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The clips will be circulated as viral videos on sites such as YouTube, and will feature the former 'Tonight Show' sidekick in track suits and gangsterish suits rapping alongside a posse of scantily-clad women and burly body guards. The first video begins with McMahon cruising through the streets in an Escalade golf cart looking for winners of the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes to ask for some of the money back. Then, McMahon will break into an awkward rap. Wonderful.
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Subscribe to commentsMarileeSep 27th 2008 4:12PM
Do I feel sorry for Ed McMahon......Perfect example of "No fool like an old fool"......He made plenty of money to secure his old age comfortably...How dumb can you get ...With the advantages he has had in life there is no way he shouldn't be in good financial shape....
RobertSep 27th 2008 4:11PM
That's humiliating? Hey, Ed: Let them humiliate me next!
kelsSep 27th 2008 4:17PM
You mean to tell me you where lucky enough to make all that money at once and now you will get a second chance! Oh man LET THE LITTLE PEOPLE THROUGH. I dont mean to sound like a sour puss but thousands of letters have been written on behalf of someone dying with Pulmonary Fibrosis to all these stars that say giving is great! I used to think well how nice of them till we really wrote for help for this young gal NOT ONE PERSON WROTE BACK! I would love a chance to ask these people with a lot of money why when I asked for help did you not help? Do they only help if the camreas are on? I was so mad to watch Oprah
about giving this gal needs a total of 15 grand. I see people toss that away in the casinos! She still needs the help write to Janice Power on my space.com
JIMSep 27th 2008 4:17PM
I FEEL SORRY FOR HIM ALTHOUGH HE WAS STUPID AS TO WHAT HE DID WITH ALL HIS MONEY YOU STILL GOT TO FEEL SORRY FOR THE GUY. DAMN DONAL TRUMP PAID FOR HIS HOUSE. YOU KNOW AT LEAST HE IS DOING THIS TO EARN SOME MONEY.
GOD BLESS HIM AND MAY THIS BE A LESSON FOR UP AND COMING STARS,.
thereseSep 27th 2008 4:53PM
The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, I'd be more than happy to make a commercial, make all that money for a little bit of work, rather than the 12 hour night shifts that I work 6 days a week to make ends meet.
I don't see how he is an old fool, just a smart enough of one to know that when Johny said to laugh all the way to the bank, Ed was listening.
JiggySep 27th 2008 4:52PM
Rappin Rodney lol !
EarthwingsSep 27th 2008 10:05PM
Can we say the Lord giveth and taketh away? There is a reason Ed's friends are not helping him out. Either they don't care, are in the same predictiment are not his friends, or plain and simple just don't care. As for the Donld he is no friend he is a businman, opportunist a SMART businessman. Ed should take a lesson from him in how to go from the bottom up. Not once but twice even with alimony and child support.
Thumbs up Donald. Thumbs down Ed.
BarrySep 27th 2008 5:16PM
That's good. Teach him a lesson for wasting all the money he made schilling for Carson. I have no sympathy for him!
Marc AlexanderSep 27th 2008 5:16PM
Why the hell can't some of Ed's ultrarich show biz friend pitch in to help? What does that say about them and their values?
BarrySep 27th 2008 5:22PM
Why should his rich friends help him? He got into the situation he is in all by himself! Wait, Jerry Lewis could give him some of the MD money that was pledged a few weeks ago. No one will notice since there still isn't a cure for MD after all the years of the telethon.
AgnesSep 27th 2008 5:21PM
I think the laughing hyenna should be barred from TV. We all have to pay our taxes, he's no different. Shame on AARP and anyone else who is using (paying) him to be their spoksperson. Hire an honest person...
MontalguySep 27th 2008 5:19PM
The 'free credit report.com" commercial is NOT obnoxous. It is cute and so is the jingle. The writer is only dishing it because it contains three white males. If it contained the normal half breed variety of females, it would have been "precious". This mindset makes me want to puke! And so do writers like Terrence OBrien, who must be black.
CreamSep 27th 2008 10:23PM
First,Good for Ed for being healthy enough to make the decision to make some money following his unfortunate circumstances...I felt sorry for him but,thank God, he's alive and still trying..
Second, How do you "assume" that the writer must be black because he found the commercials obnoxious? Everyone is entitled to their opinions and personally, I found your comment to be a bit racist in it's contents..
sandra ramosSep 27th 2008 5:23PM
Oh give me a break! If he wasn't too humiliated to go on tv and cry to news rags, begging for handouts, why should he be humiliated by working! His situation is his own fault! Gambling, drinking and trying to keep a "high maintenance" ho of a wife! Use better judgement, old man, and don't keep on with your little "poor me, I blew my money, so can you give me yours?" routine! That old lush has SPENT more money in a year than most of us willl make in a lifetime, and you want us to feel "sorry" for him? I don't think so!
MarkSep 27th 2008 5:26PM
Dear God....this is the same as when Milton Burle did that cameo for that flash-in-the-pan rock group Ratt back in the late 80s. It's just...sad.
RattSep 28th 2008 11:05AM
Milton Berle's nephew Marshall Berle was Ratt's band manager.
Waterman ChrisSep 27th 2008 5:27PM
Im freak'n styoked fer Ed".
1'st of all ? "THAT'z HOLLYWOOD" !
2'ed ? That'z what sepperate'z the men from the boy'z Ed" !
"GREAT JOB DOOooOOD" !
Watta . . .
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CHRISTHEWATERMANRYAN
davis10oregon1Sep 27th 2008 7:37PM
PLEASE !!!
cocoaSep 27th 2008 5:33PM
I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU PEOPLE. THIS IS HUMILIATING? THIS IS STRONG AND DECISIVE AND PULL UP YOUR BOOTSTRAPS TIME! IT'S WHAT WE, OVER 50, CALL A JOB! YOU YOUNGER BLOGGERS .....PLEASE RECOGNIZE THIS FOR WHAT IT IS! A MAN WITH INTEGRITY THAT WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO FEED HIS FAMILY.
wendiSep 27th 2008 5:49PM
speak for yourself. i LOVE those commercials! if we must listen and watch commercials every 5 minutes or so, these commercials are at least entertaining and the guy is cute. sends a great message. more power to ed; at least he has a sense of humor about his lifestyle "errors."