Name: The Genius of Robin Williams
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Genius of Robin Williams' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-21. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience.
You guys, you comedians, there must be, every once in a while, like a real
tragedy to process.
That must be very hard.
Yeah, I mean, it's not that common that comedians take their own lives.
I mean, it does happen with Robin.
Robin was a big one for a lot of people because he was not just a comedian.
He was like a cultural icon in terms of like his films, you think of all the
different movies
that I was in.
And he had such a range, too.
To me, when you know how brilliant a person really is, like, do you remember
that film
that he did about the crazy film processing guy?
It was like 24-hour film.
You remember those little film booths, photo booths that people would go to?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Back in the old days, you youngsters, we would have a camera, and the camera
would have film
in it, and you'd have to bring the film to a place for processing.
And Robin Williams did a film about a guy who was a psychopath who was obsessed
with someone,
from processing their picture.
One-hour photo, that's what it was.
Nice.
It was fucking great.
And you just, from that film, you realize the range this man had.
Right, right.
You know, I mean, from Good Will Hunting, from, you know, so many different,
yeah.
He was a genius.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And the human race is so lucky to have geniuses in it.
You know what I mean?
Like, we all feed off them.
Yeah, we do.
They elevate us.
And it costs them sometimes.
But we all need, we need those people, you know?
Yeah, to be a guy like that, to be, is dealing with the kind of RPMs he was
dealing with.
Yeah.
It's just, you know, like, he would spit out these amazing works, but, you know,
just a cost
on himself.
You know, in Good Morning Vietnam, in the initial, you know, few minutes, like,
it's
pretty clear that it wasn't scripted, because the, you know, there's this, like,
kid in
the control booth.
I mean, the conceit is that it's a military DJ, a radio announcer, during
Vietnam, right?
And the military command didn't really like him, because he was saying things
that were
sort of, like, not sufficiently sort of respectful of the war or whatever.
But, of course, the troops loved him.
He was a real guy, right?
And so, Robin Williams, it was pretty clear if you watch the beginning.
It's worth watching.
He, you know, it wasn't scripted, because the kid in the sound booth behind him,
you could
watch him react to this, like, three-minute, like, outpouring from Robin
Williams, where
he's, like, channeling different people, and it's all coming out.
It's totally insane.
And this kid can't even stand up.
He's laughing so hard.
I'm like, that's not acting.
That's a guy who actually had no idea this was coming.
Right, right, right.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
I met him only once, and I met him after one of my shows.
I didn't know I was talking to him until a couple minutes into the conversation.
He had a crazy big white beard, and he waited in line with everybody else to
meet me.
And I was talking to him when he was telling me, oh, I love this bit, I love
that, and
I love how you put that together.
I was like, oh, thanks, man.
Thanks.
I'm like, holy shit, this is Robin Williams.
That's great.
I didn't know.
I literally had no idea until, like, several minutes into our conversation.
He must have loved that.
It was pretty cool, man.
It was very cool.
It was cool that, you know, first of all, it was cool that he just went to the
show
by himself.
Right.
You know, he decided he wanted to come see me.
Maybe somebody told him I was funny, and he came to, and then he waited in line
to meet
me, and then wanted to talk about individual bits, and how he loved how I put
this one together,
and that one.
It was crazy.
It was like, I realized in the middle, and I'm like, oh, my God.
That's awesome.
It was pretty wild.
But that just shows you what kind of thoughtful person he was.
You know, he wasn't into being seen.
In fact, he had a baseball hat on, and glasses, and his crazy big white bushy
beard.
Couldn't even recognize him.
Right.
He snuck around.
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