For 30 years, Americans invited Johnny Carson into their homes as host of The Tonight Show. Many felt they knew Carson thanks to his years on TV and the countless stories that followed his career.

Ed McMahon enjoyed a 46-year friendship with Johnny Carson, "The King of Late Night." It was a relationship that lasted longer than many marriages, and to hear McMahon tell it, it was far less ...

Best known as the longtime sidekick to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, Ed McMahon died June 23 at 86. For younger viewers, memories of McMahon may be as much from his American Family Publishers ...

LOS ANGELES — When Johnny Carson ruled as king of late-night TV, Ed McMahon was the prince of second bananas. McMahon's great talent as Carson's "Tonight Show" sidekick was reacting to his every joke, ...

Ed McMahon, best known as the longtime sidekick to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, died overnight at age 86. I was a kid for most of McMahon’s heyday, so my personal memories of him are as much ...