I saw recently where the man who played Squiggy on Laverne & Shirley died this month at the age of 73. Back when the show ran in the 70s I kind of blew Lenny and Squiggy off. Maybe even found them a little irritating. Now however watching them in reruns and “best of” clips on YouTube I really came to love the guy. His comedy aged really well. David himself was handed a struggle in 1984 when he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I read in one of his bios that he and Michael McKean had actually developed the Lenny and Squiggy idea while in college. Kind of an Abbott and Costello idea. It worked. I have no way of knowing, but looking back on it he seemed like a really decent man. David and Michael had a natural ability that maybe just isn’t seen anymore. His character was the underdog who kept plugging. Their schtick as in the series of clips above, was for the two of them to burst into a room and for Squiggy to let out the nasally, “Hello!” It would always be preceded by like Laverne and Shirley talking in their apartment and Laverne saying something along the lines of, “That’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen in my life!” Boom! Enter Lenny & Squiggy! Hello!