The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: R.I.P. Richard Lewis

Episode Date: February 29, 2024

We dish out the official Meadowlark Media Report Card as Uncle Tony gives advice to the youth on how to avoid family punishment from bad progress reports and Dan shares the story of the time he ran away from home because of his grades. Then, we pay tribute to Richard Lewis, one of the greatest guests in the history of the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to DraftKings Network. Welcome to the big sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants

just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. I want an employee report card. I believe that the listeners and the viewers of this show

would enjoy. They'd even like to hear from twice as many of you, I'm sure, about the inner workings of what it's like to work here, because it looks like a hell of a lot of fun. Surely it isn't. Surely it isn't. Surely these people do not look this ragged

because every day's a merry ride over rainbows. Tell me, Chris Cody, where are you on both our report cards and getting to these report cards for the commanders and for everybody else in the NFL? Well, if this was, I would, I would forge the signature. I would not have my mom sign the report card. You guys ever have that when you were young? You get the report card and then you didn't do so great. So it's like, I don't want my mom to see this, even though my mom always knew when they came out so I could never actually do this but I always wanted to

be the kid that could forge my mom's signature. You forged your parents? Oh shut up everyone did. I forged my parents signature just never for a report card because my grades were always pretty good. Dork. If you didn't that's the more indictment like every kid at some point forged their parents. It was the progress report that really got me because I wouldn't really get started until like halfway through the nine weeks. Like four and a half weeks is when I would really start. All right, I got a lot of education.

Exactly, I was like, all right, I got these across the board, but I know I can take them to Bs and maybe a couple Cs in the last four and a half weeks of the semester. The problem is that that progress report at four and a half weeks was damning. So there was times where I'd have to bite the bullet and here's the difference guys And I'm gonna tell you young listeners right now. I'm here to help you uncle Tony's here. So what you do is this

What you do is this there's gonna be one time Dan There's gonna be one time that you got to bite the bullet let my boy cook and give your parents the progress report without Falsifying their name. Okay, because you got to see the signature name, okay? Because you gotta see the signature? No, so they, no, because you see the signature plenty when you're a kid. The thing is, you gotta let them know, hey, didn't cut it this week, this nine weeks, here you go. Just so you can see it.

After that point, they'll put the fear of God in you, you'll kick it back up in the last nine weeks, in the last four and a half weeks of nine weeks, but then going forward, you sign off all the signatures. Hey, look, I got these, but that's not, that's, I'm here for Uncle Tony's, listen up, young people. I've got a highly adrift for you. Average 45 year old audience really appreciates that.

I'm coming for the new generation, Dan, of the new generation of the Levitar show. I'm helping them, younger and smarter smarter kid listening in your dad's car exactly Mike I've been surprised recently still we're still in the 20 somehow. I don't know how that is exactly, but Tony helps there Jeremy You can't have a lower grade than being your entire life of getting report cards, right? I got a C plus for one quarter in calculus and it was devastating. I still blame it for the reason that I didn't get into particular college because what college name it? It was UF. I didn't

get into UF, but I got in everywhere else I applied and it was a major gripe. I never on progress reports. I was like excited to bring those home because I was always like A's and B's baby. It was the most exciting thing. Totally different world I lived in. I did the Tiger Woods fist bump for a C plus. Big dog. I'm right there with you on the opposite side of that hand.

If I had less than an A, like I was genuinely upset. Yeah, Jeremy, your life has been an unbroken boulevard of green light. That's exactly right. It's infuriating. Yep. Yeah. It's, it's really a, it comes up in therapy quite often actually. A lot of imposter syndrome cause I'm like, how does, how does this keep being so easy? I wasn't a great student, but my advice is have a parent die. Oh, what a load off. Put it on the pole. what a load off. Put it on the pole please. Write that down. Put it on the pole as my parents are in their 80s.

