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RIP Robin Williams (1 Viewer)

To be truly funny I believe you have to have some serious demons that you are hiding. Seems that the truly funny people are troubled. RIP

 
Uwe Blab said:
Just been watching all his old standup for the last 2 hours. So, so funny. So sad right now.
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Loved his movies but I guess I didn't "get" his standup routine. Never laughed once.

It was like watching an 8-year-old kid who is spazzing out after eating a giant box of candy.

 
tri-man 47 said:
gianmarco said:
bostonfred said:
There are celebrities, and there are permanent celebrities. Robin Williams was a permanent celebrity. Especially for people our age. He was at the peak of his career as a comedian when I was growing up and he was an outstanding actor who mellowed a little just around the time I started to. He didn't just change his roles he changed as a person and he let us see the ups and the downs with very little censorship. I wouldn't say I was his biggest fan and I never gave him the credit he deserved, but I think all of us knew he was a part of our collective consciousness. He was a great man and he will be missed. Rest in peace. And thank you.
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Well said.

Good Morning Vietnam still my favorite of his.

Sad news.
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Sad indeed. That early scene of him first appearing on the radio broadcast in GMV was as good as it gets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuk8AOjGURE
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Remember hearing that most of the stuff he did on the 'radio' for GMV was improv. WOW. RIP

 
Raider Nation said:
Uwe Blab said:
Just been watching all his old standup for the last 2 hours. So, so funny. So sad right now.
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Loved his movies but I guess I didn't "get" his standup routine. Never laughed once.

It was like watching an 8-year-old kid who is spazzing out after eating a giant box of candy.
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"And your doing cocaine and you can't fall asleep and you're doing cocaine and you can't fall asleep and you wake up, and you're doing cocaine"

To each their own but his Night at the Met stands on its own and is probably one of the best 5-10 stand up comedy sets of all time. Most mainstream comics study it plus Robin is one of the few who made it thru Juilliard so there's that as well. People will be hard pressed to find many if any other fellow comedians that have even half his resume.

Very sad he decided to go this route but it reminds everyone just how serious mental health is and also depression.

 
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Yankee23Fan said:
I'm actually sad. Dammit.
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This.

Celebrity Deaths can sometimes shock me ie John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger etc, but you can remain unemotional (Please don't start a thread Tim)

Sometimes you expect it, but hope it doesn't happen eg Amy Winehouse

This one is one you don't suspect and when I first heard it, I thought Heart Attack, but suicide that just makes me really sad.

First time I've had a real tear from a celebrity death, but the reason why is what makes it a somber moment.

A man who brought laughter and smiles to so many, for so long doesn't deserve to go out like this.

 
Wow...told this to the wife and my 5 year old overheard and asked who. I told him "Hook" and he almost started to cry.

What a great talent. This sucks.

 
They filmed The Fisher King at my junior high/high school (7-12th grade). I was 13 or 14. Met Robin WIliams during filming. He was incredibly nice. Joked about how not many people get to go to school in a place that can stand in for a castle in a movie.

This really bummed me out. Depression is a mother####er.

 
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KarmaPolice said:
Raider Nation said:
Uwe Blab said:
Just been watching all his old standup for the last 2 hours. So, so funny. So sad right now.
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Loved his movies but I guess I didn't "get" his standup routine. Never laughed once.

It was like watching an 8-year-old kid who is spazzing out after eating a giant box of candy.
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interesting. even his new stuff like Live On Broadway had me in tears.
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I can understand not liking his act. The deal with him was that it was so different and manic and often really, really funny. We had never seen anyone like him - except for Jonathon Winters, but it was a younger an even more unleashed version.

It is weird how the majority of comedy doesn't hold up well to newer generations.

Robin Williams was one of the funniest and more versatile talents ever.

 
Huge fan of his. I had the pleasure of seeing him live a few times and he had me in absolute tears. He was one of a kind. Just a brilliant comic.

I loved a lot of his movies too.

Good Morning Vietnam

Mrs Doubtfire

Those two were real fav's of mine. I was shocked....my wife called me after I just finished some baseball practice with my son. I was in shock. My son asked me what happened...and I told him Mrs. Doubtfire passed away. He loves that movie (he is only 9).

RIP Robin. You will be truly missed.

 
I'll never forget being listening to his album "Reality, what a concept" and laughing a lot back in the late 70s.

1979, I think.

RIP Dr Maguire

 
John Maddens Lunchbox said:
Yankee23Fan said:
I'm actually sad. Dammit.
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This.

