Louie Anderson, comedian and Emmy-winning actor, dies at 68

The Hollywood Reporter

Anderson died this morning, three days after TMZ reported he was in a Las Vegas hospital battling diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. He died one day after Pauly Shore, son of The Comedy Store founder Mitzi Shore, tweeted that he had visited Anderson in the hospital and said his goodbyes while Anderson was surrounded by his family. Anderson's career stretched four decades, making his Tonight Show debut in 1984. In 2004, Comedy Central called him one of the “100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time." He played an 8-year-old version of himself in the 1994-1998 Fox animated comedy Life with Louie, he hosted Family Feud from 1999 to 2002 and starred in FX's Baskets, winning an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for playing a character inspired by his mom. “I’m pretty sure my mom orchestrated it from the great beyond,” Anderson told the Los Angeles Times in 2017. “I mean, how would that come up otherwise? She always could have been a star herself, so she’s finally getting a chance to act.” ALSO: Louie Anderson's fellow comedians mourn him on Twitter.