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- Robin Williams:
- Ladies and gentlemen,
- it's time to pump neurons.
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- We are about
- to enter the domain
- of the human mind.
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- James Lipton:
- How do you explain
- the mental reflexes
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- -that you deploy
- with such awesome speed?
- -(whistles)
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- 00:00:32,797 --> 00:00:34,922
- Are you thinking faster
- than the rest of us?
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- 00:00:35,006 --> 00:00:37,714
- -What the hell is going on?
- -(audience laughs)
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- (cheers, applause)
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- Jesus.
- (laughing)
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- 00:00:46,006 --> 00:00:47,755
- "What is it
- about your mind?
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- 00:00:47,839 --> 00:00:49,089
- "What is it that does
- this thing to you?
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- Try to explain yourself!"
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- 00:00:50,755 --> 00:00:52,755
- (squeaks)
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- 00:00:52,839 --> 00:00:54,214
- Comes from a deep
- part inside myself
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- 00:00:54,297 --> 00:00:56,006
- that was actually looking
- for my mother,
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- 00:00:56,089 --> 00:00:57,880
- but yet I saw that moment
- when she looked up there,
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- 00:00:57,964 --> 00:00:59,714
- and I went, "Okay,
- I'll be funny for her.
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- 00:00:59,797 --> 00:01:01,047
- Okay, that's fine,
- work that way."
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- 00:01:01,131 --> 00:01:02,672
- Come back from that,
- realize after a while
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- that I want to be accepted.
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- 00:01:04,131 --> 00:01:05,964
- "You like me.
- You really like me."
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- No, it's not that.
- I can be trained.
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- 00:01:08,131 --> 00:01:09,755
- I can show you
- how intelligent I am.
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- 00:01:09,839 --> 00:01:11,006
- I can use a word
- like "delicatessen"
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- and know
- what it means.
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- 00:01:12,131 --> 00:01:14,714
- (laughter)
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- Or "invertebrate."
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- Or "inveterate."
- (chuckles)
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- Or "degenerate."
- (skeevy laugh)
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- 00:01:21,714 --> 00:01:23,172
- -But all of that...
- -(audience laughter)
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- 00:01:23,256 --> 00:01:25,089
- ...is all part of it,
- because it's all
- part of the mind
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- that actually
- flows like that,
- because I realize
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- that the human mind is
- a three-and-a-half
- pound gland
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- that pumps neurons constantly
- and deals with itself
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- by responding to stimulus.
- That's what we're
- designed to do,
- 35
- 00:01:34,755 --> 00:01:38,172
- evolving slowly.
- Even Darwin's going,
- "I have hopes!
- 36
- 00:01:39,714 --> 00:01:41,672
- I had such high hopes!"
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- It's all part of it,
- because I believe
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- the human mind is
- adapting and evolving
- slowly but surely
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- but I'm trying
- not to speak that fast,
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- because eventually,
- you have to catch up.
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- Lipton:
- Wow.
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- ♪ ♪
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- 00:02:02,755 --> 00:02:04,256
- Larry Grobel:
- Do you have any fears?
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- 00:02:04,338 --> 00:02:06,797
- Robin:
- I guess it'd be that fear
- that if I felt like
- 45
- 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,172
- I was just becoming...
- not just dull, but a rock.
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- That I still
- couldn't spark.
- 47
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- Then I'd start
- to worry.
- 48
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- Where are my glasses?
- 49
- 00:02:21,297 --> 00:02:23,588
- -They're on your face.
- -Oh. Thank you.
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- 00:02:23,672 --> 00:02:25,880
- Robin:
- What you do is kind
- of keep yourself fresh.
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- You don't burn out.
- That's a never-ending struggle.
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- ♪ ♪
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- -We didn't have water when
- I was growing up, Dave.
- -Letterman: Is that right?
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- My mother and father would have
- to take hydrogen and oxygen
- and shove it together.
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- -Made your own water. Wow.
- -Made our own water!
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- 00:02:45,672 --> 00:02:47,755
- Isn't it interesting
- in the '80s, you meet
- someone you like,
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- 00:02:47,839 --> 00:02:50,797
- you say, "Gosh, Helen, I--
- I really care about you.
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- Can I have
- some blood and urine?"
- 59
- 00:02:54,672 --> 00:02:57,006
- And you think eventually--
- you think sex will
- eventually be...
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- 00:02:57,089 --> 00:03:01,006
- (blows)
- "Uh, Helen,
- I'm in the airlock now."
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- 00:03:01,089 --> 00:03:03,547
- "Fine, Harry,
- leave the sperm in the tray.
- I'll get it tomorrow."
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- Inappropriate anecdotes
- on a celebrity talk show.
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- So I said, "Get off me,
- Grandma. I'm done."
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- 00:03:13,422 --> 00:03:17,047
- Famous Hollywood roles
- as played by Carol Channing.
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- (mimics Channing)
- "Well, surely you must be
- the Son of God."
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- (audience cheering)
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- Robin:
- This is Elmer Fudd
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- sings Bruce Springsteen.
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- (mimics Elmer)
- ♪ I'm dwiving in my caw ♪
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- ♪ I tuwn on the wadio ♪
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- ♪ I pull you
- a wittle cwoser ♪
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- ♪ You say no ♪
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- ♪ You say
- you don't wike it... ♪
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- Robin:
- Risking, for me,
- it's always been
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- kind of part of the thing
- of just trying different
- things.
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- It's the process of the work
- peeling away again,
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- you think you're great,
- and then something
- comes along
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- and goes,
- "You're not that hot."
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- But it's always that thing that
- keeps you moving forward.
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- Cameraman:
- I'm sorry, you have two hairs--
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- There's... hairs are
- sticking up.
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- -Oh shit, man.
- -(laughter)
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- How fucked up is that?
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- Hair is sticking up?
- (gasps)
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- Shit. We have
- to do it all over now.
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- This is bullshit.
- Two hairs?
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- Fuck you, man.
- We were into a groove.
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- Two hairs.
- Blow me, dude!
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- Two hairs. I can see you
- looking at the monitor going,
- 90
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- "Can someone..."
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- Bob, normally, it's usually
- like a mic shadow,
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- but two fucking hairs?
- Jesus Christ.
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- Is it okay now, Bob?
- Now, we'll start again.
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- It's better that
- we go again.
- Take two...
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- without
- the two hairs.
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- You want to start again?
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- Shall we go from the top?
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- ♪ ♪
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- I was so fucking quiet.
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- My father was
- kind of very intense.
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- He was always on the road,
- because he was working
- for Ford Motor Company.
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- He had to go back and forth
- all over the Midwest
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- to take care of all
- of these dealerships.
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- But every time
- he came back,
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- he would bring me
- some kind of--
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- like a small car
- or a tank
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- or something,
- and I'd be like,
- "Dad's home!"
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- So that was
- my connection
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- with my father.
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- My mother was
- a comedy maven.
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- She was very entertaining.
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- Just seeing her being funny
- with other people.
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- I think that was
- the major thing.
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- ♪ ♪
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- We were moving a lot
- because of my father.
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- We lived in this big place
- for a while in Detroit.
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- This huge house.
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- I was lonely.
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- There were
- no friends around.
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- I was an only child,
- raised by,
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- 00:06:04,214 --> 00:06:06,214
- basically, the maid
- for a long time.
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- (in different voices)
- -Some toys to play.
- -Look at me!
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- -One for the campfire.
- -I want the green planet.
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- -Mine!
- -Give it to me!
- Give it to me!
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- -Help me! Help me!
- -Come along, dear.
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- Daddy, I can't carry bags.
- Bags heavy.
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- (normal voice)
- I went to an all-boys
- private school.
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- I was as serious
- a student as you could be,
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- you know, cum laude society
- and the whole thing.
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- And an athlete.
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- I remember the motto
- of my private school was
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- (speaks Latin)
- "In sound mind,
- in sound body."
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- It's a bit like the school
- in Dead Poet's Society,
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- and I was one
- of the students going, yes.
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- Jack Parr (on TV):
- The wild, wild man,
- my friend Jonathan Winters.
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- -♪ ♪
- -(audience applauds)
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- Robin:
- I saw my father watching
- The Tonight Show,
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- with Jonathan Winters.
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- 00:07:05,338 --> 00:07:07,588
- My dad was a sweet man
- but not an easy laugh.
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- Jonathan Winters (on TV):
- I did a thing that, uh,
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- a lot of us... probably
- would like to do.
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- Maybe a few
- of us don't.
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- I don't know.
- I'll just have to ask you:
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- Did you ever undress
- in front of a dog?
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- (audience laughs)
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- Robin:
- My dad lost it, and I went,
- "Who is this guy?
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- You made the great
- white father laugh."
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- Do something with a stick.
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- Watch him do
- a routine with the stick.
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- You can give him anything.
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- (whooshing)
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- Well, that was
- a pretty good cast,
- wasn't it, Bob?
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- 00:07:38,547 --> 00:07:40,380
- I think we're onto something
- this time. Mm-hmm.
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- I'm sorry, Margaret.
- Try to swim in.
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- Doctor, I'm not kidding.
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- I seen them beetles,
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- and this is one
- of their feelers.
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- (laughter)
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- Thoop.
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- The United Nations...
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- now recognizes the delegate
- from NASA-Land.
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- 00:08:04,547 --> 00:08:06,463
- (hums)
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- 00:08:06,547 --> 00:08:08,463
- -Oh! Mr. Williams!
- -Elmo.
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- What are you gonna
- do with that stick?
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- 00:08:10,214 --> 00:08:11,964
- Oh, there's lots of things
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- you can do
- with a stick, Elmo.
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- Hey, you maybe
- could be playing
- hockey with it.
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- 00:08:15,380 --> 00:08:16,380
- (whooshing)
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- 00:08:16,463 --> 00:08:17,922
- Yeah, I been goalie now
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- for about three years,
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- and it hasn't affected me.
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- 00:08:20,714 --> 00:08:22,338
- Maybe it could be
- like a baton.
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- 00:08:22,422 --> 00:08:25,463
- (imitating Lawrence Welk):
- There you are,
- conducting a full orchestra.
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- 00:08:25,547 --> 00:08:27,131
- Thank you, Madonna,
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- 00:08:27,214 --> 00:08:29,505
- for that lovely lingerie melody.
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- I better go back.
- We'll never be able
- to do that.
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- 00:08:31,588 --> 00:08:33,297
- (laughter)
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- I realize.
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- 00:08:34,547 --> 00:08:36,172
- Or it could be a cane.
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- 00:08:36,256 --> 00:08:38,047
- (mimics Ronald Regan)
- Well, Nancy and I
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- are just happy
- to be here.
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- 00:08:39,755 --> 00:08:41,297
- Or you can play Pinocchio:
- The Home Game.
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- 00:08:41,380 --> 00:08:44,131
- I have two
- Academy Awards, Elmo.
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- Stuff like that, Elmo,
- just simple things.
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- -Ah. Uh-huh. Oh.
- -Yeah.
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- 00:08:49,089 --> 00:08:50,672
- And I'll tell you
- what I'm gonna do
- with this stick.
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- -What?
- -I'm gonna give it to you.
