Callaroga Shark Media. Wow. I was just heading out the door, checked
the email one last time, and I see Comedian and Curb Your Enthusiasm star
Richard Lewis has passed away at age seventy six. Richard's rep. Jeff Abraham
I know Jeff, confirmed the news in a statement to people on Wednesday afternoon.
The statement reads, Comedian actor Richard Lewis passed away peacefully at his home
in la last night after suffering a heart attack. His wife thanks everyone for
all the love, friendship, and support, and ask for privacy at this
time. Lewis best known for his self deprecating humor, his long running roles
on Curb Your Enthusiasm, his guest spots on Letterman, and The Howard Sterns
Show. He also co starred with Jamie Lee Curtis in a sitcom that I
really liked way back when it was called Anything but Love, that run from
nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety two. In two thousand, he had a
memoir titled The Other Great Depression. He told The Washington Post in twenty twenty,
I'm not a very happy man. I'm thrilled to be alive. I'm
grateful for he was in my life. I've got great friends, a great
wife, a dog, and I have a great career. But there's a
part of me that's always going to be never totally happy, and I think
that has a lot to do with my childhood. I did not prep this
episode at all. Like I said, I was running out the door.
Let me see what comedians are seeing on Twitter. Albert Brooks, Sorry,
p Richard Lewis a brilliantly funny man who will be missed by all the world
needed him now more than ever. Michael McKeon, Farewell Richard Lewis. Brocol
Harum has lost another fan, and the rest of us have lost a very
good man. Sam Morrell, not Richard Lewis such a funny guy for so
long watching a curb as this news broke. I remember reading his pickup line
with the ladies in the book I'm dying up here. I'll buy you a
two to sandwich anywhere in the city. Rest in peace, Keith Olberman.
I've never had a brother. From the day he came up and said hi
in nineteen eighty nine, Richard Lewis and I called each other brother. I
used to kid him if people knew how good and kind of person he was,
it would ruin his career. Bet Midler, on a sad note,
the great Richard Lewis has died. Richard Lewis has passed away at age seventy
six. All right, Like I said, I was running out the door,
so I put this together quickly. The Thursday episode is already recorded.
You will not hear me address this in the normal Thursday episode, but I'll
probably do a bonus episode with a proper Richard Lewis tribute sometime tomorrow afternoon.
Richard was fantastic. Rest in peace.