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Television entertainer Johnny Carson (R) shown alongside co-host Ed McMahon during a taping of 'the Tonight Show' in Los Angeles in this May 11, 1988 file photo. McMahon, a fixture on U.S. late-night television for 30 years as the full-throated announcer and sidekick for Johnny Carson on NBC's "The Tonight Show," died on June 23, 2009, at age 86, his spokesman said.