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- 00:08:54,297 --> 00:08:57,089
- Oh. Thank you,
- Mr. Robbins.
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- Mr. Robbins?
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- I'm taking
- the stick back, Elmo.
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- 00:09:01,380 --> 00:09:03,297
- (laughter)
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- 00:09:07,172 --> 00:09:09,089
- (Robin laughing)
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- 00:09:16,380 --> 00:09:19,547
- Elmo:
- I only had three lines!
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- ♪ ♪
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- 00:09:32,588 --> 00:09:35,047
- Robin:
- When I was 16,
- we moved to San Francisco.
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- 00:09:35,131 --> 00:09:38,714
- ♪ To everything,
- turn, turn, turn... ♪
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- 00:09:38,797 --> 00:09:41,380
- Robin:
- Boom! Everything opened up.
- The whole world just changed.
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- 00:09:41,463 --> 00:09:43,338
- ♪ Turn, turn, turn... ♪
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- 00:09:43,422 --> 00:09:45,131
- Robin:
- Everything was loose,
- sexually loose,
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- everything, and I was
- going, "Well, okay!"
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- From yin to yang
- in 24 hours.
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- 00:09:51,131 --> 00:09:54,422
- ♪ A time to be born,
- a time to die ♪
- 203
- 00:09:54,505 --> 00:09:57,172
- ♪ A time to plant... ♪
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- 00:09:57,256 --> 00:10:00,172
- We were going
- from Detroit, Middle West,
- all-boys school,
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- 00:10:00,256 --> 00:10:03,256
- to an open-ended
- San Francisco high school.
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- 00:10:03,338 --> 00:10:05,256
- It's this incredibly
- relaxed thing.
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- 00:10:05,338 --> 00:10:06,547
- There was
- no discipline at all.
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- 00:10:06,630 --> 00:10:08,588
- It was like we had
- gestalt history classes.
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- 00:10:08,672 --> 00:10:10,672
- "Can you see Lincoln?
- He's in the back
- of the room."
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- 00:10:10,755 --> 00:10:15,422
- ♪ To everything,
- turn, turn, turn ♪
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- 00:10:15,505 --> 00:10:18,089
- ♪ There is
- a season, turn... ♪
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- 00:10:18,172 --> 00:10:20,380
- Robin:
- I was in
- a senior class parody
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- 00:10:20,463 --> 00:10:22,672
- of all of the stuff that was
- going on at this school.
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- 00:10:22,755 --> 00:10:25,422
- I did an impression
- of a teacher who was
- pretty out there.
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- His name was
- Mr. Lavezzo.
- 216
- 00:10:28,338 --> 00:10:31,422
- -(on radio): Tino Lavezzo
- and his lovely dystopic...
- -(crowd cheering)
- 217
- 00:10:31,505 --> 00:10:33,297
- Enacting history,
- actually having
- 218
- 00:10:33,380 --> 00:10:35,422
- the Battle of Hastings.
- It's everywhere, behind
- 219
- 00:10:35,505 --> 00:10:37,672
- the chairs, chanting
- "We knew we were there!"
- 220
- 00:10:40,214 --> 00:10:42,131
- Robin:
- That was the first time
- I really had a performance.
- 221
- 00:10:42,214 --> 00:10:43,672
- (on radio):
- You're my friend,
- come on over here.
- 222
- 00:10:43,755 --> 00:10:45,256
- Robin:
- I never really
- started to even
- 223
- 00:10:45,338 --> 00:10:47,839
- be funny openly
- on that level.
- 224
- 00:10:47,922 --> 00:10:51,089
- We as human beings,
- we are driven by the same
- sexual desire.
- 225
- 00:10:51,172 --> 00:10:53,588
- Men, you know you have
- a tiny creature living
- between your legs
- 226
- 00:10:53,672 --> 00:10:56,588
- that has no memory
- and no conscience.
- You know that.
- 227
- 00:10:56,672 --> 00:10:59,131
- -(laughter)
- -You have no control!
- 228
- 00:10:59,214 --> 00:11:00,588
- It should be
- a separate creature.
- 229
- 00:11:00,672 --> 00:11:01,714
- You should be able
- to take it off,
- 230
- 00:11:01,797 --> 00:11:03,547
- poom, put him
- on the ground.
- 231
- 00:11:03,630 --> 00:11:05,338
- Take him for a walk.
- He's got the rollers.
- 232
- 00:11:05,422 --> 00:11:07,172
- He'll be like...
- (babbles)
- 233
- 00:11:08,297 --> 00:11:09,547
- Make it
- a different beast!
- 234
- 00:11:11,214 --> 00:11:12,630
- Wouldn't it be nice
- if you could go into a bar,
- 235
- 00:11:12,714 --> 00:11:15,630
- buy him a drink
- once in awhile?
- 236
- 00:11:15,714 --> 00:11:18,089
- There'd be a big bar up here,
- a little bar down here for him.
- 237
- 00:11:19,547 --> 00:11:21,380
- Go into the bar,
- yeah, put him out.
- 238
- 00:11:21,463 --> 00:11:23,338
- He's looking up at you
- with that one good eye,
- 239
- 00:11:23,422 --> 00:11:24,547
- like, "How ya been, baby?
- 240
- 00:11:26,297 --> 00:11:27,714
- "Sorry about last night.
- I guess I got nervous,
- 241
- 00:11:27,797 --> 00:11:29,172
- "fired off a couple
- of warning shots.
- 242
- 00:11:29,256 --> 00:11:30,256
- "What the hell?
- 243
- 00:11:31,505 --> 00:11:33,131
- "If you didn't try
- and strangle me,
- 244
- 00:11:33,214 --> 00:11:34,880
- "I'd have had
- a better chance!
- 245
- 00:11:34,964 --> 00:11:36,630
- "What the hell? I can't
- go back in there, man!
- 246
- 00:11:36,714 --> 00:11:38,755
- "That's some scary stuff!
- 247
- 00:11:38,839 --> 00:11:40,505
- "I'm not going back
- without a wetsuit
- 248
- 00:11:40,588 --> 00:11:42,422
- "and a mining helmet.
- I'll tell you that.
- 249
- 00:11:42,505 --> 00:11:44,297
- "You better work on that!
- I'm not going back!
- 250
- 00:11:44,380 --> 00:11:46,797
- "Hell no, I won't go! I--
- 251
- 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,380
- "Hey, forget what I said.
- Who's that?
- 252
- 00:11:50,256 --> 00:11:53,505
- I'm going down here.
- You talk to her. Down scope."
- (whirring)
- 253
- 00:11:53,588 --> 00:11:57,755
- ♪ ♪
- 254
- 00:11:57,839 --> 00:12:00,380
- My first year at college,
- I went to Claremont
- Men's College
- 255
- 00:12:00,463 --> 00:12:02,380
- to study Political Science.
- 256
- 00:12:02,463 --> 00:12:04,755
- It's an all men's school,
- and the only girls
- 257
- 00:12:04,839 --> 00:12:07,422
- are at this other school
- called Pitzer,
- 258
- 00:12:07,505 --> 00:12:09,463
- and the only classes where you
- can be with girls are there.
- 259
- 00:12:09,547 --> 00:12:11,380
- They had an improvisational
- theater class,
- 260
- 00:12:11,463 --> 00:12:13,214
- and I went, "That's
- where the ladies are."
- 261
- 00:12:13,297 --> 00:12:15,630
- ♪ ♪
- 262
- 00:12:15,714 --> 00:12:18,588
- Was not going
- to any of my Political
- Science classes.
- 263
- 00:12:18,672 --> 00:12:21,588
- My father said,
- "I'm not paying
- for this shit anymore."
- 264
- 00:12:21,672 --> 00:12:24,755
- Come back home to Marin,
- and we'll go to the local
- junior college."
- 265
- 00:12:30,755 --> 00:12:34,172
- That was the beginning
- of studying acting
- and taking that path.
- 266
- 00:12:34,256 --> 00:12:36,922
- ♪ ♪
- 267
- 00:12:37,006 --> 00:12:40,714
- Mark Rasmussen:
- Robin Goodfellow,
- a fellow of infinite jest.
- 268
- 00:12:42,338 --> 00:12:44,214
- He had to be
- told to shut up
- once in awhile
- 269
- 00:12:44,297 --> 00:12:45,880
- because we never
- could get through
- rehearsals.
- 270
- 00:12:55,672 --> 00:12:58,422
- We had been invited to do
- Taming of the Shrew,
- 271
- 00:12:58,505 --> 00:13:01,131
- a western version of it,
- at the Edinburgh Festival.
- 272
- 00:13:04,380 --> 00:13:07,505
- He went to Edinburgh with us
- as a late replacement.
- 273
- 00:13:10,505 --> 00:13:12,588
- It was fantastic,
- and we had a great time.
- 274
- 00:13:12,672 --> 00:13:14,214
- And I really got
- to know him in Edinburgh.
- 275
- 00:13:14,297 --> 00:13:17,463
- ♪ ♪
- 276
- 00:13:22,797 --> 00:13:26,797
- We had a lot
- of great press.
- 277
- 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,922
- We got the gold.
- We were the best production
- at the festival.
- 278
- 00:13:29,006 --> 00:13:30,672
- We did a royal
- command performance,
- 279
- 00:13:30,755 --> 00:13:32,338
- and Robin's eyes
- were this big, you know?
- 280
- 00:13:38,630 --> 00:13:41,797
- For all of us,
- I think, at that time,
- 281
- 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,505
- there was nothing
- on the blackboard.
- We were young.
- 282
- 00:13:44,588 --> 00:13:46,547
- There was nothing written,
- 283
- 00:13:46,630 --> 00:13:49,547
- and... that kind
- of experience in life,
- 284
- 00:13:49,630 --> 00:13:51,256
- you only go through...
- 285
- 00:13:52,672 --> 00:13:54,338
- you know,
- once if you're lucky.
- 286
- 00:14:11,338 --> 00:14:14,922
- Stanley Wilson: I met Robin
- the day he came to New York
- to come to Juilliard.
- 287
- 00:14:15,006 --> 00:14:17,338
- My dear friend
- Mark Rasmussen,
- 288
- 00:14:17,422 --> 00:14:19,880
- who was a good friend
- of his, introduced us.
- 289
- 00:14:19,964 --> 00:14:23,672
- He just stood out
- in a way that nobody
- else quite did.
- 290
- 00:14:23,755 --> 00:14:25,422
- (rock music playing)
- 291
- 00:14:32,006 --> 00:14:33,630
- John Houseman:
- An actor is an actor!
- 292
- 00:14:33,714 --> 00:14:35,505
- At the Juilliard School,
- people ask,
- 293
- 00:14:35,588 --> 00:14:37,338
- "Why don't you
- have a course
- 294
- 00:14:37,422 --> 00:14:38,964
- in movie acting
- or television
- acting?"
- 295
- 00:14:39,047 --> 00:14:41,422
- And that's nonsense.
- An actor is an actor.
- 296
- 00:14:41,505 --> 00:14:43,714
- Wilson:
- John Houseman was running
- the school then.
- 297
- 00:14:43,797 --> 00:14:46,047
- Robin and Chris Reeve
- came in
- 298
- 00:14:46,131 --> 00:14:48,547
- as advanced students
- in our third year.
