Neil Mahoney, an Emmy-nominated editor, director, writer and producer who contributed to such comedies as Key & Peele, Portlandia and Drunk History, has died. He was 43.

After returning from a trip to the mountains with a friend, Mahoney fell asleep in his home in Echo Park on Jan. 7 and didn’t wake up, actor-writer Jonah Ray said.

Since 2012, the good-natured Mahoney had partnered with Ray (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return) and producer Cash Hartzell (Talking Dead) on the Jonah Raydio music podcast; he manned the soundboard and often was on the receiving end of Ray and Hartzell’s jokes.

“Ask anybody, they will tell you that Neil was the best guy,” Ray wrote in an Instagram post. “He cared so much about his friends. He kept up with every friend he’d ever made. He was a legendary comedy editor who worked on your favorite shows.”

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Mahoney also directed and edited the Upright Citizens Brigade film Freak Dance (2010), starring Amy Poehler, and helmed several Funny or Die shorts, including 2009’s Tiffani Thiessen Is Busy and 2010’s Raaaaaaaandy Declares War on Justin Bieber, starring Aziz Ansari.

Born on March 7, 1977, in Osterville, Massachusetts, Mahoney graduated from Barnstable High School but left Emerson College as a senior to work for Bob Odenkirk and David Cross as an intern on their HBO comedy Mr. Show and on their 2002 movie Run Ronnie Run. He then took a job in Washington with the magazine While You Were Sleeping before returning to Los Angeles.

Mahoney, who also edited episodes of Between Two Ferns, Comrade Detective, Another Period and Ghosted, received his Emmy nom for an installment of Key & Peele in 2016.

“Working on Key & Peele was pretty much the first time anyone in my family had heard of something that I’d done,” he told the magazine Working Not Working in 2017.

He was a big fan of the Canadian sitcom Letterkenny, Roy noted.

Reactions of friends and colleagues about working with Mahoney were gathered here for a story on mxdwn.com.

Survivors include his mother, Claudia, and sister, Megan. Donations in his name can be made to L.A. Family Housing.

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