<p class="quote"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">David Lloyd, writer of "Chuckles Bites the Dust," the classic "Mary Tyler Moore Show" episode that saw the WJM-TV crew struggling to contain the urge to joke about the comic circumstances surrounding the death of Chuckles the Clown, has died.</span></p> Brent Lang | The Wrap david lloyd, sitcom, gay, mary tyler moore, tv writer the-feed 0 2009-11-12T10:04:58-05:00 <p>He wrote maybe <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwC361O13gk&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">the funniest episode</a> of the Mary Tyler Moore show. As well as episodes of Taxi, Fraiser, Cheers, and Lou Grant. He was renowned for dealing with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5kZCR_h_M" target="_blank">issues of the gay community</a> in his writing.</p> 4 6432 legendary-sitcom-writer-david-lloyd-is-dead 2009-11-12T10:05:06-05:00 true false false false false 2009-11-12T10:05:06-05:00 http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/chuckles-bites-dust-writer-dies-9984 84 0 0