- 299
- 00:14:48,630 --> 00:14:51,297
- ♪ ♪
- 300
- 00:14:53,630 --> 00:14:56,006
- Christopher was,
- you know, a preppy
- from New England,
- 301
- 00:14:56,089 --> 00:14:59,630
- and Robin was
- kind of a crazy hippie
- from Marin County.
- 302
- 00:14:59,714 --> 00:15:01,422
- Robin:
- First day you know,
- 303
- 00:15:01,505 --> 00:15:03,047
- I'm wearing, like,
- sandals and shorts--
- 304
- 00:15:03,131 --> 00:15:04,797
- pretty obvious
- where I'm from.
- 305
- 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:06,714
- I'm like, "So this
- is really interesting.
- 306
- 00:15:06,797 --> 00:15:09,505
- There's a certain intensity."
- 307
- 00:15:09,588 --> 00:15:11,505
- I knew that it was supposed
- to be this incredible
- 308
- 00:15:11,588 --> 00:15:13,714
- kind of English training
- in America.
- 309
- 00:15:13,797 --> 00:15:16,047
- Attention on
- a different level--
- 310
- 00:15:16,131 --> 00:15:18,630
- movement, vocal, acting.
- 311
- 00:15:18,714 --> 00:15:21,922
- Getting this great set
- of tools that you
- can work with.
- 312
- 00:15:22,006 --> 00:15:25,047
- ♪ Are you reelin'
- in the years... ♪
- 313
- 00:15:25,131 --> 00:15:27,422
- Rasmussen: We didn't
- have a lot of things,
- and we didn't care.
- 314
- 00:15:27,505 --> 00:15:30,505
- We had our art form.
- We had the work.
- 315
- 00:15:30,588 --> 00:15:33,547
- That's where our focus was,
- and that was demanded.
- 316
- 00:15:33,630 --> 00:15:35,089
- You know,
- Houseman really worked
- 317
- 00:15:35,172 --> 00:15:36,672
- the hell out of all of us
- 318
- 00:15:36,755 --> 00:15:38,089
- all the time, thank God.
- 319
- 00:15:38,172 --> 00:15:41,588
- ♪ Are you
- gatherin' up the tears ♪
- 320
- 00:15:41,672 --> 00:15:44,588
- ♪ Have you had
- enough of mine? ♪
- 321
- 00:15:44,672 --> 00:15:46,755
- Robin:
- Moments of "Great.
- Oh God, this is amazing,"
- 322
- 00:15:46,839 --> 00:15:49,006
- and moments of
- "What the hell am I doing?"
- 323
- 00:16:04,006 --> 00:16:06,505
- I had this schtick
- that I worked out
- with a little stocking cap.
- 324
- 00:16:06,588 --> 00:16:08,463
- It was very tight,
- but if I moved
- 325
- 00:16:08,547 --> 00:16:10,755
- my eyebrows,
- the thing went, "Boop!"
- 326
- 00:16:10,839 --> 00:16:12,630
- I remember
- it was the first piece
- of physical business
- 327
- 00:16:12,714 --> 00:16:14,089
- that I saw
- Houseman laugh,
- and I went,
- 328
- 00:16:14,172 --> 00:16:15,880
- (gasps)
- "Buddha laughed."
- 329
- 00:16:21,214 --> 00:16:23,131
- Being trained
- as an actor--
- 330
- 00:16:23,214 --> 00:16:26,006
- that helped me
- a lot just to play.
- 331
- 00:16:26,089 --> 00:16:29,630
- Hello. Who's got
- a scene idea for us?
- Right over here.
- 332
- 00:16:29,714 --> 00:16:31,547
- Man:
- Somebody having
- a close encounter.
- 333
- 00:16:31,630 --> 00:16:33,588
- Okay, just
- a close encounter
- of any kind?
- 334
- 00:16:33,672 --> 00:16:35,131
- -Any kind.
- -Right. Good. Okay.
- 335
- 00:16:35,214 --> 00:16:37,380
- Robin:
- When I came home
- from Juilliard,
- 336
- 00:16:37,463 --> 00:16:39,422
- I started doing
- improvisational comedy
- 337
- 00:16:39,505 --> 00:16:41,964
- as kind of a response
- to not finding acting work.
- 338
- 00:16:42,047 --> 00:16:45,047
- -(high-pitched):
- Yo, mama.
- -(laughter)
- 339
- 00:16:45,131 --> 00:16:47,880
- Robin: I started
- to be able to do comedy
- based on suggestions,
- 340
- 00:16:47,964 --> 00:16:50,131
- which is this idea
- of, "Wait a minute,
- you're creating it."
- 341
- 00:16:50,214 --> 00:16:52,588
- -And that was addicting.
- -Do you want
- to play a game?
- 342
- 00:16:52,672 --> 00:16:54,505
- Sure, let's play
- Scrabble, okay?
- 343
- 00:16:54,588 --> 00:16:56,547
- Okay. You want to be
- the board or the pieces?
- 344
- 00:16:56,630 --> 00:16:58,380
- -I'll be the board.
- -Robin: Freeze!
- 345
- 00:17:02,755 --> 00:17:07,089
- -Esmeralda, why do you
- only visit me on Sunday?
- -(laughter)
- 346
- 00:17:07,172 --> 00:17:09,505
- The feeling, the rapport
- was incredible.
- 347
- 00:17:09,588 --> 00:17:11,172
- The instant meshing
- with the audience.
- 348
- 00:17:11,256 --> 00:17:13,172
- It's like sex
- without the guilt.
- 349
- 00:17:13,256 --> 00:17:15,630
- And God created man.
- 350
- 00:17:15,714 --> 00:17:17,672
- (piano plays note)
- 351
- 00:17:17,755 --> 00:17:19,880
- -I feel better now.
- -(laughter)
- 352
- 00:17:19,964 --> 00:17:23,880
- And then you went
- from the workshop
- to actually clubs.
- 353
- 00:17:23,964 --> 00:17:26,172
- (performing)
- I can't sit down!
- I'm too excited!
- 354
- 00:17:26,256 --> 00:17:28,714
- I drove all the way
- from Squealer, Idaho,
- to be here.
- 355
- 00:17:28,797 --> 00:17:30,880
- Well, I drove
- my truck, Mary Beth.
- 356
- 00:17:30,964 --> 00:17:34,505
- -(audience laughs)
- -It's a big ol' sucker.
- It's huge.
- 357
- 00:17:34,588 --> 00:17:37,714
- Valerie Velardi:
- He was at the Holy
- City Zoo, bartending.
- 358
- 00:17:37,797 --> 00:17:42,547
- He filled in as a bartender
- so that he could get up
- on stage and play.
- 359
- 00:17:42,630 --> 00:17:44,047
- He had
- a French accent,
- 360
- 00:17:44,131 --> 00:17:46,547
- offered me a drink,
- chatted me up,
- 361
- 00:17:46,630 --> 00:17:48,714
- and was absolutely
- delightful.
- 362
- 00:17:48,797 --> 00:17:52,172
- ♪ ♪
- 363
- 00:17:54,172 --> 00:17:55,922
- He asked me
- for a ride home.
- 364
- 00:17:57,630 --> 00:18:01,047
- He was speaking French,
- I was teasing him,
- 365
- 00:18:01,131 --> 00:18:03,714
- and we had a kiss,
- 366
- 00:18:03,797 --> 00:18:06,797
- mmm, and I just knew
- I was going to see him again.
- 367
- 00:18:09,214 --> 00:18:11,922
- I was just finishing up
- my masters degree
- 368
- 00:18:12,006 --> 00:18:14,089
- at Mills College in Dance.
- 369
- 00:18:14,172 --> 00:18:15,964
- So I was free,
- 370
- 00:18:16,047 --> 00:18:18,630
- and I was supporting
- myself as a waitress.
- 371
- 00:18:20,214 --> 00:18:22,714
- He was always looking
- for a connection,
- 372
- 00:18:22,797 --> 00:18:27,131
- And if he needed to pull
- out another character
- or an accent,
- 373
- 00:18:27,214 --> 00:18:29,964
- he was shameless,
- he would just do it.
- 374
- 00:18:30,047 --> 00:18:32,505
- Robin (foreign accent):
- America, beach and balls
- country. Thank you.
- 375
- 00:18:32,588 --> 00:18:34,964
- -Fuck a duck!
- -(audience laughs)
- 376
- 00:18:35,047 --> 00:18:37,256
- Thank you,
- cheap shot, no way.
- 377
- 00:18:37,338 --> 00:18:39,714
- (normal voice):
- Some of the characters
- people really love.
- 378
- 00:18:39,797 --> 00:18:42,256
- A character
- can be a comic actor
- more than a comedian.
- 379
- 00:18:42,338 --> 00:18:46,006
- I don't tell jokes.
- I just use characters
- as a vehicle for me,
- 380
- 00:18:46,089 --> 00:18:47,797
- but I seldom
- just talk as myself.
- 381
- 00:18:49,338 --> 00:18:51,797
- I was his personal audience,
- 382
- 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,172
- and I would help him
- hone material.
- 383
- 00:18:55,256 --> 00:18:57,755
- Robin:
- A soviet poem
- of pain and suffering.
- 384
- 00:18:57,839 --> 00:19:00,588
- "Little Robin,
- upon my windowsill
- 385
- 00:19:00,672 --> 00:19:02,131
- "with tiny breast of red,
- 386
- 00:19:02,214 --> 00:19:04,214
- "I brought the window
- slowly down
- 387
- 00:19:04,297 --> 00:19:05,964
- and crushed
- the sucker's head."
- 388
- 00:19:06,047 --> 00:19:08,131
- (laughter)
- 389
- 00:19:08,214 --> 00:19:12,214
- Velardi: After being
- in San Francisco
- for six months,
- 390
- 00:19:12,297 --> 00:19:17,131
- it was so clear that
- he was developing
- his talent
- 391
- 00:19:17,214 --> 00:19:20,131
- and growing
- in a particular
- direction.
- 392
- 00:19:20,214 --> 00:19:25,630
- ("Heat Wave" playing)
- 393
- 00:19:25,714 --> 00:19:28,256
- ♪ Whenever I'm with him ♪
- 394
- 00:19:28,338 --> 00:19:31,922
- ♪ Something inside ♪
- 395
- 00:19:32,006 --> 00:19:34,755
- ♪ Starts to burning ♪
- 396
- 00:19:34,839 --> 00:19:40,214
- ♪ And I'm filled with desire,
- could it be... ♪
- 397
- 00:19:40,297 --> 00:19:42,006
- Letterman:
- I had moved from Indiana
- 398
- 00:19:42,089 --> 00:19:45,256
- and went immediately
- to The Comedy Store.
- 399
- 00:19:45,338 --> 00:19:48,172
- Here's what
- I loved about
- California then:
- 400
- 00:19:48,256 --> 00:19:51,839
- Governor Jerry
- Brown was dating
- Linda Ronstadt.
- 401
- 00:19:51,922 --> 00:19:54,297
- That's the California you want.
- 402
- 00:19:54,380 --> 00:19:57,089
- That's what California
- is supposed to be,
- 403
- 00:19:57,172 --> 00:19:59,006
- and it was exactly that.
