{"id":553973,"date":"2023-02-19T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/richard-belzer-extraordinarily-smart-ass-as-a-comic-and-a-tv-cop-dies-at-78\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T18:24:00","slug":"richard-belzer-extraordinarily-smart-ass-as-a-comic-and-a-tv-cop-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/richard-belzer-extraordinarily-smart-ass-as-a-comic-and-a-tv-cop-dies-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"#Richard Belzer, Extraordinarily Smart-Ass as a Comic and a TV Cop, Dies at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a251940b5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a251940b5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/richard-belzer-extraordinarily-smart-ass-as-a-comic-and-a-tv-cop-dies-at-78\/#Richard_Belzer_Extraordinarily_Smart-Ass_as_a_Comic_and_a_TV_Cop_Dies_at_78\" >Richard Belzer, Extraordinarily Smart-Ass as a Comic and a TV Cop, Dies at 78<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Richard_Belzer_Extraordinarily_Smart-Ass_as_a_Comic_and_a_TV_Cop_Dies_at_78\"><\/span>Richard Belzer, Extraordinarily Smart-Ass as a Comic and a TV Cop, Dies at 78<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Richard Belzer, the beloved co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n who began as an edgy stand-up performer before finding further fame as the cynical but stalwart detective John Munch on\u00a0<em>Homicide: Life on the Street<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit<\/em>, has died. He was 78.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Belzer died early Sunday at his home in Bozouls in southwest France, writer Bill Scheft, a longtime friend of the actor, told <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cHe had lots of health issues, and his last words were, \u2018Fuck you, motherfucker,&#8217;\u201d Scheft said.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Belzer made his film debut in the hilarious <em>The Groove Tube<\/em>\u00a0(1974), warmed up audiences in the early days of\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> and famously was put to sleep by Hulk Hogan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Munch made his first <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance in 1993 on the first episode of\u00a0<em>Homicide<\/em>\u00a0and his last in 2016 on\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order: SVU.\u00a0<\/em>In between those two NBC dramas<em>,\u00a0<\/em>Belzer played the detective on eight other <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, and his hold on the character lasted longer than James Arness\u2019 on\u00a0<em>Gunsmoke<\/em>\u00a0and Kelsey Grammer\u2019s on\u00a0<em>Cheers\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Frasier<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Certainly one of the most memorable cops in TV history, Munch \u2014 based on a real-life Baltimore detective \u2014 was a highly intelligent, doggedly diligent investigator who believed in conspiracy theories, distrusted the system and pursued justice through a jaded eye. He\u2019d often resort to dry, acerbic wisecracks to make his point: \u201cI\u2019m a homicide detective. The only time I wonder why is when they tell me the truth,\u201d went a typical Munch retort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In a 2016 interview for the website\u00a0The Interviews: An Oral History of Television,\u00a0<em>Homicide<\/em>\u00a0executive producer Barry Levinson <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/interviews.televisionacademy.com\/interviews\/barry-levinson?clip=92975#about\">recalled<\/a> listening to Belzer on\u00a0<em>The Howard Stern Show<\/em>\u00a0and liking him for Munch. \u201cWe were looking at some other actors, and when I heard him, I said, \u2018Why don\u2019t we find out about Richard Belzer?\u201d Levinson said. \u201cI like the rhythm of the way he talks. And that\u2019s how that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The pencil-thin Belzer portrayed Munch on all seven seasons of the NBC series. When it ended in 1999, the actor wasn\u2019t quite ready to say goodbye to the role. He had appeared as Munch on NBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order\u00a0<\/em>three times from 1996-99 and thought he might be a good fit on that show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cWhen\u00a0<em>Homicide<\/em>\u00a0was canceled, I was in France with my wife and she said, \u2018Let\u2019s open a bottle of champagne and toast: You did this character for seven years,&#8217;\u201d Belzer recounted in the 2009 book\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit Unofficial Companion<\/em>. \u201cAnd then I remembered that Benjamin Bratt was leaving\u00a0<em>L&amp;O<\/em>, and so I called my manager and said, \u2018Call Dick Wolf \u2014 maybe Munch can become [Det. Lennie] Briscoe\u2019s partner\u2019 \u2014- because we had teamed for the crossover. So he called and Dick said, \u2018What a great idea, but I\u2019ve already cast Jesse Martin to be the new guy [opposite Jerry Orbach].&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Wolf, however, was in the process of developing a\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order<\/em>\u00a0spinoff to focus on the NYPD\u2019s Special Victims Unit, the division that investigates sexually based crimes. He wanted Munch for that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    When\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em>\u00a0debuted in September 1999, Munch had relocated from Baltimore to New York to join forces with Det. Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Det. Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni). Capt. Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) was brought over from\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order<\/em>\u00a0to head the squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Munch\u2019s sardonic demeanor turned out to be perfect for the grim tone of the series, and Belzer stayed 14 seasons. The character announced his retirement from the NYPD in 2014, but Munch returned a couple years later for the 17th-season episode \u201cFashionable Crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Belzer as Munch showed up on a 1997 episode of\u00a0<em>The X-Files<\/em>\u00a0that appropriately dealt with the origins of the show\u2019s resident conspiracists \u2014 the Lone Gunmen. He also popped up on\u00a0<em>The Beat<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Law &amp; Order: Trial by Jury<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Wire<\/em>\u00a0and played the cop for laughs on\u00a0<em>Arrested Development<\/em>,\u00a0<em>30 Rock\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt<\/em>. A puppet who looked like Munch even showed up on\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5121VjLwqZM\"><em>Sesame Street<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI never asked anyone to be on their show. So it\u2019s doubly flattering to me to see me depicted in a script and that I\u2019m so recognizable and lovable as the sarcastic detective and smart-ass,\u201d Belzer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thecomicscomic.com\/2008\/10\/28\/interview-richa\/\">said<\/a> in a 2008 interview. \u201cMuch to my delight, because he is a great character for me to play, it\u2019s fun for me. So I\u2019m not upset about being typecast at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Richard Jay Belzer was born on Aug. 4, 1944, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His penchant for comedy grew out of an abusive childhood and a mother who beat him and his older brother, Len.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cShe always had some rationale for hitting us,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/archive\/richard-belzer-vol-39-no-12\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0<em>People<\/em>\u00a0magazine in 1993. \u201cMy kitchen was the toughest room I ever worked. I had to make my mom laugh or I\u2019d get my ass kicked.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Belzer\u2019s self-described \u201cuncontrollable wit\u201d\u00a0in the classroom often landed him in trouble, and his stay at Massachusetts\u2019 Dean Junior College ended abruptly when he was expelled for organizing on-campus protests. A series of odd jobs followed, including census taker, dock worker and jewelry salesman. For a time, he pursued a career as a journalist and worked for <em>The Bridgeport Post<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    A tragedy made Belzer reassess his priorities. Three years after his mom, Frances, died of breast cancer, his father, Charles, a salesman, distraught over his wife\u2019s death, attempted suicide in 1967. Belzer found him and saved his life, but a year later, his dad succeeded. (Belzer\u2019s brother, who produced the radio\u00a0<em>program The Comedy Hour<\/em>, would also die by suicide, leaping from the roof of his Upper West Side apartment building in 2014 after his wife, <em>Sesame Street<\/em> director Emily Squires, had died.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    His father\u2019s death hit Belzer hard, he said, and he decided it was time to take a risk and try comedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    On a lark, Belzer answered an ad in\u00a0<em>The Village Voice<\/em>\u00a0to audition for Channel One, an East Village comedy troupe led by Ken Shapiro and Lane Sarasohn. He performed the bits he had honed growing up \u2014 including imitations of Marlon Brando, Jerry Lewis and, at his bar mitzvah, Bob Dylan \u2014 and got the gig in 1971.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Calling its show\u00a0<em>Groove Tube<\/em>, Channel One specialized in skits satirizing TV conventions like clowns on kids shows and anchormen. \u201cGo and see\u00a0<em>Groove Tube<\/em>,\u201d Clive Barnes had written in a 1969 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lanesarasohn.com\/nytimes.html\">review<\/a> for\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>. \u201cIt is a whole lot better than staying home and watching television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Channel One heightened its mock television world by simultaneously broadcasting the skits on three TV monitors in the theater. Shapiro and Sarasohn also videotaped the performances and compiled them into a program to play at local colleges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The response was strong enough to parlay the idea into a film deal, which became the R-rated, sketch-filled\u00a0<em>The Groove Tube<\/em>. Belzer portrayed a lowlife drug dealer in a parody of police dramas, an American president heckling a foreign dignitary and a blackface prostitute in drag. (The movie was the first for Chevy Chase as well.