Tonight Show Sidekick Ed McMahon Dies

Tue., Jun. 23, 2009 5:50 AM PDT by

Ed McMahon Jeff Vespa/Getty Images

Ed McMahon was a first-rate second banana.

McMahon, Johnny Carson's devoted friend and Tonight Show straight man who defined what it meant to be a late-night TV wingman, died Tuesday morning just after midnight, his publicist, Howard Bragman, confirms to E! News. The 86-year-old was surrounded by his wife and loved ones as he took his final breaths at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

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