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Anybody have him in the death pool ? That would be a slam dunk winner.

Putting pounds of blow up your nose for 30 plus years and chasing it with lots of booze, rehabing about 20 times, all that is bound to alter your look at bit on the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi6fPwWuO9I

I envy him.

sincerely
Tardowen

At least we won't have to suffer through another of his so-called "comedies" ever again. Worst. Comedian. Ever.

Rooster, are we talking about the same Robin Williams?

I thought he was one of the best actors ever. I could see how some might tire of his over the top energy, but no one can argue his acting talent. My favorite role of of his was as the subtly gay dude in The Bird Cage. He absolutely nailed that role.

RIP Robin

Yeah, many of his roles in film were ridiculous, but like most successful comedians, Williams came up on the stand-up circuit and was considered one of the greats. His style wasn't really my bag, but it's hard not to respect his body of work.

Nope...

I'm with Rooster on this.


He sucked.

...and believe me, I KNOW MY COMEDY.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:...and believe me, I KNOW MY COMEDY.

Come on, man. It's like 99% of the Steve Vai bullshit the tards in here listen to. It doesn't stir your soul, but you can still respect the talent...

I guess Orson finally let him come home.

"And when no hope was left inside on that starry starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you Robin, the world was never made for one as beautiful as you". Thanks to Don McClean for summing it up so well. Too sad.

Derron wrote:Putting pounds of blow up your nose for 30 plus years and chasing it with lots of booze

So...you're...saying that's a problem?

Dude was a hack who stole some of his early bits from a friend of mine. Good riddance.

Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:"And when no hope was left inside on that starry starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you Robin, the world was never made for one as beautiful as you". Thanks to Don McClean for summing it up so well. Too sad.

That was about as ghey as it gets.

My guess is you C&P'd that from some f@t, middle-aged Fakebook chick's page, Rog.

Ghey.

Okay, fine.

He sucked.

Papa Willie wrote:Learn to expand

From you? I'd end up with a 46 waist size and shit taste for music.

It isn't about "expanding" for me. See, I started out listening to all that ostentatious noodlery...then found the light.

He was second to none in a supporting role in Good Will Hunting and had a handful of of good movies over a very long career.

His stand-up was hit and miss, but I had tears when I watched his monologue on golf. Hilarious stuff.

Uter shit. Bad accent. Made little sense. I made it 40 seconds. Like I said, good riddence.

Moving Sale wrote:Dude was a hack who stole some of his early bits from a friend of mine. Good riddance.

You have no friends.

Williams was one of the few comedic geniuses of this generation, imo.

In a sense, he was too great for film.
He was too brilliant to be bottled into a role with confines he had to stay within.
A film role didn't necessarily fit his skill set.

He was at his best when he could jive and free wheel it on his own terms.
Super creative -- with a sharpness and ability to find a humorous angle when confronted with almost any situation or question.

Comedy is subjective, of course.
What is funnay to one person just isn't to another.
So it's not surprising for Williams detractors to arise.

But for my money, he ranks as one of this generation's greatest.

RACK poptart.

poptart wrote:
But for my money, he ranks as one of this generation's greatest.

He was a gibbering asshat who tried to substitute energy for talent. It's not surprising that a fool like you would fall for his shitty shtick. He had no act beyond acting stupid. Good riddance.

Moving Sale wrote: He was a gibbering asshat who tried to substitute energy for posting talent. Good riddance.

Perfect for your T1B tombstone.

Papa Willie wrote:I tend to enjoy music that would be hard for me to perform.

Technical ability doesn't equate to good songwriting. And don't confuse your personal preference with superiority. Lots of people who pick up a guitar have zero desire to learn how to scale it with their teeth. Most want to use it to make music, not mathematics.

Moving Sale wrote: He was a gibbering asshat who tried to substitute energy for talent. It's not surprising that a fool like you would fall for his shitty shtick. He had no act beyond acting stupid. Good riddance.

Understandable you would feel that way, hitting that close to home and all. Pretty much the way you roll.

Moving Sale wrote:He was a gibbering asshat who tried to substitute energy for talent. It's not surprising that a fool like you would fall for his shitty shtick. He had no act beyond acting stupid. Good riddance.

There's a lot more going on there but you don't have the attention span to pick up on it.

I'm sure you're a tremendous judge of comedy though. You've made me laugh zero times since January 21, 2005.

No, see I get it so much that I don't need everything to be big and grandiose to enjoy it like you do. I appreciate subtlety and simplicity.

I miss Van. :|

He was a lot better at this than you.

