In a moving act just six months before his death, comedy legend Richard Lewis took ... the following year. Though children weren’t part of their journey, Lewis found solace and happiness in ...

But I also was in denial for a lot of that time.” The youngest of three children, Richard Philip Lewis was born in Brooklyn ...

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 ...