FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ed McMahon Should Have Looked Harder for That Couch Change
The roiling home mortgage market is apparently about to take down another victim — Philly-rooted sidekick extraordinaire Ed McMahon. The 85-year-old’s unfortunate woes — he’s apparently more than $600,000 behind on a $4.8 million loan on his six-bedroom, five-bath home in the Summit section of Los Angeles — put us in mind of a bit from our October 2005 Exit Interview with the TV great in which, in retrospect, we may have cut a little too close to the bone with one of our questions:
Exit Interview: Did you ever find any spare change in the couch?
Ed McMahon: I never did. [laughs with that unmistakable “whoaha-ha-ha-ha-ha!”] But I never looked, so there might have been some. [coughs; sounds at first like another laugh, but no, just a cough]
Real cough, or poignant attempt at redirection? Read the full piece to find out.
