Veteran and comedian Kevin Meaney died yesterday at age 60. He was found in his home in Forestburgh, New York. Meany appeared on numerous animated TV series, the CBS series Uncle Buck and in Tom Hanks’ film Big. He was born in 1956 and started his comedy career in 1980. A few years later he appeared on […]
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- 10/22/2016
- by Aleks Simeonova
- Uinterview
Kevin Meaney passed away at the age of 60, it was announced Friday. The stand-up comedian’s talent seemed to only be overshadowed by his kindness, according to friends and colleagues who remembered the “Uncle Buck” actor on Twitter. Below are some of the most-touching social media tributes. They’re still pouring in as people learn about the bad news that broke late last night. Rip Kevin Meaney who had such a hilariously original comedy voice at a time when that was damn near impossible https://t.co/NKgJpsZRXD — Chris Hardwick (@hardwick) October 22, 2016 Always thought Kevin Meaney was a brilliant comedian.
- 10/22/2016
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Kevin Meaney, the veteran comedian and actor who briefly starred in the TV adaptation “Uncle Buck” and was beloved for the catchphrase, “That’s not right!,” has died. He was 60. “It is true as confirmed to me by his family. It is a tremendous loss to the comedy community as well. He was loved and will be missed,” Meaney’s agent Tom Ingegno, told Laughspin. The site said Meaney had been scheduled to perform in East Providence, R.I. on Saturday Night. One of the breakout stars of the 1980s comedy boom, Meaney appeared on shows including “The Tonight Show” and “Late Night With.
- 10/22/2016
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
If you were a TV critic from 1956 to 1976, you would have witnessed some big changes in the business: the rise and fall of the Western as the dominant primetime genre, or the color TV boom, or CBS' shift from silly rural comedies to socially conscious ones like All in the Family and M*A*S*H. If you covered the beat from 1976 to 1996, you would have written about Hill Street Blues and its many imitators, the classic years of SNL, and the early days of original cable programming. Almost any 20-year span would give you a front row seat to enormous artistic and technological change. As of this week, I've been professionally writing about television for exactly 20 years(*), and it's safe to say that the only two-decade period that featured a more radical transformation in how television was made and consumed would be back when the medium was first introduced into America's living rooms.
- 6/2/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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