(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 ...

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 ...

Richard Lewis, the critically acclaimed stand-up comic known for his droll delivery and brutal candor, has died. He was 76. The actor revealed in 2023 that he’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s ...