Steve Allen, the droll comic who composed more than 4,000 songs, wrote 47 books and pioneered late night television with the original Tonight Show, died at his son's home. He was 78. Bill Allen ...

Steve Allen, one of television's greatest innovators and the first host of NBC's "Tonight Show," is dead at 78. A cultural curmudgeon in his final years, Allen was one of TV's zaniest comics in ...

He was a comedian, actor, author, songwriter, musician and the original host of what became The Tonight Show. Steve Allen died Monday night at the age of 78. His friends and colleagues commented ...

* I was so saddened to hear of Steve Allen’s passing (Nov. 1). As a kid, I would stay up way too late and watch Steve as he invented late-night TV. There was apparently no limit to his ...