I heard about it almost as soon as it hit the news, a friend sent me a text msg. I thought to myself "please let this be a hoax" and went back to sleep. Sure enough I heard the news reports this morning.

SilverWook said:

There was a bit in one of his early stand up specials where he portrayed himself as an old man. That will be bittersweet now.

I was immediately reminded of the one where he portrays himself and a "newspaper guy" character in split screen at the end of the special. Is that the one?

It still feels very surreal.

I even chocked up hearing the corny italian theme song to Mork & Mindy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR-0ITvpyZA

Star Wars actually launched Robin's career.

The story goes that Garry Marshall's children saw the movie and told him "we want aliens in Happy Days" and that's how Mork was born.