""I look at the audience as a spice rack," he said. "I know I'm gonna make a great meal; I'm just not sure of the ingredients yet.""
""Crowd work was his thing long before it became a thing," the raunchy comic recalled. "He was the last comedian to come out of that club that everybody thought would become a really really big star.""
John Mulrooney, born in Brooklyn, died suddenly at his home in Coxsackie, N.Y., on Dec. 29 at age 67; cause of death was not immediately reported. He began his comedy career in the 1980s at the Pips club in Sheepshead Bay, a venue associated with Woody Allen, Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Klein, Lenny Bruce and Andrew "Dice" Clay. He performed at The Improv, The Comedy Store, The Comic Strip and The Laugh Factory, and appeared on television including hosting an episode of The Late Show and appearing on The Pat Sajak Show. Mulrooney hosted radio shows on WPYX and WPDH and launched "Mulrooney in the Morning" for iHeartRadio in 2014. In 2010, at age 52, he joined the Coxsackie Police Department as a rookie and became a sought-after performer for police and fire department fundraisers. He is remembered as a loving son, a devoted sibling to two brothers and two sisters, and an uncle to numerous nieces and nephews.
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