{"id":1996,"date":"2026-01-06T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:53:34","slug":"with-heavy-hearts-we-announce-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"With heavy hearts, we announce the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"347\">John Mulrooney, remembered as \u201can exceptional radio man\u201d and a comedian who could \u201clight up any room,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"347\">\u201d has died suddenly at age 67. According to the <em data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"169\">Albany Times Union<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"347\">Mulrooney passed away at his home in Coxsackie, New York, on December 29, 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"347\">\u201cNo immediate cause of death was released,\u201d and friends said the loss was completely unexpected.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"634\">Born and raised in Brooklyn, Mulrooney rose during the 1980s comedy boom,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"634\">performing at clubs like Dangerfield\u2019s before becoming a familiar television presence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"634\">He briefly hosted <em data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"543\">The Late Show<\/em> in 1987 after Joan Rivers\u2019 departure and appeared across comedy and late-night television.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"830\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">He later reinvented himself as a radio star, co-hosting <em data-start=\"692\" data-end=\"727\">Wolf and Mulrooney in the Morning<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"830\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Even in 2025, he was still performing, proving comedy was \u201csomething he carried with him everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"830\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44861 lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositive24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/you8t.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailypositive24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/you8t.jpg 670w, https:\/\/dailypositive24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/you8t-300x245.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"548\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mulrooney, remembered as \u201can exceptional radio man\u201d and a comedian who could \u201clight up any room, \u201d has died suddenly at age 67. According to the Albany Times Union, Mulrooney passed away at his home in Coxsackie, New York, on December 29, 2025. \u201cNo immediate cause of death was released,\u201d and friends said the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}