- Was the Cleveland Browns practice squad kicker in case the primary kicker was injured.
- Was a songwriter for Warner Brothers Records in his early days (1968). His first and only "hit" single was a parody of Johnny Cash's surprise superhit "A Boy Named Sue" called "A Girl Named Johnny Cash".
- Received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1967. Martin also received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from RISD.
- Wrote a lacerating series of satirical "cultural studies" books and TV specials under the blanket title "The History of White People in America."
- Has a daughter, Maggie Rose Mull (born 1986), with his wife, Wendy Mull.
- Rather than use the stage trappings of most musical acts, Mull would decorate his stage with comfortable thrift store furniture. Notable live gigs included opening for Randy Newman and Sandy Denny at Boston Symphony Hall in 1973;[8] Frank Zappa at Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters in 1973; Billy Joel in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1974; and for Bruce Springsteen at the Shady Grove Music Fair in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in October 1974.
- Elvis Costello and Gary Sperrazza attribute the remark "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" to Martin Mull.
- One of his paintings, titled After Dinner Drinks (2008), which is owned by Steve Martin, was used for the cover of Love Has Come for You, an album by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.
- Throughout the 1970s, and especially in the first half of the decade, Mull was best known as a musical comedian, performing satirical and humorous songs both live and in studio recordings.
- He published a book of some of his paintings, titled Paintings Drawings and Words, in 1995.
- He created, wrote for, and starred in the short-lived 1984 CBS sitcom Domestic Life, with Megan Follows playing his teenaged daughter.
- In 2016, he appeared as guest star in the satirical TV series Veep, a role that earned him an Emmy nomination.
- Mull broke into show business as a songwriter, penning Jane Morgan's 1970 country single, "A Girl Named Johnny Cash", which peaked at No. 61 on Billboard's country charts. Shortly thereafter, he began his own recording career.
- Mull began painting in the 1970s, and his work has appeared in group and solo exhibits. He participated in the June 15, 1971 exhibit "Flush with the Walls" in the men's room of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to protest the lack of contemporary and local art in the museum.
- His first serious one-person exhibition was held in 1980 at the Molly Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles and was credited by artist Mark Kostabi as instrumental in launching his own career because of "Mull's simultaneous embrace of humor and gravitas in visual art.".
- He had a long-running role as Leon Carp, Roseanne Conner's gay boss (and later business partner) on the TV series Roseanne.
- Mull's first well-known acting role was as Garth Gimble in the 1976 television nighttime absurdist soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. This led to work in the spin-off talk show parodies Fernwood 2 Night (1977) and America 2 Night (1978), in which he played talk show host Barth Gimble (Garth's twin brother), opposite Fred Willard, as sidekick and announcer Jerry Hubbard.
- He studied painting and graduated in 1965 from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts; in 1967, he earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting, also from RISD.
- In a 2010 interview on The Green Room with Paul Provenza, Mull identified himself as an agnostic, saying, "I certainly don't begrudge someone else their choice to follow whatever they do, it's just for me, it doesn't make a lot of sense. I think more harm has come to this planet through organized religion, probably, than any single situation that we've invented.".
- His self-titled debut album, released by Capricorn in 1972, featured many noteworthy musicians, including Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Levon Helm from The Band, Keith Spring of NRBQ, Jack Bone,[9] and Libby Titus.
- One of his paintings was used on the cover for the 2008 Joyce Carol Oates novel My Sister, My Love.
- Martin Mull was an American comic actor whose career included contributions as a musician and painter.
- His art work often combined photorealist painting, and the pop art and collage styles.
- He attended and graduated from New Canaan High School.
- Mull gained visibility on screen for Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, its spin-off Fernwood 2 Night, then America 2 Night. His other notable roles included Colonel Mustard in the 1985 film Clue, Leon Carp on Roseanne, Willard Kraft on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Vlad Masters / Vlad Plasmius on Danny Phantom, and Gene Parmesan on Arrested Development.
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