Have a parent die. What a load off? Mike that's brutal. Huge relief though. She was feisty. You did not want a bad progress report around her. Let me tell you. Well if you're gonna have a parent die have it the one that's more. Yeah. Yeah. Once my dad was left around I was like like, okay, sub. If your dad had died, you would have been screwed still. I ran away from home because I got a B. And it's A, B, and it was the only thing my dad ever mentioned. That's a good grade.

Ever mentioned. Why are you running away for a B? No, because my father- Poppy? Poppy, the only thing. Yeah, I was, you know, I was- It's a damn good grade. I was a senior in college.

I would have ran. I'd peacock. I would peacock. I would only like the Pion. Yeah. I was, you know, I was a damn good career. I was a senior in college. I would have ran. I'd peak off. I had like a Q3 one year where it was closer to a three point. I was like, guess I'm Einstein. You know, my sweet spot. One time I got all Bs in a C. I was like, what a kick I am. The worst academic experience I had was when I was in college and I got a b-minus on One of my grades and so it put me on academic probation for the honors college. Oh, okay, and so Yeah, I almost didn't have an opportunity to be the team leader within the honors college

Not gonna say anything you guys shook just shook out of me like I'm actually shaking out of my body something that you have triggered shook just shook out of me like I'm actually shaking out of my body something that you have triggered a legitimate childhood trauma. Not now at a legitimate childhood trauma because I'm just now remembering that my father who was impossible to please I was always getting straight A's and I got a B and it's the only time he commented on the report card at any time. I ran away from home in whatever it was, fourth grade, fifth grade, and got to the end of, you know, a bus stop, a couple of blocks away. And I'm like, well, I'm a kid. Now what do I do? Like after, you know, after an hour, like I've run away, but I'm like, okay, I'm really hurt.

It's much easier would have been had he just been dead. So put it on the poll. As I said, Juju, have a parent die. What a load off at Levitard show. Uh, how is this list looking? Who's put together the list of categories for, uh, how we're doing around here as employers? Dan, I went around and, uh, put together a list for all of our team. Uncle Tony did it. Yep. And, uh, we came back with a

grading scale that I think you'd be proud of. I went to every employee, got it anonymously, clearly, and did all the calculations. And we put them up here. Let's put them up on the screen for everybody. I'm going to read it for the podcast audience. So treatment of families, we get an eight here. We're a family. We love families around here. We're a big family of people. Food and cafeteria. Valerie gets treated very well. Yes. As all of our families do.

Food and cafeteria, but not as well as Valerie. A minus, I don't know why the minus there. I think maybe Danny Bonita said something about something. I don't know. I don't know what happened there. Hololeta, we got A plus. You know how that goes, Danny. Yes, so that's just you guys, yeah. Tom F I should have put Tom foolery but I think how that I was

better yeah okay it could look very different if we were still at the Cleveland or by the way the whole list would have looked huge upgrade in facilities over here yep can we do the Cleveland or can we you don't want to do that after this we could do it lock room we got a violence a plus by the way locker room we get an a look around here's beautiful place Support parking see I take the train so I wasn't I actually first I'm learning of it What is my self? I'm learning

Go kind of high up. Yeah, so people didn't really like the park your experience with parking is a little bit different because everyone else has to Go up 12 more ramps and then then the Clevelander, it was only four, right? Cleveland, Cleveland parking garage was worse. Shit on the floor. Yeah. Look, anyone that wants to complain about the parking sit here, please take a moment to reflect on your Cleveland days. If I may, for just a second on, you guys do realize we're wildly overpopulated. Okay. I don't know if people know what's going on in South Florida right now, especially on the, on the beach, but they just run spring break out of here. Like now they're just being aggressively like tossing economies and people out because no,

no, we don't want too much. It's $100 parking. And it's because we're so overcrowded with the rest of the, the rest of the country fleeing down here. We're so overcrowded that, uh, we live in a place that has no place that can build out anymore into stuff that's not marshland. So everything goes straight up. Everything goes straight up. And it's the least affordable housing market in America. Hialeah is like five.

And everything's going straight up. And so we're going to be parking in the sky from elevators, 60 floors up for the rest of our time and whatever this downtown is. But right now our report card says C. So there's obviously room for improvement. The second half of the nine weeks were bringing it back. Let's put the report card back up. Support staff A. I mean, what an incredible support staff we have around here. Please. Thank you, Stu. Wait room, wait room A plus. I mean, Dan, you know how, I see you in there putting in work. Yeah. Wait a minute, we all saw yesterday,

you put in that work. I have been putting in that work. This is funny that you guys are looking at this here though. This looks like you just went to Frankie and said, Frankie, your security, what should you get is a great. And he said, A. Yeah, that's how that worked.

No, he said A plus and we were like, No, he's a C plus. Temporary expectations. Whoa, C plus, C plus. He's the last line of defense between people that are using that bathroom No, he said a plus and we were like no he's a see temper expectations whoa He's the last line of defense between people that are using that bathroom and the three ratfinks that Continually don't put the toilet seat up. I there. This is security a I'd give it a triple a plus team travel a Very nice across the board head coach D for Dan. I mean this for Dan though. D for Dan, D for Dan. This is a brutal thing.

But you're also part of ownership Dan. So A, you know what that A and Dan stands for. I do believe it's a good score. Um, this across the board, if you're going to be honest, Dan, I don't know. There's a lot of room for improvement on a couple of things, but we could do a kick ass job. This is crushing to me. Sorry.

I want to run away right now and sit on a park bench for an hour like I did from my father because I brought home a D, a D in coaching. For Dan though. I feel like Mike's been coaching us for a while though. Only your name was Alan. Right now we got a bit of an interim situation. You got a coach at Jim Bates situation going on right now. What was the most interesting thing to you guys about those stupid grades about the,

the fact, Green Bay, Green Bay being third, that you're better off not having an owner in your upper echelon. Well, communism there. Do we understand we just generally understand how you have to negotiate better terms so that your players, their 53 bodies on the court are on the field for your team, that when they travel they should have their own room. They should all have their own room.

Not if you're team building. There's a reason for it. That is true. I can be talked into it, provided that the room is nice. Jacksonville went from 28th to fifth because of one thing. They got rid of the rats. Mike, you want a room on the next trip? Absolutely not. I'm way too bougie.

And certainly not with you. Thanks. Hey, folks, it's Mike Ryan. Now, you've had the distinct privilege of knowing me for close 18 years, and you know that I've changed. A lot of my personal life has changed. I've changed as a professional I am a parent now

My level of involvement in my favorite college football program has also changed But one thing that hasn't changed for me is my favorite beer You know when it's real with me I think you do anyways and you know how much I love Miller Lite. I've loved it forever Really? It's my favorite beer of all time and it made all the great moments in my life all that much better And when Miller Lite came aboard on our show I was super stoked about it because I believed in the product because every time I take a sip of Miller Lite I look around and I think yeah, this was the right call times change people like me can change

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This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugatz. I think the single greatest professional honor that this show has ever gotten in terms of creating things for people that make them laugh or feel good. I believe a few comedy legends have interacted with our show in a way that was playful, fun, and forever memorable, whether it be Alan Thicke or Bob Einstein or Richard Lewis, where they graced us by interacting with our show and going along with the bit with us. Richard Lewis and our relationship was only as a show jostling with him, allowing him to be Maximum Richard Lewis.

And now, curb your enthusiasm at the end of its great run and the season so far has been tremendous. I can't believe that Larry David could take the neuroses of his daily life and turn it into endless content that never runs out. His friendship with a comedy legend, Richard Lewis, doing that show at the end. Man, I saw an interview with Seinfeld and Larry David where, uh, Larry, Seinfeld was asked with Larry David, are you going to ever do a sitcom or anything like that again? It's like, no, hell no for what? What I did it already to accomplish what? And Larry David's like,

that's a great idea to ruin it all, to just to ruin it all. And then he made curb your enthusiasm, which somehow has aged with grace, even though the last trailer I saw before this season, all I saw them running around the golf course was, man, those guys look so old. They look so old. And Richard Lewis was dying, but he laughed until the end. Like he's still out here making great comedy right before he passes. Do you guys remember, Mike, do you remember how close we were to trying to do a remote from Bob Einstein's funeral

because he was around our show so much and because he would have thought it funny? Yeah, I do know that, I don't necessarily think that there was a content play, but I know that Alison, when she was here, almost went to the funeral and Richard Lewis was certainly born out of, I do miss the celebrity prognosticator segment because we got to know people over those longer runs and someone like Richard Lewis probably

wouldn't have entered our environment. We're not for that segment. That show has given us two of our favorite guests ever. They were older comedy legends. And I think part of the cool thing about our show is we introduced in some cases, a younger audience to absolute Titans of the game. Richard Lewis is a legend. Bob Einstein was a legend. And to have them both in the same show and both pass while the show is still actively running, I know is considering the popularity of that show,

tougher a lot of people. And if you operate the popularity of that show tougher a lot of people. And if you operate inside the Venn diagram of a lot of people, which is like our show and like Kirby or enthusiasm, I'm sure that news hits you very hard. And Chris and Roy edited what you're about to hear here in memory of Richard Lewis because they remember almost the entirety of the relationship. It was funny, contentious, and he would basically just come on and get deeply insulted and scream at me. Hi, Richard. Hello, Richard.

Oh. Hello, sir. Are you ready? Let's go, he's ready. Let's go. All right, he's ready. Let's go, let's go. Ready?

Three, two, one. Join. Oh, are we going now? Let's go let's go ready three two one join Oh, are we going now? I dare you embarrass me in front of your fans. Well, I'm trying to help you happen to you What do you mean what happened? I've never taught you before in our lives I stream your show and there used to be a very genuinely nice guy and you turn into a bastard join now by our friend and nemesis the comedian Richard Lewis He's no nemesis to you. I'm only a nemesis to Wolverines. Thank you for making time for us Richard Are you just sitting there? I don't believe a word you're saying I'm sick of this nemesis crap I'm sick of this fake fake fight

We have you know that we used to be lovers back in the day in Cuba. You were so gentle. I wasn't like gentle and I used to give you all the tips. We want so much money betting. You used to call me Olivia. What is this Olivia crap? You're like, don't spread these rumors.

I mean rumors. You know what I saw? I was looking at this show the years I did with you. You have your fans who love you and you're great. I'm a big fan of the whole show. You say, how was Richard? Did he suck? Was he any good?

How does his teeth have a yellow or a white? What the? Why? Why judge me? You know, I've been doing this for 48 years. You were four years old when I did the Carnegie Hall. You have some nerve. I used to live in Florida.

I have friends who call me every time I do your show. He's a piece of crap. Why does he put you down? I said, I don't know why he puts me down. I'm a big fan. I'm a big, I'm a sports fan. I've been a comic my whole life. I devoted myself to the arts.

I don't get it. Just tell me why you hate me so much. Richard. I devoted myself to the arts. I don't get it Just tell me why you hate me so much Richard devoting yourself to the arts. Come on Richard Richard. All right So that was a bit of a lie And by the way, I don't mean to be narcissistic, but we're gonna we're probably gonna blow up North Korea But I am I am butb does start October 1st. Okay, okay, and interesting. Just a matter of what. Okay, I'm telling you.

Curb, your enthusiasm looks like so much fun. Everything you guys are doing, thank you for being. When do I talk? When do I talk? Okay, go ahead, you go ahead. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour.

I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour.

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I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm on tour. I'm married now, I'm very happy, and I'm married now,

I'm very happy, and I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now, I'm married now. I'm just kidding. I never used hookers. I never had a hooker in my life. I'm just kidding. I'm married now. I'm very happy. And I'm a hypochondriac.

