DeStefano, who gained some mainstream success last year due to his final five stature in the most recent season of Last Comic Standing, was set to perform his one-man show A Cherry Tree in The Bronx on Wednesday at the Barrow Street Theater in New York City. He had just finished a run of sold-out shows, as he performed a similar show under the title Drugs, Disease and Death: A Comedy at the Producer’s Club Theater in New York.
Some sad news today: Punchline Magazine is reporting that standup Mike DeStefano died of a heart attack last night.For more on Mike’s life, here’s a link to his interview with Marc Maron on the WTF Podcast. My thoughts go out to his friends and family.
