"Baby fish mouth! Baby fish mouth!"

Oh, sad day: Bruno Kirby — frequent best friend to Billy Crystal, confidant of Godfathers Corleone, Sabatini, and Galante, outrageously straight foil to Adrian Cronauer — is no more.

His greatest role has to be Harry's friend Jess in When Harry Met Sally..., the humiliated owner of that “stupid, wagon wheel, Roy Rogers, garage sale coffee table!” who poses the timeless questions “Mr. Zero knew?” and “You made a woman meow?”

And then, as Ed in City Slickers, Kirby gave us the slightly less ambiguous lines “I like your ass. Can I wear it as a hat?” and “Hey pal, I can get an erection any time I want. Watch.”

But it's quite possible that he'll be best remembered as the (literally) witless Lieutenant Steve Hauk in Good Morning, Vietnam — the straight man who gets the pointy end of lines like:

“From a Marine in Da Nang: ‘Captain Hauk sucks the sweat off of a dead man’s balls.’ I have no idea what that means, sir, but it seems very negative to me.”

and:

“Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn’t we keep the PC on the QT, 'cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up an MIA and then we’d all be put on KP.”

That last one is my favorite, especially because after a long, dead pause, Kirby responds with: “I would like to leave the room now.”

Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho, Lootenant Steeeve...