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Comedian and “Roseanne” star Martin Mull dies at the age of 80

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Martin Mull – here with a guest at the 2016 Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles – has died at the age of 80. File photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Martin Mull and Sharon Gless of the series “Thick and Thin” arrive at the NBC All-Star event in Los Angeles in 2005. File photo by John Hayes/UPI
Martin Mull, who stars in the new series “Thick & Thin,” attends the 2005 NBC TV Upfronts held at Radio City Music Hall in New York in 2005. File photo by Ezio Petersen/UPI

June 29 (UPI) – Comedian and Roseanne Graduate Martin Mull has died at the age of 80.

“It breaks my heart to announce that my father passed away at home on June 27 after bravely battling a long illness. He was known for excelling in every creative discipline imaginable, including his Red Roof Inn commercials. He would find this joke funny,” his daughter Maggie Mull said in a statement Friday.

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“He was always funny. My father will be sorely missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and colleagues, by fellow artists, comedians and musicians and – the mark of a truly extraordinary person – by many, many dogs. I loved him infinitely.”

Mull also appeared on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spinoff Fernwood 2 nightsas well as Taxi, Clue, Mr. Mom, Mrs. Doubtfire, Veep, Golden Girls, Arrested Development, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Psych, Community, Two and a Half Men and last Not dead yet, Grace and Frankie, The cool kids And The after-party.

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