Posts Tagged ‘Robin Williams’

“The Best Interview In The History of Television”

Saturday, June 9th, 2018

Robin Williams on Craig Ferguson from 2011. That’s the title on the video. I wouldn’t make that big a claim, but it is pretty damn funny.

“But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci!”

Monday, August 11th, 2014

Robin Williams dead of an apparent suicide at age 63.

Williams, along with Richard Pryor, was one of the true authentic comic geniuses of my lifetime. As a stand-up comic, his mind was so quick and his work was so manically innovative that his basic appeal actually survived transition to the straitjacket confines of a prime-time sitcom. He was a solid dramatic supporting actor, but it’s a shame that (unlike Pryor) he never found a movie that served the true essence of his comic genius.

(Subject line hat tip.)