For Laughing Out Loud: My Life and Good Times

by Ed McMahon, David Fisher, David Fisher

Book Overview

From bingo caller to ditch digger, from radio announcer to sweepstakes announcer, Ed McMahon has done it all. His familiar robust laugh filled America's living rooms every week night for 30 years as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446523704
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

all i can say is wow!

to enjoy this book, you will need soft light, smoking jacket, cohiba, and a stiff glass of bourbon. to delve into the topic of ed mcmahon it takes that kind of mindset. johnny carson's riveting forward captures the whole essence of the "hiyo," years. ed then takes us on a whirlwind tour of late nights of enebriation and carousing. shows spent drunk with johnny, burt reynolds and dom deluise are also brought to life so vividly by mcmahon you swear you could smell the vermouth and brut 33. ed also triumphantly portrays what it was like for him at the culmination of his life's work when timothy blakesley became the first winner of the american family sweepstakes. the question of whom did he prefer: johnny or dick is explored in an honest disection by the author. by this point your not quite sure of anything because you will be on your sixth bourbon and the cigar you were smoking has caught your smoking jacket on fire. i give four stars just on entertainment value alone. HIYO!!!