How you doing?
You look good.
Jim, you do, too.
I dressed up for you. - You look great.
You look nice. - Thank you very much.
I was thinking about you a lot today.
You know I'm a little bit obsessed with you, right?
I mean, I had the lunch box with Fonzie
on it, and all that stuff.
Yes, right.
And I was thinking about the jump the shark thing,
and people talk to you about it all the time.
Right.
I went and watched it again, and I remember
being, like, really nervous when you did
jump that shark the first time-- - Yes.
Well, I did all the water skiing except for the jump.
Except the jump.
Yes.
You can see very clearly which parts are you,
and which are not you. HENRY WINKLER: Yes.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Yes.
HENRY WINKLER: I had the better legs.
JIMMY KIMMEL: This is you, by the way.
HENRY WINKLER: This is me.
JIMMY KIMMEL: And it's pretty good, I have to say.
HENRY WINKLER: Yeah? OK.
So--
JIMMY KIMMEL: And look how happy you are at the end,
when you-- like, yeah.
That's right.
OK, so honestly, if you watch that smile--
Uh-huh?
Half the smile is Henry going, oh, my god.
I made it. JIMMY KIMMEL: Yeah.
And the other half is Fonz going, all right, I made it.
How many times--
was that the first take, you made it?
That was the first take, yes.
Because otherwise you would have
had to get your hair all blown out,
and the whole thing, and that.
And that is the reason that I skiied very well.
My father, a very short German Jew--
he said to me, tell the producers-- tell the guy,
Marshall, that you water ski.
- He did. - I said, I don't--
I don't know, Dad. I'm not going to--
No, no, tell him you-- and also, if you go to the White House,
take cake.
Did you-- well, obviously you told Gary that you water ski.
Finally, after a year or two, I said to Gary,
my father wants you to know I water ski.
And there it was.
And did you take cake to the White House?
- I did. - You did?
Of course.
Well, you gotta listen to your dad.
Because they didn't have any.
In the jacket--
I would think Fonzie would not wear the life
jacket over the leather jacket.
- I had a fight about that. - You did?
Yeah? - I did.
I had a little argument.
There were words.
I-- it was hard to look at that yellow tire around my stomach
and still be cool.
Yeah.
I had to--
I had-- No, real.
JIMMY KIMMEL: And yet you did, somehow.
HENRY WINKLER: Yeah.
Because-- you know what I had to do?
I had to--
I had to overcome that yellow piece of rubber.
And you did overcome it.
You really-- you certainly did. - Yeah.
You-- I don't think--
I wonder if young people understand--
well, first of all, what a huge star
you were, because everyone was watching "Happy Days."
Everyone in the country was watching that.
Well, at that time there were only three networks.
Yeah.
So 58% of the audience was watching "Happy Days."
58% of the television viewing--
Viewing audience.
Which was almost everybody, was watching "Happy Days."
Yes.
And this is a magazine that's almost entirely devoted to you.
I mean, if you go through this magazine, it is--
I spent a good hour looking at this magazine today.
It's at home with Fonzie.
You're taking out the garbage.
This is-- this may be the first stars, they're just like us
moment, in a way.
Oh, I haven't seen that in so long.
There you are.
Is this really your, like, kitchen here at the bottom?
Yes.
I rented an apartment with a wet bar.
Uh-huh?
Cool.
And in the refrigerator I had a tuna fish sandwich, ambrosia
salad, and two boxes of Amandine wine,
or Amandine, whatever it's called.
Uh-huh?
White and red for guests, because I don't drink.
- Wow. - Yeah.
Look at this.
This is Fonzie's secret passion.
It says you're passionate about ceramics here.
Yes.
OK, so this was a lie.
Uh-huh?
It was.
[APPLAUSE]
This is my very first photo shoot with ABC.
And they said, you've got to do something.
You've got to be active.
And so they put me in front of a wheel--
This is pottery.
I had never touched clay in my life.
But didn't that look good? I looked good.
You looked really good.
It looked very artistic.
I have one more thing.
Now, this is when you know you've made it.
Henry Winkler's favorite recipes.
Pot roast-- potato pancakes, and chocolate mousse.
OK.
Pot roast?
I actually have never made this meal,
but they are my favorite.
Mhm?
Stacey, my wife, makes an unbelievable pot roast.
I love potato pancakes with applesauce and sour cream,
and chocolate mousse was, at one time, my favorite dessert.
I feel like my whole childhood was a lie now, looking
at this pot roast recipe, and--
No, no, no.
I ate that, I just didn't make that.
I see. I see.
OK. All right.
Well, I'll accept that as a poor substitute.
Yeah.
But now you have really reached,
in my opinion, the pinnacle.
I mean, the Emmy is great. - It's true.
Meeting the queen is great.
Golden Globe, all that stuff.
But you are on the cover of Costco
Connection Magazine this month.
And that-- is an honor I once received.
And I-- I wouldn't say I received the honor
so much as I hounded them until they put me on the cover
of Costco Connection Magazine.
I think you deserve to be on the cover.
I was on the cover.
- Once a year. - Once a year?
Oh, you're right. I would love to be.
Yes.
I'd like it to be like Oprah Magazine,
where I'm on every single one.
But I want to say--
Yes?
This is-- this is truly unbelievable.
Because you write these books.
Right.
There are 28 Hank Zipzers, and they are in Costco.
And Lin Oliver and I, we have tried so hard
since 2003 to get into Costco.
Because I go to Costco.
Are you a Costco guy?
Oh, are you kidding me?
I leave with a toilet roll that you can't carry,
there are so many.
The only thing is I went there, also, to get
goggles for my grandchildren
Uh-huh?
I have five, but you must buy 96.
Yeah, you have to have more grandchildren.
Yes.
It's true.
