Marc Edward Wilmore (May 4, 1963 – January 30, 2021) was an American television writer, producer, actor, and comedian. He wrote and performed for shows such asIn Living Color,The PJs,The Simpsons, andF Is for Family. Wilmore was a 10-timePrimetime Emmy Award nominee.^[1] He was the younger brother of comedianLarry Wilmore.

Marc Edward Wilmore was born on May 4, 1963,^[2] to parents Betty and Larry^[3][4] inFontana, California. He had five siblings, one of whom, older brotherLarry, is a television comic.^[5] He was a graduate ofCalifornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona.^[4]

In the early 1990s, Wilmore got a job as a writer on the sketch comedy seriesIn Living Color. He was promoted to cast member during the show's final season.^[4] Wilmore's impersonations includedIsabel Sanford,Nell Carter,Carroll O'Connor,Robert Guillaume,Maya Angelou andJames Earl Jones, and various sketches which re-imagined various television series such asAll in the Family andThe Mary Tyler Moore Show if they starred African-Americans. He received a nomination for thePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for his work on the show.^[1][4][6] AfterIn Living Color, Wilmore wrote forThe Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno^[4] andThe PJs, astop-motion adult sitcom co-created by his older brother Larry, where he also provided the voice of crooked police officer Walter Burkett.^[7][8]

While working onThe PJs, Wilmore participated in a prank organized by staff members ofThe Simpsons, where he pretended he was the mayor ofEast St. Louis, Illinois and angrily accosted writerMatt Selman over a joke that denigrated the city in the episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain". As compensation for his involvement with the joke, Wilmore was given a role in the season 11 episode "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge", in which he played a psychologist.^[9][10][11] Wilmore joinedThe Simpsons's writing staff in the show'sthirteenth season, and received his first credit for the segment "Send in the Clones" in "Treehouse of Horror XIII".^[11][12] He won aPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program as a producer for the episode "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" at the60th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2008.^[1] In the 2010s, Wilmore worked as a writer and executive producer onF Is for Family, an animated sitcom co-created byMichael Price, who had worked with him onThe PJs andThe Simpsons. Wilmore also provided several voices in the series.^[4]

On January 30, 2021, Wilmore died at a hospital inPomona, California. He was 57. According to his brother Larry, he died "while battlingCOVID and other conditions that have had him in pain for many years" amid theCOVID-19 pandemic in the United States.^[4] InThe New York Times, Larry Wilmore related that his younger brother had long suffered health issues relating to akidney transplant he had undergone in the 1990s.^[2]

The penultimate episode ofF Is for Family, "A Very Merry F***ing Christmas", is dedicated to him, as well asThe Simpsons episode "Wad Goals".

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