Hi everybody welcome to the podcast I'm happy to talk to solo. Love my guests, but they're a

distraction from what I want to talk about. I don't want to service them. I can't say that. I had I had David Tell on last

week and man that was fun. He is not only a dear friend and a kind person but he continues year in and year out to be the

funniest motherfucker out there just just a killer and the comedy world you know we talk about

Legends and this past we are yesterday actually

We lost a legend a true icon a guy who was a voice in comedy from I think he started in the late 70s

Maybe even the mid 70s

The great Richard Lewis who I was lucky enough as a teenager I spent a lot of time as a teenager in the clubs in New York City going to the

improv and the comedy seller and the comic strip.

And a few times Richard Lewis came in and he came in like it was like I had grown up watching

comedy on the tonight show and it was great it wasn't cool you know I

didn't see a lot of cool comedy I love Bob Newhart I hadn't really got

in I guess Carlin, I hadn't gotten that into yet.

And so when I started going to the clubs and I saw Richard Belzer, believe it or not, was the fucking coolest guy and Richard Lewis was similar.

But Richard Lewis, he was vulnerable and he was honest and he talked about his neuroses in a way that like he was like a cool

Woody Allen he had the same kind of Jewish neuroses and introspection and

honesty but Woody Allen was a nerd and suave and the black suits and I don't know I just I see so many comics that I just

just have car will carry on in he will carry on in the voices of many comedians and he, you know,

Jake Johanson, Mark Marion, Andy Kinler, for sure.

And nobody's copying him, but you can't not

take something away when you really watch this guy a lot or watched him a lot. I'm so glad he went out on top with Kirby enthusiasm. It was, uh, it really showed him in his best light and with his one of his best friends Larry David

They were born three days apart in the same hospital in Brooklyn and I guess they ended up going to the same summer camp and a lot of coincidences but I just remember growing up watching him on Letterman and hearing him on Howard Stern and he was just

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