Brian Damage
08-13-2010, 10:35 PM
He has officially retired his ultimate crowd-pleaser, the Horshack laugh -- a gag that has haunted him for years.
"You know where that came from?" he says. "When I was 10 years old my dad died of lung cancer. And the last week he was alive the only way he was able to breathe was by making that noise.
"I didn't realize until I was two or three years into the show that I had actually taken my father's death gasp and turned it into a national joke. … That story itself put me on a shrink's couch for years to come."
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=1728414&page=2
"You know where that came from?" he says. "When I was 10 years old my dad died of lung cancer. And the last week he was alive the only way he was able to breathe was by making that noise.
"I didn't realize until I was two or three years into the show that I had actually taken my father's death gasp and turned it into a national joke. … That story itself put me on a shrink's couch for years to come."
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=1728414&page=2