- 404
- 00:19:59,089 --> 00:20:03,964
- ♪ Soft, low,
- sweet and plain,
- I feel... ♪
- 405
- 00:20:04,047 --> 00:20:07,714
- Letterman:
- It was dynamic, it was
- creative, it was exciting.
- 406
- 00:20:07,797 --> 00:20:11,172
- We were kids,
- it was silly
- and it was fun,
- 407
- 00:20:11,256 --> 00:20:13,256
- and it was
- the best time of my life.
- 408
- 00:20:13,338 --> 00:20:15,172
- My name is Dave Letterman,
- 409
- 00:20:15,297 --> 00:20:17,797
- and originally, I am
- from the State of Indiana.
- 410
- 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:19,297
- And you know,
- when I was growing up,
- 411
- 00:20:19,380 --> 00:20:21,214
- the one thing
- that I'll never forget,
- 412
- 00:20:21,297 --> 00:20:23,256
- what I'll always remember
- as long as I live,
- 413
- 00:20:23,338 --> 00:20:26,797
- is when Dad used to tease
- me with the power tools.
- 414
- 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,297
- -Did that happen
- to you folks a lot?
- -(laughter)
- 415
- 00:20:31,380 --> 00:20:33,880
- Letterman:
- When we first saw
- Robin on stage,
- 416
- 00:20:33,964 --> 00:20:35,214
- we were skeptical,
- 417
- 00:20:35,297 --> 00:20:38,047
- and we made
- it kind of a project
- 418
- 00:20:38,131 --> 00:20:40,380
- to keep our eye on him.
- 419
- 00:20:40,463 --> 00:20:42,964
- (foreign accent)
- This is a quick suppression,
- a Spanish fly.
- 420
- 00:20:43,047 --> 00:20:44,964
- (laughter)
- 421
- 00:20:45,047 --> 00:20:47,214
- Are there
- any Spanish people
- here tonight?
- 422
- 00:20:47,297 --> 00:20:48,630
- Okay, we can do it!
- 423
- 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:51,714
- Here we go,
- the Spanish fly.
- 424
- 00:20:51,797 --> 00:20:53,880
- -(babbling quickly)
- -(laughter)
- 425
- 00:20:53,964 --> 00:20:56,089
- In my head,
- my first sight of him
- 426
- 00:20:56,172 --> 00:20:57,922
- was that he could fly
- 427
- 00:20:58,006 --> 00:20:59,755
- because of the--
- the energy.
- 428
- 00:20:59,839 --> 00:21:01,922
- It was like observing
- an experiment.
- 429
- 00:21:02,006 --> 00:21:03,422
- Something special.
- First a little toot for me.
- 430
- 00:21:03,505 --> 00:21:05,006
- -(toots) Okay.
- -(laughter)
- 431
- 00:21:05,089 --> 00:21:06,380
- We are ready.
- 432
- 00:21:06,463 --> 00:21:08,964
- (plays harmonica)
- 433
- 00:21:09,047 --> 00:21:12,297
- Everybody, shake from side
- to side, come on, now.
- 434
- 00:21:12,380 --> 00:21:14,047
- What's the matter?
- You would do it
- if I was blind.
- 435
- 00:21:15,338 --> 00:21:16,755
- Here we go.
- 436
- 00:21:16,839 --> 00:21:21,089
- (mic feedback whines)
- 437
- 00:21:21,172 --> 00:21:22,922
- (normal voice)
- One of the first
- paying gigs I had
- 438
- 00:21:23,006 --> 00:21:24,380
- was this place called
- The Laugh Stop.
- 439
- 00:21:24,463 --> 00:21:26,256
- It's their opening night.
- 440
- 00:21:26,338 --> 00:21:28,089
- The mics go down, they die,
- 441
- 00:21:28,172 --> 00:21:29,463
- and they're going
- "What the fuck do we do?"
- 442
- 00:21:29,547 --> 00:21:30,880
- I think,
- "I don't need a mic."
- 443
- 00:21:30,964 --> 00:21:32,380
- I just started
- fucking around.
- 444
- 00:21:32,463 --> 00:21:34,422
- I'm going
- in the audience,
- 445
- 00:21:34,505 --> 00:21:36,256
- and I was loud enough
- because I'd been trained
- 446
- 00:21:36,338 --> 00:21:37,380
- to be loud that
- I could survive.
- 447
- 00:21:37,463 --> 00:21:39,297
- I see a sister.
- 448
- 00:21:39,380 --> 00:21:41,755
- Do you feel the need
- to be healed?
- 449
- 00:21:41,839 --> 00:21:44,256
- -Woman: Yes.
- -I know you can walk
- without that chair.
- 450
- 00:21:44,338 --> 00:21:46,839
- (laughter)
- 451
- 00:21:46,922 --> 00:21:48,380
- Dear sister,
- give me your hand.
- 452
- 00:21:48,463 --> 00:21:51,131
- I hope to God
- you're not a real cripple.
- 453
- 00:21:51,214 --> 00:21:55,338
- All I could really do was
- hang on to the microphone
- for dear life,
- 454
- 00:21:55,422 --> 00:21:58,006
- and here was a guy
- who could levitate.
- 455
- 00:21:58,089 --> 00:21:59,964
- Are you ready now
- to walk for Jesus?
- 456
- 00:22:00,047 --> 00:22:01,256
- Can you do it?
- 457
- 00:22:01,338 --> 00:22:03,131
- Oh my God!
- Over here boys!
- 458
- 00:22:03,214 --> 00:22:04,588
- It's incredible!
- 459
- 00:22:04,672 --> 00:22:07,797
- Letterman:
- We knew that whatever
- it was Robin was doing,
- 460
- 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,338
- we weren't gonna
- get close to that.
- 461
- 00:22:10,422 --> 00:22:13,172
- And we were frightened
- that, "Oh my,
- 462
- 00:22:13,256 --> 00:22:16,880
- "maybe we've come out here
- at just exactly the wrong time
- 463
- 00:22:16,964 --> 00:22:18,880
- "when everything was changing,
- 464
- 00:22:18,964 --> 00:22:21,505
- and all we had was
- our stupid little jokes."
- 465
- 00:22:21,588 --> 00:22:23,839
- Come inside my mind
- and see what it's like
- 466
- 00:22:23,922 --> 00:22:25,172
- when a comedian
- eats the big one.
- 467
- 00:22:25,256 --> 00:22:27,047
- Don't be afraid.
- (squeaks)
- 468
- 00:22:27,131 --> 00:22:30,338
- -(laughter)
- -Come on in.
- 469
- 00:22:30,422 --> 00:22:33,214
- Phase in Amrac,
- opening sequence B.
- Amrac phase-in now.
- 470
- 00:22:34,588 --> 00:22:35,964
- Hey, nice to be here.
- 471
- 00:22:36,047 --> 00:22:38,172
- (laughter)
- 472
- 00:22:38,256 --> 00:22:40,922
- Easy audience!
- Move on to dynamite
- second routine 1B!
- 473
- 00:22:41,006 --> 00:22:43,131
- Phase in now.
- Amrac phase-in routine
- 474
- 00:22:43,214 --> 00:22:46,422
- "Open Response" 1B.
- Amrac C and sequence A.
- 475
- 00:22:46,505 --> 00:22:48,006
- How 'bout that Oaxacan, eh?
- 476
- 00:22:48,089 --> 00:22:49,338
- (laughter)
- 477
- 00:22:49,422 --> 00:22:51,547
- Mayday!
- Mayday! Mayday!
- 478
- 00:22:51,630 --> 00:22:55,172
- (mimics alarm blaring)
- 479
- 00:22:55,256 --> 00:22:57,338
- All systems overload!
- Anything goes!
- 480
- 00:22:57,422 --> 00:22:59,755
- Phase in sequence 2,
- Vegas pity response 1B.
- 481
- 00:23:01,839 --> 00:23:03,463
- ♪ Send in the clowns ♪
- 482
- 00:23:05,338 --> 00:23:08,131
- Not buying the bullshit!
- Career really over now!
- 483
- 00:23:08,214 --> 00:23:09,922
- All systems overload!
- Ego check!
- 484
- 00:23:10,006 --> 00:23:11,214
- Everything failing! Lips?
- 485
- 00:23:11,297 --> 00:23:12,380
- (babbles)
- 486
- 00:23:12,463 --> 00:23:14,505
- Amrac, phase in now!
- Relieve subconscious.
- 487
- 00:23:14,588 --> 00:23:15,797
- Mayday! Mayday!
- 488
- 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,922
- (whooshes,
- breathes heavily)
- 489
- 00:23:18,006 --> 00:23:20,172
- Well, fuck you!
- What do you want
- from me anyway?
- 490
- 00:23:20,256 --> 00:23:22,131
- (laughter, applause)
- 491
- 00:23:31,922 --> 00:23:32,797
- Man:
- Yes!
- 492
- 00:23:38,089 --> 00:23:39,839
- Good evening.
- People ask me,
- 493
- 00:23:39,922 --> 00:23:42,089
- "Is comedy as much fun
- as I say it is?"
- 494
- 00:23:42,172 --> 00:23:45,047
- -(laughter)
- -You know,
- I'm wondering...
- 495
- 00:23:45,131 --> 00:23:46,380
- Bennett Tramer:
- Are on you on wide shot?
- 496
- 00:23:46,463 --> 00:23:48,297
- -Woman: No.
- -Tramer:
- You should zoom back.
- 497
- 00:23:48,380 --> 00:23:50,006
- (indistinct chatter)
- 498
- 00:23:50,089 --> 00:23:52,047
- You know, people wonder,
- 499
- 00:23:52,131 --> 00:23:55,505
- comedy and television...
- (mumbles)
- 500
- 00:23:55,588 --> 00:23:57,006
- Woman:
- Ooh! Oh, I'm sorry.
- 501
- 00:23:57,089 --> 00:23:58,588
- Tramer:
- Being a writer
- for Robin's standup
- 502
- 00:23:58,672 --> 00:24:00,839
- is like being
- a pinch hitter
- for Barry Bonds.
- 503
- 00:24:00,922 --> 00:24:02,880
- You're not
- necessarily
- needed,
- 504
- 00:24:02,964 --> 00:24:05,505
- except for special
- circumstances.
- 505
- 00:24:05,588 --> 00:24:08,256
- But it's interesting to see
- how he would build a bit.
- 506
- 00:24:08,338 --> 00:24:10,297
- He had a lightning-fast mind,
- 507
- 00:24:10,380 --> 00:24:12,964
- but it wasn't like
- everything he did
- came to him that night.
- 508
- 00:24:13,047 --> 00:24:14,547
- There was real work
- and preparation.
- 509
- 00:24:14,630 --> 00:24:18,588
- There was a real thoughtful,
- analytical process behind it.
- 510
- 00:24:18,672 --> 00:24:21,131
- It probably took him longer
- to explain it to me
- 511
- 00:24:21,214 --> 00:24:24,047
- than coming together
- in his mind.
- 512
- 00:24:24,131 --> 00:24:26,880
- Excuse me, sir,
- we'd like to buy
- your right front tire.
