John Mulrooney, the humorist from Brooklyn who hosted Comedian Strip Dwell on Fox and carried out at venues together with the Improv, the Snicker Manufacturing facility and Dangerfield’s, has died. He was 67.
Mulrooney died immediately on Monday at his house in Coxsackie, New York, the Albany Occasions-Union newspaper reported. No reason for demise was instantly accessible.
Skillful at improvisation and dealing the gang, Mulrooney instructed jokes on HBO, Showtime and on the PBS present Comedy Tonight and was amongst those that stepped in for Joan Rivers after she was fired as host of Fox’s The Late Present in 1987. He additionally was a visitor host for The Pat Sajak Present on CBS.
As an actor, he appeared on TV on Ryder P.I., 1st and Ten, Ellen, Midtown North, The Good Life and Hardball and within the 1989 movie Nice Balls of Fireplace. Extra not too long ago, he hosted morning and afternoon radio applications in New York Metropolis, Cleveland and Albany, New York, and for iHeartRadio.
One in all 5 children, Mulrooney was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 27, 1958, and raised in Flatbush. He attended Brooklyn Technical Excessive College, boxed within the novice Golden Gloves competitors and began out in comedy within the early ’80s on the Pips nightclub in Sheepshead Bay.
Mulrooney competed on the syndicated Star Search program earlier than he joined its writers room. And in 1994, he was a featured comedian on a Valentine’s Day PPV particular headlined by fellow Brooklynite Andrew Cube Clay, who additionally acquired his begin at Pips.
“He by no means gave up, he by no means stopped making an attempt, which is what it’s all about in my guide,” Clay wrote on Fb. “Not everyone climbs to the highest, and never everyone turns into a celebrity. John was a fantastic, nice comic.”
Mulrooney carried out a number of occasions for U.S. troops abroad, and his household mentioned these “have been amongst his proudest moments, permitting him to provide again to the women and men serving removed from house and to carry moments of laughter and aid in difficult environments.”
At age 52 in 2010, he was employed as a rookie cop with the Coxsackie Police Division and served by way of 2024. That led to him acting at fund-raisers for police and fireplace departments throughout the nation.
Mulrooney “will probably be remembered as a lot for being a loyal good friend to numerous folks as for the laughter he dropped at a mess of strangers,” his household mentioned. “His voice, his tales and his spirit will proceed to echo within the lives of these he touched.”
Donations in his reminiscence might be made to St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital.