Alan Samuel Colmes was born on September 24, 1950, and died on February 23, 2017.

He was an American radio and television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger.

Colmes was the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that was broadcast throughout the United States on Fox News Talk on Sirius and XM.

He served as the co-host of Hannity & Colmes from 1996 to 2009, a nightly political debate show on Fox News Channel.

At the start of 2015, Colmes supplied the voice of The Liberal Panel, an animatronic robot face built into a panelled wall who spouts conventionally liberal political opinions, on Fox News Channel’s The Greg Gutfeld Show.

Also to broadcasting, Colmes ran the Liberaland blog and contributed to AOL News.

Colmes was the author of Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong (2003) and Thank the Liberals for Saving America (2012).

Alan Colmes passed away at 66 years old.