Neil Mahoney, an Emmy-nominated editor, director, writer and producer who contributed to such comedies as Key & Peele, Portlandia and Drunk History, has died.
He was 43. After returning from a trip to the mountains with a friend, Mahoney fell asleep in his home in Echo Park on Jan. 7 and didn't wake up,actor-writer Jonah Ray said.
Since 2012, the good-natured Mahoney had partnered with Ray (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return) and producer Cash Hartzell (Talking Dead) on the Jonah Raydio music podcast; he manned the soundboard and often was on the receiving end of Ray and Hartzell's jokes. "Ask anybody, they will tell you that Neil was the best guy," Ray wrote in an Instagram post. "He cared so much about his friends.
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