Anthony Clark, Star of CBS Sitcom 'Yes, Dear,' Dies at 62

By Sarah Collins | November 12, 2026

Anthony Clark, the stand-up comedian who became a familiar face in American living rooms as Greg Warner on the CBS sitcom "Yes, Dear," has died at 62. He died on Tuesday, November 10, from complications of pneumonia, according to Deadline, which first reported the news on Wednesday. His death was announced by his "Yes, Dear" co-star Mike O'Malley, who shared the news in a social media post that read, in part: "Anthony Clark died yesterday. He was a hilarious guy."

Clark was 62. His representative, Barry Katz, confirmed the death and spoke of the joy and affection Clark brought to audiences and to the people he worked with. The news drew tributes from across comedy and television on Wednesday, and "Anthony Clark" became one of the most searched names in the country, with more than 500,000 Google searches in a single day.

Born on April 4, 1964, in Lynchburg, Virginia, Clark found his way into comedy while studying at Emerson College in Boston, where he graduated with a degree in communication. He built his name on the stand-up circuit first, a quick, everyman comic whose routines about ordinary life carried him from clubs to late-night television and, eventually, to his own sitcoms.

Six seasons as Greg Warner

Clark's defining role came in 2000, when CBS launched "Yes, Dear," a comedy about two young couples sharing a home while raising small children. Clark played Greg Warner, the uptight, put-upon young father, opposite Mike O'Malley as his loud, unbothered brother-in-law Jimmy Hughes, with Jean Louisa Kelly and Liza Snyder as their wives. Created by Greg Garcia and Alan Kirschenbaum, the show ran for six seasons and 122 episodes, from 2000 to 2006, and made Clark's face — and his exasperated timing — a staple of early-2000s network comedy.

It was not his only television work. Clark starred in the sitcom "Boston Common" in the 1990s and later hosted the reality competition "Last Comic Standing," a fitting job for a comic who had come up through the clubs himself. Across his career he collected more than 19 acting credits, moving between stand-up specials, sitcoms and film roles with the ease of a performer who never really left the stage behind.

O'Malley's tribute carried the weight of a friendship that had lasted since the show. The two men had played brothers-in-law for six years, and O'Malley remembered Clark as "a hilarious guy," sharing snapshots from their last episode together. Series co-creator Greg Garcia also paid tribute in a statement shared with Deadline.

A comic remembered for warmth

What colleagues kept returning to, in the hours after the announcement, was not just Clark's timing but his temperament. He was, by the accounts of those who worked with him, a warm presence on set — the kind of comic who made the work look easy and the people around him feel at ease. For viewers, he was the harried young dad trying to keep it together, a character that landed because Clark played him without vanity, letting the joke fall on Greg Warner again and again.

"Yes, Dear" has lived on in reruns and streaming since it left the air in 2006, and for many fans the news of Clark's death arrived as a shock: the sitcom dad, frozen in his early forties on screen, was gone at 62. He is survived by the work he left behind — six seasons of a show that still finds new audiences, and a stand-up career that began in Boston clubs and ended with his name trending across the country he made laugh.

Sources: Deadline; Men's Journal; Just Jared; The Express Tribune; Associated Press, November 11–12, 2026.