RIP Robin Williams

RIP to one of the greats....

From Live at the Met, probably the funnest comedy video I have ever seen....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIWB-Neyj-c

 

I pulled a muscle laughing so hard. Was at the Comedy Shoppe in Hollywood maybe 30 years ago. Sam Kinison, then a relative unknown, was performing. Robin Williams was in the audience, came up on stage and they brought down the house.
RIP to a great entertainer.

 

Loved him in Hook.

 

I don't think he was broke. I thought he sold his palatial estate recently.
He was depressed, though... For years. And that, sadly, is the only excuse he needs.

 

Don't remember his character name but Awakenings was powerful too.

 

Carson's next-to-last show with Williams and Bette Midler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLVcBe2O6w

 

Don't try to figure it out. Success is not a buffer.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7vQ-IEbiJE

 

Times review from 1979 of his standup show:

 

He must've been angry that Janet used "very" twice in the same sentence. She didn't get laid that night.

 

This is a really sad one. Whether it was Mork and Mindy, his dramatic turns in Dead Poets and Good Will Hunting or his stand-up performances, I would make it a point not to miss him. Hell, I made sure to be in front of the TV for Carson, Leno and Letterman if Williams was making a guest appearance.

And Huggy, I wholeheartedly agree with you on Live at the Met. That's the best stand-up performance I've ever seen.

I guess this is just another lesson on the power of addiction (and the devastation of depression), no matter how rich or famous or talented you are, it can bring you down easily if you aren't careful.

Also so noted on how a person who made so many laugh was so tortured inside, but I guess that's another example of the Pagliacci story:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/141645-heard-joke-once-man-goes-to-doctor-says-he-s-depressed