Talk:Richard Lewis (comedian)

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[edit] The Blank From Hell

I removed the following para:

The honor may go to Matt Groening, creator of Life in Hell or the band Squirrels from Hell as well. [1]

Neither of those examples fit the "the blank from hell" template. If they do, then Shakespeare probably has first dibs on any props that are being dished out:

Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d,

Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell

Hamlet

No, my good lord; but Pluto sends you word,

If you will have Revenge from hell, you shall

Titus Andronicus

&c.

chocolateboy 21:18, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Does Richard Lewis actually claim to have originated the phrase or is this simply a joke inserted in Curb Your Enthusiasm? (in which case the discussion would be moot) --Polylerus 17:37, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

I assumed it was a joke inserted in Curb Your Enthusiasm. Kevin143 23:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

On his documentary CD, he claims that he tried to get credit from Bartlet's Quotations but in the application, he learned that college students coined the term "semester from hell" more than a hundred years ago. Smoove K 11:16, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Filmography

Should we put some of his films here? Thief Lord 23:39, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Diary of a Young Comic

In 1977 former SNL producer Gary Weis directed a TV movie cowritten by and starring a young Richard Lewis as a fictional (but presumably semi-biographical) young comic named Billy Goldstein who moved to LA from New York. This was not a documentary about Richard Lewis. Is there also a 1974 documetary of the same name? I don't want to edit if there is, but I can find no record of it.