“He had that uncommon mixture of being the funniest particular person and likewise the sweetest,” the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator wrote in an announcement. “However at present he made me sob, and for that I am going to by no means forgive him.”

The beloved humorist and Curb Your Enthusiasm star died on Tuesday at age 76.

“Comic/Actor Richard Lewis handed away peacefully at his residence in Los Angeles final evening after struggling a coronary heart assault,” learn an announcement from his rep, Jeff Abraham to ABC Information.

“His spouse, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everybody for all of the love, friendship and help and asks for privateness at the moment.”

Main the tributes was comic Larry David — a lifelong pal of Lewis.

“Richard and I had been born three days aside in the identical hospital and for many of my life he is been like a brother to me,” David wrote in an announcement Wednesday, shared by HBO. “He had that uncommon mixture of being the funniest particular person and likewise the sweetest. However at present he made me sob, and for that I am going to by no means forgive him.”

David’s onscreen spouse, Cheryl Hines shared her tribute in an announcement to PEOPLE admitting she had a “crush” on the star early in her profession.

“Once I was younger I had the most important crush on Richard Lewis. He was the funniest particular person on stage and probably the most good-looking comic. Then once I was solid on Curb Your Enthusiasm, I started working with him and it was a dream come true,” Hines mentioned.

“By the years I realized who Richard actually was and the presents he gave. Sure, he was the comic I fell in love with, however he was additionally one of the vital loving folks I do know. He would take time to inform the folks he cherished what they meant to him — particularly in recent times. In between takes on Curb, he would inform me how particular I used to be to him and the way a lot he cherished me,” she continues earlier than concluding with “I really like you Richard.”

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Actor Jamie Lee Curtis poured her coronary heart out in three carousel posts — which included photos of the pair from their ABC sitcom Something However Love — telling the world how she first got here throughout her pal in Hollywood.

“I’ve simply learn that my pal Richard Lewis has died,” Curtis, 65, shared through Instagram on Wednesday, February 28. “I keep in mind precisely the place I used to be once I noticed a billboard of him a few stand-up particular on Sundown Boulevard once we had been casting the ABC pilot Something However Love and requested the casting folks to deliver him in to audition to play my finest pal/possibly boyfriend, Marty Gold.”

Curtis opened up about how a lot she admired Lewis for his work and talent to make her “snort” chuckle, which is how he landed the function alongside Curtis within the first place.

Something However Love first premiered in 1989 and went on to run for 4 seasons earlier than it resulted in 1992.

Lewis’ Robin Hood: Males in Tights costar Cary Elwes shared a submit on X revealing that the pair “had been actually simply planning collectively”.

Ben Stiller mentioned he had “by no means met a kinder extra empathetic comedy genius.”

“He was so humorous. And deep. As a rise up he was actually iconic within the 70s. Cool, humorous, self deprecating and hip. He was a pal to my dad and mom and the entire Stiller household,” Stiller penned in a tweet.

Bette Midler stored it quick and candy: “On a tragic observe, the nice Richard Lewis has died.” Midler was one of many first to share a tribute on-line. Whereas Nancy Sinatra known as the information “dreadful”.

In April 2023, the comic introduced his retirement from stand-up in a video posted to Twitter. He revealed he had been recognized with Parkinson’s illness, including that he had been having a “rocky” time together with his well being and wished to “strictly” concentrate on his appearing and writing.

“Hey hear, I simply wrapped a few weeks in the past season 12 of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and it was simply a tremendous season and I am so grateful to be part of that present,” Lewis mentioned. “However you realize the final three and a half years, I’ve had type of a rocky time and folks mentioned, ‘I haven’t heard from you, are you continue to touring?’”

“Right here’s actually what occurred,” Lewis continued. “Three and half years in the past I used to be in the midst of a tour and I lastly ended it with a present. I mentioned, ‘You recognize I am on the high of my recreation, after 15 years nearly I’ll name it quits,’ and I felt nice about that after which out of the blue the shit hit the fan. I had 4 surgical procedures again to again to again to again, it was unbelievable, I could not imagine it, it was dangerous luck, however that is life.”

Lewis is survived by his spouse, Joyce Lapinsky.