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" TV icon Ed McMahon\u2014most famous for his work as Johnny Carson&amp;#039;s announcer and his role as &amp;quot;The Human Laugh Track&amp;quot; on The Tonight Show\u2014passed away today at the age of 86. Much will be missed about the &amp;quot;Here&amp;#039;s Johnny&amp;quot; phrase-founder; whether he was discovering fresh young talent on the &amp;#039;90s reality show Star Search or handing out large cardboard sweepstakes checks for Publisher&amp;#039;s Clearing House, his presence (and booming voice) won&amp;#039;t soon be forgotten. In honor of all his accomplishments, check out these surprising fun facts about the beloved comedian, game show host and announcer.   1. Before the age of 4, funny-man McMahon relocated 40 times because of his father&amp;#039;s job. During his adolescent years, he attended 15 different high schools. Constantly on-the-go with little time to develop social skills, McMahon claimed he was painfully shy for most of his childhood.   2. Ed always knew he had a voice destined to be heard by the masses\u2014and he started his training early. In 1938, at age15, he became a bingo caller, but that wasn&amp;#039;t his only odd job over the years. To put himself through college, the Hollywood heavyweight worked as a pitchman for vegetable slicers on the boardwalk of Atlantic City and hawked pots and pans as a door-to-door salesman.Prior to that, he worked as a carnival barker for three years in Mexico, Maine.   3. As a decorated WWII Marine veteran, Ed was not one to shy away from the call of duty. During the Korean War he served as a fighter pilot where he flew 85 missions and retired as a colonel.   4. &amp;quot;Hi-Yo!&amp;quot;\u2014Mc Mahon&amp;#039;s now-famous cry to the crowd on the smash late-night talk show The Tonight Show\u2014has a humble beginning: The phrase was borrowed from an associate producer of the show, and was used by the entertainer to energize the studio audience.   5. Each time The Tonight Show aired, McMahon would take the opportunity to state his name out loud (and correctly), pronouncing it as Ed &amp;quot;Mc-MAH-yon,&amp;quot; but nobody seemed to pick up on his hints\u2014including long-time cohost Johnny Carson and other celebrity journalists, who usually referred to him as Ed &amp;quot;Mc-MAN&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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