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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star and comedy legend Richard Lewis dead at 76

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diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and was retiring from stand-up comedy. “I have Parkinson’s disease, but I’m under a doctor’s care and everything is cool,” the veteran actor-comic said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, at the time. “I’m finished with standup.

I’m just focusing on writing and acting from here on out.“But you know, the last three and a half years I’ve had sort of a rocky time,” the “Leaving Las Vegas” actor lamented. “And people have said, ‘Gee I haven’t heard from you, are you still touring?’ Well, here’s really what happened.”Lewis, who starred alongside Larry David in “Curb Your Enthusiasm” as a semi-fictionalized version of himself, spoke about his Parkinson’s diagnosis in a Vanity Fair interview published last week. “It changed my outlook in that it’s been a combination of forcing myself to look back and be grateful.

I’ve had such an amazing life. I still do. I’m a lucky man,” he said.“I got in touch with more gratitude and also acceptance.

It’s imperative that I accept the fact that I have Parkinson’s. If you don’t accept it, then it lingers around your brain and you get morbid and depressed.

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