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cWe were very high \u2014 when we wrote it, when we shot it, when we premiered it and when we realized we\u2019d made a movie,\u201d Belzer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tv.avclub.com\/richard-belzer-1798222737\">said<\/a> in a 2010 interview with The A.V. Club. \u201cIt was truly underground in the sense that before it was a movie, we had a little theater and we showed\u00a0<em>Groove Tube<\/em>\u00a0on three monitors in a 90-seat theater. So for people to pay to see television, before cable, it was pretty innovative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Belzer\u2019s success with Channel One led to stand-up gigs at such New York clubs as Catch a Rising Star, the Improv and Pips. He performed on the\u00a0<em>National Lampoon Radio Hour<\/em>\u00a0alongside Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. And when Lorne Michaels launched\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u00a0in 1975, he tapped Belzer to be the warm-up comedian for the audience. (Belzer said\u00a0<em>The Groove Tube<\/em>\u00a0was Michael\u2019s inspiration for\u00a0<em>SNL<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIt was thrilling in those days to be a part of that because \u2014 regardless of what anyone said \u2014 a lot of people didn\u2019t know how that was going to be accepted,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=127019083\">told<\/a> NPR in 1989. \u201cThis was like giving the kids the key to the store \u2014 to have all of these \u2018anti-establishment\u2019 people have a TV show on a network. So they asked me to do some sketches and do the warm-ups. I just kind of did what I did in nightclubs. I talked to the audience. I did some of my material, but I tried to improvise and ad-lib as much as I could. And it was fascinating doing that in a television studio and not in a nightclub.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Belzer hosted the short-lived Lifetime talk show\u00a0<em>Hot Properties<\/em>, where his guests\u00a0in March 1985\u00a0included Hogan and Mr. T, on hand to promote the\u00a0inaugural WrestleMania. The 6-foot-8, 300-pound Hogan put the 6-foot-1, 150-pound Belzer in a front chinlock, knocking him unconscious and then releasing him to the floor, where the limp comedian banged his head, drawing blood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cHe came very close to killing me,\u201d Belzer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ICoZV4ZEjg\">told<\/a> Roy Firestone in 1990. \u201cI was told by a sports medicine expert that if I had fallen a few inches either way I could have been crippled for life, I could have been dead.\u201d He sued Hogan, Mr. T, Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation for $5 million and received a reported $400,0000 in a 1990 settlement, which he said he used for a down payment on his house in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Meanwhile, frustration was growing as Belzer watched contemporaries such as Chase, Robin Williams and Steve Martin become rich doing movies. He admitted during his\u00a0<em>People<\/em>\u00a0interview that he agreed to appear on\u00a0<em>Everything Goes<\/em>, a salacious cable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> show, for the sole reason of paying for a Hawaiian family vacation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThree contestants come out, and the celebrity panel takes a good look at them,\u201d said Belzer, describing the format. \u201cThen female contestants had to stick their naked breasts through a cutout or men their bare buttocks, and the panel guessed which person it was. At the end, during the credits, the camera zooms in on me, and I mouth the words, \u2018I did it for the money.\u2019 It\u2019s the only time I sold out in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    And then John Munch changed everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Belzer also played an MC \u2014 basically himself \u2014 in\u00a0<em>Fame<\/em> (1980) and\u00a0<em>Scarface<\/em> (1983) and had bit parts in\u00a0<em>Author! Author!<\/em>\u00a0(1982),\u00a0<em>Night Shift<\/em>\u00a0(1982),\u00a0<em>Flicks<\/em> (1983),\u00a0<em>America<\/em> (1986),\u00a0<em>Fletch Lives<\/em> (1989),\u00a0<em>The Big Picture<\/em> (1989),\u00a0<em>The Bonfire of the Vanities\u00a0<\/em>(1990),\u00a0<em>Get on the Bus<\/em>\u00a0(1996) and\u00a0<em>The Man in the Moon<\/em>\u00a0(1999).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    He also had a recurring role on the 1990s series\u00a0<em>The Flash<\/em>, played Inspector Henderson on\u00a0<em>Lois &amp; Clark: The New Adventures of Superman<\/em>\u00a0and did cameos in music videos for Pat Benatar and Mike + the Mechanics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Then there was Belzer the author; he published books on a range of subjects, including 1988\u2019s\u00a0<em>How to Be a Stand-Up Comic<\/em>; 2000\u2019s\u00a0<em>UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don\u2019t Have to Be Crazy to Believe<\/em>; and 2008\u2019s\u00a0<em>I Am Not a Cop!: A Novel<\/em>,\u00a0which centered on an actor named Richard Belzer who plays a TV cop named Munch and investigates a murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Survivors include his third wife, actress Harlee McBride (they married in 1985, and she played medical examiner\u00a0Alyssa Dyer\u00a0on\u00a0<em>Homicide<\/em>), and stepdaughters Jessica and Bree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>Mike Barnes contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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