'Heere's Johnny!' Ed McMahon Dies
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Ed McMahon, perhaps the most famous sidekick in television history, has died at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 86.For 30 years, he sat cheerfully on the couch next to Johnny Carson on the set of NBC's "Tonight Show," and it was his trademark phrase that opened the broadcast every evening: "H-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Johnny!"
His publicist, Howard Bragman, did not give a cause of death, saying only that McMahon had a "multitude of health problems the last few months." He had been hospitalized in February, reportedly with bone cancer, and had also suffered a broken neck in a fall in 2007.
He died early Tuesday morning at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, surrounded by his family, said Bragman.
"It takes a lot more time to not be nice than to be nice," McMahon once said. Audiences will remember him laughing at Carson's jokes, moving aside on the set to make room for the show's featured guests, and smiling through commercial pitches.
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I remember him with Johnny Carson. Another icon gone.
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