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Richard Lewis, Comic and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Star, Dead at 76

Richard Lewis, the stand-up comic and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' star, has died at the age of 76.

Richard Lewis, a stand-up comic who achieved fame in the 1980s by turning his neuroses into comedy gold and later experienced a renaissance in recent years thanks to Curb Your Enthusiasm, died on Tuesday at the age of 76. He quipped about his family’s annual inductions into a “Hall of Blame” in the mid-Eighties, according to The New York Times, and joked that at meals “if you can match any two symptoms, you get seconds.” On Comic Relief, he told the audience he had a rearview mirror on his stationary bike since he’s so paranoid. As an actor, he appeared in comedies like Mel Brooks’ Robin Hood: Men in Tights(1993) and dramas like Mike Figgis’ Leaving Las Vegas(1995).

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