Comic Richard Lewis, who rose to fame along with his neurotic, self-deprecating wit and later appeared for greater than twenty years alongside Larry David on the hit HBO sequence Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died at 76, his publicist mentioned on Wednesday (Feb 28).
The comedian, who disclosed final 12 months that he was battling Parkinson’s illness, died at his residence in Los Angeles on Tuesday night after struggling a coronary heart assault, publicist Jeff Abraham mentioned.
“His spouse, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everybody for all of the love, friendship and assist and asks for privateness at the moment,” Abraham mentioned 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 a daily on late-night discuss reveals via the 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 enjoying a model of himself as Larry David’s buddy on Curb Your Enthusiasm, wherein the 2 males bickered relentlessly.