Ed McMahon dies at 86

2009/06/23 13:55:02 @Reuters: Top News

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ed McMahon, a fixture on U.S. late-night television for 30 years as the full-throated announcer and sidekick for Johnny Carson on NBC's "The Tonight Show," died on Tuesday at age 86, his spokesman said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=1gqTX5C2GXg:_NL2SIbd6WI:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=1gqTX5C2GXg:_NL2SIbd6WI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=1gqTX5C2GXg:_NL2SIbd6WI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=1gqTX5C2GXg:_NL2SIbd6WI:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=1gqTX5C2GXg:_NL2SIbd6WI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/1gqTX5C2GXg" height="1" width="1"/
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