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Richard Lewis Delighted in Sparring With Larry David on 'Curb'

"There’s a real energy of two real friends going after it. You cant fake it," executive producer Jeff Schaffer said recently about a season 12 episode that highlighted Lewis and David's chemistry.

Their friendly chatter quickly turned antagonistic — as could be expected from the comedians’ Curb alter egos — when Lewis told Larry he tweaked his will and had added the Seinfeld creator to his end-of-life document. In that Feb. 18 episode — the third in the season — a later country club scene between them, while sitting around the lunch table with the characters played by Jeff Garlin, Vince Vaughn and J.B. Smoove, saw David and Lewis going at it again as their Curb alter egos. THR ‘s obituary on Lewis, who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., highlighted how he liked to joke that David attempted to strangle him with an umbilical cord, and how they attended the same summer sports camp as teenagers and butted heads.

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