12 Replies to “Robin Williams.  So over.”

1. Andrea Harris says:

   July 15, 2002 at 6:48 am

   I have an LP of his comedy, back when he was on the coke and really funny. It’s cruel but true.

2. jacques says:

   July 15, 2002 at 8:30 am

   I thought his performance tonight was classic.
   
   I had several good guffaws leading to tears in my eyes.

3. Jeff G says:

   July 15, 2002 at 5:14 pm

   I thought his material was tired—as in, “give him a bib and send him to a home” tired.

4. Steve Green says:

   July 15, 2002 at 5:15 pm

   I dug the Mork show, man.  That Jonathan Winters always cracks me up, especially when he’d, like, put on funny hats and stuff.

5. Mike Messina says:

   July 15, 2002 at 7:20 pm

   Robin Williams is always, annoyingly and somewhat uncomfortably, “on”.

6. Fred Pruitt says:

   July 16, 2002 at 2:33 am

   Nanoo? Fly, little brother, and be free!

7. Jeff G says:

   July 16, 2002 at 2:42 am

   That egg scene was freakin’ hilarious.  Where have you gone, funny Robin…?  A nation turns its lonely eyes to you…

8. Tim Peck says:

   July 16, 2002 at 3:28 am

   Be honest.  Have you ever laughed at anything by Robin Williams?  No, I mean honestly.

9. Bill Herbert says:

   July 16, 2002 at 3:32 am

   I have to echo Andrea’s sentiments. But in the hour and a half I watched last night, his only remotely funny line was about the Ted Turner/jane Fonda breakup:

   “Jane found God, and Ted found out it wasn’t him.”

   Actually, now that I read that on the screen, it isn’t even that funny. Christ, where do I go to get that 90 minutes of my life back?

10. Brian says:

    July 16, 2002 at 10:24 am

    I loved the golf bit. Are you sure we watched the same show? I mean, he’s no Eddie Izzard, but it’s not like he was boring either.

11. Jeff G says:

    July 16, 2002 at 5:20 pm

    Predictable.  Just predictable. 

    And I still haven’t forgiven him for <i>Patch Adams</i>.

12. The Sanity Inspector says:

    April 22, 2004 at 4:00 am

    There’s very few entertainers that can go their whole careers, wire to wire, on top.  Bob Hope did it, but very few others.

    I enjoyed Williams in his early standup days, as well as the first season of Mork and Mindy.  His standup was ruined for me when he started being influenced by Eddie Murphy.  Why bother with all that lightning quick improv, those literate allusions, when you could get laughs just holding your crotch and saying “muhfugguh” for two hours?

    Oh, I also liked Moscow On The Hudson.

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