Celebrity Deaths can sometimes shock me ie John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger etc, but you can remain unemotional (Please don't start a thread Tim)

Sometimes you expect it, but hope it doesn't happen eg Amy Winehouse

This one is one you don't suspect and when I first heard it, I thought Heart Attack, but suicide that just makes me really sad.

First time I've had a real tear from a celebrity death, but the reason why is what makes it a somber moment.

A man who brought laughter and smiles to so many, for so long doesn't deserve to go out like this.
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Surprised and a little hurt that you think I would.

 
My kids had just watched Jumanji and Hook over the weekend on Netflix.

My son yesterday said during Hook, "Dad! Isn't that the same guy from Jumanji?"

So weird that I was having a conversation about him the day before he dies. I probably hadn't said his name or thought about him specifically in years.

 
timschochet said:
John Maddens Lunchbox said:
Yankee23Fan said:
I'm actually sad. Dammit.
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This.

Celebrity Deaths can sometimes shock me ie John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger etc, but you can remain unemotional (Please don't start a thread Tim)

Sometimes you expect it, but hope it doesn't happen eg Amy Winehouse

This one is one you don't suspect and when I first heard it, I thought Heart Attack, but suicide that just makes me really sad.

First time I've had a real tear from a celebrity death, but the reason why is what makes it a somber moment.

A man who brought laughter and smiles to so many, for so long doesn't deserve to go out like this.
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Surprised and a little hurt that you think I would.
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Sorry if you were offended.

Been really affected by this and thought that a thread like this would send me away from the FFA for awhile. Attached your name to it. Sorry about that.

 
Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams

These 3 were trailblazers. All of them had successful stand up routines plus major movies and that was not a common thing. I can point to many "comedians" or SNL types but most of them were not stand up comedians or did not choose the night clubs for their talents. Very few comedians go from the stage to the big screen with the kind of success that these three were able to have at different points in their careers.

 
As a kid, Mork and Mindy was a weekly staple. During my teenage years, Survivors with Walter Mathau and Jerry Reed was one of my favorites, along with The World According to Garp. So much good stuff.

One of my guilty pleasures is the movie Jack. (doesn't hurt that Diane Lane plays his Mom)

 
Mork & Mindy

Good Morning, Vietnam

Dead Poets Society

Awakenings

The Fisher King

Hook

Aladdin

Mrs. Doubtfire

Jumanji

The Birdcage

Good Will Hunting

Patch Adams

What Dreams May Come

Bicentennial Man

One Hour Photo

Robots

Night At The Museum

Happy Feet

The Butler

That's a heck of a run. Sometimes a great supporting actor, sometimes the star, comedy, drama, cartoons, etc. His career has covered my entire lifespan.

Three of those movies I have in my top 100 all time list. (Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society & Good Will Hunting)

RIP Robin.

 
I honestly don't even think of him as a comedic actor. Most of that was before my time. But his dramatic roles were unreal. Just a truly gifted actor.

Dead poets is my dad's favorite movie and one of mine as well. Damn shame

 
Mr. Ham said:
Ratlles my core. Had tremendous respect for his quick brain and fearless improvization. He had true depth, and incredible talent that transcended any mold. With all that aptitude for humor and humanism, this guy couldn't figure out a way to find peace in life? I don't understand it? Shakes a fundamental thing about what it all means. If not him, then who could ride a wave to some kind of enlightenment? What hope for we mere mortals?
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Never thought someone who chooses to end their life is hopeless. Hopelessness equates to no plan.

He was done. So what's wrong with being done?...You just said he lived his life in a way you couldn't possibly mirror so why shouldn't he die the same way? He lived as long as he wanted to live and he decided to finish his life on his own terms. So what.

 
Extraordinarily CommonPosted on August 11, 2014 | Leave a comment
Robin Williams was a singular talent, a conquerer of television, film, and stand-up. Comedy was his best-known genre, but he could play with preternatural ease in so many other worlds. His work brought us joy and laughter and that feeling of deep hopeful heartache in almost limitless measure, and we were lucky to be his audience while he was here. But the absence of his artistry is not what makes Robin Williams’s death a tragedy.

The tragedy is much simpler: Robin Williams was a person who needed something that he could not find. Whether it was hope, or peace, or love, or help, it eluded Williams because of his depression. The heights he achieved as a performer were extraordinary, and the struggle he faced was anything but.

That’s important to keep in mind because, by comparison, lots of “ordinary” people face the same pain every day. They are not famous, and when their darkness is at its worst, most of us never hear about it. When we lose them, the tragedy is not any smaller, because they are our brothers and sisters and parents and children, just as Robin Williams was.

