Story highlights Pam Dawber: What made Garry Marshall so funny? Partly his delivery, with the Bronx accent: "Don't Worree. It's Funnee."

She says he was a huge talent from a kinder era, the favorite uncle of all who worked with him on his many comedy shows

Pam Dawber, producer, actress and former star of the TV comedy "Mork & Mindy," lives in Los Angeles with husband Mark Harmon and two sons. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) Why was Garry Marshall, the man who hired me to work on "Mork & Mindy" and was responsible for so many classic comedy shows, such a naturally funny person?

This is hard to describe. The reason is that it was all in Garry's delivery: His minimal responses in his thick Bronx accent -- his use of his accent was what made him so comical. "Don"t Worree. It's Funnee. It's gonna be fiiine," are not necessarily funny lines, except they were when he said them.

Pam Dawber

Once he had to approach me on the last episode of the first year to tell me the network wanted me to start wearing a padded bra. I blew a gasket and said I refused to do that. It's my memory of Garry's exiting after my hissy fit that plays funny in my memory. "OK. Fiiine, don't worrree, it's okaay." You had to be there.

He was one of the last of the good guys; no, not just a good guy but a great guy.

How on Earth do we say farewell to Garry Marshall — an immense talent, who emerged in a kinder gentler era? Someone whom the words "they sure don't make 'em like that anymore" describe completely.

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