Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, dies at 78

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Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in 'Homicide: Life on the Street' and 'Law & Order: SVU,' died Sunday at 78.

NEW YORK — Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in"Homicide: Life on the Street" and"Law & Order: SVU," has died. He was 78.

For more than two decades and across 10 series — even including appearances on"30 Rock" and"Arrested Development" — Belzer played the wise-cracking, acerbic homicide detective prone to conspiracy theories. Belzer first played Munch on a 1993 episode of"Homicide" and last played him in 2016 on"Law & Order: SVU."

Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio "I would never be a detective. But if I were, that's how I'd be," Belzer once said."They write to all my paranoia and anti-establishment dissidence and conspiracy theories. So it's been a lot of fun for me. A dream, really."

 

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