jerrylevitch:

Happy Birthday Jonathan Southworth Ritter!!! (September 17, 1948 – ∞)

“His brain was like a supersonic jet. You kept thinking to yourself, God, I wish I’d thought of that. Wow, how did he think of that that quickly? What you never tried to do was match his funny. I never tried to one-up him. Because it was impossible. He topped pretty much everybody. He’d tell the same joke, too. He could tell it three or four or five times a day, and it was as funny the first time as it was the last time he told it that day. Now that is a talent. What would he say? He would just put his hand up to his side like a Borscht Belt comedian and he would say, ‘Try the veal, I’m here all week.’ And he would use that phrase several times a day and several times a day it was laugh-out-loud funny. I think about him all the time. I miss him all the time.“ 

– Henry Winkler