I was 15 when he appeared on Happy Days, and Mork and Mindy after; it's hard for me to remember a time without Robin Williams. I saw him live once -- he came to Princeton in 1983, I think, on the tour that became the Throbbing Python of Love album, with John Sebastian of the Loving Spoonful opening for him. I was in the 8th row, center, and he actually climbed up into the audience not far from me to get at a heckler. Although he had the reputation of a master of improv comedy, a lot of his stuff was carefully crafted and rehearsed -- the monologue on TPoL, for instance, where he plays an old guy running a newstand who meets Robin Williams -- he did an earlier, longer version of that at the show I saw. Just wonderful.
He will be missed.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
He will be missed.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.