Shining a spotlight on celebrities and athletes who love to travel. Created and developed by Stacy Steponate Greenberg. For decades, he has paced stages in comedy clubs in his trademark black suits, the neurotic genius in his natural habitat. Night after night, Richard Lewis brings strangers into the world inside his head, making them laugh […]The post The Overhead Compartment with Richard Lewis appeared first on Pursuitist.

Shining a spotlight on celebrities and athletes who love to travel. Created and developed by Stacy Steponate Greenberg.For decades, he has paced stages in comedy clubs in his trademark black suits, the neurotic genius in his natural habitat. Night after night, Richard Lewis brings strangers into the world inside his head, making them laugh and making them think. He is, by any measure, among the most prolific comedians of his time, and more than that as well, discovered regularly by new audiences in films and, recently, in his recurring role on Larry David’s HBO smash hit “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Lewis is now set to join the cast of “Blunt Talk,” where he will play a Freudian psychoanalyst, quite a twist for him, and as of today Lewis has a new book out: “Reflections From Hell: Richard Lewis’ Guide on How Not to Live” with illustrations by Carl Nicholas Titolo and a foreword by Larry David.The Overhead Compartment carefully, and from a distance so no germs were spread, interviewed Richard Lewis, to lea...