On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Being a watcher on Hulu, I have to wait until tomorrow to watch it, > but here is a brief article about how the current Tonight Show host > paid tribute to the former sidekick: > > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_en_ce/us_obit_mcmahon_conan_o_brien_9 > > One minor, nit-picky thing I choose to point out: Conan referred to > the earlier incarnation of the series as "The Tonight Show with Johnny > Carson." To be clear, his is "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" and > the most recent version was "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," but > Johnny's was "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson." Carson was the > star of the show, not the host. As I said, a small detail, but one I won't comment too much on it yet, since Kevin and maybe some others have not yet seen it. Here is another yahoo news link with a blurb on it, plus quotes from stars on Ed's death: http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090624/en_celeb_eo/130740 The one that caught me eye was from our Governor " California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "From Dick Clark's Bandstand to Star Search and the 30 years he spent in our living rooms as an integral part of the Tonight Show, Ed brought joy and laughter to millions of Americans. Maria and I were deeply saddened to learn of his death...Today we join the rest of the country in mourning the loss of this icon who was truly woven into the fabric of America."" I was never a big Bandstand viewer, but as a kid I would check it out once in a while. I have no memory of Ed McMahon ever being part of that program, and no memory of this ever being noted before. I was assuming a mistake by Arnold, and maybe he meant the "bloopers" show Ed did with Clark, but a quick peek at Ed's IMDB page does reveal (way at the bottom) that Ed has a credit as "Announcer (unknown episodes, 1952-1958)". That was before my time of course. Is it possible that Arnold was watching Bandstand in the 50s and somehow remembered Ed from those days, or is it more likely that an assistant when to imdb and chose the earliest credit they could find to start that quote? BTW - Dave gave a short note on Ed's death - but it was a little uncharacteristically awkward. He squeezed it in after introducing the Top Ten, but before starting it, with the intro of "I forgot to mention this". What he said was quite nice (and nobody does this kind of thing better than Dave) but then another awkward transition out of it back to the Top Ten (something like "now that you're in the mood for comedy"). Dave did such a nice job when Johnny died - I am going to guess that they didn't want to make an entire desk segment out of it so as to leave room for Conan to make a bigger deal of it at the Tonight Show. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
