CNN is reporting the death of Jay Leggett, an actor, improv comic, and teacher who was briefly part of the cast of Fox’s In Living Color. Leggett died doing what he loved—and what he loved was hunting deer: The director of the 2011 documentary To The Hunt: Deer Season In Tomahawk, WI reportedly collapsed next to his ATV at the end of a successful hunt, near a family cabin in his native Tomahawk. According to authorities, the deer that Leggett had killed was strapped to his vehicle when they found him. Leggett died of natural causes at the age of 50.
Leggett was schooled in Chicago under improv legend Del Close, before he moved to L.A. to join In Living Color in its fifth and final season. By then, the show had undergone significant changes, losing all of the Wayans family, seeing Jim Carrey’s role significantly reduced, and relying heavily on guest appearances from stars like Chris Rock. During that rocky year, Leggett was one of the few freshmen cast members who managed to introduce a new recurring character to the show—that of Seamus O’Shanty O’Shame, an Irish folk singer whose ballads always ended horribly.