Sad to say my early/first exposure to Mull was in Hollywood Squares, I can still hear Peter Marshall introducing him among the game roster. I recall not knowing him specifically by name but by face as a reliable character actor who would show up when I wasn’t looking and then in a movie like Mrs. Doubtfire which pushed him a bit forward into view. Since I didn’t watch ‘Roseanne’ I had no idea he had a steady personna on small screen at all.
To find out about his art & music creative life through this post is a gift, for me perhaps too much too late, since we just lost him in 2024. Now that I think of it, I probably saw him open musically for some larger name act at a summerfest show along the way without realizing it was the same guy. A testament to his ability to morph into his own role.
I am sure his retrospectives will conform to his skeptical satire, being commodified and ‘mull-ified’ enough to cater to a public indifferent to their own nullification. No surprise with his subtle wit, he’s no longer the opener, but now the closer, after at all.
Sad to say my early/first exposure to Mull was in Hollywood Squares, I can still hear Peter Marshall introducing him among the game roster. I recall not knowing him specifically by name but by face as a reliable character actor who would show up when I wasn’t looking and then in a movie like Mrs. Doubtfire which pushed him a bit forward into view. Since I didn’t watch ‘Roseanne’ I had no idea he had a steady personna on small screen at all.
To find out about his art & music creative life through this post is a gift, for me perhaps too much too late, since we just lost him in 2024. Now that I think of it, I probably saw him open musically for some larger name act at a summerfest show along the way without realizing it was the same guy. A testament to his ability to morph into his own role.
I am sure his retrospectives will conform to his skeptical satire, being commodified and ‘mull-ified’ enough to cater to a public indifferent to their own nullification. No surprise with his subtle wit, he’s no longer the opener, but now the closer, after at all.
Awesome read. He always was a favorite.
He was such a favorite of so many.