Richard Belzer, the beloved comedian who began as an edgy stand-up performer before finding further fame as the cynical but stalwart detective John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, has died. He was 78.*
Though I've never watched any of the Law & Order oeuvre, I won't forget seeing some of Belzer's earlier stand-up, and his performance in The Groove Tube which was the first R-rated movie I saw with my dad. (Talk about embarrassing . . . )
*from The Hollywood Reporter obit:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/...
Though I've never watched any of the Law & Order oeuvre, I won't forget seeing some of Belzer's earlier stand-up, and his performance in The Groove Tube which was the first R-rated movie I saw with my dad. (Talk about embarrassing . . . )