\nRichard Lewis died of a heart attack. He was in the TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm.\n
On Wednesday, Richard got a lot of love on social media from fans, as well as from his co-star Larry David and the actress Bette Midler.\n
Deadline confirmed that the beloved stand-up comedian had died. He was 76 years old. Later, his publicist said it was because of a heart attack on Tuesday.\n
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Richard became well-known as a comedian in the 1980s.\n
After going on late-night talk shows like The Tonight Show, The Late Show With David Letterman, and The Howard Stern Show, he got a lot of attention.\n
The TV and movie star played a made-up version of himself on the hit HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm. He even played the same character again for the 12th season with Larry David.\n
He was also in the TV shows Anything But Love, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Once Upon a Crime, and The Elevator.\n
\nRichard used his X (formerly Twitter) account in April 2023 to talk about his health.\n
\u201cThree and a half years ago, I was in the middle of a tour and then I finally ended it with a show I said \u2018You know, I\u2019m at the top of my game, after 50 years almost I\u2019m just gonna call it quits.\u2019\u201d\n
\u201cThen, out of the blue, everything went wrong.\u201d After one surgery, I had three more right after that. I was shocked and couldn\u2019t believe it. It was bad luck, but that\u2019s life, right?\u201d\n
\u201cFirst I had surgery on my back, then on my shoulder, then on my hip, and finally on my should.\u201d I spent a lot of time just focusing on physical therapy.\n
\u201cOn top of all that, two years ago, I started walking a little stiffly, I was shuffling my feet and I went to a neurologist and they gave me a brain scan and I was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease.\u201d\n
He said he was lucky to have caught the disease early enough for it to spread slowly, and that he was taking the right medicines to stay \u201ccool.\u201d\n
He went on to say that he was done with stand-up comedy and wanted to focus on writing and acting.\n
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A HONOUR TO LARRY DAVID\n On Wednesday, Larry paid tribute to her in a moving statement that HBO shared.\n He said, \u201cRichard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital. He\u2019s been like a brother to me my whole life.\u201d It was very rare for someone to be both the funniest and the nicest at the same time.\n \u201cBut today he made me sob and for that I\u2019ll never forgive him.\u201d\n \u201cAN ICON OF COMEDY\u201d There was sadness in Bette\u2019s tweet that \u201cthe great Richard Lewis has died.\u201d\n \u201cA very funny man who will be missed by all.\u201d \u201cThe world needs him more than ever,\u201d said actor Albert Brooks.\n \u201cRichard Lewis and Larry\u2019s friendship was always one of the best parts of Curb. RIP,\u201d a fan wrote.\n \u201cRest in peace to a comedy icon,\u201d said someone else. \u201cRichard Lewis forever.\u201d\n Another person wrote, \u201cRichard Lewis wasn\u2019t just funny; he left everything on the table.\u201d It was so charming how vulnerable he was. \u201cWe lost a good one.\u201d\n Find out more about Richard\u2019s wife. The two are said to have met at a party for Ringo Starr\u2019s new album.\n In 2004, they got engaged, and by 2005, they were married.\n Richard Lewis died of a heart attack. He was in the TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm. On Wednesday, Richard got a lot of love on social media from fans, as well as from his co-star Larry David and the actress Bette Midler. Deadline confirmed that the beloved stand-up comedian had died. He was 76 years\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[693],"class_list":{"0":"post-87473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/richard-lewis.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87574,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473\/revisions\/87574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFans and friends of Richard shared sad news and funny memories of him on Curb Your Enthusiasm on social media.\n
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\nThis is how Richard and Joyce Lapinsky met: in 1998. Joyce worked in music publishing at that time.\n
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