Howard Storm died May 26, closing a career that moved from stand-up comedy into the muscle memory of American television, where the director's job was often to make timing look as if nobody had engineered it. [1]

Deadline's story contains one wrinkle: its headline says 95, while the body says Storm was 94, and this article follows the body and file title rather than smoothing away the inconsistency because the mismatch is visible in the cited record. [1]

The measurable career is large enough without inflation, with Deadline crediting Storm for 59 episodes of Mork & Mindy and work on Rhoda, Valerie, ALF, Full House, Head of the Class, Major Dad, Perfect Strangers, Kenan & Kel and Everybody Loves Raymond, plus a 1985 feature, Once Bitten, starring Lauren Hutton and a young Jim Carrey. [1]

Searches for Howard Storm, Mork & Mindy, Valerie and Deadline found no verified X /status/ URL after three passes, an absence that suits the obituary because the shows are instantly remembered while the craft worker who made their rhythms legible needs the trade press to put his name back under the laugh track and behind the camera again today for viewers.

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York