Anthony Clark, the stand-up comedian who played Greg Warner for six seasons on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, died Tuesday, Nov. 10. He was 62. His former co-star Mike O'Malley announced the news Wednesday in a tribute on social media.
O'Malley recalled seeing Clark perform at Boston's Comedy Connection in the mid-1990s with his future wife, Lisa. Clark was already selling out shows, and what stayed with O'Malley was the way Clark laughed along with the audience as he told his stories.
"I was a fan before I was a friend," O'Malley wrote. The two had spoken by phone just three weeks earlier, and Clark had them laughing again. O'Malley shared photos from the final episode of Yes, Dear alongside his tribute.
On Yes, Dear, Clark played an uptight studio executive whose approach to parenting often clashed with that of his easygoing brother-in-law, Jimmy Hughes, played by O'Malley. Jean Louisa Kelly and Liza Snyder played sisters Kim and Christine, whose families' differing ideas about raising children supplied much of the comedy. The series ran on CBS from 2000 to 2006, ending after 122 episodes.
Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Clark graduated from Emerson College and began his career in Boston stand-up. Before Yes, Dear, he starred as a campus handyman on NBC's Boston Common and played an assistant minister opposite Dan Aykroyd on Soul Man. His film credits included Dogfight and The Thing Called Love, and he went on to host the fourth season of Last Comic Standing.
Fellow comedian Dane Cook also remembered Clark's stand-up in a comment on O'Malley's Instagram tribute. "He was one of the best live acts I've ever seen," Cook wrote.
