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Callaroga Shark Media. Wow. I
was just heading out the door, checked

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the email one last time, and
I see Comedian and Curb Your Enthusiasm star

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Richard Lewis has passed away at age
seventy six. Richard's rep. Jeff Abraham

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I know Jeff, confirmed the news
in a statement to people on Wednesday afternoon.

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The statement reads, Comedian actor Richard
Lewis passed away peacefully at his home

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in la last night after suffering a
heart attack. His wife thanks everyone for

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all the love, friendship, and
support, and ask for privacy at this

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time. Lewis best known for his
self deprecating humor, his long running roles

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on Curb Your Enthusiasm, his guest
spots on Letterman, and The Howard Sterns

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Show. He also co starred with
Jamie Lee Curtis in a sitcom that I

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really liked way back when it was
called Anything but Love, that run from

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nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety two. In two thousand, he had a

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memoir titled The Other Great Depression.
He told The Washington Post in twenty twenty,

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I'm not a very happy man.
I'm thrilled to be alive. I'm

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grateful for he was in my life. I've got great friends, a great

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wife, a dog, and I
have a great career. But there's a

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part of me that's always going to
be never totally happy, and I think

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that has a lot to do with
my childhood. I did not prep this

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episode at all. Like I said, I was running out the door.

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Let me see what comedians are seeing
on Twitter. Albert Brooks, Sorry,

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p Richard Lewis a brilliantly funny man
who will be missed by all the world

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needed him now more than ever.
Michael McKeon, Farewell Richard Lewis. Brocol

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Harum has lost another fan, and
the rest of us have lost a very

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good man. Sam Morrell, not
Richard Lewis such a funny guy for so

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long watching a curb as this news
broke. I remember reading his pickup line

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with the ladies in the book I'm
dying up here. I'll buy you a

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two to sandwich anywhere in the city. Rest in peace, Keith Olberman.

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I've never had a brother. From
the day he came up and said hi

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in nineteen eighty nine, Richard Lewis
and I called each other brother. I

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used to kid him if people knew
how good and kind of person he was,

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it would ruin his career. Bet
Midler, on a sad note,

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the great Richard Lewis has died.
Richard Lewis has passed away at age seventy

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six. All right, Like I
said, I was running out the door,

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so I put this together quickly.
The Thursday episode is already recorded.

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You will not hear me address this
in the normal Thursday episode, but I'll

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probably do a bonus episode with a
proper Richard Lewis tribute sometime tomorrow afternoon.

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Richard was fantastic. Rest in peace.