- 513
- 00:24:28,047 --> 00:24:29,630
- (indistinct chatter)
- 514
- 00:24:29,714 --> 00:24:31,964
- Tramer:
- Stop, we'll take it
- right off here.
- 515
- 00:24:32,047 --> 00:24:34,380
- Excuse me,
- we're conducting
- an experiment
- 516
- 00:24:34,463 --> 00:24:37,006
- in accidents on highways
- caused by distractions.
- 517
- 00:24:37,089 --> 00:24:40,297
- (laughter)
- 518
- 00:24:40,380 --> 00:24:42,964
- Tramer:
- He used to introduce me
- as his best friend,
- 519
- 00:24:43,047 --> 00:24:45,297
- and I hadn't known
- him that long.
- 520
- 00:24:45,380 --> 00:24:47,380
- ♪ ♪
- 521
- 00:24:47,463 --> 00:24:49,256
- I think he needed
- a best friend.
- 522
- 00:24:49,338 --> 00:24:51,422
- Robin:
- Madam please, please.
- 523
- 00:24:51,505 --> 00:24:54,964
- I'm making a plea for love.
- Please, madam.
- 524
- 00:24:55,047 --> 00:24:56,006
- (indistinct chatter)
- 525
- 00:24:57,714 --> 00:24:59,047
- (Tramer laughs)
- 526
- 00:24:59,131 --> 00:25:03,256
- ♪ ♪
- 527
- 00:25:07,755 --> 00:25:10,422
- Larry Grobel:
- Early in life, did you have
- a fear of abandonment?
- 528
- 00:25:10,505 --> 00:25:13,672
- Robin: Oh yeah.
- It's a primal fear
- for any child...
- 529
- 00:25:13,755 --> 00:25:16,214
- and then it dictates a lot
- of how you deal with life.
- 530
- 00:25:23,422 --> 00:25:25,505
- McLaurin Smith-Williams:
- My students know that
- he was my brother,
- 531
- 00:25:25,588 --> 00:25:26,588
- and they
- always have.
- 532
- 00:25:26,672 --> 00:25:28,172
- I've never
- tried to
- hide it,
- 533
- 00:25:28,256 --> 00:25:29,297
- but I also
- don't try
- 534
- 00:25:29,380 --> 00:25:30,256
- to advertise
- it either.
- 535
- 00:25:32,214 --> 00:25:34,380
- Robin and I shared a mom.
- 536
- 00:25:34,463 --> 00:25:37,338
- I was my mother's son
- by her first marriage.
- 537
- 00:25:37,422 --> 00:25:40,422
- Shortly after I was born,
- I was sent to live
- 538
- 00:25:40,505 --> 00:25:42,463
- with her parents
- in the South.
- 539
- 00:25:42,547 --> 00:25:46,588
- My grandparents,
- who had been raising me
- as their child,
- 540
- 00:25:46,672 --> 00:25:51,006
- suddenly informed me that I had
- this other family and a brother
- that I didn't know I had.
- 541
- 00:25:52,297 --> 00:25:53,505
- And when we met,
- we met as strangers.
- 542
- 00:25:56,672 --> 00:25:59,006
- He was eight.
- 543
- 00:25:59,089 --> 00:26:02,380
- He was probably
- not quite sure
- what to make of me.
- 544
- 00:26:02,463 --> 00:26:06,089
- He was showing me all
- of his little toy soldiers
- and everything like that.
- 545
- 00:26:08,380 --> 00:26:10,297
- I believe Robin
- already knew about Todd.
- 546
- 00:26:12,422 --> 00:26:16,672
- Marina Zenovich:
- Tell me how you are
- related to Robin Williams.
- 547
- 00:26:16,755 --> 00:26:18,964
- I was married
- to Robin's
- brother, Todd...
- 548
- 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:22,131
- for nearly
- 30 years.
- 549
- 00:26:22,214 --> 00:26:25,547
- Todd's mother was
- married to Robin's dad
- 550
- 00:26:25,630 --> 00:26:27,547
- for only a couple of years.
- 551
- 00:26:27,630 --> 00:26:30,380
- Todd was a very little boy
- when they divorced.
- 552
- 00:26:30,463 --> 00:26:34,588
- Mac, he and Robin had
- the same mom, different dads.
- 553
- 00:26:34,672 --> 00:26:37,755
- Todd and Robin had
- the same dad, different moms.
- 554
- 00:26:37,839 --> 00:26:41,463
- All three of them had
- some things in common
- 555
- 00:26:41,547 --> 00:26:43,714
- and just loved the fact
- that they were related.
- 556
- 00:26:46,338 --> 00:26:48,047
- McLaurin:
- Even though there
- were three brothers,
- 557
- 00:26:48,131 --> 00:26:51,588
- we were all raised
- as only children.
- 558
- 00:26:51,672 --> 00:26:56,505
- To be honest, I think
- that none of us would have
- turned out the way we did,
- 559
- 00:26:56,588 --> 00:26:58,338
- had it been--
- had we grown up together.
- 560
- 00:26:59,714 --> 00:27:01,505
- Growing up
- by yourself a lot,
- 561
- 00:27:01,588 --> 00:27:03,755
- you can either
- kind of go nuts
- 562
- 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:06,505
- or you have
- a very comedic
- attitude toward it.
- 563
- 00:27:06,588 --> 00:27:09,505
- When you're in school
- and you don't have
- too many friends,
- 564
- 00:27:09,588 --> 00:27:12,797
- or this, that, and the other,
- that's a way of kind
- of circumventing.
- 565
- 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,797
- There's a flip side to that
- 566
- 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,630
- because there's
- a depressive side to that--
- 567
- 00:27:16,714 --> 00:27:18,505
- that kind of personality too.
- 568
- 00:27:18,588 --> 00:27:21,630
- There's a strong element
- of that in our family.
- 569
- 00:27:21,714 --> 00:27:25,630
- ♪ ♪
- 570
- 00:27:25,714 --> 00:27:27,297
- Robin:
- My mother,
- she would do weird things,
- 571
- 00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:29,463
- like cut a rubber band,
- stuff it in her nose,
- 572
- 00:27:29,547 --> 00:27:31,839
- and be at a dinner party,
- and go.. . (sneezes)
- "Oh dear."
- 573
- 00:27:31,922 --> 00:27:35,422
- And my dad would go,
- (flatly) "Great, Laurie.
- That's really funny."
- 574
- 00:27:35,505 --> 00:27:37,131
- Oh my,
- you're gonna do this!
- 575
- 00:27:37,214 --> 00:27:39,422
- -Oh no! Oh God!
- -(laughter)
- 576
- 00:27:42,588 --> 00:27:45,338
- You know,
- we embarrassed your dad.
- I did for years.
- 577
- 00:27:45,422 --> 00:27:48,214
- Yeah, that and me making
- this noise at dinner.
- 578
- 00:27:48,297 --> 00:27:49,588
- -Yeah. No.
- -He didn't like that either.
- 579
- 00:27:49,672 --> 00:27:51,630
- He doesn't
- take lightly to our--
- 580
- 00:27:51,714 --> 00:27:53,755
- -And the whoopie cushions.
- -(laughs)
- 581
- 00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:55,714
- -Fun too.
- -You remember
- whoopie cushions?
- 582
- 00:27:55,797 --> 00:27:57,380
- We had a couple of those
- that we'd bring in.
- 583
- 00:27:57,463 --> 00:27:59,338
- They've been going strong
- for 50 years,
- 584
- 00:27:59,422 --> 00:28:01,131
- -and they're still funny.
- -They are.
- 585
- 00:28:01,214 --> 00:28:02,297
- Nothing like a good
- whoopie cushion
- 586
- 00:28:02,380 --> 00:28:04,006
- before a press
- conference, right,
- Mr. Reagan?
- 587
- 00:28:04,089 --> 00:28:06,256
- That's right.
- Put a little water in it, too.
- It's really effective.
- 588
- 00:28:06,338 --> 00:28:09,505
- -Oh, God, Ma!
- -(laughter)
- 589
- 00:28:09,588 --> 00:28:11,547
- Put a little water in it
- and then watch!
- 590
- 00:28:11,630 --> 00:28:13,714
- Not only does
- it make a noise,
- it stains!
- 591
- 00:28:13,797 --> 00:28:15,463
- Oh, there's a fun one.
- 592
- 00:28:15,547 --> 00:28:18,131
- Laurie:
- I think Robin had
- a happy childhood.
- 593
- 00:28:18,214 --> 00:28:20,380
- I hope.
- You never really know.
- 594
- 00:28:20,463 --> 00:28:22,172
- He was very isolated,
- 595
- 00:28:22,256 --> 00:28:24,131
- so he had to entertain
- himself a lot.
- 596
- 00:28:24,922 --> 00:28:26,588
- ♪ ♪
- 597
- 00:28:42,922 --> 00:28:44,547
- Elayne Boosler:
- I don't know when
- I met Robin,
- 598
- 00:28:44,630 --> 00:28:45,672
- but the next thing
- I knew was
- 599
- 00:28:45,755 --> 00:28:48,214
- he lived
- in my apartment
- with me.
- 600
- 00:28:48,297 --> 00:28:50,547
- He had an apartment,
- I never went there.
- 601
- 00:28:50,630 --> 00:28:52,297
- I didn't even
- know his address.
- 602
- 00:28:52,380 --> 00:28:53,505
- He lived
- in my apartment.
- 603
- 00:28:55,256 --> 00:28:56,505
- Robin started
- pursuing me.
- 604
- 00:28:56,588 --> 00:28:58,505
- I had never been
- so pursued in my life,
- 605
- 00:28:58,588 --> 00:29:00,505
- and he would not
- leave me alone.
- 606
- 00:29:00,588 --> 00:29:03,297
- and I thought, "Okay,
- well, I'm in for fun."
- 607
- 00:29:03,380 --> 00:29:05,422
- ♪ ♪
- 608
- 00:29:05,505 --> 00:29:08,880
- He was very quiet
- in real life.
- 609
- 00:29:08,964 --> 00:29:11,172
- You wouldn't know,
- if you had just met him
- in the daytime
- 610
- 00:29:11,256 --> 00:29:13,463
- and spoke to him,
- what he became at night.
- 611
- 00:29:13,547 --> 00:29:16,256
- Robin: This is
- the hormone blues-in.
- Here we go.
- 612
- 00:29:16,338 --> 00:29:18,338
- (mimics harmonica)
- 613
- 00:29:18,422 --> 00:29:19,505
- (deep voice)
- Yeah.
- 614
- 00:29:25,672 --> 00:29:29,380
- ♪ Went to bed last night,
- with hair upon my chest ♪
- 615
- 00:29:29,463 --> 00:29:31,463
- (mimics harmonica)
- 616
- 00:29:31,547 --> 00:29:32,797
- (high-pitched)
- ♪ I woke up this morning ♪
- 617
- 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,714
- ♪ With a couple
- of beautiful breasts ♪
- 618
- 00:29:34,797 --> 00:29:37,880
- ♪ You know I'm, I'm ♪
- 619
- 00:29:37,964 --> 00:29:40,338
- (deep voice)
- ♪ Changing ♪
- 620
- 00:29:40,422 --> 00:29:42,256
- Boosler:
- I knew that Robin
- was running around
- 621
- 00:29:42,338 --> 00:29:44,256
- when I wasn't around,
- but I didn't care!
