RIP Robin Williams

[h0llywood]

I was just talking to my wife yesterday about how I loved the movie Hook and how she hated it. 

 

Is it bad of me to think that I was initially hoping it was the singer Robbie and not Robin?

[Cary Kollins]

So I kind of had a premonition about this. Fuging weird never had that happen before.

[TheRumGone]

Is it just me or are cats like drag queens?

It was him and jim carrey growing up. And when I got older all his dramatic roles and comedy specials. Super talented guy. Like floppin said his special in New York is still one of the funniest stand ups I've ever seen.

What dreams may come, good will hunting, mrs doubtfire are still some of my favorites.

Celebrity deaths are weird because you feel like you know that person. You might have shared special times with friends and families watching these people perform. It's like when James gandolfini died, it's a punch in the gut and that's what I'm feeling now with robin.

[rayzor]

wow....i've been sitting here pretty much all day, in fact for the past few days, with my mind fixated on my new baby that is getting ready to be born when my beautiful wife has labor induced tomorrow (tuesday).  i've been dreaming about the new life that is getting ready to enter the world and then i see this. it saddens me a bit just because he was just such a big part of my life growing up. life goes on. i hate that his depression took him to such depths that ending his life seemed like the best alternative to living. i've seen it happen with others that were close to me and it's never a joking matter or something to make light of. that said...life here has to go on and part of it is remembering those who played a part of it, even some of those who i only saw on screen like williams. it wasn't often that i thought of him, but just getting hit with this news i am hit with a flood of memories of roles and appearances on tv that brought a wider range of emotion and pulled that emotion out of me than probably anybody else out of hollywood.

 

he was one of the funniest and most entertaining individuals in my lifetime (40 something years). i first watched him play mork on happy days for a very weird episode and then years on mork and mindy and then he exploded on the big screen.

 

while he had some very funny roles, he was always at his funniest, imo, when he just cut loose on talk shows.

 

then he ventured away from comedy and went to more serious roles that are among some of the most memorable i will likely ever remember.

 

among my favorites...

 

(interesting...two great actors lost this year and way too early)

 

 

 

[pstall]

Some of you need to watch The Fisher King.

I just hate this.

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[frash.exe]

Also if I read ONE MORE GODDAMN fuging POST about all the people dying from Ebola/In Gaza/Whatever who don't get facebook posts made about THEM, I'm going to delete the internet.

Let me know when a dead Ukrainian makes a billion people laugh, dumbfugs.

Oh don't even get me started on the obligatory unsung hero reminder guy spiel. Those people are just as big of attention seekers as the "RIP BOB BTW in 20 minutes I'm going to post this funny picture from someecards lol" bandwagon

[Mr. Scot]

Talking crap about someone's death...the sure sign of an utterly pathetic individual.

 

Thanks to whomever did the banning.

[davos]

Damn this has to be the most saddening big name death in quite some time.  I rewatched the golf clip and not kidding, I laughed out loud, then just went blank.  It's just so damn weird.  

[Mr. Scot]

If you haven't seen his early stuff when he was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, do yourself a favor and look it up. Carson was the king, and he couldn't handle Williams.  It was pretty much just throw out the script, and some of the best late night moments in TV history.

 

RIP Robin.

 

One of the things I absolutely loathe about today's talk shows, whether on radio or TV, is that they're commonly hosted by self-important pricks who get interesting people on their show and then take up their time by talking about themselves or clowning with their imbecilic friends.

 

Johnny Carson was smarter than that, and because of it he had one of many great moments near the end of his career.

 

Carson brought together two of the greatest improvisational minds of all time in Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters (already acquainted from their Mork and Mindy days) and just let the two of them go.  The result was what you might expect, and hilarious :lol:

 

 

[rayzor]

One of the things I absolutely loathe about today's talk shows, whether on radio or TV, is that they're commonly hosted by self-important pricks who get interesting people on their show and then take up their time by talking about themselves or clowning with their imbecilic friends.

 

Johnny Carson was smarter than that, and because of it he had one of many great moments near the end of his career.

 

Carson brought together two of the greatest improvisational minds of all time in Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters (already acquainted from their Mork and Mindy days) and just let the two of them go.  The result was what you might expect, and hilarious :lol:

 

i almost posted that clip. theres also a 60 minutes segment with those two.

[TNPanther]

My high school physics teacher was Robin's brother (McLauren Smith-Williams). Such a funny guy and would always talk about Robin with admiration. I can't imagine what that family is going through now.

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[CarolinaNCSU]

Just watched Dead Poet's Society and get onto Twitter...

 

Of course, I see multiple people saying, "why are people sad about a guy who took his own life?"...I hate people sometimes. 

[PhillyB]

without any disrespect towards RW, the issues he dealt with, or anyone mourning him, it's a foreign experience to me to be personally emotionally affected by the death of a celebrity. i've never understood it.

 

i am abstractly sad, but that's all -- the posts on here and on social media about being distraught, in tears, sitting stunned, etc. don't really connect with me. 

[Kevin Greene]

without any disrespect towards RW, the issues he dealt with, or anyone mourning him, it's a foreign experience to me to be personally emotionally affected by the death of a celebrity. i've never understood it.

 

i am abstractly sad, but that's all -- the posts on here and on social media about being distraught, in tears, sitting stunned, etc. don't really connect with me. 

 

Simply put you're not a drama queen? ;)

 

I agree, it's a shame to see such an amazing talent laid waste.

Keeping it in perspective however.