout his tenure including interviewing Fidel Castro and asking a drunken Mickey Rooney to leave the program. Ultimately, he had a joke that was censored on air, which was the last straw for Jack Paar.

While the joke would have been considered tame in today’s day and age, in those days it was considered scandalous. It was at that point that he literally quit the show right in the middle of the broadcast. He said, “I am leaving the Tonight Show. There must be a better way of, uh, making a living than this. You have been….peachy to me always.”