‘Here’s Johnny’ TV announcer Ed McMahon dies

ED MCMAHON, a fixture on US late-night television for 30 years as the full-throated announcer and sidekick for Johnny Carson on NBC’s The Tonight Show, died yesterday at age 86, his spokesman said.

The veteran TV personality, best known for his nightly introduction of Carson in a deep, booming voice with the drawn-out line, “Heeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!” died at a Los Angeles-area hospital, spokesman Howard Bragman said.

McMahon had been battling pneumonia and other illnesses.