Tom Snyder, the brash and provocative late-night TV talk-show host whose bellowing laugh and ever-present cigarette made him a pop culture icon ripe for parody in the 1970s, has died.

Tom Snyder, who hosted TV's first late-late-night network talk show, died Sunday in San Francisco of leukemia complications. He was 71. By Duane Byrge , The Associated Press ...

San Francisco – Tom Snyder, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style and his robust, trademark laugh, has died from complications associated with ...

Talk show host Tom Snyder, whose smoke-filled interviews were a staple of late night television and an inspiration for Dan Ackroyd on "Saturday Night Live", has died after a struggle with leukemia.

Tom Snyder, the late-night talk show host whose free-form program and intimate interviewing style influenced a generation of broadcasters, died in his Tiburon home nearly two years after he ...

After Tomorrow, Snyder, who started his career in radio and was an anchor for NBC News and Los Angeles’ KNBC, became the first host of CBS’ Late, Late Show franchise, handpicked by Letterman ...

The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety show on CBS. It first aired in January 1995, with host Tom Snyder. In its current incarnation it has been hosted by Craig ...

The Late Late Show began in 1995 as a very different type of program. It was a serious chat show, hosted by the very serious Tom Snyder, who, unlike other late night talk show hosts, was not ...

James Corden aired the final episode of "The Late Late Show," featuring Harry Styles, Tom Cruise, Will Ferrell, ... Tom Snyder served as the show’s first host for 777 episodes through 1999, ...

Tom Snyder, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style, robust laugh and trademark cloud of cigarette smoke billowing around his head, has died from ...