For most of the time McMahon announced for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and I was alive, I was too young to stay up late enough to watch it. During those years, Star Search was appointment TV in my household.
All the articles in memoriam for Ed McMahon list him as “sidekick”. A sidekick is a yes man in corporate America. A contraband mule for a pop music artist. A Presidential running mate who’ll say anything to get on the ticket, but hasn’t done much to deserve being on the ticket (ehem John Edwards). A sidekick is an actress’s personal assistant who can be counted on to spill the beans to a checkout aisle tabloid the minute the “former” appears in front of their job title.
McMahon was a wingman. I think its more than a subtle distinction. Read the rest of this entry »
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