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Comedian, actor Kevin Meaney found dead in N.Y. home
Kevin Meaney, a veteran stand-up comedian and actor, has died. He was 60.
Meaney's movie credits include "Big" and "Plump Fiction." He also spent several years acting in the Broadway show "Hairspray," and made appearances on "Saturday Night Live."
Tom Shales, the famed Pultizer Prize-winning TV critic of the Washington Post, one described Meaney like this: "Picture the precocious love child of Jonathan Winters and Ethel Merman and you have some idea of Kevin Meaney's act."
Following the news of his death, many comedians offered their condolences on Twitter: