에드 설리번

소개

에드워드 빈센트 "에드" 설리번(Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan, 1901년 9월 28일 - 1974년 10월 13일)은 미국의 오락 작가겸 TV 사회자이다. 1950년대부터 1960년대에 걸쳐 인기의 정점으로 있던, 자신의 이름을 딴 쇼인 《에드 설리번 쇼》의 사회자로서 가장 잘 알려져 있다.

Edward Vincent Sullivan was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. He was the creator and host of the television variety program Toast of the Town, which in 1955 was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in U.S. broadcast history. "It was, by almost any measure, the last great American TV show", said television critic David Hinckley. "It's one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories."