Former ‘Late Show’ Host Dies Suddenly at 67

The comedy world lost one of its brightest lights last week with the passing of John Mulrooney. 

People reports that Mulrooney, a stand-up comedian, radio host, and successor to Joan Rivers’s chair on The Late Show following her departure in 1987, died suddenly at his home in Coxsackie, New York, on Monday, December 29th.

Murlooney’s death was initially reported by his local paper, the Albany Times-Union, on December 31st. No immediate cause of death was given.

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