{"id":42814,"date":"2017-08-25T06:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T06:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=42814"},"modified":"2017-08-25T06:25:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T06:25:02","slug":"comic-actor-jay-thomas-is-dead-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/comic-actor-jay-thomas-is-dead-at-69.html","title":{"rendered":"Comic actor Jay Thomas is dead at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Comic actor Jay Thomas is dead at 69<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cRay Donovan\u201d actor Jay Thomas has lost his battle with cancer. He was 69.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The sad news comes from his agent and longtime friend Don Buchwald.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cJay was one of a kind, never at a loss for words and filled with so much fun and wonderfully whacky thoughts and behavior,\u201d wrote Buchwald, who repped Thomas for 35 years. Thomas\u2019 wife Sally and his sons Sam, Jake and J.T. were by his side at his Santa Barabara, Cali. home when he passed on Thursday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">According to Buchwald &#8220;Sally and the boys were the true passion of his life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Thomas was perhaps best known for playing Jerry Gold on \u201cMurphy Brown\u201d from 1989-1998. He also played Rhea Perlman\u2019s TV husband Eddie LeBec on \u201cCheers\u201d from 1987-1989 before his character was run over by a zamboni. Thomas starred on the hit sitcom &#8220;Love &amp; War&#8221; from 1992-1995. Thomas was also unforgettable on &#8220;Mork &amp; Mindy&#8221; where he yucked it up with Robin Williams from 1979-1981.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Talk show fans remember Thomas from his holiday visits on \u201cLate Show with David Letterman\u201d where he and the host would try and knock a meatball off the top of a Christmas tree by throwing footballs.During that annual visit, Thomas would always tell what became known as \u201cThe Lone Ranger\u201d story in which he had a bizarre encounter with actor Clayton Moore, who played the masked cowboy in the classic western series. Thomas\u2019 \u201cLate Night\u201d Christmas tradition started in 1998 and ended in 2014, shortly before Letterman retired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Thomas also hosted a popular radio show on SiriusXM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/gossip\/confidential\/comic-actor-jay-thomas-dead-69-article-1.3439508<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/comic-actor-jay-thomas-is-dead-at-69.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic actor Jay Thomas is dead at 69 \u201cRay Donovan\u201d actor Jay Thomas has lost his battle with cancer. He was 69. The sad news comes from his agent and longtime friend Don Buchwald. \u201cJay was one of a kind, never at a loss for words and filled with so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[55067],"class_list":["post-42814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-comic-actor-jay-thomas-is-dead-at-69"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}