# Jay Thomas dead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-thomas-dead/794602>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [August 24, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-thomas-dead/794602 "2017-08-24T23:02:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-thomas-dead/794602/1 "2017-08-24T23:02:53Z")

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While I did see him on _Cheers_ and _Murphy Brown_, I mainly remember him for his [yearly telling](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jay+thomas+letterman+christmas) of his Lone Ranger story on Letterman.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-thomas-dead/794602/2 "2017-08-24T23:59:22Z")

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I remember him as restaurant owner Remo DaVinci on _Mork & Mindy_. R.I.P.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-thomas-dead/794602/3 "2017-08-25T00:06:09Z")

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Trash as it was, I do remember him hosting Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?

He’s very good in Mr. Holland’s Opus as well.

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-thomas-dead/794602/4 "2017-08-25T00:45:44Z")

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I remember when he got fired from 99X for playing a song he discovered but was forbidden to play. It was soon after that that he showed up on Mork and Mindy. But he will always be Carla’s hockey playing boyfriend/husband.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-thomas-dead/794602/5 "2017-08-25T00:57:55Z")

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I’m a guy, I’m straight, I’m married; Jay Thomas had the best smile in all of Hollywood. 😃 \<—like this, but better.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-thomas-dead/794602/6 "2017-08-25T03:25:30Z")

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I met him way back around 1989 or so. He was cool. Of course, he needed me to fill his propane bottle, so he kinda had to be nice. 😉

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-thomas-dead/794602/7 "2017-08-25T13:50:47Z")

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I saw him on Mork and Mindy. I heard him as the morning shock jock on WKTU in New York. It was many years later I found out those two were the same guy. When Howard Stern made his big move from AM WNBC he replaced Jay Thomas on the air. Years later Jay Thomas had a show on Howard Stern’s Sirius channel.