- 622
- 00:29:44,338 --> 00:29:45,422
- It didn't bother me.
- 623
- 00:29:45,505 --> 00:29:48,297
- But all the comics were
- so caring for me,
- 624
- 00:29:48,380 --> 00:29:50,256
- and they said,
- "You know, we think he has
- 625
- 00:29:50,338 --> 00:29:51,714
- a girlfriend
- in San Francisco."
- 626
- 00:29:51,797 --> 00:29:53,839
- And I said,
- "Well, I'll ask him."
- 627
- 00:29:53,922 --> 00:29:55,755
- And I said,
- "Do you have a girlfriend
- in San Francisco?"
- 628
- 00:29:55,839 --> 00:29:57,755
- "Oh no." I said,
- "Listen, don't lie to me.
- 629
- 00:29:57,839 --> 00:30:00,214
- I hate lies,
- tell the truth.
- I don't mind."
- 630
- 00:30:00,297 --> 00:30:01,422
- "Oh no, oh no."
- 631
- 00:30:01,505 --> 00:30:03,714
- So we're in
- The Improv one night,
- 632
- 00:30:03,797 --> 00:30:06,922
- and Jay said,
- "Robin, you should
- be honest with Elayne,
- 633
- 00:30:07,006 --> 00:30:09,964
- tell her if you
- have a girlfriend
- somewhere else."
- 634
- 00:30:10,047 --> 00:30:12,256
- And he said,
- "Look, man. Look, man."
- 635
- 00:30:12,338 --> 00:30:14,547
- "I'm just looking
- for a little bit of balance.
- 636
- 00:30:14,630 --> 00:30:17,505
- I'm just trying to find
- a little bit of balance."
- 637
- 00:30:17,588 --> 00:30:22,463
- And Jay Leno said,
- "Yeah, but you're using
- your dick as a fulcrum."
- 638
- 00:30:22,547 --> 00:30:24,672
- ♪ ♪
- 639
- 00:30:29,797 --> 00:30:31,922
- After we broke up,
- he married his girlfriend.
- 640
- 00:30:34,964 --> 00:30:37,214
- Velardi:
- We jumped on
- each other's bandwagon.
- 641
- 00:30:38,547 --> 00:30:39,880
- We were a good team.
- 642
- 00:30:47,755 --> 00:30:49,422
- We were having an adventure.
- 643
- 00:30:52,922 --> 00:30:54,630
- And then, everything changed.
- 644
- 00:30:55,797 --> 00:30:58,505
- ♪ Sunday, Monday,
- Happy Days ♪
- 645
- 00:30:58,588 --> 00:31:00,588
- ♪ Tuesday, Wednesday,
- Happy Days ♪
- 646
- 00:31:00,672 --> 00:31:03,380
- ♪ Thursday, Friday,
- Happy Days ♪
- 647
- 00:31:03,463 --> 00:31:05,797
- ♪ The weekend comes,
- my cycle hums... ♪
- 648
- 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,630
- Scott Marshall:
- Growing up, I loved
- Happy Days,
- 649
- 00:31:07,714 --> 00:31:10,505
- loved Fonzi.
- In 1977,
- 650
- 00:31:10,588 --> 00:31:13,422
- I was eight years
- old, and Star Wars
- came out...
- 651
- 00:31:13,505 --> 00:31:15,880
- and I stopped
- watching Happy Days.
- 652
- 00:31:15,964 --> 00:31:19,047
- My dad said,
- "Why don't you wanna watch
- Happy Days anymore?"
- 653
- 00:31:19,131 --> 00:31:21,588
- And I said, "There's
- no spaceman on it."
- 654
- 00:31:21,672 --> 00:31:24,047
- He went
- to the writer's room
- on Happy Days
- 655
- 00:31:24,131 --> 00:31:26,839
- and said, "Scotty
- wants a spaceman!"
- 656
- 00:31:26,922 --> 00:31:30,630
- And all the writers
- rolled their eyes, "Oh,
- what a great idea.
- 657
- 00:31:30,714 --> 00:31:32,922
- A spaceman, okay,
- how can we do this?"
- 658
- 00:31:34,797 --> 00:31:36,964
- My Aunt Ronnie,
- who was in charge
- of casting,
- 659
- 00:31:37,047 --> 00:31:39,547
- told my dad
- about a comedian
- 660
- 00:31:39,630 --> 00:31:42,755
- doing stand-up
- on the street corner,
- with a hat
- 661
- 00:31:42,839 --> 00:31:44,588
- that people
- put money in.
- 662
- 00:31:44,672 --> 00:31:47,047
- My dad said,
- "You want me
- to hire a kid,
- 663
- 00:31:47,131 --> 00:31:49,463
- "who stands
- on the street corner
- with a hat
- 664
- 00:31:49,547 --> 00:31:51,755
- "on a primetime network
- television show--
- 665
- 00:31:51,839 --> 00:31:53,588
- "a hit show,
- number one
- in the ratings--
- 666
- 00:31:53,672 --> 00:31:55,047
- "I'm gonna put
- a kid who stands
- 667
- 00:31:55,131 --> 00:31:56,714
- "on the sidewalk
- with a hat,
- 668
- 00:31:56,797 --> 00:31:57,797
- that's who
- I'm gonna put on?"
- 669
- 00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,422
- And Ronnie said...
- 670
- 00:31:59,505 --> 00:32:00,964
- "It's a pretty full hat."
- 671
- 00:32:01,047 --> 00:32:03,797
- -(babbles)
- -(door shuts)
- 672
- 00:32:06,006 --> 00:32:08,505
- What do you do,
- you just use that
- to scare people with?
- 673
- 00:32:08,588 --> 00:32:10,131
- No, keeps the rain
- off my head.
- 674
- 00:32:10,214 --> 00:32:12,630
- (audience laughs)
- 675
- 00:32:12,714 --> 00:32:14,463
- Are you
- Richie Cunningham?
- 676
- 00:32:14,547 --> 00:32:17,338
- Oh yeah.
- Yeah, that--
- that's me.
- 677
- 00:32:17,422 --> 00:32:19,463
- -Is this your house?
- -Uh-huh.
- 678
- 00:32:19,547 --> 00:32:20,797
- Ee-ee, Ee-ee.
- 679
- 00:32:24,463 --> 00:32:25,588
- Wait a minute.
- Who are you?
- 680
- 00:32:25,672 --> 00:32:27,714
- I am Mork from Ork.
- Que pasa?
- 681
- 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:30,839
- (babbles)
- 682
- 00:32:35,672 --> 00:32:37,755
- Marshall:
- The episode,
- in front of the live audience,
- 683
- 00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:38,964
- it got a standing ovation.
- 684
- 00:32:39,047 --> 00:32:41,672
- All 300 people stood up
- and applauded Robin
- 685
- 00:32:41,755 --> 00:32:43,755
- when he finished
- that episode.
- 686
- 00:32:43,839 --> 00:32:47,630
- ♪ ♪
- 687
- 00:32:47,714 --> 00:32:49,755
- Robin:
- ABC has a commitment
- to Paramount,
- 688
- 00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:50,964
- and they have
- to honor it.
- 689
- 00:32:51,047 --> 00:32:52,922
- If they have a series
- that falls out,
- 690
- 00:32:53,006 --> 00:32:56,672
- they have to put something
- on the air from Paramount.
- 691
- 00:32:56,755 --> 00:32:58,630
- No pilot, just--
- you gotta put it on.
- 692
- 00:32:58,714 --> 00:33:00,922
- And they went, "Oh fuck,"
- so they scrambled.
- 693
- 00:33:01,006 --> 00:33:02,463
- They'd say, "Okay,
- we have this character,
- 694
- 00:33:02,547 --> 00:33:04,131
- Mork, which tested very well,"
- 695
- 00:33:04,214 --> 00:33:06,714
- and they had Pam,
- a series where
- she played a nun...
- 696
- 00:33:06,797 --> 00:33:08,630
- Pam Dawber:
- Called Sister Terri,
- 697
- 00:33:08,714 --> 00:33:10,131
- who had been
- a gang leader,
- 698
- 00:33:10,214 --> 00:33:11,588
- and kind
- of talked like this.
- 699
- 00:33:11,672 --> 00:33:12,630
- And she was
- a little tough,
- 700
- 00:33:12,714 --> 00:33:13,797
- but she was a nun.
- 701
- 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,839
- (laughs)
- And it was
- terrible.
- 702
- 00:33:15,922 --> 00:33:19,463
- Marshall:
- My dad took footage
- of Pam Dawber from the pilot,
- 703
- 00:33:19,547 --> 00:33:21,505
- in the nun outfit,
- cut it together
- 704
- 00:33:21,588 --> 00:33:22,797
- with Robin
- on Happy Days- -
- 705
- 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,172
- just literally
- spliced it together--
- 706
- 00:33:24,256 --> 00:33:27,131
- and that was the pilot.
- It was a $63 dollar pilot.
- 707
- 00:33:27,214 --> 00:33:29,588
- Robin:
- And they went, "Fine, whatever,
- just throw it on the air."
- 708
- 00:33:29,672 --> 00:33:32,047
- They didn't think
- it had a fighting chance
- of ever living.
- 709
- 00:33:32,131 --> 00:33:33,839
- They're announcing
- the fall line up,
- 710
- 00:33:33,922 --> 00:33:35,922
- and it says,
- "ABC announces
- 711
- 00:33:36,006 --> 00:33:40,630
- "Mork & Mindy,
- starring Robin Williams
- and Pam Dawber.
- 712
- 00:33:40,714 --> 00:33:44,172
- Spaceman lives
- with girlfriend
- in apartment."
- 713
- 00:33:44,256 --> 00:33:47,463
- And I went, "Oh my God!
- This sounds terrible.
- 714
- 00:33:47,547 --> 00:33:50,089
- Who is this
- Robin Williams anyway?"
- 715
- 00:33:51,547 --> 00:33:53,839
- Howard Storm:
- Robin's manager
- called Robin.
- 716
- 00:33:53,922 --> 00:33:58,630
- He said, "Robin,
- we got 22 shows,
- guaranteed,
- 717
- 00:33:58,714 --> 00:34:01,797
- and you're
- gonna get
- $1500 a week."
- 718
- 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,172
- And Robin
- went, "Wow!"
- 719
- 00:34:04,256 --> 00:34:07,922
- And then Buddy
- said, "Schmuck,
- $15,000."
- 720
- 00:34:08,006 --> 00:34:09,880
- (laughs)
- 721
- 00:34:09,964 --> 00:34:12,047
- Robin was happy
- with the $1,500.
- 722
- 00:34:12,131 --> 00:34:14,047
- He never made
- that kind of money.
- 723
- 00:34:14,131 --> 00:34:17,047
- (theme music playing)
- 724
- 00:34:17,131 --> 00:34:18,089
- Nanu, nanu.
- 725
- 00:34:28,839 --> 00:34:30,505
- -(helmet thuds)
- -Shazbot!
- 726
- 00:34:30,588 --> 00:34:33,006
- Tramer:
- Robin was
- a little nervous.
