On February 11, 1960, Jack Paar walked off his show, most unexpectedly in the midst of the program – an absence that lasted almost a month – after NBC censors edited out a segment taped the night before about a joke involving a "WC" ("water closet", a polite term for a flush toilet) being confused for a "wayside chapel". As he left his desk, he said, "I am leaving "The Tonight Show". There must be a better way of making a living than this". Paar's abrupt departure left his startled announcer to finish the late-night broadcast himself.