Common Sense: 6/23

" You know sometimes it's okay to be numbered -- to be best known for being second banana. Because your fans and it's just the same when you've done. And now as you've heard Ed McMahon is gone TV's top second banana has left the state. Ed McMahon not only built a career -- you leverage is thirty years laughing. As Johnny Carson's jokes to become a brand in his own right because of it. McMahon ruled -- force of nature ultimately hosting or co hosting plan any of its of his own including TDs bloopers and practical jokes. And little cells some call the precursor to American Idol. Start speech where it is straight man for Johnny soon became dean man. Are launching stars. When they were just news. Britney Spears. Christina. Aguilera. And a little dude named Justin Timberlake. At -- none forgotten. That's how much they thought of a man whose very name for the bonanza for Budweiser. And his face a marketing home run for American family publishers sweepstakes. A very frequent guest on this show McMahon would always insists he was a lucky guy. Andy was just writing the lock and more often than not just riding the memories of those -- of Johnny that had become immortal."

" I go way back to when. Then to be President Nixon was on that -- Johnny had a big thing about you know his beard you know the whole thing with the company. Debated he didn't look that good and so -- that he said Johnny said what are you going to do about the next to baby Tillamook. You know bar your makeup man and about a Frankie did."

" That Panasonic branded too good on the road rules can you put a lot of the politicians have sorted. Who read presented themselves if you will and a Bill Clinton add to that 88 debacle of the convention where his speech phenomenon. Johnny kid him about that later time and any time nano is on the way."

" Yeah we're the other war together via our bless you that's automatically our I was very -- and you know it you have so much is being put his introduction. Johnny -- production and lasted five minutes you know before it ever came up but it's now a standard thing they must. Include that is part of the campaign trail you've got to go on these late night talk shows. And now I like to think Ed's making them labs in a better place a bigger place. A place like no."