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It's a tragic day on the earth of comedy.
Erica Ash, the comic who starred on “Mad TV” and “Survivor's Regret,” died July 28 after an extended battle with most cancers, her publicist instructed The Hollywood Reporter. She was 46.
“Erica was an unimaginable lady and a proficient artist who touched numerous lives together with her sharp wit, humor and real zest for all times,” her household shared in an announcement. “Her reminiscence will stay perpetually in our hearts.”
Ash's mom, Diann Ash, added in an announcement to TMZ that the actress “made the transition peacefully surrounded by her family members.”
Though “Mad TV” initially had plans to turn into a health care provider and studied medication at Emory College, he modified careers after realizing his ardour for performing.
“Subconsciously, I believe I knew it from the start,” she beforehand instructed the Emory Wire alumni affiliation. “My dad and mom had different plans for me: Like most dad and mom, they simply needed to see me profitable and completely happy. Of their minds, that meant being a health care provider or a lawyer — stepping into Emory College.”
She continued: “However despite the fact that I used to be good and will simply get the job achieved once I put my thoughts to it, the issue was preserving my thoughts targeted on it. I at all times felt like there was a distinct path that will make me happier.”
That path ultimately led her to New York, the place she starred in Broadway's “The Lion King” and “Child It's You!”, in addition to Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's Off-Broadway play “Love, Loss, and What I Wore.”
From there, he discovered his area of interest in comedy, starring in “The Huge Homosexual Sketch Present” and “Mad TV” earlier than touchdown roles on “Actual Husbands of Hollywood” and “Survivor's Regret.”
In movie, Ash's credit embody 2013's “Scary Film 5,” 2016's “Jean of the Joneses” and 2021's “Violet.”
She additionally ran the recommendation weblog The Deviled Angel.
“I’ve relied on my spirit in my relationships, friendships, household, well being, private issues, each huge and small, and it’s the one factor that has by no means let me down,” she instructed Emory Wire. “I’m so grateful to have discovered my spirit and am nonetheless discovering its magnificent, limitless energy: simply once I suppose I’ve figured it out, I uncover a complete new depth. My spirit is wonderful!”
Following Ash's passing, her lifelong pal Loni Love paid tribute to her.
“Erica was proficient and so humorous, whether or not it was Survivor's Regret or Mad TV, she put her all into her work,” the comic wrote on Instagram on July 29. “She was at all times there… now she's gone.”