John Mulrooney

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John Mulrooney is an American Comedian/Humorist/TV Show host/Actor/teacher/spiritualist.

Mulrooney was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He began his career on the Comedy Tonight variety show in the 1970's. He wrote comedy for the Tonight Show, and also performed stand up for the Tonight Show studio audience warm-up for over 165 episodes.

Mulrooney competed on Star Search and lost, but it helped his early career immensely, as he was hired to work for the Star Search studio, writing comedy and doing audience warm up.

After relocating to Los Angeles, California, Mulrooney auditioned at the world famous Improv Comedy Club in Los Angeles, where he met and befriended Budd Friedman who hired him on the spot and made him bring down the house at all of his clubs.

After Joan Rivers lost her show, John was asked to replace her as host of The Late Show on the FOX network.

After a few months, The Late Show was cancelled due to low ratings. He could not compete with comedy's grand masters like Johnny Carson and Nightline's Ted Koppel.

However the programming geniuses at FOX TV decided to give him a new show on Saturday Night called Comic Strip Live, which ran two years, a good run for a show of its kind at that time.

He also did other TV Shows such as An Evening at the Improv, Hollywood Squares, Comedy Central, Showtime and HBO and filled in as guest host for Pat Sajak on CBS’ the Pat Sajak Show.

Mulrooney wrote and starred for two seasons in a sitcom called Midtown North which aired on Comedy Central.

After awhile he began to imbibe the spirits too much and sought help in rehab, as he has admitted.

After recovery, he changed his routines and began to reasses his life and redirected it towards Spirituality mixed with humorism and passed on his wisdom from his experiences in his life, doing more like Stand Up Philosophy and religion instead of Stand up comedy. Still he can make people laugh during his stage appearances.

Sadly, he has almost completely dropped out of public view on American TV.