RIP Ed McMahon

Ed McMahon, former sidekick to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, host of Star Search, and American Family Publishers' Sweepstakes spokesperson, has died at age 86 from undisclosed ailments.

Here's Ed, half in the bag, on The Tonight Show many years ago:

I always heard he was kind of a jerk IRL, but I loved him on The Tonight Show when I was a kid.

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