Comedian Mike DeStefano, a finalist on the most foliate season of "Last Comic Standing," died Sunday of a headquarters attack, his rep confirmed Monday to offbeat media outlets. He was 44.
Punchline magazine had a revealing -- and (warning) a exceedingly profanity-filled -- interview with DeStefano during the exploration of the NBC develop last year.
Asked which comics he'd want in the probability for the last or the best performance of his life, DeStefano referenced his companion Greg Giraldo, the "Last good-humored Standing" moderator who died in September a few days succeeding an overdose of prescription medication.
"In LA, just waking up to the sad news about Mike DeStefano. He helped inasmuch as teeming kin. I'm glad he was my friend," Jim Norton, numerous gelastic on DeStefano's list, tweeted Monday.
The blunt-talking DeStefano, who was a drug counselor before receiving into comedy, had act on heroin addiction and coped stow away the loss of his wife to AIDS. He'd been HIV-positive considering the 1980s, writing through Poz leverage 1998 about since a "long-term nonprogressor" besides "not fitting prominence with the AIDS community."
"Last Comic Standing" was a loss from the touchstone. "Guys enjoy me don't effect shows like that -- guys like me don't trimmed attempt that," he told Punchline.
"All owing to this process I've been due having these experiences of, wow, this is amazing, this is a whole also macrocosm. I charge purely do prime-time comedy; that's a challenge, let me give that a venture. again it's been just amazing, and a lot of fun." He masterly fourth on the show.
DeStefano had been to come Wednesday to perform a preview of his one-man break through "A Cherry Tree in the Bronx" at the Barrow Street Theatre, an appearance he tweeted would his "Last nyc show for a while. longing to see u there."
Punchline magazine had a revealing -- and (warning) a exceedingly profanity-filled -- interview with DeStefano during the exploration of the NBC develop last year.
Asked which comics he'd want in the probability for the last or the best performance of his life, DeStefano referenced his companion Greg Giraldo, the "Last good-humored Standing" moderator who died in September a few days succeeding an overdose of prescription medication.
"In LA, just waking up to the sad news about Mike DeStefano. He helped inasmuch as teeming kin. I'm glad he was my friend," Jim Norton, numerous gelastic on DeStefano's list, tweeted Monday.
The blunt-talking DeStefano, who was a drug counselor before receiving into comedy, had act on heroin addiction and coped stow away the loss of his wife to AIDS. He'd been HIV-positive considering the 1980s, writing through Poz leverage 1998 about since a "long-term nonprogressor" besides "not fitting prominence with the AIDS community."
"Last Comic Standing" was a loss from the touchstone. "Guys enjoy me don't effect shows like that -- guys like me don't trimmed attempt that," he told Punchline.
"All owing to this process I've been due having these experiences of, wow, this is amazing, this is a whole also macrocosm. I charge purely do prime-time comedy; that's a challenge, let me give that a venture. again it's been just amazing, and a lot of fun." He masterly fourth on the show.
DeStefano had been to come Wednesday to perform a preview of his one-man break through "A Cherry Tree in the Bronx" at the Barrow Street Theatre, an appearance he tweeted would his "Last nyc show for a while. longing to see u there."
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