And I used to put a Michelin condom over my body. All right. I know Larry Davidson's on zero. I was a preemie. And I had to stay in the hospital for three days. And then he was born and he tried to hang me by my umbilical cord more on and then I went to a sports camp and I and he was there and we were enemies and then I never saw him again until we were comics

and we were best friends so one day we were going over our childhood and we'll be like 24 so and then we realized we were the same kids at 12 who hated each other at sports camp. It was a billion to one shot. It was pretty cool, man. I got to imagine that you and Larry David, that wasn't much of a sports camp, like in terms of general athleticism at 12 years old. No, no, wrong.

Again, I was a great athlete, just too short for basketball, but one of the great stickball hitters in Jersey and New York. In fact, I'm in a stickball professional stickball league in LA. Oh, no, you're not. I P.T. Rosen stickball. So there you go. You're professional stickball. He calls me up and he says, let's go to dinner. And I go, what time? He goes, 401. I go, 401. You know, 401. I go, 401. You know, he's a very wealthy man. I make a good living.

I've been working my whole life, but he doesn't have to treat me. Screw him. I go to this fancy restaurant, Beverly Hills. I get there an hour early, okay? I go to the major D, I go, here's my credit card. I go, Mr. Lewis, no, Mr. David always pays. I go, no, screw Mr. David. I could pay, Mr. David always pays. I mean, no, no, Mr. David

I could pay for him. No, no, no, no, you owe us. I don't let him yell you your babies. Yeah, I'm paying So I give my credit card Larry comes up an hour late We were always broke for years when we started I said Larry why don't we just order what we used to do? I'd order chicken you'd order beef you'd get some soup would split it and I said no, don't we just order what we used to do? I'd order chicken, you'd order beef, you'd get some soup, we'd split it. And now he says, no, don't embarrass me. I go, I'm gonna embarrass you. The chef will tell me what I want. The chef will tell you what you want.

I'll tell you what, in that case, how do you, you changed on me? We're kind of, so the chef brings out 20 dishes on one of these lazy Susan's. 20 different entrees. And we don't even speak for more than one minute He and the phone rings and he goes oh my god. I forgot it's a poker night It's Steve Martin's house and he leaves me He leaves me with 20 entrees and a $1,200 bill

You know I love love Einstein, too. He's one of the funniest guys, but he's the loudest human being. It's like walking, you go to a restaurant. You say you go to a funeral, and you're walking to the casket. I swear to God, he'll say this, so, and I don't do a good impression.

He goes, two vaginas walk in and they say, Lord, what testicle? And then the testicle turns around and makes a milkshake. But I'm saying he screams just out while we're looking at the dead body and the coffin. That's why he's the greatest. No filter. No filter.

I don't know why. And he's such a nutcase. You all are, though. Who's the biggest? You're all nutcases, all of you. You're like Gandhi. You're a mental case And Ringo introduced me to my wife, but what is That

Ringles out one of my oldest friends for 30 years and introduced me to my wife and that said that and George a huge fan of my stand-up. So you know, I mean, why are you lying to your fans? And you're making me look like a schmuck. What did you just do to us here? We were just talking to you about the Knicks and all of a sudden you told us a story about Michael Jordan sitting next to you that didn't have anything to do with anything.

That's because I'm a hoax. I'm a hoax is a comic as a guest as a husband. But I have no sperm sperm left I can't have children. Well, I'm sorry Wow, it's all bad. I gotta say right now. I think this is the greatest interview you ever had This is the best interview you had in two years you clowns This interview was the best you had in like five years you moron How come I did two Super Bowl commercials in the last five years? You know, bite me.

Yeah, really. Ha! I'm tired of your fans thinking I'm not good, I'm not funny, I don't care about you. Your votes, I don't vote for you, guess. What kind of crap is that? How was he? Was he any good?

