Name: Bobcat Goldthwait on the Death of Robin Williams (from Joe Rogan Experience #800)
Uploaded: 2016-05-31T22:46:29.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobcat Goldthwait on the Death of Robin Williams (from Joe Rogan Experience #800)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-05-31. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobcat Goldthwait on the Death of Robin Williams (from Joe Rogan Experience #800)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-05-31. Transcript available.

Hello, freak bitches
Well, there's some guys that just get trapped in a persona
We were just talking about Emo Phillips the other night because Emo Phillips is
apparently back to his persona
He let it go for a long time and he just started just being a guy on stage
talking about shit
Apparently that people weren't into that
Alright, give the people what they want. That's the story. I tell by the way
I should just clarify this is what I've heard. I haven't seen him, but this is
like
You know Robin was
Williams was my best pal and
He got me a job on on a Snickers commercial and I needed bread and he was so
nice
He's like, oh, you know, you know, so I want you to use my friend, you know Bobcat,
you know, he's got to be in it
You know, and they're like, you know, he actually
Put their feet on the fire and they had to hire me and then he goes
He's like don't take the first money just the way, you know, tell him no
So I don't know and then they came back with more money, you know
I mean, he was great, right? Right. So then he calls with me goes, you know,
they're gonna want you to do the voice
Are you okay doing the voice and I go for the amount of money Snickers is
paying?
I will fuck the Snickers behind camera
By the way, I should say it's a really good candy bar
It's my all-time favorite. Yeah, you know, I I said I was gonna go but there's
something I will will address a little bit and talk about you know
Robin had his his coroner's report came out and he had Lewy body dementia and
that is a it's a
Form of dementia that is very rarely ever discovered when someone's alive. It's
usually
discovered in their their
autopsy, so
He had this form of dementia. I I witnessed it. It was missed
Diagnosis Parkinson's
And I I witnessed this I witnesses processing reality completely different than
the way
But he else does what causes it it's
I'm not sure if it's a gene or what but I mean it is
Sadly his brain was riddled with this and so when I think about that I think
about how strong he was
You know, you would have like some days
You'd have a lot of days where he was
Doing kind of OCD stuff and and processing things incorrectly, but then you'd
have a day where he was back
So you go. Oh, well, maybe it's set a bad day or no
Maybe it's the Parkinson's drugs and they've got to get those dialed in you
know
He had he was going to die. He's in therapy
He was doing and it's just the only reason I talk about that is is his brain
was giving him misinformation
Complete misinformation and I don't if some and people die from depression
And and my heart goes out to them, but that's not what killed him
He he he really was getting misinformation from his own brain and was suffering
from this disease
so I just put that out there because I the folks know that we were friends and
there are they'll ask me about it and and
and and I would like a
Spotlight put on the disease that actually in my mind was
What was responsible for his demise?
Because you know a lot of people it's like did you ever talk about suicide ago
or comics?
We talked about suicide for 33 years, you know
Sometimes we talk about other shit, you know
Hey, congratulations on the Oscar. Well, thank you. How would you do it? I don't
I think a car
You know, but I just say that because he fought, you know, that's what we do
I don't know about you, but a comic that's what we do we fight depression
things don't add up
It doesn't this world doesn't seem right and we go out and we spew about it and
I feel better
Right on a selfish level. I don't really give a rat's ass
You know, I vent and I feel better and and and he
Fought it and that wasn't it wasn't depression. It wasn't career. It wasn't you
know, he'd been sober most of his adult life
You know, so so it's very disturbing to me that a lot of people were trying to
attribute all sorts of reasons for why he did it
And yeah, and there was a lot of like
Well, that's my things rights groups that were attributing it to his divorce
settlement. Oh brother. Yeah, there was a whole thing
Where this guy was doing this video? Well, and I even talked to him about it
But it's it's it's it's it's he had
Yeah, a disease he had a disease that caused dementia
That I witnessed I didn't have anybody I talked to more
You know, I talked to him and text and every day I
Didn't have a buddy that I talked to more. So trust me
It wasn't a divorce right it was it wasn't his family it wasn't it we have the
same agent
So like when this guy was saying this one the reason why it pissed me off
because this guy was saying that
You know these in financial ruins like no, he wasn't you know, he was wealthy.
