YES SIR, YOU ARE CORRECT SIR! I AM DEAD! Ed McMahon has died at 86. After McMahon left, the talk show sidekick role went out of favor for a while (though Letterman has used Shaffer as something of a sidekick, and the Conan-Andy interplay in the early years of Late Night is naturally memorable)--he so defined that role. There are few performers who will be remembered for one line more than him. It's kind of fitting that he passed away just a few weeks into the Conan era, given that Conan has brought back a sidekick/announcer to the show.
ETA: SNL's "Carsenio" sketch, featuring the late, great Phil Hartman's moment in "Ed McMahon's Party Machine."
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