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 Post subject: I Did Not Know That- DEAD: Ed McMahon
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Hopefully Johnny's been saving him the chair next to him.
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man, i thought he was already dead

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Johnny: You're dead too?
Ed: You are correct, Sir


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RIP, Ed. You definitely had a nice ride while on this earth.
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RIP, Ed. You definitely had a nice ride while on this earth.


Yeah no kidding. What was originally famous for...?

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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
Aural Fixation Wrote:
RIP, Ed. You definitely had a nice ride while on this earth.


Yeah no kidding. What was originally famous for...?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon

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McMahon was born in Detroit to Eleanor (née Russell) and Edward Leon McMahon, a fund-raiser and entertainer.[3]He was raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. He attended Catholic University of America, majoring in speech and drama. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949. He was a member of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. McMahon began his career as a bingo caller in Maine when he was 15.
Prior to this, he worked as a carnival barker for three years in Mexico, Maine. He put himself through college as a pitchman for vegetable slicers on the Atlantic City boardwalk. His first broadcasting job was at WLLH-AM in his native Lowell and he began his television career in Philadelphia at WCAU-TV. In the 1950s, he emceed the game shows Missing Links, Snap Judgment, Concentration and Who Dunnit?.

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So, pretty much nothing, and then he landed the Tonight Show. Like the original Paris Hilton - famous for being famous.

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So, pretty much nothing, and then he landed the Tonight Show. Like the original Paris Hilton - famous for being famous.



Yeah. He was fairly well known as a game show host in the early days of television but would never have been remembered without the Carson gig.

He would have played a bunch of Thurston Howell-type TV roles and done more game shows, probably.
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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
So, pretty much nothing, and then he landed the Tonight Show. Like the original Paris Hilton - famous for being famous.


Well, Squirgg, by that logic, Johnny Carson fits in the same boat. I'm wondering if maybe some of the problem here might be as simple as a generational thing- very few Obners grew up with the Tonight Show, and maybe only know McMahon from his shilling shit on infomercials, or hawking AARP insurance, or whatever the fuck he did for the last 20 years. Carson & McMahon were pretty deeply woven into the fabric of American popular culture for a long time.
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tentoze Wrote:
Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
So, pretty much nothing, and then he landed the Tonight Show. Like the original Paris Hilton - famous for being famous.


Well, Squirgg, by that logic, Johnny Carson fits in the same boat. I'm wondering if maybe some of the problem here might be as simple as a generational thing- very few Obners grew up with the Tonight Show, and maybe only know McMahon from his shilling shit on infomercials, or hawking AARP insurance, or whatever the fuck he did for the last 20 years. Carson & McMahon were pretty deeply woven into the fabric of American popular culture for a long time.


Do not doubt TEH Sssqqquuuiiirrrggg. TEH Sssqqquuuiiirrrggg is never wrong. Likewise, ayah, wenchlette, & even neuro. (Though, it would seem if neuro didn't have the board friends he did, he'd basically be a decade-younger PopTodd, in the eyes of the many.)
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Do not doubt TEH Sssqqquuuiiirrrggg. TEH Sssqqquuuiiirrrggg is never wrong. Likewise, ayah, wenchlette, & even neuro. (Though, it would seem if neuro didn't have the board friends he did, he'd basically be a decade-younger PopTodd, in the eyes of the many.)


Yes, because all of this is relevant.
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Ah, Monty.


Toze, I used to watch reruns of the Tonight Show alot, but maybe the contributions of Ed were lost on one so young. Carson was perfect at what he did, so polished and quick. All I remember Ed doing was chuckling sometimes. Either way I didn't mean to sound so dour. oops.

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Ah, Monty.


Toze, I used to watch reruns of the Tonight Show alot, but maybe the contributions of Ed were lost on one so young. Carson was perfect at what he did, so polished and quick. All I remember Ed doing was chuckling sometimes. Either way I didn't mean to sound so dour. oops.


Or, you may be right.
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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca ... n_1923.php

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DEAD McMahon.

RIP.

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RIP, Ed. You definitely had a nice ride while on this earth.


Up until the Superbowl commercial.
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Yeah, that's one's better.

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Ed was Star Search to me. I wasn't up late enough when I was kid to care about a couch potato bellowing catch phrases.

Or when I was I was watching crap films on CBC Late Night waiting for a glimpse of movie boob.
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Yeah, that's one's better.


haha

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