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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Work took him back and forth from New York to L.A., into talk radio and cable TV before an ultimate return to late-night network with “The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder,” which followed David ...

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 ...

Tom Snyder, who died July 29 at age 71 in San Francisco of complications from leukemia, bridged the gap between the pre-ironic talk-show earnestness of Jack Paar and the absurdist wit of Conan O ...

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 ...

Idiosyncratic talk show host Tom Snyder, whose smoke-wreathed interviews amused insomniacs, has died from complications of leukemia, Entertainment Tonight reported Monday.Snyder, 71, the former ...