Yeah. Yeah, and also it's it's
it's yeah, I mean no one wants to
because we as human beings were trying to make sense of of
Why why that happened and why that happened in my opinion, which is right?
What's his brain was who would know more than you was his brain was getting
Misinformation and he was processing reality completely wrong. I mean, I won't
go into details, but I did witness him
Thinking things that weren't real were happening and to me in the middle of the
night
And that's the other thing like people say oh, he wasn't in the same bedroom as
his wife
It's like yeah, because he was having seizures and he didn't like to wake her
up
It's not a question of
Somebody not getting along. I didn't mean to get so personal. No, I don't mean
it and I don't mean to talk about
about his
that's okay his home life because
you know
Susan's a
wonderful gal and and and and it's just
sad, you know, yeah
No, it's awful. That's the one of the scariest things is talking to someone who's
whether it's a loved one
father mother that's losing their grip and I think people were
They were courteous to a point, but I don't think they they take his his kids
in the consideration and
Friends and people worked with them for all these years and I guess I can't
expect them to you know
I mean, I'm sure I've taken shots at people when they pass away, but
It's just it's it's like people would come up and they go. Did you hear what?
Did you hear what Rush Limbaugh said and I'd be like, I don't care what what
she says. I'm dealing with
People who dealt with them on a daily basis. Let me ask you this. What is it?
What is this impulse that people have to denigrate people right after they die?
It's almost like everyone else is
Everyone else is talking about them
Like I saw a lot of that with Prince when it was revealed that Prince was
suffering through
Opioid addiction. Yeah, and I was like there was like even Gene Simmons said
some crazy shit
And he had to apologize and I'd seen some other people say it too
But what it's almost like it's a crunch a contrarian thing like everyone else
is saying oh my god
We lost his genius. Well you get heat from it. Mm-hmm, and I'm sure in Gene
Simmons is
You know, I'm sure there's a jealousy thing
But you say look I used to say outrageous things about people and and this bomb
would go off and I would go
I would get some heat now get some buzz, right?
And I stopped doing that. I made a decision. I got you know realizing that
these weren't just
harmless things I was saying right right right you just yeah, I
Yeah, you know it was
Yeah, cuz a lot of that when Kurt Cobain died - yeah, but you know, and that's
the I
Wasn't besties with Kurt, but I did know my toured with Nirvana. Yeah Kurt
liked my stand-up
And asked me to go on the road with them. I did a bunch of dates. Yeah, we
talked about it
But but I I mean it wasn't like the situation with Robin, but but I did have
times in my life where I
Spent hours with Kurt when no one else sitting around talking and laughing, you
know
I
Don't know why we want to do that. I think I think I think
We try to make sense of it. I think we try to make sense of it
I think I think that's where a lot of conspiracies come from
I think when when someone who's in our mind reached the American dream and then
they die or yeah look or
Or take their life or overdose
We have to say well, they had it all and that's what we believe is the ultimate
fulfillment and happiness
You know the America is the people's republic a spring break, you know where no
one's pursuing fulfillment everyone's pursuing happiness
You know, there's two different things. I'm really fulfilled. Am I happy? Am I
laughing all day? Am I know but you're happy?
Sometimes I'm happy a lot of the time. Yeah, well, I've never been happier you
like if I didn't know that you're this nuance guy
That's very thoughtful and you have a lot of opinions and you're always
considering all sorts of if I just took like if I tried to
Form a view of you based on you and I talking we're always laughing
Yeah, I would say Bobcat so jolly every time I talk to him but it's laughs and
hugs and but it is true and it's and it's
Because we never see each other before noon first of all
It's a it's a it's a daily reprieve. It's a daily decision
You know I get up the squirrels are up before I do and I and I beat them down
and then it turns
And when I'm directing on a set
I'm like I can react and fear or I can just sit here for a second or two and it
always usually works out very
Rarely do I have to say no again? This is you just sit there. I
Think so much of showbiz is everything's based on fear and people thinking
someone's gonna say you screwed up or you didn't do it
Right, or you didn't get extra takes and all that stuff. But man, my job is
really not to
To freak out. Hmm. I'm really happy right now
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