For 30 years, Americans invited Johnny Carson into their homes as host of The Tonight Show. Many felt they knew Carson thanks to his years on TV and the countless stories that followed his career.

Best known as the longtime sidekick to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, Ed McMahon died June 23 at 86. For younger viewers, memories of McMahon may be as much from his American Family Publishers ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- 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. He was 86.