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- His riffs were not merely funny. They were deeply observant, subversive in their ability to blast assumptions about normalcy or conventional reality, and frequently unsettling in their speed and breadth of references and comparisons.
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Aug 12, 2014 · His riffs were not merely funny. They were deeply observant, subversive in their ability to blast assumptions about normalcy or conventional reality, and frequently unsettling in their speed...
- Robin Williams Got His Start in Comedy at A Church.
- He Formed A Friendship with Koko The Gorilla.
- He Spent Some Time Working as A Mime in Central Park.
- He Tried to Get Lydia from Mrs. Doubtfire Back in School.
- He Wasn’T The Producers' First Choice to Play Mork on Mork & Mindy.
- Williams “Risked” A Role in An Off-Broadway Play.
- He Ushered in The Era of Celebrity Voice Acting.
- He Forgot to Thank His Mother During His 1998 Oscar Speech.
- He Comforted Steven Spielberg During The Filming of Schindler’s List.
- Williams Helped Ethan Hawke Get An Agent.
After leaving Juilliard, Robin Williams found himself back in his hometown of San Francisco, but he couldn’t find work as an actor. Then he saw something for a comedy workshop in a church and decided to give it a shot. “So I went to this workshop in the basement of a Lutheran church, and it was stand-up comedy, so you don’t get to improvise with ot...
In 2001, Williams visited Koko the gorilla, who passed away in June, at The Gorilla Foundation in Northern California. Her caregivers had shown her one of his movies, and she seemed to recognize him. Koko repeatedly signed for Williams to tickle her. “We shared something extraordinary: laughter,” Williams said of the encounter. On the day Williams ...
In 1974, photographer Daniel Sorine captured photos of two mimes in New York's Central Park. As it turned out, one of the mimes was Williams, who was attending Juilliard at the time. “What attracted me to Robin Williams and his fellow mime, Todd Oppenheimer, was an unusual amount of intensity, personality, and physical fluidity,” Sorine said. In 19...
As a teen, Lisa Jakub played Robin Williams’s daughter Lydia Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire. “When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film Mrs. Doubtfire for five months, and my high school was not happy,” Jakub wroteon her blog. “My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a ‘non-traditional’ student. So...
Anson Williams, Marion Ross, and Don Most told The Hallmark Channel that a different actor was originally hired to play Mork for the February 1978 Happy Days episode “My Favorite Orkan,” which introduced the alien character to the world. “Mork & Mindy was like the worst script in the history of Happy Days. It was unreadable, it was so bad,” Anson W...
In 1988, Williams made his professional stage debut as Estragon in the Mike Nichols-directed Waiting for Godot, which also starred Steve Martin and F. Murray Abraham. The play was held off-Broadway at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. The New York Times askedWilliams if he felt the show was a career risk, and he responded with: “Risk! Of...
The 1992 success of Aladdin, in which Williams voiced Genie, led to more celebrities voicing animated characters. According to a 2011 article in The Atlantic, “Less than 20 years ago, voice acting was almost exclusively the realm of voice actors—people specifically trained to provide voices for animated characters. As it turns out, the rise of the ...
In March 1998, Williams won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting. In 2011, Williams appeared on The Graham Norton Show, and Norton asked him what it was like to win the award. “For a week it was like, ‘Hey congratulations! Good Will Hunting, way to go,'” Williams said. “Two weeks later: ‘Hey, Mork.’...
At this year’s 25th anniversary screening of Schindler’s List, held at the Tribeca Film Festival, director Steven Spielberg shared that Williams—who played Peter Pan in Spielberg’s Hook—would call him and make him laugh. “Robin knew what I was going through, and once a week, Robin would call me on schedule and he would do 15 minutes of stand-up on ...
During a June 2018 appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Ethan Hawke recalled how, while working on Dead Poets Society, Williams was hard on him. “I really wanted to be a serious actor,” Hawke said. “I really wanted to be in character, and I really didn’t want to laugh. The more I didn’t laugh, the more insane [Williams] got. He would make fun of m...
Not Funny doesn't mean "unfunny", like not being able to write or perform comedy. It means becoming more than just a mere comedian. It means cute anecdotes and heartwarming stories getting smiles and golf claps -- instead of timing and jokes getting snorts and applause.
Nov 23, 2023 · I stumbled across this endearing, funny and bittersweet video of Robin Williams today, and just had to share. It features Williams shooting a commercial in the '80s, where he only really had to deliver one line.
- An Evening with Robin Williams (1982) One long segment of this early special riffs on grabbing one’s package, masturbating, sperm, baby-making, having kids and finally, Williams getting in an imagined, drunken confrontation with his resentful son.
- At the Comic Strip (1983) This short clip from gives a sense of the electricity Williams generated while he played smaller clubs. Using his own experience as a jumping-off point, he plays with the idea of going to high school prom on Acid: “No, Mr. Smith, I’ll have Becky back in this dimension real soon!
- An Evening at the Met (1986) This full-throttle production sums up his early parenthood, his feelings about Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and a romp in which he personifies a penis for several minutes.
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? (2000) Williams handles his own with the stalwarts of Whose Line during the show’s “Scenes from a Hat” game, including this quick hit in response to the question, “What is Robin Williams Thinking Right Now?”
Aug 12, 2014 · While many of Williams’ tried-and-true routines were included in the set, it was his spontaneous riffs that won the day, despite possibly confusing the audience. (“Right now people are going:...
Aug 12, 2014 · Before the two do a couple of pretty funny improv games, they just play around onstage like two young kids, dancing, touching each other, and doing particularly dumb bits.
