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Larry David Reacts to 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Co-Star Richard Lewis' Death: 'Today He Made Me Sob'


The comedy icon expressed his heartbreak over the death of his longtime friend on Wednesday.

Jesse Grant/WireImageLewis' Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star, Susie Essman, also expressed her love and praise for the comic actor in a statement to ET on Wednesday, sharing, "Richard was an original brilliant voice that cannot be replaced. Lewis' rep, Jeff Abraham, shared that the actor and comedian died on Tuesday night after suffering a heart attack. The entertainer -- who was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Englewood, New Jersey -- is also known for his role in the '80s sitcom Anything But Love alongside Jamie Lee Curtis and for portraying Prince John in the 1993 Mel Brooks comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

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