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Richard Lewis gives tOSU a shout out on tonights episode.

Larry goes to watch Richard's gf dance in her burlesque show, and he's asking Larry what he knows about burlesque.

Larry says "I saw Gypsy with Natalie Wood"...and Richard replies "You should be a burlesque professor at Ohio State".

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I'm pretty excited for this news. But Richard Lewis has to look like the crypt keeper at this point; he'd allready resembled a corpse the last season or two. Not that he's critical to the show, just a random thought.
 
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dozenmonkeyz said:
I'm pretty excited for this news. But Richard Lewis has to look like the crypt keeper at this point; he'd allready resembled a corpse the last season or two. Not that he's critical to the show, just a random thought.
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Lewis may, but pretty sure the ultimate crypt keeper lookalike honors go to Peter O'Toole (yes, when he was still alive). Ever see him in the Thomas Kinkade so-called biopic on Hallmark? That was some horrifyingly cringeworthy shit.
 
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dozenmonkeyz said:
I'm pretty excited for this news. But Richard Lewis has to look like the crypt keeper at this point; he'd allready resembled a corpse the last season or two. Not that he's critical to the show, just a random thought.
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Richard Lewis looks in pain in ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ As it turns out, he is

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If Richard Lewis looks as though he’s in pain during this season’s episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” on HBO, there’s a reason for that.

He is.

And was – all through shooting last year.

Not just the psychic angst for which Lewis is so famous and which he shares so generously on the show and has, of course, during the past 49 years of his stand-up comedy.

No, this time Lewis’ pain is of a decidedly more physical variety, and it has continued since “Curb” filming ended last year. For he has endured two surgeries in short order: The first last September, to relieve back pain that he describes as having been “100 out of 100”; the second in January, to repair a shoulder that shattered when he slipped after stepping out of a swimming pool, where he was trying to rehab from the back surgery.

None of which seems to have dulled his mordantly comic view of his troubles.

The swimming pool incident reminded him that he hadn’t “had on a bathing suit since I was (vacationing) in Florida when I was 9,” recalls Lewis. “I only went about a foot past the sand, and I had the glass goggles on. It looked like a goldfish (swam) across my screen, and I ran out of Miami Beach screaming.

“And I never went back in.”

In retrospect, Lewis might have been better off if he’d stayed away from the water, but he was determined to get his back into shape. So now he’s at home with his arm in a sling, hoping the next several months of physical therapy might help him avert a third operation, to replace his right shoulder.

On the positive side, Joyce Lapinsky, his wife, got him a new toilet.

“When she saw how much of a drag it is to get in and out of a bed when you can’t use your arm, she bought me this Japanese toilet,” explains Lewis, with obvious enthusiasm.

“When you walk into the bathroom, it opens automatically. I call it Sal.

“But that’s just the beginning. Without getting too graphic, there’s a little children’s waterfall in there.

“If I’m tired, and I get up in the middle of the night, it has a remote control: What kind of squirt do you want?”

Clearly, when your body is wracked with pain, you take your pleasures where you can find them. Still, “at night is when the Ingmar Bergman dreams are coming,” says the comedian.

The ultimate challenge, though, was trying to work – to be funny! – while you’re in misery, which is what Lewis had to do while shooting “Curb’s” 10th season. His back pain, which had bothered him on and off for decades, had been getting progressively worse.

He acknowledges that part of the problem has been his notoriously stooped-over posture, which leaves him “walking around like Groucho’s cousin” and long has given him comedic material onstage. Various strategies – acupuncture, cortisone shots and whatnot – did not help.

“He tried a ton of therapies – he had to be desperate,” says Lapinsky, whom he met in 1998 and married in 2005.

But Lewis says he had to soldier on, feeling “obligated” to his longtime friend/antagonist and “Curb” creator Larry David, and to the production itself.

“After 20 years of being associated with the whole show, it was too much on my mind that I couldn’t let him down,” says Lewis.

Recalls Lapinsky, “Larry and the production were kind enough to push off some of his scenes – push them back on the timeline,” in hopes that Lewis’ pain would decline.

Eventually, though, Lewis had to show up on set. Between scenes, “He’d be in a trailer, laying down in pain,” remembers Lapinsky. “Then they’d just perk him up and bring him in for the shoot.”

Lewis, of course, recognized the black comedy in all of this.

Entire article: https://www.chicagotribune.com/ente...i4bgtrljmadnc6b6mm4-story.html?outputType=amp
 
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