Ed McMahon "For Laughing Out Loud" Hardcover Price: $ 9.99   For Laughing Out Loud   Item Specifics - Fiction Books     Author: David Fisher, Ed McMahon     Category: Humor     Publisher: Warner Books Inc             ISBN: 0446523704     Condition: New     Format: Hardcover             Publication Year: 1998             Special Attributes: --             USAGE:                      Used   TESTING STATUS:    N.A.   Size Length: 355 pages Height: 9.8 in. Width: 6.5 in. Thickness: 1.2 in. Weight: 21.6 oz.   Publisher's Note A show business legend proves he can entertain both on the small screen and on paper in this humorous, anecdote-filled, behind-the-scenes look at the television icon. His familiar robust laugh filled America's living rooms later every weeknight for 30 years when he was Johnny Carson's sidekick on The Tonight Show; he's also jump-started the careers of Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Miller, LeAnn Rimes, Martin Lawrence, and Sinbad as the host of Ed McMahon's Star Search. His name and voice are beloved by millions of viewers everywhere. Ed McMahon now looks back on a career that spans the lifetime of television, and invites readers to take a warm, fun-filled walk down memory lane with a man who has become one of the most popular personalities in television history. Show business legend Ed McMahon proves he can entertain both on the small screen and on paper in this humorous, anecdote-filled, behind-the-scenes look at the life of a television icon. of photos.   Industry reviews Carson sidekick McMahon looks back on 50 years in television. Litvak  McMahon is known to the televiewing public for having excelled in two roles: as second banana to Carson on the Tonight Show for three decades and as the pitchman par excellence for dozens of products, especially magazines for American Family Publishers. Indeed, he has been so visible on TV for 50 years, i.e., from the very start of the medium, that it has been difficult to avoid him. In his time he has hosted Snap Judgment and Star Search, been the permanent spokesman for Budweiser Beer, worked with Jerry Lewis on the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon for 30 years and sold everything from kitchen appliances to Jenny Craig diet programs. There is no doubt he was a born salesman: on his first day peddling magazine subscriptions as a kid he sold three, and he financed his college career by selling, with a little help from the G.I. Bill, since he was a Marine Corps aviator in both WWII and the Korean War. In between pitches and punch lines (many cribbed from on-the-air performances), we see him give time and money to various charities, get married three times and raise five kids. The relentlessly upbeat tone falters only in discussions of his two divorces ("Imagine, me, hiring a private investigator to follow my wife" ). While it is difficult to imagine a true fan of McMahon, readers with a high tolerance for the ever-unctuous announcer will find this memoir every bit as lively as its subject. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour. (Oct.) Bukey      The seller, auctionvia, assumes full responsibility for the content of this listing and the item offered.