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Marc Wilmore passes away at age 57 after COVID (Emmy winning writer for In Living Color, The PJs, The Simpsons, The Tonight Show and more)

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Marc Wilmore, The Simpsons and In Living Color writer and brother of comedian Larry Wilmore, passes away at age 57 after battle with COVID-19
  • Wilmore's brother, comedian and The Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore, confirmed his death on Twitter on Sunday evening
  • The TV writer died from COVID-19 , plus other health issues he had been suffering from over the past few years
  • He started his writing career in the 90s on the TV adaptation of Harry and the Henderson before moving over to Fox comedy series In Living Color
  • After his stint on In Living Color, he became a writer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and then The PJs before joining The Simpsons writing staff in 2002
  • He wrote 12 episodes of the long-running Fox animated comedy series between 2002 and 2015
  • Marc won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for his work as a producer on Eternal Moonshine of the Simpsons Mind
  • After his time at The Simpsons came to a close, he went to work as a writer and producer on F is for Family in 2017
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Marc Wilmore passes away at age 57 after battle with COVID-19

The Simpsons writer Marc Wilmore has passed away at the age of just 57 after battling COVID-19. Wilmore's brother, comedian Larry Wilmore, confirmed his death on Sunday evening.
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L.K.M.B.G.F. said:
Didn't he also act on in living color? I remember him being in the later seasons
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Born May 4, 1963, Marc graduated from Cal Poly Pomona before joining In Living Color as a writer in the early 1990s. He also became a cast member on the sketch comedy series in its final season (1993-94), doing impersonations of James Earl Jones, Maya Angelou and Robert Guillaume; he also impersonated various stars in segments imagining what they would be like as a Black person, including Carroll O'Connor on All in the Family, Ted Knight on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes and Bob Hope.

He also was a writer on The PJs (voicing the role of Walter), a writer The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and a writer and co-executive producer on The Simpsons. In addition to serving as a writer on F Is for Family, he also served as an executive producer and appeared in several episodes.


List of In Living Color episodes - Wikipedia Republished // WIKI 2

This article lists the episodes of the television show In Living Color during its five-season run.
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Marc Wilmore, TV Writer and Brother of Comedian Larry Wilmore, Dies at 57

"My brother was the kindest, gentlest, funniest, lion of an angel I’ve ever known," Larry tweeted of Marc, who also was a writer on 'In Living Color' and 'The Simpsons.'
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Playlist entire Season FIVE of IN LIVING COLOR


 
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Rest in power

I definitely always remember seeing his name in The Simpsons credits and I didn't even know that was his name, but I remember his face from the In Living Color later seasons intro. Respect.
 

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