Richard Lewis, the beloved comic and actor recognized for his function as himself in Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died on Tuesday (Feb. 27) after struggling a coronary heart assault. He was 76 years previous.
“Comic/Actor Richard Lewis handed away peacefully at his residence in Los Angeles final night time after struggling a coronary heart assault,” his rep, Jeff Abraham, shared the information by way of a press release. “His spouse, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everybody for all of the love, friendship and help and asks for privateness at the moment.”
Lewis shortly turned a fan favourite over 40 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, together with the 2000 pilot episode. In 2021, he introduced that he wouldn’t return to the collection with a purpose to get well from three surgical procedures, although he ended up making a one-scene look in season 11. He ended up returning for the now-airing closing season of the HBO program.
Following the devastating information, Lewis’ longtime pal and Curb co-star Larry David shared his personal assertion of mourning. “Richard and I had been born three days aside in the identical hospital and for many of my life he’s been like a brother to me,” he wrote within the assertion shared by HBO. “He had that uncommon mixture of being the funniest particular person and in addition the sweetest. However immediately he made me sob and for that I’ll by no means forgive him.”
Lewis’ Something However Love co-star Jamie Lee Curtis additionally took to Instagram to share a prolonged, emotional tribute to her late pal. “He is also the explanation I’m sober. He helped me,” she wrote partly. “I’m endlessly grateful for him for that act of grace alone. He discovered love with Joyce and that, after all, apart from his sobriety, is what mattered most to him. I’m weeping as I write this. Unusual manner of claiming thanks to a candy and humorous man.”
A lot of Lewis’ well-known buddies and colleagues flooded social media with messages of affection and recollections of the comic. See beneath.
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