Richard Lewis will now appear in one upcoming episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Earlier this year, we heard that comedian Richard Lewis had to back out of the upcoming 11th season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm due to some health problems and recent shoulder and back surgeries. After the death of Bob Einstein (a.k.a. the show’s Marty Funkhouser) in 2019, that meant that two of the longstanding members of Larry David’s Curb crew would be absent from the new season—which, in what is hopefully not a terrible idea, will at least partially be about COVID and how Larry (the character) responded to the pandemic.