John Mulrooney

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John Mulrooney is an American comedian, humorist, TV show host, actor, teacher, and 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, as he was hired to work for the program, 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. Friedman hired him on the spot to perform at all of his clubs.

After Joan Rivers left as host of The Late Show on the FOX network in 1987, Mulrooney was asked to replace her. After a few months, The Late Show was cancelled due to low ratings and competition with The Tonight Show's Johnny Carson and Nightline's Ted Koppel.

FOX TV programming executives gave Mulrooney a Saturday night show called Comic Strip Live which ran for two years^{[citation needed]}.

He appeared on 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.

Mulrooney developed alcohol dependency and sought rehabilitation, as he has admitted^{[citation needed]}. After recovery, he changed his routines to include spirituality mixed with humor. Appearances include wisdom from his experiences in life.