Stand-up comic and actor Louie Anderson, Emmy-winning ‘Baskets’ star, dies at 68
Veteran comedian Louie Anderson, who won a supporting actor Emmy for playing a version of his own mother in the FX comedy “Baskets,” has died. He was 68.
The beloved stand-up comic died Friday morning in Las Vegas of complications from cancer, his longtime publicist, Glenn Schwartz, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.
Anderson, who lived and often performed in Las Vegas, was hospitalized earlier this month with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, an aggressive form of the disease and the most common kind of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The comedian and writer — known for his distinct look, which included a gap-toothed grin — hosted a revival of “Family Feud” from 1999 to 2002 and earned two Daytime Emmy Awards during his career for his animated kids series “Life With Louie.” He created the Fox series and from 1994 to 1998 voiced an animated version of himself while chronicling his adventures
