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During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

'Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

I had a happy childhood.

My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new.

Once or twice in the height of 'Happy Days' excitement, which had more to do with Henry Winkler as The Fonz than ever had to do with me, we were kind of like a boy band for a year or so, and we would go out on personal appearances and feel the limousine rocking, and the grabbing at your clothes and people trying to steal your cap.