It's not Costco's responsibility.
Yeah.
You've got to have more kids in the family.
I'm talking--
I'm talking to my kids. - Well, please do.
Well, we're going to have-- we're going to take a break,
we're gonna come back, we're gonna see-- by the way,
if you haven't seen "Barry--" well, you're about to see it.
Henry Winkler is here.
We'll be right back.
In order to play him, you've got to use the worst thing
you've ever done in your life.
Yeah, no, that was the worst thing I'd ever done in my life.
Thank Christ.
Because, you know, you killed somebody and got away with it.
OK, so I want you to dig deep.
I want you to get in there.
I want you to paddle that canoe there, soldier.
And Barry?
Thank you.
For what?
For telling me your story.
I'm very touched that I was able to gain your trust.
I am so late for my escape room.
[LAUGHTER]
That is Henry Winkler as Gene Cousineau in "Barry"
with the great Bill Hader.
I love that show. I love it.
Thank you.
When you won Emmy last year--
Yes.
It was one of the great-- it was, like, the best
moment of the Emmys show.
It was-- it was so exciting.
You know, people say, well, you've been nominated before.
I never thought about what I didn't win.
I only thought about I won.
And now the show has 17 nominations.
Crazy.
Yeah.
That's a lot of nominations.
Is that-- like, of all these things
that you've done in this career-- you've
had this great career-- what's the thing that that
hits-- that strikes you as, like, I can't believe
that happened?
I cannot believe that--
- You mean at any time? - At any time.
Yeah.
I was on the set of "Happy Days."
JIMMY KIMMEL: OK.
And there is a table--
you know, a standing table on wheels.
The script supervisor uses it to follow the lines
and make sure that everybody knows.
And there are two telephones.
One is an outside line, and one is to the studio.
We could call Garry Marshall or the writers and say,
I've got a problem.
They would come down.
So the phone rings and they say, Henry,
there's a phone call for you.
And I walked over to the phone and it-- the man said, hi,
my name is Sergeant Joe Brown.
That's not exactly his name.
Sergeant Joe Brown.
And he was a state trooper from Illinois.
And he said, I'm sorry to bother you.
I said, no, that's OK, sir.
What is it?
He said, I have a 17-year-old kid on a ledge, and he
is threatening to jump off.
And he will only talk to you.
And I don't know where I got the nerve to take the phone
and start talking to this kid.
I said, OK, what is your name?
Uh, John. John.
OK.
How old are you, John?
17.
You're 17, you're on the ledge?
Why-- why do you want to jump, John?
I want to be an actor.
So you're 17, you haven't made it yet.
OK, let me ask you a question.
Do you collect records?
Do you have a record collection?
Because at that time, there were vinyl.
Sure.
I said, do you have a record collection?
He said yes.
I said, OK, so before you jump, John, will you just
will them to me?
OK, good.
Good.
Do me a favor.
If you get off the ledge, we'll-- let's talk
about acting.
OK?
All right.
Hand the phone-- yeah, OK.
All right.
You're inside now?
OK.
I was 27 when I got the Fonz, John.
I think you've got 10 good years to keep trying.
How about that?
Will you do that?
OK.
Can I get back to rehearsing?
Thank you.
Wow.
And-- you saved his life?
I never heard about him.
Was that John Travolta?
No, but he told me I had great muscles.
Oh, he did?
All right.
But I am honestly--
I have not thought about that story in a while.
I don't know where I got the nerve to talk to him.
And I just thought, I'm going to maybe
take him in another direction.
I don't-- and I never got the records.
Wow. Wow.
Yeah.
You should-- I mean, you should get a trophy for that.
Yeah.
Hey, I know you like-- you love fishing.
You're very-- you love the water.
I do.
Would you be interested in belly
flopping and being a part of our belly flop competition?
[APPLAUSE]
It's very easy.
We got a wet suit and everything,
if you want to wear one.
I mean, we got a wetsuit, we got--
You want me to-- you're talking about tonight?
Yes, tonight.
Yes, yes, yes.
It's a big competition.
Are you talking about in my suit?
You-- We'll put you in a wetsuit.
No, you don't have to wear your suit.
Something that you won't ruin.
[APPLAUSE]
That's-- All right.
Henry Winkler is going in the pool.
"Barry" is on HBO.
We have a last minute addition to our Pedestrian
Belly Flop Competition--
none other than Henry Winkler is on the board.
Henry-- Henry looks-- you look good in red.
Are you ready to do this?
Are you ready--
[INAUDIBLE].
I am ready.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Now Henry, it's a little bit hard to hear you
with the-- with the snorkel in your mouth,
but Henry, to increase the level of difficulty,
we have decided to add an obstacle to the pool.
On your way to your belly flop, do you think
you can jump over this shark?
That will be the third time I've ever done that, Jim.
JIMMY KIMMEL: All right.
Well, that's enough times. All right.
What was the second time?
Just out of--
On "Arrested Development," I jumped over the shark
on the dock. JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh, that's right.
All right.
Well, this one-- there's nothing to worry about.
I think it's a lemon shark, all right?
Are you ready, Henry?
I am, sir.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Let's see what you got.
Three--
I am crazy.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Two, one.
Ready, judges?
Here comes Henry with the flop.
[APPLAUSE]
JIMMY KIMMEL: Took a page out of Eric's book.
And there he goes.
He jumped the shark for sure.
Let's-- let's go to the judges now to see their scores.
Oh, my goodness.
Wow.
Is that an 11, Shaun?
Shaun, 11.
JIMMY KIMMEL: 31 for Henry.
Henry, congratulations.
You've set a new world record.
An unprecedented 31.
I am-- I'm so proud.
And I have done it for all short people in the world.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Ah, well, congratulations, Henry Winkler.
Totally--
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