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Here's Johnny! : My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show, and 46 Years of Friendship |
Author: Ed McMahon
Published: 2005-10-18 |
List price: $24.99
Our price: $5.16
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As of: November 20th, 2008 04:57:29 AM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Thank god it was on sale!
A lifelong Carson fan, and lover of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, I was delighted to find a copy of this audio book at Tuesday Mornings for just $3.99! WOW! About 10 minutes into the book, and I knew that $3.99 was just about what this book was worth.
Ed McMahon is no writer - that's quite obvious right off. You'd think that his ghost writer, or editor would have been able to give him some help with this project. He rambled on, and skipped back and forth so much that I often thought I had mixed up the CDs. I agree with all the viewers who mentioned the fact that he offered very little new information. Mostly, it was as though he were just re-telling the various great moments of the Johnny Carson Show as just seen on DVD.
I was fortunate enough to be in the live audience twice and witness Mr Carson in action. He will surely be missed by millions of people for years to come.
 Carson's career is reduced to a series of disjointed snippets
Unlike so many show business collaborations that exist only when the public is watching, the relationship between Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon was a genuine friendship. While McMahon understates what he did for Carson in this book, other sources have stated that he many times kept Carson from making a fool of himself when drinking or even getting physically beat up. With such a close collaboration of 46 years, there is a great deal of material with which to write a book of reminiscences.
The problem with this book is that it has the structure of one rushed into print immediately after Johnny's death. There is a movement from anecdote to anecdote as if McMahan was brought in and simply free-associated in a random memory purge. Johnny Carson was an extremely talented entertainer and one of the most interesting people, yet in this book his career is reduced to a series of disjointed snippets.
 Good Read
The story of one person's great admiration for another seasoned with much humor. Then there is Carnac. The answer, hermetically sealed in a mayonnaise jar; Johnny Carson. The question - Who owned late night TV, not for years, but for decades.
 Not up to standard
Ed McMahon needs to remain from behind a keyboard. He worked with a true comedy genius for years and years and wrote about none of this stuff. His book was boring and lacked insight into the man; Johnny Carson. Badly written, poorly organized and thoroughly boring. It was like watching dry paint dry again.
 Here's Johnny!: My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show, and 46 Years of Friendship
Great book, wished I hadn't lent it out to someone because I don't think I am going to see it again. It is great having Ed write this book, good background info on both of them.
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