{"id":5014,"date":"2024-07-03T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2024-07-03T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:41:09","slug":"beloved-comedian-and-actor-passed-away-today-at-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/?p=5014","title":{"rendered":"BELOVED comedian and actor passed away today at his home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8b6f096671da924326c04f02653a866c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M935653ScriptRootC1574480\"><\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/f\/i\/findnews5.com.1574480.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Comedian and actor Martin Mull has died at the age of 80. His daughter, Maggie Mull, announced on Instagram that he passed away at home \u201cafter a valiant fight against a long illness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,\u201d Maggie wrote. \u201cThat joke would make him laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mull was beloved for his roles as coach Willard Kraft on *Sabrina the Teenage Witch*, Leon Carp on *Roseanne*, and Gene Parmesan on *Arrested Development*. He was nominated for his first Emmy in 2016 for his role as Bob Bradley on *Veep*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggie added, \u201cFriends, coworkers, fellow artists, comedians, musicians, and, most importantly, many, many dogs will miss my dad very much. His wife and daughter will also miss him a lot. I loved him very much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ddnews.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/collage-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6163\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mull\u2019s diverse career included writing the 1985 mockumentary *The History of White People in America* with Fred Willard.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and actor Martin Mull has died at the age of 80. His daughter, Maggie Mull, announced on Instagram that he passed away at home \u201cafter a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}