Comic and actor Martin Mull, recognized for his roles within the tv exhibits Fernwood 2 Night time, Roseanne, and Veep, died Thursday, his daughter introduced in a social media publish. He was 80.“I’m heartbroken to share that my father handed away at house on June twenty seventh, after a valiant battle towards a protracted sickness,” Maggie Mull wrote on Instagram Friday. “He was recognized for excelling at each inventive self-discipline conceivable and in addition for doing Pink Roof Inn commercials. He would discover that joke humorous. He was by no means not humorous.”“My dad will likely be deeply missed by his spouse and daughter, by his mates and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and—the signal of a really distinctive individual—by many, many canine. I beloved him tremendously.”A painter who additionally established his music chops within the early Nineteen Seventies by opening for Randy Newman, Frank Zappa and Bruce Springsteen, Mull’s tv profession started a couple of years later with a supporting function within the satirical cleaning soap opera, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Within the spin-off sequence, Fernwood 2 Night time, Mull performed discuss present host Barth Gimble, with Fred Willard as his sidekick. In 1978, Mull continued to play Gimble in America 2 Night time.Extra tv roles embrace restaurant supervisor Leon Carp in seven seasons of Roseanne within the Nineteen Nineties, and political aide Bob Bradley in Veep, for which Mull earned an Emmy nomination in 2016. Mull additionally performed bumbling non-public detective Gene Parmesan in Arrested Improvement, and supplied voiceovers in The Simpsons, Household Man and American Dad.Quite a few Mull’s friends and former colleagues mirrored on his life late Friday. Harry Shearer of Fernwood 2 Night time paid tribute on X, writing:“Took me a second to understand that Martin Mull has handed. Throughout the late 70s, we labored collectively on Fernwood Tonight & its successor sequence. We wrote collectively, usually on the seashore (!), and typically I’d come out and riff with him. Mucho laffs! All the time a deal with to be with. RIP MM.”Director Paul Feig additionally weighed in.“Oh man, that is so unhappy. Martin was the best. So humorous, so proficient, such a pleasant man. Was fortunate sufficient to behave with him on The Jackie Thomas Present and treasured each second being with a legend,” Feig wrote on X. “Fernwood Tonight was so influential in my life. RIP Martin.”