For Laughing out Loud My Life (Hardcover)

With an Introduction by Johnny Carson

HEY-OOOH!

Everybody knows Ed McMahon...

He's the gent who gives away millions to lucky sweepstakes winners. Sells hundreds of TV products, from Alpo dog food to Budweiser beer. Appears with Jerry Lewis on the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. And of course, most famously, served as Johnny Carson's straight man on The Tonight Show, history's most epochal talk show. Now, the man on Johnny's couch talks about the brightest stars, the zaniest bits, and the most embarrassing moments he experienced both on camera and behind the scenes.

But wait, there's more!

Ed's climb from radio teenage disc jockey to the man who's logged the most TV screen time ever. His drinking, marriages and divorces, and his family. His life after The Tonight Show, including Ed McMahon's Star Search, one of syndicated TV's most successful shows. In short, the Ed McMahon story is big!

How funny is it? Ed's greatest moments from "the couch"

From The Tonight Show's thirteenth anniversary show. Johnny Carson: "Thirteen years is a long time." Ed: "How long is it?" Johnny: "It's so long that when we started, Gladys Knight was using training Pips."

Ed on the role of the straight man. A straight man is walking on the beach when he hears a guy screaming, "Help! Help! I'm drowning." The straight man stops, turns, and says, "You mean to say that you're drowning?

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Johnny on his audience. "You people are rough tonight. You're the kind of people who would send an Arrow shirt to General Custer."

Johnny on Ed. "The first time Ed saw Niagara Falls he asked, 'Does that come with scotch?'"

How big is it?

It's so big that Ed's own story can be said to be the very story of modern television itself. So now, without further ado, Heeeeere's Ed!