Was his hair any good? Is he losing it? Is he getting bald in the back? Screw you! Screw you! Put it on the pole. Was Richard Lewis any good this time at Levitton Show? Was Richard Lewis his teeth yellow?

Put that on the pole as well. Even my wife was not a gigantic sports freak. She likes your show and she says she heard me on the phone what she went you suck yeah I'm put on the ball right was the air to me do you know the Ohio State fights on you want to lead us to break on the Ohio State Park now that's okay I you know on Ohio where's your deli I need something that it doesn't matter what the words are. Where's your Deli? I'm a graduate. I graduated from BS in marketing. Yes. Then when he has time to set up in the pocket, he really does have a shotgun.

Wait a minute, Nemesis, do you know your quarterback's name? No, I don't. I don't. Names are unimportant. It's just a position and I don't, how dare you quiz me on Ohio State like this and embarrass me I'm just curious. I'm one of the most famous. Yeah. Yeah. I know his name Irving Shrockerwood They probably got 11 guys who knew Walter white and they played you know, and they ran the offense Really really you're accusing your team of being on meth. No, no I'm saying they hired people to make believe they were on meth to run the

fast offense. Oh, that's much different. You're right. What was the best time, the single best time, the most fun time to be Richard Lewis? Sleeping with beautiful actresses and when the Knicks and the Jets and the Mets won in 69. By by the way what's gonna happen to the the Patriots quarterback is he gonna I've been on the on the road is he gonna do the four game thing well it's just a topic from two months ago that's what you guys can you just care about ratings and you don't care about ethics that's right and on that note we're gonna let you go you know why because you hate me now yeah if we cared about rain you wouldn't be on you but I I worship you That's right and on that note. We're gonna let you go. You know why because you hate me now

Yeah, if we cared about ratings you wouldn't be on with us Richard If we cared about ratings you wouldn't be on with us right now. That was the meanest thing ever My mother tried to push me back into the womb and that's the exact thing she told me Yes, I cared about ratings about our family. We wouldn't have I wish she had told me. If I cared about ratings about our family, we wouldn't have you. I wish he had. Look, I apologize for all of this. You can edit it. You can... No, we can't edit it. It's live. I was trying to be entertaining for you and for all the women in your life. Don't let the card

I don't even know what this list is. He was ahead of Tom Brady, who also won a playoff game. A couple, yeah. That was literally the most confusing list we've ever done. He's got a better shot. Come on, give him a chance. He's up mad. I'm angry at you.

I'm angry at you. I want to leave. Stug angry. I would have left. Still gots. This would have been your day. This should be. You should own the sports media landscape right now. I am. I am top seven guys. I would not want the judge. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I'm not allowing it. Give me a chance, guys. No. No. I'm not giving him a chance. I've given him 20 years. Give me a chance, guys. No, no, no. No, I'm not giving him a chance. I've given him 20 years.

It's a wonderful one. I've given him my prize. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugas. In fairness to Chris, it's really hard to capture the essence of a Richard Lewis appearance by having it be bite-sized because nothing that he ever really did on our show was bite-sized. The meandering, the rambling, it was part of the bit with him. So that's why we honored him appropriately. Plus I wanted to kill a full segment.

Not nearly respectful enough to him, by the way. A legitimate legend. Our show was wildly disrespectful. Comedy icon. That's all it was. Like that's, I'm telling you, it wasn't a lot of heartfelt. No, it was zero. No, no, no. We had a very superficial, uh, shallow relationship with Richard Lewis.

