{"id":46836,"date":"2024-02-29T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2000447"},"modified":"2024-02-29T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T11:36:44","slug":"richard-lewis-comedian-and-curb-your-enthusiasm-actor-dies-aged-76","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/richard-lewis-comedian-and-curb-your-enthusiasm-actor-dies-aged-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Lewis, comedian and Curb Your Enthusiasm actor, dies aged 76"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry David and Jamie Lee Curtis are among those to pay emotional tributes to the star. <\/p>

By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 10:47 AM<\/p>

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Comedian and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Richard Lewis has died, aged 76.<\/p>\n

He passed away at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday night after suffering a heart attack, according to a statement from his publicist.<\/p>\n

Lewis rose to prominence as a stand-up comedian in the 1980s, and appeared in numerous TV shows and films throughout his career, with highlights including a starring role opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in the sitcom Anything but Love and parts in films including Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Leaving Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s for his role as a semi-fictionalised version of himself on Larry David\u2019s hugely popular HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm that Lewis was best known, with the star appearing in more than 40 episodes across its run \u2013 right up to the ongoing 12th and final season.<\/p>\n

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Lewis had announced last April that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease, and that he would be retiring from stand-up comedy, while he had remained active on X (formerly Twitter) \u2013 recently sharing his excitement about the final season of Curb.<\/p>\n

Larry David led the tributes to Lewis with an emotional statement released through HBO, writing: \u201cRichard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital, and for most of my life he\u2019s been like a brother to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest. But today he made me sob, and for that I\u2019ll never forgive him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Robert B Weide, a regular director on Curb and a long-time friend of Lewis, wrote on X: \u201cReeling from the news. The suddenness of it. I love you, Pal. Always have. Always will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jamie Lee Curtis was among Lewis\u2019s other former co-stars to pay tribute, sharing several old photographs of the pair during their Anything But Love days alongside a lengthy caption.<\/p>\n

\u201cRichard\u2019s last text to me was hoping that I could convince ABC\/Disney to put out another boxed set of episodes of the show,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHe also is the reason I am sober. He helped me. I am forever grateful for him for that act of grace alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe found love with Joyce [Lapinsky] and that, of course, besides his sobriety, is what mattered most to him. I\u2019m weeping as I write this. Strange way of saying thank you to a sweet and funny man. Rest in laughter, Richard. My Marty, I love you, Hannah!\u201d<\/p>\n

Actor and comedian Albert Brooks wrote that Lewis was \u201ca brilliantly funny man who will be missed by all\u201d, adding that \u201cthe world needed him now more than ever\u201d, while film director Paul Feig said he was \u201cabsolutely devastated by this news\u201d, calling Lewis \u201ctruly one of the funniest people on the planet\u201d.<\/p>\n

RIP Richard Lewis. A brilliantly funny man who will missed by all. The world needed him now more than ever.<\/p>\u2014 Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) February 28, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>