- 727
- 00:34:33,089 --> 00:34:34,755
- "All of that energy
- is sure to translate.
- 728
- 00:34:34,839 --> 00:34:36,797
- "My comedy
- is so big, and...
- 729
- 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,839
- you're sure it'll translate
- onto a small screen?"
- 730
- 00:34:38,922 --> 00:34:40,047
- (whistling)
- 731
- 00:34:40,131 --> 00:34:42,547
- Necrotons! Warning!
- Mayday! Mayday!
- 732
- 00:34:42,630 --> 00:34:44,672
- Red alert! Dive!
- In the bunker,
- in the bunker!
- 733
- 00:34:44,755 --> 00:34:47,463
- Hit 'em up.
- We're going
- to Missouri. Whoo!
- 734
- 00:34:47,547 --> 00:34:49,172
- Marshall: He would run
- around the stage,
- you know.
- 735
- 00:34:49,256 --> 00:34:51,630
- He would run around
- and do crazy things
- all the time,
- 736
- 00:34:51,714 --> 00:34:54,089
- and there was
- union cameramen.
- 737
- 00:34:54,172 --> 00:34:55,797
- He would
- do something great,
- my dad would go,
- 738
- 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,256
- "Did you get that?
- Did you get that?"
- 739
- 00:34:57,338 --> 00:35:00,131
- The cameraman would say,
- "He didn't come by here."
- 740
- 00:35:00,214 --> 00:35:02,797
- "You gotta capture this.
- He's a genius."
- 741
- 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,964
- And the cameraman said,
- "If he's such a genius,
- 742
- 00:35:05,047 --> 00:35:06,755
- he could hit his mark."
- 743
- 00:35:06,839 --> 00:35:09,880
- And so my dad said,
- "Wow, this is-- gotta
- figure this out."
- 744
- 00:35:09,964 --> 00:35:13,047
- The sitcom, up until then,
- always three camera.
- 745
- 00:35:13,131 --> 00:35:14,672
- So he brought in
- a fourth camera,
- 746
- 00:35:14,755 --> 00:35:16,630
- kind of a handheld camera,
- 747
- 00:35:16,714 --> 00:35:18,214
- just to follow Robin.
- 748
- 00:35:18,297 --> 00:35:20,547
- And that became
- the standard.
- 749
- 00:35:20,630 --> 00:35:21,922
- Now, every sitcom
- 750
- 00:35:22,006 --> 00:35:23,714
- has four cameras now
- because of that.
- 751
- 00:35:23,797 --> 00:35:26,089
- Well, this week, sir,
- I learned that on Earth
- 752
- 00:35:26,172 --> 00:35:27,797
- things aren't always
- what they appear to be.
- 753
- 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,505
- Orson:
- What does this...
- 754
- 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,006
- You've got the script
- in your hand,
- 755
- 00:35:32,089 --> 00:35:33,256
- motherfucker,
- and you're blowin' it?
- 756
- 00:35:33,338 --> 00:35:35,755
- (audience laughs)
- 757
- 00:35:35,839 --> 00:35:38,797
- Tramer:
- The taping of Mork & Mindy
- became like the show to go to.
- 758
- 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,797
- It was like a three-hour
- Robin Williams marathon.
- 759
- 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,964
- Care for some
- iguana jerky?
- 760
- 00:35:44,047 --> 00:35:45,172
- No, asshole.
- 761
- 00:35:45,256 --> 00:35:46,297
- (audience laughs)
- 762
- 00:35:46,380 --> 00:35:47,922
- Hey, it's a
- self-improvement course!
- 763
- 00:35:48,006 --> 00:35:49,714
- "Evelyn Wood
- Speed Orgasm."
- 764
- 00:35:51,047 --> 00:35:53,672
- Says if you've
- read this by now,
- you've already come.
- 765
- 00:35:53,755 --> 00:35:55,964
- -Why'd you laugh at me?
- -(laughs)
- 766
- 00:35:56,047 --> 00:35:57,714
- You were gonna say,
- "What an asshole."
- 767
- 00:35:57,797 --> 00:36:00,755
- Now, I didn't.
- I let you say it!
- 768
- 00:36:00,839 --> 00:36:02,297
- (laughter)
- 769
- 00:36:02,380 --> 00:36:04,964
- Storm:
- Robin was just flying,
- 770
- 00:36:05,047 --> 00:36:07,797
- I mean, he was
- the hottest ticket in town.
- 771
- 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,214
- Storm:
- Whatever makes
- you happy, monsieur.
- 772
- 00:36:09,297 --> 00:36:10,839
- Well, we can't
- do that now.
- 773
- 00:36:10,922 --> 00:36:11,922
- (audience laughs)
- 774
- 00:36:12,006 --> 00:36:14,755
- So many lines going
- through my mind.
- 775
- 00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:16,131
- I don't know who I am!
- 776
- 00:36:18,089 --> 00:36:19,922
- Look! And...
- 777
- 00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:23,880
- (audience laughs, cheers)
- 778
- 00:36:23,964 --> 00:36:27,047
- Storm:
- All of a sudden, he was
- getting all this attention,
- 779
- 00:36:27,131 --> 00:36:30,214
- making money, and doing
- whatever he wanted to do.
- 780
- 00:36:30,297 --> 00:36:31,797
- -Action, baby.
- -Oh, I got--
- 781
- 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,089
- -Oh, I'm sorry.
- -It's happening.
- 782
- 00:36:38,047 --> 00:36:40,630
- Boy, have I got
- a subtext going,
- you don't know!
- 783
- 00:36:40,714 --> 00:36:42,131
- Okay, wait, wait. Wow!
- 784
- 00:36:43,422 --> 00:36:45,214
- 4.5 on the Richter scale!
- 785
- 00:36:46,755 --> 00:36:50,338
- (both babbling)
- 786
- 00:36:50,422 --> 00:36:52,755
- ♪ I remember you ♪
- 787
- 00:36:54,797 --> 00:36:57,630
- Hi, Mr. Houseman.
- Juilliard really paid off.
- 788
- 00:36:57,714 --> 00:36:59,880
- Until next week,
- Orson, knock knock.
- 789
- 00:36:59,964 --> 00:37:01,131
- -Orson:
- Who's there?
- -Cohen.
- 790
- 00:37:01,214 --> 00:37:02,797
- Orson:
- Cohen who?
- 791
- 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,338
- "Cohen" fuck yourself.
- Good night.
- 792
- 00:37:09,964 --> 00:37:12,880
- Eric Idle:
- I first clapped eyes
- on him in 1980.
- 793
- 00:37:12,964 --> 00:37:14,131
- He came on stage,
- 794
- 00:37:14,214 --> 00:37:15,714
- and it was just like
- 795
- 00:37:15,797 --> 00:37:17,131
- he took
- the place apart.
- 796
- 00:37:17,214 --> 00:37:18,714
- He just absolutely--
- 797
- 00:37:18,797 --> 00:37:20,006
- I've never seen
- anything like it.
- 798
- 00:37:20,089 --> 00:37:22,047
- He just completely
- commanded it.
- 799
- 00:37:22,131 --> 00:37:25,214
- He just made
- them all laugh
- and laugh and laugh,
- 800
- 00:37:25,297 --> 00:37:27,172
- and he had
- one persistent heckler.
- 801
- 00:37:27,256 --> 00:37:30,089
- And he made the entire
- audience pray
- 802
- 00:37:30,172 --> 00:37:33,964
- for little Timmy
- at the back,
- that he might die.
- 803
- 00:37:34,047 --> 00:37:36,839
- And it was
- just so hilarious.
- 804
- 00:37:36,922 --> 00:37:39,214
- He just-- the entire audience
- praying for the death
- 805
- 00:37:39,297 --> 00:37:41,338
- of this heckler
- at the back of the room.
- 806
- 00:37:41,422 --> 00:37:43,380
- ♪ ♪
- 807
- 00:37:47,505 --> 00:37:49,172
- Storm:
- And keep your hands away
- from your wiener.
- 808
- 00:37:49,256 --> 00:37:50,297
- -Yes, sir.
- -(laughter)
- 809
- 00:37:52,505 --> 00:37:54,131
- You're an adult, Howard.
- You can say "penis."
- 810
- 00:37:55,839 --> 00:37:57,880
- Robin:
- I'd go from doing the show
- 811
- 00:37:57,964 --> 00:37:59,089
- and then coming
- to The Comedy Store
- 812
- 00:37:59,172 --> 00:38:00,297
- and then go
- to The Improv.
- 813
- 00:38:00,380 --> 00:38:02,297
- He would do five,
- six sets a night,
- 814
- 00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:03,755
- and just keep going.
- 815
- 00:38:03,839 --> 00:38:05,338
- Robin:
- And now a native
- New York impression,
- 816
- 00:38:05,422 --> 00:38:06,422
- a New York echo.
- 817
- 00:38:06,505 --> 00:38:08,172
- (shouts) "Hello!"
- 818
- 00:38:08,256 --> 00:38:11,422
- -"Shut the fuck up!"
- -(laughter)
- 819
- 00:38:11,505 --> 00:38:14,089
- Velardi:
- We were just playing,
- you know?
- 820
- 00:38:14,172 --> 00:38:15,755
- We were out and about.
- 821
- 00:38:15,839 --> 00:38:17,880
- ♪ You can climb a mountain... ♪
- 822
- 00:38:17,964 --> 00:38:20,256
- Velardi:
- It was wonderful
- being in Hollywood.
- 823
- 00:38:22,089 --> 00:38:24,797
- You know he's the star
- of the very successful
- Mork & Mindy show,
- 824
- 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,422
- would you welcome,
- Robin Williams.
- 825
- 00:38:26,505 --> 00:38:28,380
- (cheers, applause)
- 826
- 00:38:28,463 --> 00:38:30,880
- Momma, I'm on TV!
- 827
- 00:38:30,964 --> 00:38:32,755
- For my friends
- in San Francisco,
- 828
- 00:38:32,839 --> 00:38:35,256
- (slowly)
- how are you?
- 829
- 00:38:35,338 --> 00:38:38,089
- Storm:
- He started hanging out
- with a lot of major stars.
- 830
- 00:38:39,505 --> 00:38:40,880
- He was hanging out
- with De Niro,
- 831
- 00:38:40,964 --> 00:38:42,380
- he was hanging out
- with Belushi,
- 832
- 00:38:42,463 --> 00:38:44,131
- and they were impressed
- 833
- 00:38:44,214 --> 00:38:46,006
- that they were
- hanging out with him.
- 834
- 00:38:46,089 --> 00:38:47,964
- Robin:
- There was one crazy night
- where he took me
- 835
- 00:38:48,047 --> 00:38:50,297
- to a series of clubs
- to see different bands.
- 836
- 00:38:50,380 --> 00:38:51,839
- He'd just put you
- in a headlock and say,
- 837
- 00:38:51,922 --> 00:38:53,380
- "Come on, we're going
- to this place."
- 838
- 00:38:53,463 --> 00:38:55,047
- (snorts)
- 839
- 00:38:55,131 --> 00:38:57,463
- Storm:
- In the second year
- of the show,
- 840
- 00:38:57,547 --> 00:39:00,214
- Robin was doing drugs.
