John Mulrooney, Stand-Up Comedian and Late-Night Host, Dies at 67

John Mulrooney, the stand-up comedian from Brooklyn who hosted Comic Strip Live on Fox and performed at venues including the Improv, the Laugh Factory and Dangerfield’s, has died. He was 67.

Mulrooney died suddenly on Monday at his home in Coxsackie, New York, the Albany Times-Union newspaper reported. No cause of death was immediately available.

Skillful at improvisation and working the crowd, Mulrooney told jokes on HBO, Showtime and on the PBS show Comedy Tonight and was among those who stepped in for Joan Rivers after she was fired as host of Fox’s The Late Show in 1997. He also was a guest host for The Pat Sajak Show 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 in the 1989 film Great Balls of Fire. More recently, he hosted morning and afternoon radio programs in New York City,…