He was also a regular guest on The Tonight Show and The View. More recently, Pinette was cast as the host of All You Can Eat, a television series that takes a humorous look at American cuisine and was winding down his tour weeks before his death. He died in a Pittsburgh hotel at age 50, just three months after he informed his fans that he was postponing his national stand-up tour because of health problems. Pinette had been suffering from liver and heart disease, and no autopsy was completed because both the medical examiner and Pinette’s personal doctor signed off on the cause of death being a pulmonary embolism. He had a reputation among his friends and fellow comedians as a brilliant, incredibly funny, kind and generous man.