Ed McMahon was born and raised in Massachusetts. As a teenager he acted first as a carnival barker and then as a bingo collar shut up. By 1957, he started work in TV with his most iconic sort of partner in his career, which was Johnny Carson. In 1973, he starts co-hosting the Jerry Lewis telethons. He did not work for publishers clearing house. What? Does it just been living in my brain falsely for years? I'm telling you, it blew my brains out of my head.