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Richard Lewis, a slapstick comedian who first achieved fame within the Nineteen Eighties together with his trademark acerbic, darkish humorousness, and who later parlayed that high quality into an performing profession that included motion pictures like “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” and a recurring function as himself on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” died on Tuesday at his residence in Los Angeles. He was 76.
His publicist, Jeff Abraham, stated the trigger was a coronary heart assault. Mr. Lewis introduced final yr that he had Parkinson’s illness.
Mr. Lewis was among the many best-known names in a technology of comedians who got here of age throughout the Seventies and ’80s, marked by a world-weary, sarcastic wit that mapped nicely onto the city malaise through which lots of them plied their commerce.
He grew to become a daily on late-night discuss exhibits, favored as a lot for his tight act as for his informal, open affability as an interviewee. And he was on the forefront of the growth in stand-up comedy that got here with the enlargement of cable tv within the late Nineteen Eighties.
Mr. Lewis later moved into performing. He starred on the sitcom “Anything however Love,” reverse Jamie Lee Curtis, from 1989 to 1992. Beginning in 1999, he had a daily, semi-fictionalized function on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” enjoying an excellent pal and golf buddy of Larry David, the present’s star and creator.
He didn’t seem in each episode, however he appeared repeatedly, together with within the present season, the present’s final.
A full obituary will seem quickly.
Orlando Mayorquin contributed reporting.
