Alan Samuel Colmes (September 24, 1950 – February 23, 2017) was an American radio/television host, former comedian and author. His talk-radio show is distributed by Fox News Radio. He was the writer of the book, "Red, White and Liberal: How Left is Right and Right is Wrong". From 1996 to 2009, Colmes was the co-host of "Hannity & Colmes", a nightly political debate show on Fox News Channel.