{"id":553033,"date":"2026-03-29T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:33:09","slug":"comedian-and-actor-alex-duong-dead-at-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553033\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian and Actor Alex Duong Dead at 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Comedian Alex Duong<br \/>\n                          Dead at 42<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              March 29, 2026<br \/>\n                            12:35 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260329_6aa68d957af4464e86160bb9a706833a\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:5b5def7b-4255-4def-92ec-5411ed40a230\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6aa68d957af4464e86160bb9a706833a_md.png\" alt=\"alex duong main getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beloved comedian and actor Alex Duong &#8212; who appeared on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jeff-ross\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Ross<\/a> Presents Roast Battle&#8221; and &#8220;Blue Bloods&#8221; &#8212; has died after a year-long bout with cancer, TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Hilarie Steele, a very close friend of the family who was there when he died, tells TMZ &#8230; Alex went into septic shock Friday night and passed away at 11 AM Saturday at St. John&#8217;s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, surrounded by family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Alex was diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma &#8212; a rare and aggressive cancer &#8212; after experiencing headaches behind his eye. After a biopsy was performed, the tumor was labeled as extremely aggressive, and Alex ended up with an eye patch and rounds of treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In August, comedians like Ronny Chieng, Atusko Okatsuka and others came together to put on &#8220;The Alex Duong Has Cancer In His Eye Comedy Benefit Show&#8221; at the Largo in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260329_72f1ccd0a74f4e3b9b088a180b16ca2e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:5b5def7b-4255-4def-92ec-5411ed40a230\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/72f1ccd0a74f4e3b9b088a180b16ca2e_md.png\" alt=\"alex duong sub getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/aid-alexs-journey-to-regain-sight?attribution_id=sl:c967ccba-df9c-4b60-b443-51993196118e&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1746468293&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp13_c&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">GoFundMe<\/a>, set up by Hilarie, was created to help Alex&#8217;s journey to regain sight. Now, you can donate to the campaign to help his five-year-old daughter, Everest, and wife, Cristina.<\/p>\n<p>Alex was 42.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedian Alex Duong Dead at 42 Published March 29, 2026 12:35 PM PDT Beloved comedian and actor Alex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,3,99,2415,2525],"class_list":{"0":"post-553033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-news","12":"tag-tmz-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}