Heres Ed: The Autobiography of Ed McMahon
Heres Ed: The Autobiography of Ed McMahon
ISBN: 9780399116919
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This is not the story of my life and I ll tell you why.
Those who knew my idol, W. C. Fields, have told me tit
when a young writer asked for permission to write the story
his life, the great one replied, "Please do. Capital idea. Dc
right away. I can t wait to see how it turns out."
I feel the same way Fields did. I d like to know what r
finish is. That s important to anyone who has ever do
comedy. That s why we all live with that embarrassing feeli
you get when you re in the middle of a yarn and suddenly re
ize that you ve forgotten the finish . . . the punch line. H~
rible feeling.
So, since I have no way of knowing the big, getaway fini
to my life (where the ship is sinking and I tear off my life jac
et and give it to Johnny Carson), this book must remain me1
ly a collection of incidents, .activities, and happenings tha
still remember. Time, with a little help from an occasiol
toddy, could easily turn them into gross exaggerations, ma
moth lies, or completely erase them from my mind.
But everything is as true as memory could re-create it ar
in one way or another, is a milestone along the route tt
brought me tb that seat on the right of Johnny Carson whic
have occupied for over thirteen years, five nights a we~
fifty-two weeks a year, exclusive, of course, of the nigl
Johnny takes off and I m seated on the right of the highly
perienced Joey Bishop or McLean Stevenson, John Dav
son, Sammy Davis, Bob Klein, David Steinberg, Pearl Bail~
Joan Rivers. John Denver. Liberace, Karen Valentine,