Ed McMahon introduces Chilli Manilli.
McMahon inviting Baby Piggy onto Star Search.
Ed McMahon (1923-2009) guest-starred on episode 205 of Muppets Tonight.
He was the announcer for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on which the Muppets appeared several times.
For years he was also the announcer on Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon on which Johnny Fiama and Sal Minella have appeared.
On the back cover of The Year of Roosevelt Franklin, McMahon's review of the album is quoted among others.
McMahon voices himself in the Muppet Babies episode "This Little Piggy Went to Hollywood," where he invites Baby Piggy to appear on Star Search.
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- The unmade Muppet television special Johnny Carson and the Muppet Machine was to have included a scene with a talking boulder bearing McMahon's image.
- Guy Smiley spoofed McMahon in the 1974 special Out to Lunch in a Tonight Show parody with Cookie Monster playing Carson.
- In the Muppet Babies episode "Happy Birthday, Uncle Piggy," McMahon appears (voiced by Frank Welker) to report that Johnny Carson is unavailable to perform at Uncle Statler's birthday party. Baby Fozzie performs in his place, as introduced by footage of McMahon lifted from The Tonight Show.
- When Big Bird and Snuffy have co-hosted a show-within-a-show on Sesame Street, Snuffy has a penchant for quoting McMahon. In Episode 3669, he chortles away and repeatedly shouts "Yes!" The script for Episode 3942 gives the stage direction for Snuffy's slogan "Bally-ho!" to be delivered like McMahon's "Hey-o!" In the Letter of the Day segment in Episode 4173, Snuffy quotes McMahon's "You are correct, sir!"
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- In 2002, McMahon appeared in a PSA for the Ad Council featuring Muppeteer Stephanie D'Abruzzo.