On October 1, 1962, Johnny Carson takes over from Jack Paar as host of the late-night talk program The Tonight Show. Carson went on to host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for three decades, ...

Longtime television personality, game show host and Tonight Show sidekick Ed McMahon died in a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday. He was 86. Perhaps best known as Johnny Carson's straight man, whose ...

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 ...

Ed McMahon, the loyal “Tonight Show” sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and a resounding “H-e-e-e-e-e-ere’s Johnny!” for 30 years, died early Tuesday at a hospital in Los Angeles.

ED MCMAHON: And now, ladies and gentlemen, here's Johnny. It might be hard to grasp today just how big Johnny Carson was. He hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1962 until 1992, a bedtime companion for 9 ...