Just last night, before I woke up to the news that comedy legend Richard Lewis has passed away at 76, I was watching him duke it out with Larry David. There is a very funny scene in the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, a gloriously volcanic tête-à-tête on a golf course where the two men – playing heightened versions of themselves – start bickering, hardly for the first time in the show’s 12 seasons.
“I’m leaving you in my will – I’m tweaking it and you’re in it,” Lewis snaps, triggering the following vein-bulging exchange:
