![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1954, his co-creation The Tonight Show made him the first late-night television talk show host, and consequently applied pressure to stay atop the cultural currents of the day. A novel titled On the Roadbecame a bestseller, and its author, Jack Kerouac, became a celebrity: partly because he’d written a powerful and successful book, but partly because he seemed to be the embodiment of this new generation.”Īs the novelists and poets of the Beat Generation were gradually gaining renown, Allen was fast becoming a national celebrity. Earlier in that decade, Allen says (sprinkling his monologue with a few notes here and there), “the nation recognized in its midst a social movement called the Beat Generation. In other words, if you’ve been looking for the most late-nineteen-fifties clip in existence, your journey may have come to an end. The video above shows us Jack Kerouac giving a reading, accompanied by the jazz piano stylings of evening television variety-show host Steve Allen. ![]()
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