Anthony Clark Dies at 62: Yes, Dear Star and Boston Stand-Up

Last updated: Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026, 10:05 p.m. ET. We'll add a cause of death or memorial plans if his family shares them.

Anthony Clark, the Boston stand-up who spent six seasons as the uptight dad Greg Warner on CBS's Yes, Dear, has died. He was 62.

His friend and former co-star Mike O'Malley broke the news on Wednesday. "Anthony Clark died yesterday. He was a hilarious guy," O'Malley wrote in a post quoted by Variety, which means Clark died on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Anthony Clark's cause of death

No cause of death has been released. O'Malley's tribute didn't mention one, and The Hollywood Reporter said it wasn't immediately available Wednesday evening. O'Malley did say the two had talked on the phone just three weeks earlier and that Clark "had us laughing loudly once again."

We won't guess beyond that. If his family or representatives give a cause, we'll update this story.

Anthony Clark the comedian, before Hollywood

Clark was born April 4, 1964, in Lynchburg, Virginia. He went north for college, graduating from Emerson College in Boston in 1986 with a degree in mass communication. While he was there he won the Top College Comedian Award from the American Collegiate Talent Showcase, THR reported.

Boston in the late 1980s and early '90s was a stand-up factory, and Clark became one of its draws. O'Malley remembered seeing him at The Comedy Connection while he was dating his future wife in the mid-'90s. "Anthony was already famous in Boston, regularly selling out comedy shows," he wrote. "I was a fan before I was a friend."

What made him funny, O'Malley said, was that Clark seemed to be enjoying the joke as much as the crowd. He laughed at his own stories, and that made people laugh harder.

Comedian Nick Swardson posted his own goodbye on Instagram, calling Clark one of his best friends and "a massive stand up out of Boston." Swardson said he opened for Clark for years, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Clark explained the appeal of the stage plainly in a 2006 interview with The Comic's Comic, as THR recalled: "There's no director. There's no writer. No producer. There's just you."

Boston Common gave him his first lead

Acting came in the early '90s. Clark's screen debut was a 1991 episode of PBS's American Playhouse, and his first feature was the 1991 drama Dogfight, the LA Times said, citing IMDb. Small parts followed in The Thing Called Love and on Ellen.

In 1996 NBC built a sitcom around him. Boston Common starred Clark as Boyd, a Virginia guy who moves to Boston to keep an eye on his younger sister at college and ends up working at the student union. It lasted two seasons, 1996 and 1997. That same year he turned up in Michael Bay's The Rock.

Anthony Clark on Yes, Dear

The role most people are searching for tonight is Greg Warner. Yes, Dear premiered on CBS in 2000. Created by Greg Garcia and Alan Kirschenbaum, it put two married couples under one roof and let their opposite parenting styles collide, Deadline noted.

Clark's Greg was the anxious, by-the-book father. O'Malley played his easygoing brother-in-law Jimmy. Jean Louisa Kelly and Liza Snyder played their wives, and Billy Gardell, later of Mike & Molly, was in the cast too.

Critics never fell for it. The show kept getting renewed anyway. Variety, in 2005, called it the "little-comedy-that-could" as it fought for yet another season. It ended in 2006 after six seasons and 122 episodes. O'Malley's tribute included snapshots from the final episode, which he noted wrapped 20 years ago.

Last Comic Standing and Soul Man

Clark hosted the fourth season of NBC's Last Comic Standing, which aired in 2006. He also starred in the sitcom Soul Man, and his later film credits include Say Uncle, My Uncle Rafael and West of Liberty.

What Anthony Clark did after Yes, Dear

Fans who wondered where he went have an answer now, from the person who knew him best on that set. "He invested his money well and essentially retired after we wrapped," O'Malley wrote, as quoted by THR.

That's a rare exit in television. Plenty of sitcom leads spend the next two decades chasing a second hit. Clark, by his friend's account, took the win and went home. He also told The Comic's Comic he didn't want a real job and just wanted to hang out, a line that reads a little differently now.

O'Malley signed off with the nickname his friends used: "Rest in peace. Tony."

A rough stretch for TV fans

Clark's death comes a day after Stacy Keach died at 85, and weeks after Star Trek's Walter Koenig. Those were actors of an older generation. Clark was 62. A lot of people who had Yes, Dear on in the background in the 2000s are learning his real name only tonight.

No funeral or memorial plans have been announced.