Barry Crimmins, Pioneering Comedian and Anti-Pedophilia Activist, Dies at 64

Barry Crimmins, the Boston-based comedian and political activist who was the subject of Bobcat Goldthwait’s 2015 documentary “Call Me Lucky,” has died at age 64 just weeks after disclosing a cancer diagnosis.

His wife, Helen, who herself is battling stage four non-Hodgkins lymphoma, tweeted the news early Thursday.




Helen here with sad news…Barry passed peacefully yesterday with Bobcat and I. He would want everyone to know that he cared deeply about mankind and wants you to carry on the good fight. Peace.

— Barry Crimmins (@crimmins) March 1, 2018



Crimmins was a major figure on the 1980s comedy circuit in Boston where comics such as Stephen Wright, Denis Leary and Bobcat Goldthwait first emerged.