Phil Hartman as Phil Donahue in SNL Sketches (Image via Youtube/Saturday Night Live) Hartman's Donahue impression exaggerated the talk show host's dramatic questioning style and over-the-top delivery.

Renowned “King of Daytime Talk” Phil Donahue, who created and hosted the The Phil Donahue Show, died on Sunday, Aug. 18 at the age of 88, PEOPLE can confirm. In a statement first reported by ...

Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died.

Donahue’s very first guest was Madalyn Murray O’Hair, at the time America’s most famous, and widely unpopular, atheist. Boris Yurchenko/Associated Press Donahue led a discussion on the life ...