The work of Robin Williams, actor and comedian, should rightly be celebrated as something we see only a few times in a generation. The depression that felled Robin Williams should sadden us because it is not. Let’s smile fondly at the former and do everything we can to support those around us dealing with the latter.
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http://celebrityhottub.com/2014/08/11/extraordinarily-common/

 
DaveGrumbles said:
Mr. Ham said:
Ratlles my core. Had tremendous respect for his quick brain and fearless improvization. He had true depth, and incredible talent that transcended any mold. With all that aptitude for humor and humanism, this guy couldn't figure out a way to find peace in life? I don't understand it? Shakes a fundamental thing about what it all means. If not him, then who could ride a wave to some kind of enlightenment? What hope for we mere mortals?
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Never thought someone who chooses to end their life is hopeless. Hopelessness equates to no plan.

He was done. So what's wrong with being done?...You just said he lived his life in a way you couldn't possibly mirror so why shouldn't he die the same way? He lived as long as he wanted to live and he decided to finish his life on his own terms. So what.
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OK...

 
Mr. Ham said:
Ratlles my core. Had tremendous respect for his quick brain and fearless improvization. He had true depth, and incredible talent that transcended any mold. With all that aptitude for humor and humanism, this guy couldn't figure out a way to find peace in life? I don't understand it? Shakes a fundamental thing about what it all means. If not him, then who could ride a wave to some kind of enlightenment? What hope for we mere mortals?
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Can't understand/judge a person if you've never walked in their shoes, which no one but him did. Major depression alone can be deadly, much less the addiction battle and other pressures of being a famed actor.

 
Great to read all the behind-the-scenes stuff and hear what a kind and sweet man he was to everyone.

Ben Stiller talked about meeting him when he was a teenager while his parents filmed an episode of "Love Boat" on the same lot as "Mork & Mindy". Stiller said Robin was really nice and gracious.

I haven't heard anything from Billy Crystal. They were best friends. It must be devastating for him.

 
DaveGrumbles said:
Mr. Ham said:
Ratlles my core. Had tremendous respect for his quick brain and fearless improvization. He had true depth, and incredible talent that transcended any mold. With all that aptitude for humor and humanism, this guy couldn't figure out a way to find peace in life? I don't understand it? Shakes a fundamental thing about what it all means. If not him, then who could ride a wave to some kind of enlightenment? What hope for we mere mortals?
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Never thought someone who chooses to end their life is hopeless. Hopelessness equates to no plan.

He was done. So what's wrong with being done?...You just said he lived his life in a way you couldn't possibly mirror so why shouldn't he die the same way? He lived as long as he wanted to live and he decided to finish his life on his own terms. So what.
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uh
 
Remember my dad taking 8-year-old me to see Good Morning Vietnam. We howled. Bruno Kirby. :lmao:

My sisters and I would watch Mrs. Doubtfire repeatedly when it came to home video. My parents were going through a divorce. Remember my dad telling us he couldn't bear to watch that movie anymore.

Probably seen Good Will Hunting more then any other movie. Have to watch it once every other year. Like waiting for a wine to mature.

When they talk about the soundtrack of your life, Williams was apart of mine. He was up there with John Candy.

 
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One of the all-time greats. Right there with Carlin, in my opinion.

Makes me realize how much worse I will feel when we lose Bill Murray.

Terrible news.

 
Mr. Ham said:
Ratlles my core. Had tremendous respect for his quick brain and fearless improvization. He had true depth, and incredible talent that transcended any mold. With all that aptitude for humor and humanism, this guy couldn't figure out a way to find peace in life? I don't understand it? Shakes a fundamental thing about what it all means. If not him, then who could ride a wave to some kind of enlightenment? What hope for we mere mortals?
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Are you being literal here? It's called "mental illness".

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
Mr. Ham said:
Ratlles my core. Had tremendous respect for his quick brain and fearless improvization. He had true depth, and incredible talent that transcended any mold. With all that aptitude for humor and humanism, this guy couldn't figure out a way to find peace in life? I don't understand it? Shakes a fundamental thing about what it all means. If not him, then who could ride a wave to some kind of enlightenment? What hope for we mere mortals?
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Are you being literal here? It's called "mental illness".
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Seriously, obviously he lived about as charmed of a life as one could ever hope for but depression and drug addiction is a very real thing that can ruin even the greatest of opportunity. How many times do we have to see that before people understand it?
 
Thinking about the dual threat thing (dumb way to phrase it), he might be one of the great actors of all time. He made some brutal movies, but when he had a good script and put his heart into it, he stole the screen. He pulled off the hilarious, inspirational and creepy evil roles. Major versatility.

 
So very sad. RIP. :(

I completely agree with Ilov80s about his ability to act at the highest level in both dramatic and comedic genres.

 
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