It did actually add Roy cut out at the end. There was like, I love you guys. Same to you, but Roy cut that part out. Really Roy. Yeah. Cut for time. It needed to be a little bit shorter. Ten seconds. Love trying to be official. I'm happy we cut anything for time it needed to be a little bit shorter and seconds lost trying to be official I'm happy we cut anything for time here. Why wouldn't you have made it with the I love views that dude

It was 14 minutes long before I touched that I actually have another that it was 1330 after he touched it I actually have another 40 second clip that I was like this doesn't fit the montage, but it is funny I'll turn the volume up on those Leonard Nimor test today was a buddy of mine and it's very said he was a brilliant guy and I ran only match. His acting was only matched by his class. So I, anyone who looked at my, my condolences, Richard, what did you just do to our show?

We were talking about sports and then you talk about your show. Pardon me for mentioning someone who dies. You are a rude human being. I'm with Lewis on this. No, no, let me tell you. Oh, my God. Okay. You can't cut that. I'm stuck in comfort time. He's the Lewis. It's going to happen. You better come to my, you, you better come to my funeral.

Okay. Okay. You can see Richard and Kevin Pollack tonight, 8pm or Nemesis. Nice segue, by the way brilliant. You know, I used to really worship you. I think now you're a complete idiot. I am pretty sure I should let people know this part of it. I think he didn't know anything about our show and the joke was that this comedy legend was coming and being on this dumb Miami show for no good

discernible reason just to pick Bengal six and a half when he knew nothing about football and was working in the gutter where well beneath where his talents had taken his life. Yeah. Did you see Larry David statement that he gave to HBO that has been circulated? Here's a quote. Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital and for most of my life he's been like a brother to me. He had the rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest but today he made me sob and for that I'll never forgive him. It was well written. Like when I read it I'm like ending on a joke there because their friendship laughed until the end. Like of course that's the thing that

was that's the one thing that would reach through all the neuroses of Larry David and reach him, the mortality of losing a friend. When you saw in their on air chemistry that those two knew how to be friends. I'm telling you though, you guys got distracted when you heard him with Lewis on this. You missed the part of the sound that I wanted to play for you. When I die, here's what's gonna happen. Richard Lewis died. He was a funny guy. What's the weather? That's what's going to happen. You better come to my, you better come to my funeral. Okay.

So we're going to invite you. So you agreed confirmation. Wendy, head out. You need to give him some vacation time. Okay. We should go tomorrow. You want to do the show from out there? Sure. How, how heartfelt are your condolences? I don't want to do the show from out there. That's important. I'm with Lewis on this. What were you invited? Well, Dan was.

That's binding. Okay. He said, okay. Yeah, you did say, okay. He meant it. As you know, he was always super serious during his appearances here. But yeah, rest in peace, comedy legend and friend of the show, Richard Lewis. We can handle a show without you tomorrow, Dan.

Like if you need to go, we understand. Live report, if you want. I mean, he had a great lid in his heyday too. We're just saying he should be a great lid. I don't know how many people, like I don't know necessarily that we should be doing the entirety of the eulogy on behalf of what that man's career was, but you're talking about 45 to 50 years in stand-up comedy and And I think people understand that that's a career without a safety net, that those are artists that don't like have big employers with healthcare

benefits and stuff. You can latch on to shows as a writer and stuff, but to be able to create the career that that guy created out of just his funny and his neuroses, because his whole bit was, his whole bit was to be like publicly insecure like that, that in a way that crawled around in his skin and, and the show that he and Larry David do together. Like he didn't, he wasn't on from the very beginning. Was he, was he on from the very beginning of that? It was pretty apparent that even if you weren't a fan of Richard Lewis, but maybe you like Seinfeld, like he was without saying it there

and he kind of touched on it, he was amused for Larry David. He is one of the most influential voices in comedy in that he influenced Larry David. So Richard Lewis' legacy probably doesn't get the credit it deserves. I'm guessing that when Larry David composes himself to like give you his real thoughts

on what it is that that brotherhood was. I will guess that he will be introspective enough to understand and grateful enough, even though he doesn't tend to give off very much joy or gratitude in his work, grateful enough to say, do you realize that I never ran out of material because me and Richard Lewis were always just walking around town. And so Richard Lewis would, I'm guessing that this is at the core of their friendship because I do wonder how they never ran out of materialists

because like really you can't serve breakfast after 11. That's a hard no on my eggs. If I'd been here at 1055, you could do it, but you don't have the technology to do it. I'm guessing that's just them televising their friendship. Well, 100%, all of the Seinfeld stuff that works so well and certainly curb after that, which just picked up and ran with the ball is all observational. And you could totally see how that's born with brunch between Larry David and Richard Lewis.

