Sad last note for celeb haunt Mean Fiddler

Times Square’s bright lights will shine less green with the closing of popular Irish pub The Mean Fiddler, which will shut its doors by the end of the month.

The cozy bar-restaurant, which that has hosted Bono, Johnny Depp, Jimmy Fallon and Liam Gallagher, as well as hordes of Broadway showgoers and tourists, fell victim to COVID-19 restrictions and rent it could no longer afford.

“We’ve only been doing 10 percent of our normal business,” Mike McNamee, who has owned the pub with his brother, Patrick, for 15 years, told The Post.

“We built beautiful outdoor seating, but we can’t generate more than $1,500 in sales a day. We’re losing $10,000 a week.”

McNamee said he pleaded with his landlord at the 266 W. 47th St. spot, Lloyd Goldman’s Building Management, for a temporary reduction in his $38,000-a-month rent.

“All we wanted was a reduction until Gov. Cuomo allows us back,” he said — meaning the lifting of the 25 percent-capacity rule and prohibition of bar-standing.

But they “wouldn’t meet us halfway. It was always 100 percent rent,” McNamee said.

The Mean Fiddler is just the latest Times Square-area institution to fall to the pandemic. The loss of business due to the Broadway closure recently claimed the Times Square Hilton Hotel and the giant McDonald’s on West 42nd Street.

McNamee posted a poignant Facebook video of himself with a pint of Guinness to mark the closing.

“It’s a tough pint to swallow,” he said.