{"id":123889,"date":"2024-02-29T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123889"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T18:58:47","slug":"comedian-richard-lewis-of-curb-your-enthusiasm-dies-at-76-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123889","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Richard Lewis of \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm\u201d Dies at 76 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123889\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123889\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123890 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RIchard-Lewis-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RIchard-Lewis-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RIchard-Lewis.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stand-up comic and actor Richard Lewis, star of the popular TV series CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2000-2024), passed away February 27, 2024, at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. He was 76. In April of 2023 Lewis revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s Disease. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Richard Lewis was born June 29, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. Lewis first tried stand-up at an open mic in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s and began writing and regularly performing stand-up comedy in 1972, while holding a day job as a copywriter for an ad agency. After being discovered Lewis was introduced to the comedy clubs in Los Angeles. Lewis was known for his dark comedy, self-deprecation and for frank discussions of his many neuroses and his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Since he began his career in the early 1970s Lewis has built a long and successful career in stand-up, as well as film and television. In CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, Lewis played a dramatized and semi-autobiographical version of himself. He appeared throughout the series run as a recurring guest star in 41 episodes. From 1989 to 1992 Lewis co-starred opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in the comedy series ANYTHING BUT LOVE. His additional filmography includes THE WRONG GUYS (1988), THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW (1992-1998), ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS (1993), TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1989-1996), LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1995), RUDE AWAKENING (1998-2001), ALIAS (2001-2006), TWO AND A HALF MEN (2003-2015), 7TH HEAVEN (1996-2007), THE CLEANER (2008-2009), CODE BLACK (2015-2018) and BOJACK HORSEMAN (2014-2020).<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Richard Lewis\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Stand-up comic and actor Richard Lewis, star of the popular TV series CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2000-2024), passed away February 27, 2024, at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. He was 76. In April of 2023 Lewis revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s Disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[31881],"class_list":["post-123889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-comedian-richard-lewis-of-curb-your-enthusiasm-dies-at-76-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123889"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}