I've been on an alt country kick lately. You wouldn't like it. Just stick to your dust bin acid washed jean jacket rock. We don't all have to like the same things. In fact, it's best that we don't.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
I miss Van. :|

Oh great...here come the waterworks...

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Derron wrote:

Moving Sale wrote: He was a gibbering asshat who tried to substitute energy for talent. It's not surprising that a fool like you would fall for his shitty shtick. He had no act beyond acting stupid. Good riddance.

Understandable you would feel that way, hitting that close to home and all. Pretty much the way you roll.

FLW Buckeye wrote:

Moving Sale wrote: He was a gibbering asshat who tried to substitute energy for posting talent. Good riddance.

Perfect for your T1B tombstone.

Two IKYABWIH posts from two idiots. Nice going asshats.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

Moving Sale wrote:He was a gibbering asshat who tried to substitute energy for talent. It's not surprising that a fool like you would fall for his shitty shtick. He had no act beyond acting stupid. Good riddance.

There's a lot more going on there but you don't have the attention span to pick up on it.

I'm sure you're a tremendous judge of comedy though. You've made me laugh zero times since January 21, 2005.

Even if this were true it still begs the question, why did you get to have an opinion about guitar players when you can't play a guitar? We're you really this stupid when I drug you across the smack off title line in first place?

Papa Willie wrote:It's funny how you try to say I'm narrow-minded about music, when the fact of the matter is that I'm probably more open-minded about music than probably anybody in here.

I'm giving 'Spray a little credit here. His tastes are a bit more eclectic than you'd think.

Back to the OT, I had the chance to see Williams in person in Kandahar for the Joint Chief of Staff's Christmas USO show. Beside the fact that every last one of the comedians told jokes that had the very troops they were entertaining as the butt of the joke, Williams' routine was the most blatant of the bunch for poking fun of the men for doing what they were doing. Mind you, people (contractors) like me were there because we chose to be, but for the soldier or Marine on the ground they had no choice but to do the job in a place they undoubtedly would not purposefully go, particularly at that time of the year. I appreciate that he and all the others took the time to come out and entertain the troops, but the content of his shtick was just terrible. Bob Hope he ain't-- or wasn't.

By contrast, the Sergeant Major of the Army's USO show was outstanding in every way: supportive, festive, funny, warm, and personal. It was everything that the JCS' show was not and Robin William's show was part and parcel of that.

As for his body of work, it seems to me that you either like Williams or you don't. I found him to be repetitive and annoying-- even his last show "The Crazy Ones" was just a long riff on stuff he'd done his entire career: Robin Williams being Mork. The fluttering hands, the chipmunk on crack, bouncing from one topic to another with no segue, impressions of impressions of even more impressions he'd done thousands of times in the past. Even "Good Will Hunting" had him doing just a subdued version of his regular routine where he bites his lower lip, wears that hang dog look, and doles out little pieces of life advice as if they were morsels to be savored.

Maybe I'm being too hard on the guy when all he was was a comedian just making bank for doing the same thing over and over again, but it got really old decades ago for me-- right around the time Orson called him back to Ork.

poptart wrote:In a sense, he was too great for film.
He was too brilliant to be bottled into a role with confines he had to stay within.
A film role didn't necessarily fit his skill set.

Personally I think that's where he was at his best with a good director to keep him on a short leash.

Papa Willie wrote:Christ - I play in a country band sometimes. It's funny how you try to say I'm narrow-minded about music, when the fact of the matter is that I'm probably more open-minded about music than probably anybody in here. I don't care what kind of music it is - as long as it's done well with at least a little fucking talent, I have no problem with it.

I played with a country band. I was an emergency fill in. I played with a borrowed axe and played a 90 minute set of songs that I did not know. The bass player shouted out the chord changes to me when he could and I followed him the rest of the time. It probably didn't help that I was high as a bitch because I had smoked up before I got to the club because I was just going to watch this girl I was planning to fuck play drums. Watching people line dance while you play is fucking weird.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:I'm giving 'Spray a little credit here. His tastes are a bit more eclectic than you'd think.

Moving Sale wrote:why did you get to have an opinion about guitar players when you can't play a guitar?

I "get" to have an opinion on all kinds of things, we all do, you shit-brained simpleton.

I have an acoustic guitar that I play from time to time, not particularly well. I don't know why that should preclude me from having takes on music. It's still an art form and it's still subjective.

We're you really this stupid

Archive.

And I get to have an opinion on comedy even if you don't think I'm funny. See how that works you vapid plodding shitstain?

Yea archive an autocorrect. You really are one dumb son of a bitch.