Comic Richard Lewis, who rose to fame together with his neurotic, self-deprecating wit and later appeared for greater than twenty years alongside Larry David on the hit HBO collection Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died at 76, his publicist stated on Wednesday (Feb 28).
The comedian, who disclosed final yr that he was battling Parkinson’s illness, died at his house in Los Angeles on Tuesday night after struggling a coronary heart assault, publicist Jeff Abraham stated.
“His spouse, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everybody for all of the love, friendship and assist and asks for privateness at the moment,” Abraham stated in a written assertion.
Brooklyn-born Lewis started performing stand-up comedy within the early Seventies whereas working a day job in promoting and by the top of the last decade had risen to the forefront of his era of comedians.
He was an everyday on late-night discuss exhibits by means of the Nineteen Eighties and starred alongside Jamie Lee Curtis on the ABC TV comedy Something However Love. He made a number of movie appearances within the Nineteen Nineties, most notably in Robin Hood: Males in Tights.
In later years he was finest recognized for taking part in a model of himself as Larry David’s pal on Curb Your Enthusiasm, during which the 2 males bickered relentlessly.
