Building a career as a comedian in a highly competitive Hollywood market
was not easy. Louie Anderson understood the taste of the Americans and went on
to build a successful career based on his sense of humour and understanding the likings of the Americans. He has a net worth of $10 million as a stand-up
comedian, actor, writer, producer, and game show host in the US, according to
Celebrity Net Worth.

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His net worth is the result of a three-decades-old highly acclaimed
career as a comedian. He also developed and produced the animated TV series
Life with Louie, which was very popular.

During his illustrious career, Anderson won three Emmy Awards for his
role as Christine Baskets in the FX comedy Baskets, and from 1999 to 2002, he
hosted the game show Family Feud.

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He also created the sitcom The Louie Show in 1996 and also produced the
television documentary Louie Anderson Presents and the comedy special Louie
Anderson: Big Underwear.

Anderson was born on March 24, 1953, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Andy Andrew
Mortimer Anderson and Ora Sherman, a Mayflower descendant. He was the second
youngest of the couple’s 11 children.

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Anderson did his schooling at the Johnson Senior High School in Saint
Paul. On November 20, 1984, he made his TV debut as a stand-up comedian on The
Tonight Show. The comedian was also an author of several books, including the
much-acclaimed “Good­bye Jumbo … Hello Cruel World,” a self-help
book for people struggling with self-esteem issues.

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The iconic comedian was being treated for Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
when he died on Friday morning in a Las Vegas hospital. DLBCL is the most
common kind of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the United States and across the world,
accounting for around 22% of newly diagnosed B-cell lymphoma cases.

The star of “Coming of America and “Baskets”, a comedy series, Anderson was admitted into a hospital earlier this week for treatment, his manager Glenn Schwartz said.