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Alan Colmes was an American radio and <a href="/biography/alan-colmes">television host</a> and liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel. He also anchors ‘The Alan Colmes Show’ which airs nationally on Fox News as well as on ‘Sirius XM.’ In addition, from 1996 to 2009 Colmes was the <a href="/biography/alan-colmes">co-host</a> of the ‘Hannity and Colmes’ show. The split between Hannity and Colmes was itself a strong plot twist to the successful story of the show. “I approached <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shine">Bill Shine</a>, FNC’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shine">Senior Vice President of Programming</a>, earlier this year about wanting to move on after 12 years to develop new and challenging ways to contribute to the growth of the network,"  Colmes said in a statement. "Although it’s bittersweet to leave one of the longest marriages on cable news, I’m proud that both <a href="/biography/sean-hannity">Sean</a> (Hannity) and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years.”

<a href="/biography/sean-hannity">Sean Hannity</a> said, “Not only has Alan been a remarkable co-host, he’s been a great <a href="/biography/alan-colmes">friend</a> which is rare in this industry — I’ll genuinely miss sparring with such a skillful debate partner.”

Arguably, the reason that Colmes left the show, was the strong criticism that he withstood over the years. More specifically, he was sometimes referred to disparagingly as a "token liberal" or a "Fox News liberal."

At the beginning of his last week on the H&C show, Colmes was guest on The Colbert Report where he was “fired” by <a href="/biography/stephen-colbert">Colbert</a> until the end of the show on the grounds that he pointing out fallacies in his logic. However, Alan remained a member of the FNC family. In fact, since last year – 2015 – he has been a part of Fox News Channel's ‘The Greg Gutfeld Show’, by adding the voice of an animatronic robot face named The Liberal Panel.

Aside from the above, Colmes was also a <a href="/biography/alan-colmes">blog writer</a>, author and columnist collaborating predominantly with Fox News. Along with broadcasting, Alan governs the ‘Liberal blog’ and adds to ‘AOL News.’

Alan Colmes was born on September 24, 1950 in New York City. He went to the local public schools and attended ‘Hofstra University’ from where he earned a graduate degree in the arts, in 1971. He also participated in the operation of the University’s radio station WRHU.

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The now nationwide famous radio host, started his career from a rather surprising field; stand-up comedy. He then focused on his radio career starting in the Northeast and working his way up to big stations such as WABC, WNBC, WHN, WMCA and WEVD in New York, WNHC in New Haven, and WEZE and WZLX in Boston. An important moment in his career came when WABC hired him for shows that aimed to reach the large numbers of people who were listening to their car radios while driving to and from work. As the station’s call sign suggested, he was even billed as W. Alan B. Colmes.

Alan then switched to WNBC in the year 1987. But his time there proved to be rather short when in 1988 NBC disclosed that it would shut all its divisions related to radio. Colmes then joined Daynet which was a project shaped by Colmes along with other provincial radio hosts. In the year 1994 Major Networks Inc. purchased Daynet and Colmes started his own radio show. It was telecast by Fox News Radio.

After that, he was employed by the CEO of Fox News <a href="/biography/roger-ailes">Roger Ailes</a> in 1996. There, he became the co-anchor of the "Hannity and Colmes Show." Alan also went live on ‘Talk Back TV’, a technology of the website Shovio.com. He was also an occasional visitor/<a href="/biography/alan-colmes">panelist</a> on the late night Fox News' program ‘Red Eye vs. <a href="/biography/greg-gutfeld">Greg Gutfeld</a>.’

Alan has interviewed many significant political personalities including the previous <a href="/biography/bill-clinton">Bill Clinton</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore">Al Gore</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader">Ralph Nader</a>, the Mayor of the City of New York <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani">Rudolph Giuliani</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Forbes">Steve Forbes</a>, ‘the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson">Reverend</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson">Jesse Jackson</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr">Kenneth Starr</a>.

He was also the <a href="/biography/alan-colmes">author</a> of ‘How Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong" and ’‘Thank the Liberals For Saving America."

The first was published in October 2003 and tackled issues such as civil rights, the war on terror, and the perceived liberal media bias, while in the latter Colmes showed how people who fight for liberal ideals have helped the country move forward. Always with his trademark humor and satire, the book sparked a public outcry among the political parties who found the content somewhat disturbing.

As far as his personal life goes, he was married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Elise_Crowley">Dr.</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Elise_Crowley">Jocelyn Elise Crowley</a>. She is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Elise_Crowley">professor</a> at the University of Rutgers and sister of <a href="/biography/monica-crowley">Monica Crowley</a>, the conservative radio commentator, pundit and television personality. She is also a correlating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Elise_Crowley">professor</a> at the Edward School.

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