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Steve Allen

Birth Name:
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen
Birth Place:
New York, New York, United States
Profession
TV host, composer, actor, comic, author, lyricist

Credits See All

I've Got a Secret
The Sixties
Pioneers of Television

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Jimmy Fallon Brings Tonight Show Back to New York with Star-Studded Debut

Jimmy Fallon ushered in a new era of The Tonight Show, and welcomed the show back to New York for the first time in more than four decades on Monday. Although the former Late Night host was broadcasting from the same studio, with the same band and the same announcer, the historical impact of The Tonight Show's return to the Big Apple was...

Tue, Feb 18, 2014

Exclusive: Watch an All-New Promo for Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show

Is hosting The Tonight Show Jimmy Fallon's dream job? He wouldn't exactly call it that. "A lot of people say, 'Is it your dream job?' It's impossible for me to dream this," he says in our exclusive first look promo below. "More people have walked ...

Fri, Jan 31, 2014

7 Things to Expect From Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show

Jimmy Fallon's first Tonight Show guests will be Will Smith and U2, he announced Sunday at NBC's Television Critics Association winter previews.U2's appearance ...

Mon, Jan 20, 2014

Report: Jimmy Fallon to Replace Jay Leno, Tonight Show to Move to New York

The Tonight Show is expected to return to New York with Jimmy Fallon at the helm, The New York Times reports. Although a deal isn't done, NBC has apparently struck a deal with Fallon to replace Jay Leno as host of the iconic late-night program, most likely taking over in the fall of 2014. Tonight hasn't taken place in the Big Apple since it debuted with Steve Allen in 1954. Host Johnny Carson eventually moved it to Burbank, Calif., in 1972.

Wed, Mar 20, 2013

Exit Stage Left: The Tonight Show

Show minus stars equals different show: It's one of the mantras of Jump the Shark, and it's true — unless, maybe, the show is The Tonight Show. The Tonight Show is an institution that has had only four full-time hosts in more than half a century. Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno all made their own imprints on the show, but in the way a minister does a church. Whether or not congregants like his or her personality or jokes, the basic religion stays the same. Leno is...

Thu, May 28, 2009

Trailers & Videos See All

Jerry Lee Lewis: I Am What I Am
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The Big Circus
0:30
The Benny Goodman Story (Trailer 1)
0:40
The Benny Goodman Story
2:54
Lenny Bruce: Without Tears: Airplane Glue
2:05
The Player (Trailer 1)
0:30

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