Alan Samuel Colmes (September 24, 1950 – February 23, 2017) was an American radio and television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger.

Beginning in 2015, Colmes supplied the voice of The Liberal Panel on Fox News Channel's The Greg Gutfeld Show.

[4] He developed his radio career in the Northeast, eventually working at stations such as WABC, WNBC, WHN, WMCA and WEVD in New York, WNHC in New Haven, Connecticut, and WEZE and WZLX in Boston.

[6] He had been syndicated nationally, starting with his involvement with Daynet, a venture created by Colmes and other regional radio hosts.

He was the co-host of Hannity & Colmes, beginning with the Fox News Channel launch on October 6, 1996, and ending on January 9, 2009.

[10] Colmes continued as a commentator on Fox News, most often on The O'Reilly Factor where he frequently appeared with his conservative sister-in-law, Monica Crowley.

[11] He was also an occasional guest-panelist on Fox News' late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.

[17] Some of Colmes' liberal critics, notably commentators at Media Matters for America, praised him toward the end of the show's run.

[19][20] Bob Garfield, interviewing Colmes for On the Media in 2003, asked him if he was "the human straw man" and a "foil" rather than an equal of Hannity.