Word: carson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, at 45, McMahon is still pitching, and the folks are still buying. After six years as Johnny Carson's No. 2 man on NBC's Tonight Show, he ranks as TV's most effective salesman since the heyday of Arthur Godfrey. Besides appearing with Carson, McMahon hosts his own daily game show (Snap Judgment), and is getting ready to appear in his second movie, The Killing Time, in which he will play an F. Lee Bailey kind of lawyer defending a pathological killer. This week he moves up to No. 1 for a day as executive...
...Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr. picked McMahon to recruit and stage the show because "he can pick up the phone and get anybody." O'Donnell is just about right. Among those appearing at the ball will be Hugh O'Brian, Roger Williams, Lionel Hampton, Tony Bennett, Carson, James Brown, Connie Francis and Joel Grey and the George M! company. At the end Dinah Shore will sing America the Beautiful with the three service academy glee clubs. Says Pitchman McMahon: "That's gotta be Heartland, U.S.A...
Security Blanket. On Tonight, McMahon is the perfect aide-de-camp. Like Carson, he keeps his chatter on the light side. It's a basketball game of sorts, the way Ed sees it: "I help him get the ball down the court, and he sinks the basket." Sliding farther and farther down the couch as the guests pile up, Ed can still be heard roaring delightedly at all Carson's jokes, even the frequent gibes at Ed's supposed alcoholic prowess. Last week, giving blood on camera to help dramatize a nationwide shortage, Carson lifted his head...
...degree in speech and drama from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., then moved to Philadelphia, where, among other things, he found a job as a circus clown. It was not long before he was one of Philadelphia's best-known TV personalities. He met Carson on a trip to New York, and Johnny hired him in 1958 as his sidekick on ABC's Who Do You Trust? In 1962 Carson took him along to Tonight, and they have been sinking baskets ever since...
...dance well without leading. There is an unslick look to him, which is good. For an announcer, he seems human-and so often announcers don't because they are too well-spoken, too well-groomed and too regular-featured." He can be sharp and funny, even at Carson's expense. Last week, when the boss muffed an imitation of John Wayne, Ed cracked: "You sound like David Brinkley." Because he is willing to jab Johnny every once in a while, he says: "I think I appeal to every guy who ever wanted to punch his boss...