(JTA) — Comedian Richard Lewis, who parlayed his neurotic Jewish personality and self-deprecating humor into a 50-year career as a standup and actor, died Wednesday. He was 76. Lewis had been ...

Men In Tights on Max An aspiring comedian (Lewis) changes his surname in the hope of making it big in L.A.’s stand-up scene, much to his Jewish family’s chagrin. Why it is one of Richard Lewis ...

Lewis was among the best-known names in a generation of comedians who came of age during the 1970s and ’80s, marked by a world-weary, sarcastic wit that mapped well onto the urban malaise in ...

6. Who are some of your biggest Jewish comedy influences? I used to like listening to Jackie Mason when I was growing up, and David Brenner was my all-time favorite, and Richard Lewis, and one of ...

Richard Lewis: When I was kid ... and I understand how you know I mean I don’t totally get it, you look at other comedians to talk about why just as a comedian why, you know in Paris he ...

Curb Your Enthusiasm' Richard Lewis has died. He was 76. A rep for the comedian confirms the news to ET. ET takes a look back at their long history. They met in the late 1990s at a party to ...

Richard Lewis, a comedian and actor who played an exaggerated version of himself in "Curb Your Enthusiasm," has died. He was 76 years old. Lewis died in his Los Angeles home after suffering a ...