Ed McMahon, famed sidekick of Johnny Carson, will join me tonight for a special webcast of “A Conversation with Andrea and …”

I normally don’t do a Friday night webcast show, but am making an exception for this showbiz legend “get”!

Ed McMahon has written about his life and times in television in When Television Was Young - Live, Spontaneous, and In Living Black and White.

Ed McMahon has known most of the entertainment icons of the last 50 years. For “When Television Was Young,” the former longtime “Tonight Show With Johnny Carson” announcer has interviewed writers, producers, cameramen and stars such as Annette Funicello, Dick Clark, Andy Griffith, Art Linkletter, Gale Storm, Barbara Billingsley, Walter Cronkite, Jerry Mathers, Soupy Sales, Ron Howard, Merv Griffin and more to provide not just a history of early television, but a history told by those who made it happen.

Heeeeere’s….. an excerpt!

Warm-up
Greetings! My name is Ed McMahon, and I want to welcome you and thank you for coming to this book. We sure have some nice-looking readers here today! I know that many of you have traveled a lot of years to get here, and I want you to know how much I appreciate it. So just settle back in your seat and relax.

In just a couple of pages the book is going to start, and we’re going to tell you a really fascinating story. I know you’re going to like it. But before I introduce Chapter 1, I want to take a few paragraphs to tell you a little about what you’re going to read and get us all warmed up.

This book doesn’t come with a band, but I do have some bad jokes…

To read more, click here, then tune in tonight to hear Ed in his own words.

We get underway at 9 p.m. ET. Join us. As always the Chat Room “NBC studio doors ” will be wide open for you!

Click the above button at 9 to hear us live. (Hit it before then and you’ll hear the archived previous show. ) We get underway at 9 p.m. ET — and in case you miss it, ALL my shows are archived for your convenience.

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