LOS ANGELES, Feb 29 — Comedian Richard Lewis, who rose to fame with his neurotic, self-deprecating wit and later appeared for more than two decades alongside Larry David on the hit HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died at 76, his publicist said yesterday.

The comic, who disclosed last year that he was battling Parkinson’s disease, died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening after suffering a heart attack, publicist Jeff Abraham said.

“Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital and for most of my life he’s been like a brother to me,” David said in a written statement. “He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest. But today he made me sob and for that I’ll never forgive him.”