Kevin Bleyer, who won four writing Emmys for his work on The Daily Show , died Sunday in a car crash, his family announced. He was 54.

Bleyer was driving on a rural road in Millrift, Pennsylvania, where he had a home, when he was killed, his publicist told The Hollywood Reporter . No one else was hurt.

Bleyer worked on the ABC late night show Politically Incorrect , hosted by Bill Maher, from 2000 until its 2002 cancellation and wrote for Dennis Miller’s CNBC show during its lone 2004-05 season before he landed on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show at Comedy Central in 2005.

He spent nine years as a staff writer on the program through 2013 while also writing for the 2006 and 2008 Oscars that Stewart hosted.…