# Martin Mull has passed at 80 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [June 29, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465 "2024-06-29T00:49:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/21 "2024-06-29T16:14:35Z")
The guy on Rosanne. Played Leon Carp. Good actor RIP [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4yuR6n5gAYE/maxresdefault.jpg "Roseanne and Leon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yuR6n5gAYE) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/22 "2024-06-29T17:03:35Z")
Saw him live in ‘74, I think, with Steve Martin. It was billed as the “Steve Martin Mull Show.” I never laughed so hard in my life! He was also an accomplished artist - some of his work was for sale in the lobby of the club where he performed, but the prices ($200-$300) were far more than my budget at age 23 would allow. Wish I’d been able to buy one! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/23 "2024-06-29T17:16:42Z")
An anecdote I heard from my best friend in college: Martin Mull was also involved in visual arts, and at one point in his career, was having trouble finding a gallery that would mount a show of his work. So one day he snuck into the men’s room of a gallery, and hung a selection of his paintings there. He called his show “Art in a Minute.” ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/24 "2024-06-29T18:08:47Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I’ll always remember his definitive [history of White people in America.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_White_People_in_America) (available on Youtube) Ooh, this was always at the video store. My friends and I finally rented it to see what the heck it was. Very funny! I think for us, we hadn’t seen a lot of general mocking of us whites aside from Blazing Saddles. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/25 "2024-06-29T18:09:34Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > Saw him live in ‘74, I think, with Steve Martin. It was billed as the “Steve Martin Mull Show.” I never laughed so hard in my life! Wow, the precursor to Steve Martin Short. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/26 "2024-06-29T20:37:08Z")
One of my most cherished childhood memories is of watching _Fernwood 2-Night_ with my dad. And as a kid, I had most of Martin Mull’s comedy records, starting with his best-of compilation _No Hits, Four Errors_. There’s a relatively recent [interview with Mull on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqk5nvsWscY&t=1010s) that is incredibly comprehensive about his career – except for addressing whether Mull was indeed the person who came up with the line [“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_about_music_is_like_dancing_about_architecture) R.I.P. Martin Mull! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/27 "2024-06-29T21:53:47Z")
Noodling around I found one of my favorite Mull fake [commercials](https://youtu.be/Mfu-1BLNQXw?list=PLONSEFHCEgW3ZXrwc8Q33R4w2i10RvLno&t=121). A sugar enriched, etc., protein shaped cereal. It’s part of a _Soundstage_ Martin Mull episode from 1975. A lot of his music. Special guests Flo and Eddie (who used to be Mothers and before that Turtles). ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/28 "2024-06-29T22:00:25Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > One of my most cherished childhood memories is of watching _Fernwood 2-Night_ … Me, too. My memory–which may be wrong–is that his acting stint on _Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman_, came before Fernwood. Anyway, I always tended to think of him as an actor first, and comic second. He always had an undercurrent of menace. Not very many artists have managed to combine that with being as hilariously funny as he was. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/29 "2024-06-29T22:47:27Z")
When I was a teenager I thought Barth Gimble and Jerry Hubbard were the funniest people on TV and that was the same year I discovered Python reruns on PBS. ---
**Author:** ![Yosh99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@Yosh99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yosh99)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/30 "2024-06-30T15:00:22Z")
My favorite from Fernnwood Tonight. Leisure suits case cancer. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAJmwL0a2B8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAJmwL0a2B8) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/31 "2024-06-30T15:08:04Z")
A young Craig Richard Nelson! The ability of any and all of them to keep straight faces is wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/32 "2024-06-30T17:28:07Z")
Seeing him do this song on _PBS Soundstage_ with a full band, every time he said “Do the Nothing”, the band would stop and he would just stand there, looking bored, and then they’d start up again. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xOteomrqeXM/maxresdefault.jpg "Martin Mull "The Nothing" aka "Do the Nothin'" - 1970s comedy song - 1973") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOteomrqeXM) Fernwood Tonight is just simply one of my alltime favourite TV shows. Liked his _Get a Life_ appearance. A Jessica Walter shock-scream fo him - RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465/33 "2024-07-01T03:40:09Z")
I remember him in a surreal pizza commercial very seriously explaining that pizza etiquette doesn’t allow you to eat starting from the outside edge of the pizza; you must start from the point. Hilarious because it was so random. RIP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-mull-has-passed-at-80/1003465.md?page=1)