And in some ways, right? Because this is not that Larry David doesn't give off anything but misery. The work is funny, but he gives off not a whole lot of happy. Do you realize that in the neuroses that him and that friend shared, the fact that it was an endless source of content is the only way he can go after Seinfeld and do another. I let nobody believes he's done when his friends are dying and these are the people who made him laugh. And Larry doesn't seem like a, like he doesn't seem joyous, right? But he finds the funny in the dark, when your friends are dying all around you and you can't

get through the season without losing Richard Lewis and before that Bob Einstein, who he loved similarly. It's been heartbreaking, but the season's been good, Mike. Like the art that they, the art that they're making through, through three shows when it's hard for comedy to age. Like I'm hoping we view the rest of this with a gentle eye because it's hard to finish these things. Correct. People have been hard on this season of curb. I've seen memes, putting Hakeem Elijah on an Raptors uniform equating it to this season.

I don't, I don't think that's been the case. Like if you're tired of the observational humor from, from curve, why are you even watching curve? That's kind of a, the show's deal. It's built on that. Maybe it's leaning heavier than you're used to. Because I think in the last few seasons, Kerb has had a singular thread and story arc carry it through the season. And I actually wasn't a huge fan of that. And in many respects, it's getting back to its roots. Can I ask you guys as someone who just really can take some of the fun out of what I'm watching by just marveling at

the construction of things? Will anyone in the audience allow history and art to gracefully finish when you consider the degree of difficulty of writing 25 years of this is the most popular television and the standard is through the sky on what you're doing. If this gets worse I'm gonna notice I'm waiting for you to get old I'm waiting for it to get worse. I'm asking you- Are we still talking about Richard Lewis? I'm asking you sincerely about their careers at the end. I hope that we're afforded that opportunity with a passionate fan base and leaning into

some of those personal relations that we built through over time because I mean, we're approaching our 20th anniversary. There's a lot of young bucks in the game right now with bigger platforms and, you know, we're trying to find our way. And I think that we can maybe draw inspiration for how Larry David had this whole second chapter.

I'm making it about us. You really did at the end. I thought you were talking about us. Yeah. I wasn't though. I was talking about the career of Richard Lewis. Hmm. Well, listen Uncle Tony, it'd be fine.

Sounded like you were just getting started over here. We're just getting started over the use of Kirby enthusiasm for this season. So. I just haven't, that's not what I've been hearing. What I, I'm taught, when I'm talking to Amin, I don't know what, Jessica and Amin like the season, I think it was Jessica, like the season, the way that I have, but I'm also telling you that I'm grading it through the curve

of how the degree of difficulty, and here I would be talking about us, of trying to make something when people around you die, like, or are sick, because what has been clear in watching Curb Your Enthusiasm for the last three years is that Richard Lewis is emaciated, like he's sickly. Yeah, and what was also clear is that he very much wanted to be a part of it, as that was happening to him, because it was known, if you saw that most recent episode,

you, yeah, I mean, we kind of all probably said to our partner, like, is looking, looking rough there. But I think that they found great joy in wanting to, to do that as his time was winding down and share that with his friend. It was a, you know, kind of a beautiful thing. We making this about us. They were making jokes about the will while arguing over the golf cart. Yeah, that's a kind of morbid humor that I kind of love. Hey folks, it's Mike Ryan. Now, you've had the distinct privilege of knowing me for close 18 years and you know that I've changed. A lot of my personal life has changed. I've changed as a professional. I am a parent now.

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