My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.

I didn't think some of the comedy was current enough to be funny today,

I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.

I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.

There is more to life than show business.

My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.