Richard Belzer, the veteran stand-up comic, actor, talk-show host and author, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. An irrepressible comic, the young Richard drove his teachers wild with his ...

Richard Belzer: As time went on, he became more and more surreal and daring and esoteric and strange and provocative and not always funny, but certainly compelling. Like a for example, one night ...

(JTA) — Richard Belzer wasn’t just a hard-boiled Jew who rose from a troubled childhood to the top of his field — he played one on TV. Belzer, who died Sunday at 78, was a familiar face ...