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Here's another of the few surviving clips from Jack Paar's era of The Tonight Show prime-time series that followed his run on The Tonight Show. The guests are comedian Milt Kamen and author Mary McCarthy. If you stay through to the end credits, you'll see the names of a few folks like Hal Gurnee and Pete Fatovich who much later worked on David Letterman's NBC show in, I believe, the same studio.

Seated with Paar at the outset is a woman known as Mrs. Miller, who gained a surprising fame for a time considering what she did. She went to taping and live broadcasts of TV shows. She reportedly just went from one to another — as she could — all day and all night. All the talk and game show hosts knew her and would point her out and sometimes involve her in the proceedings. Here, Paar brought her up on stage, probably on the pretext that the pages couldn't find a seat for her in the audience.

Don't get too enamored of these Paar clips. There aren't that many of them around. This is from 11/29/63, probably one of the first shows back from being off-the-air due to the Kennedy assassination…