#1
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:26pm
What are your views on this highly volatile and controversial figure?
Robin Williams: Excellent Comedic Actor or Tiresome Hack?
#2
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:28pm
He can be both. Sometimes he makes me laugh so hard I can't breathe, other times I want to kill myself when he's talking.
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#3
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:33pm
agreed with person above...
#4
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:34pm
Watching him do comedy makes me want to up my meds... sorry Tom Cruise.
#5
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:34pm
I used to think he was funny a long, long time ago. Now he just gets on my last nerve. Can't watch anything he's on.
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#6
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:42pm
not even Good Will Hunting or Dead Poet's Society?
#7
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:49pm
He stole his entire schtick from (genius) Jonathan Winters.
Never liked him. Plus, I can't think of a single movie he was ever in that wasn't middle-brow crap.
Never liked him. Plus, I can't think of a single movie he was ever in that wasn't middle-brow crap.
#8
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:49pm
Got to work with him a few weeks ago and he was a class act all the way. His comedy is hit or miss, but I find his dramatic performances consistently good.
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#9
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:52pm
I like Robin Williams. Though I agree that his comedy can be hit or miss. I found his stint in Inside the Actors Studio to be much, much funnier than his solo show on Broadway.
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
#10
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:53pm
He was the best part of "One Hour Photo", eh?
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"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#11
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:01pm
He was indeed very creepy in One Hour Photo...though I didn't care for the movie as a whole. I couldn't get over the fact that when he laid out the photos at the end, there were 20 pix...I think it was 20. I don't remember, but it wasn't 24. A whole movie revolving around a creepy guy developing pictures and you didn't have the sense to have him lay out 24 pictures!!!...I think. Damn. I only saw it once, but I'm pretty damn sure there weren't 24. Yeah...nevermind.
Back to Robin Williams. Love him in Good Will Hunting. Wait, here's a screw-up from a Robin Williams film that I KNOW is in there for a fact. Will saying that he wants to "be a sherherd up in Nashua." Well, I was born in Nashua, and we ain't got no shepherds! Why not "be a shepherd up in Bedford"???
Why am I ranting like this...Sorry!
Back to Robin Williams. Love him in Good Will Hunting. Wait, here's a screw-up from a Robin Williams film that I KNOW is in there for a fact. Will saying that he wants to "be a sherherd up in Nashua." Well, I was born in Nashua, and we ain't got no shepherds! Why not "be a shepherd up in Bedford"???
Why am I ranting like this...Sorry!
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
#12
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:11pm
I stopped watching his films after Patch Adams. Yuck!
#13
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:11pm
"Robin Williams: Live on Broadway"... funniest standup special EVER in my opinion!
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#14
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:13pm
Mmm...I find most of Eddie Izzard's stand-up specials superior, but I enjoyed Robin's Broadway DVD very much. (How much can one man SWEAT???)
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"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#15
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:13pm
Really, TheActr97J? It didn't really do it for me. I thought he was funnier on Inside the Actors Studio, with the scarf bit and all. I can't even imagine interviewing him. He's always SO manic on talk shows.
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
#16
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:15pm
The Broadway special got tedious after a while, but I thought there were some funny bits. Not better than Eddie Izzard though.
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"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#17
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:25pm
I've never really seen much of Eddie Izzard's stuff. I've been meaning to check him out, because one of my friends loves him.
I absolutely love his "Live on Broadway" special! He's just so wild and manic! I totally dig it. You can tell he used to do a lot of hard drugs! haha... I'm not really a very harsh judge of standup... if it makes me laugh I don't care. I love Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, Lewis Black, Mitch Hedberg, and Dane Cook.
And Type_A_Tiff... I'm so jealous that you got to work with Robin Williams. I can't imagine what that must be like. lol
I absolutely love his "Live on Broadway" special! He's just so wild and manic! I totally dig it. You can tell he used to do a lot of hard drugs! haha... I'm not really a very harsh judge of standup... if it makes me laugh I don't care. I love Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, Lewis Black, Mitch Hedberg, and Dane Cook.
And Type_A_Tiff... I'm so jealous that you got to work with Robin Williams. I can't imagine what that must be like. lol
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#18
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:33pm
Ohhh...Lewis Black. 
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Robin was amazing to work with. I did a couple of days on his new movie, RV. I got to talk with him a few times briefly, but what really stood out is what a classy guy he was. He was only 10 minutes late to the set (and it was because of traffic, and no fault of his own), but he handwrote letters to each producer, assistant director and heads of the departments and personally gave them out, apologizing for keeping everyone waiting. Oh, and he treated everyone to coffee, and apparently the after-lunch meal once a week too. (I wasn't around on one of those days, unfortunately.)
And he really is as manic between takes as he's rumoured to be. Cheno seemed to really eat it up though.
Anyone from The Daily Show... Robin was amazing to work with. I did a couple of days on his new movie, RV. I got to talk with him a few times briefly, but what really stood out is what a classy guy he was. He was only 10 minutes late to the set (and it was because of traffic, and no fault of his own), but he handwrote letters to each producer, assistant director and heads of the departments and personally gave them out, apologizing for keeping everyone waiting. Oh, and he treated everyone to coffee, and apparently the after-lunch meal once a week too. (I wasn't around on one of those days, unfortunately.)
And he really is as manic between takes as he's rumoured to be. Cheno seemed to really eat it up though.
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#19
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:43pm
Truly, the most unfunny human being who has ever lived. He just rambles on and on and on, and everybody else appears to be forcing the laughter. As if, they are required to laugh at his antics, which are never funny. As for his acting, he always has this look on his face that makes him appear constipated. I just can't even look at him.
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#20
That's awesome! Good for you! He does sound like a real professional though.
... and I adore Lewis Black!! ("The Daily Show" and its correspondents are all brilliant!) I sat in the front row for his performance at our local House of Blues... and I was in HEAVEN!
Posted: 9/22/05 at 11:46pm
That's awesome! Good for you! He does sound like a real professional though.
... and I adore Lewis Black!! ("The Daily Show" and its correspondents are all brilliant!) I sat in the front row for his performance at our local House of Blues... and I was in HEAVEN!
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#21
Posted: 9/23/05 at 12:08am
I'm hoping to get stand-by tickets to The Daily Show. I plan my evening around catching it!
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#23
Posted: 9/23/05 at 10:49am
His work in Good Will Hunting is quite moving.
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#24
Posted: 9/23/05 at 10:52am
True - but that Oscar BELONGED to Burt Reynolds - Good will was having such a sweep that year it rode Williams along with it...
Don't get me wrong - a very good performance but Reynolds was a performance 50 years in the making....and a great one..
Don't get me wrong - a very good performance but Reynolds was a performance 50 years in the making....and a great one..
#25
Posted: 9/23/05 at 10:55am
Oddly enough, I think his worst peformances are his "sincere" roles--"Good Will Hunting" "Awakenings"--really awful performances. Much better as a comic, though I agree with the Jonathan Winters comment.
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