It used to be a regular bit performed by comedian and actor Richard Belzer, who died this week at 78. He also used to do a routine about Bob Dylan’s bar mitzvah in which he recited a Hebrew ...

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 ...

(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 ...