Comedian Richard Lewis dies at 76
Comedian and actor Richard Lewis has died. He was 76. His publicist, Jeff Abraham, said that the entertainer died ‘peacefully’ at his Los Angeles home on Tuesday night after suffering a heart attack. In April 2023, Lewis stated that he had Parkinson’s disease.
Lewis, known as a comic’s comic, made his debut appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1974 and quickly rose to prominence in the late-night comedy scene.
On-screen, Lewis has played himself for years on Curb Your Enthusiasm opposite his friend Larry David, at one point joking during an episode this season about which one of them looked worse.
As his career grew with cable specials in the 1980s, Lewis transitioned into acting, starring in the sitcom Anything but Love, playing Prince John in Mel Brooks’ movie comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and breaking into drama as a struggling alcoholic in the 1995 film Drunks.
