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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Comedian louie anderson dies at 68 - The Untold Story

Comedian Louie Anderson appears in Los Angeles in July 1987. | Douglas C. Pizac/AP

LOS ANGELES — Louie Anderson, whose four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,” died Friday. He was 68.

Anderson died at a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from cancer, said Glenn Schwartz, his longtime publicist. Anderson had a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Schwartz said previously.

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