He was 77. Frye died at his home Monday of cardiopulmonary arrest, Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy said. Frye's sister, Ruth Welch of Boynton Beach, Florida, said he was a born comic genius who wrote his own material and began by imitating neighbors in Brooklyn, New York, where they grew up. “He had an eye for people's movements and an ear for their voices,” Welch said on Saturday. “He could really get down people's mannerisms and intonations.” Among other venues, Frye performed at colleges and nightclubs across the country as well as on television programs such as the “Ed Sullivan Show” and “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”