Veteran comedian Louie Anderson, who won a supporting actor Emmy for playing a version of his own mother in the FX comedy “Baskets,” has died. He was 68.
The beloved stand-up comic died Friday morning in Las Vegas of complications from cancer, his longtime publicist, Glenn Schwartz, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.
Anderson, who lived and often performed in Las Vegas, was hospitalized earlier this month with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, an aggressive form of the disease and the most common kind of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
