Richard Lewis

American actor and comedian

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history of stand-up comedy

  • Bob Hope with the USO
    In stand-up comedy: Countercultural comedy

    …New York City-based comedians—among them Richard Lewis, Freddie Prinze, Elayne Boosler (one of the few women in a largely male-dominated crowd), and later Jerry Seinfeld—developed an intimate “observational” style, less interested in sociopolitical commentary than in chronicling the trials of everyday urban life, dealing with relationships, and surviving in the…

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influence of Klein