Before his death at 76, comedian Richard Lewis spoke to VF about the end of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Parkinson’s, and his mom.
After nearly 50 years, Lewis hung up the mic on January 20, 2018, at Zanies in Chicago. I met him the night before his swan song, thanks to a mutual friend, the late author and journalist Bill Zehme. We spent half an hour backstage, Lewis wearing sunglasses and lying on the couch with his head tilted back, as though we’d come to analyze him. Thanks to the sunglasses, we never knew if his eyes were opened or closed. For the following conversation, we met via Zoom.
So I got a busboy to get my wife and she came and walked me down to the table. We paid the check and we left. I said to Larry, “We’ve got to do this again.” We did, but it was two months later. I wasn’t that excited about going out to dinner after that for a while. That’s not what I’m supposed to do. I’m supposed to go fight this disease, because the disease wants you to give up. It wants you to get lazy, not exercise, not go out, to lie in bed, put on the television, try to read.
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