His publicist, Jeff Abraham, said the cause was a heart attack.
Mr. Lewis announced last year that he had Parkinson’s disease.
Mr. Lewis was among the best-known names in a generation of comedians who came of age during the 1970s and ’80s, marked by a world-weary, sarcastic wit that mapped well onto the urban malaise in which many of them plied their trade.
He became a regular on late-night talk shows, favored as much for his tight act as for his casual, open affability as an interviewee.
And he was at the forefront of the boom in stand-up comedy that came with the expansion of cable television in the late 1980s.
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