- 841
- 00:39:00,297 --> 00:39:03,089
- Robin:
- It was part of the whole
- scene at that time.
- 842
- 00:39:03,172 --> 00:39:04,922
- There was just
- so much of it.
- 843
- 00:39:05,006 --> 00:39:08,172
- There were even
- some clubs that used
- to pay in white or green.
- 844
- 00:39:08,256 --> 00:39:10,964
- You'd go hang out at clubs,
- and then, um, end up
- 845
- 00:39:11,047 --> 00:39:14,006
- in the hills,
- in some coke
- dealer's house.
- 846
- 00:39:14,089 --> 00:39:16,505
- Everyone used
- to just give it to you,
- because if you're famous,
- 847
- 00:39:16,588 --> 00:39:19,755
- you know, it was
- just a-- like a thing.
- "Hey, come here. Take this."
- 848
- 00:39:19,839 --> 00:39:22,922
- You know, you'd get
- phone calls that say,
- "Yeah, Robin left his car."
- 849
- 00:39:23,006 --> 00:39:24,964
- It's found
- some place on Sunset.
- 850
- 00:39:25,047 --> 00:39:27,338
- Dawber:
- I climbed out
- of a bathroom window
- 851
- 00:39:27,422 --> 00:39:29,047
- at Imperial Gardens,
- 852
- 00:39:29,131 --> 00:39:31,297
- because Robin
- was there with people
- 853
- 00:39:31,380 --> 00:39:33,505
- that he didn't want anybody
- to know he was there with.
- 854
- 00:39:33,588 --> 00:39:37,380
- No! Everyone
- I've ever known!
- 855
- 00:39:37,463 --> 00:39:40,505
- There are people here
- I've slept with twice.
- 856
- 00:39:40,588 --> 00:39:43,006
- Boosler:
- He would just sometimes
- at the end of an hour
- 857
- 00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:44,922
- just pick a gorgeous woman
- out of the audience
- 858
- 00:39:45,006 --> 00:39:46,505
- and walk out,
- and never saw
- her again,
- 859
- 00:39:46,588 --> 00:39:49,172
- and her boyfriend would
- go, "I guess she's gone."
- 860
- 00:39:49,256 --> 00:39:52,463
- Velardi:
- He loved women.
- Loved women.
- 861
- 00:39:52,547 --> 00:39:54,172
- And I got it.
- And I understood it.
- 862
- 00:39:54,256 --> 00:39:56,047
- And I wanted him
- to have that,
- 863
- 00:39:56,131 --> 00:39:58,172
- but I also wanted him
- to come home.
- 864
- 00:39:58,256 --> 00:40:00,089
- ♪ ♪
- 865
- 00:40:02,588 --> 00:40:04,547
- You know,
- after a night
- of partying,
- 866
- 00:40:04,630 --> 00:40:06,880
- we'd couldn't find him
- many times.
- 867
- 00:40:06,964 --> 00:40:09,214
- Dawber:
- He'd come in looking
- pretty burned out,
- 868
- 00:40:09,297 --> 00:40:11,964
- because, you know,
- he was out till 3:00,
- 4:00 in the morning.
- 869
- 00:40:12,047 --> 00:40:14,172
- You've had
- all week to do this.
- 870
- 00:40:14,256 --> 00:40:16,256
- (laughs)
- Look at him.
- He's so pitiful.
- 871
- 00:40:16,338 --> 00:40:18,797
- 'Cause I feel
- like shit, that's why.
- 872
- 00:40:20,006 --> 00:40:22,131
- I'm looking at you.
- 873
- 00:40:22,214 --> 00:40:23,380
- I'm not really
- looking at you.
- 874
- 00:40:23,463 --> 00:40:25,047
- I'm looking at the back
- of my mind going,
- 875
- 00:40:25,131 --> 00:40:28,006
- "There's gotta be
- another line.
- 876
- 00:40:28,089 --> 00:40:30,964
- Someone back there,
- send another line forward!"
- 877
- 00:40:31,047 --> 00:40:32,922
- Storm:
- He was drinking and coke.
- 878
- 00:40:33,006 --> 00:40:36,547
- It was like him jumping
- into a giant cake.
- 879
- 00:40:36,630 --> 00:40:40,256
- You know, your
- most delicious cake ever,
- and he could eat all--
- 880
- 00:40:40,338 --> 00:40:43,505
- anything he wanted,
- 'cause that was what
- he was doing.
- 881
- 00:40:43,588 --> 00:40:46,880
- ♪ ♪
- 882
- 00:40:51,131 --> 00:40:54,047
- I believe that cocaine is God's
- way of saying, "You're making
- too much money."
- 883
- 00:40:54,131 --> 00:40:56,380
- (laughter)
- 884
- 00:40:56,463 --> 00:40:59,256
- Idle:
- He got really
- into it, a lot.
- 885
- 00:40:59,338 --> 00:41:01,380
- And I would follow
- him around to these
- various places,
- 886
- 00:41:01,463 --> 00:41:03,256
- and he'd be funny
- and then we'd move on
- 887
- 00:41:03,338 --> 00:41:04,463
- and then he'd be funny
- and move on.
- 888
- 00:41:06,006 --> 00:41:07,630
- It's not a funny drug.
- 889
- 00:41:07,714 --> 00:41:10,380
- It just makes you
- want more and more
- and more of it,
- 890
- 00:41:10,463 --> 00:41:12,297
- and it doesn't
- make you funny.
- 891
- 00:41:12,380 --> 00:41:14,297
- It would just be
- interesting to me
- 892
- 00:41:14,380 --> 00:41:16,463
- that he would cease
- to be funny
- 893
- 00:41:16,547 --> 00:41:19,006
- the later the evening
- went with that drug.
- 894
- 00:41:21,047 --> 00:41:24,006
- Do you have
- any fears, anxieties,
- 895
- 00:41:24,089 --> 00:41:26,880
- or questions about going
- into a film... now?
- 896
- 00:41:28,214 --> 00:41:29,630
- Some of them,
- yeah, it's scary,
- 897
- 00:41:29,714 --> 00:41:31,172
- because you
- realize one wrong--
- 898
- 00:41:31,256 --> 00:41:33,505
- you can be doing great,
- everyone would go,
- 899
- 00:41:33,588 --> 00:41:35,297
- "Hey, fantastic!
- Brilliant.
- 900
- 00:41:35,380 --> 00:41:36,547
- We'll have breakfast,
- lunch, dinner."
- 901
- 00:41:36,630 --> 00:41:37,964
- Then all of a sudden,
- one bad film,
- 902
- 00:41:38,047 --> 00:41:39,131
- "Oh, excuse me
- will you hold?"
- 903
- 00:41:39,214 --> 00:41:41,880
- Okay. Stand by.
- 904
- 00:41:41,964 --> 00:41:43,131
- Action!
- 905
- 00:41:43,214 --> 00:41:45,338
- What am I?
- 906
- 00:41:45,422 --> 00:41:47,297
- I ain't
- no "physi-kist,"
- 907
- 00:41:47,380 --> 00:41:49,089
- but I knows
- what matters.
- 908
- 00:41:49,172 --> 00:41:51,006
- What am I?
- 909
- 00:41:51,089 --> 00:41:53,338
- I'm Popeye
- the Sailor.
- 910
- 00:41:53,422 --> 00:41:55,505
- ♪ And I am,
- what I am, what I am ♪
- 911
- 00:41:55,588 --> 00:41:58,256
- ♪ And I am, what I am,
- and that's all that I am ♪
- 912
- 00:41:58,338 --> 00:42:00,006
- ♪ 'Cause I am what I am... ♪
- 913
- 00:42:00,089 --> 00:42:02,089
- Robin: We had
- the dailies, they showed
- them to my manager.
- 914
- 00:42:02,172 --> 00:42:04,714
- He called back and said,
- "Robin, I saw the dailies.
- 915
- 00:42:04,797 --> 00:42:07,172
- Could you open
- your other eye?"
- 916
- 00:42:07,256 --> 00:42:10,463
- "Charlie, he doesn't
- have another eye.
- He's Popeye."
- 917
- 00:42:10,547 --> 00:42:12,380
- ♪ To me bottom,
- from the bottom
- to me top... ♪
- 918
- 00:42:12,463 --> 00:42:14,547
- Robin:
- As I'm walking outside
- after the movie,
- 919
- 00:42:14,630 --> 00:42:16,172
- the paparazzis saw
- that everyone
- 920
- 00:42:16,256 --> 00:42:18,089
- was kind of walking out
- a little nonplussed,
- 921
- 00:42:18,172 --> 00:42:21,047
- and I think one guy
- turned to me and went,
- "Welcome to show business."
- 922
- 00:42:21,131 --> 00:42:23,672
- (laughs)
- And the illusion
- that I was gonna be
- 923
- 00:42:23,755 --> 00:42:25,922
- a movie star really
- quickly diminished.
- 924
- 00:42:28,214 --> 00:42:30,380
- Dawber:
- It was really near the end
- of Mork & Mindy.
- 925
- 00:42:30,463 --> 00:42:32,547
- And he came
- to work he said, "Wow.
- 926
- 00:42:32,630 --> 00:42:34,463
- "I went over
- to the Chateau
- last night.
- 927
- 00:42:34,547 --> 00:42:36,338
- I was supposed
- to meet with De Niro."
- 928
- 00:42:36,422 --> 00:42:38,214
- He said,
- "De Niro had a couple
- of girls in his room.
- 929
- 00:42:38,297 --> 00:42:40,380
- He wouldn't let me in."
- (laughs)
- 930
- 00:42:40,463 --> 00:42:42,714
- And so-- "I'm there,"♪ There is
- a season, turn... ♪
- and he says,
- 931
- 00:42:42,797 --> 00:42:45,297
- "So I decided to go
- to Belushi's bungalow."
- 932
- 00:42:45,380 --> 00:42:49,256
- And he said,
- "He was so stoned,
- 933
- 00:42:49,338 --> 00:42:51,256
- he could
- hardly stand up."
- 934
- 00:42:51,338 --> 00:42:53,672
- And then just before
- our dinner break,
- 935
- 00:42:53,755 --> 00:42:57,422
- the producers came to me
- and they said, "Pam...
- 936
- 00:42:57,505 --> 00:43:00,047
- "John Belushi--
- they-- he-- he OD'ed
- last night."
- 937
- 00:43:00,131 --> 00:43:01,630
- And I went, "What?"
- 938
- 00:43:01,714 --> 00:43:05,338
- John Belushi died today
- at 33 years old.
- 939
- 00:43:05,422 --> 00:43:07,047
- He was a comic actor
- best known
- 940
- 00:43:07,131 --> 00:43:08,505
- for Animal House,
- the film,
- 941
- 00:43:08,588 --> 00:43:12,006
- and his years on
- the television program
- Saturday Night Live.
- 942
- 00:43:12,089 --> 00:43:13,755
- Belushi died
- in a bungalow
- 943
- 00:43:13,839 --> 00:43:16,256
- at the Chateau Marmont Hotel
- in Hollywood.
- 944
- 00:43:16,338 --> 00:43:17,839
- Later, Los Angeles police--
- 945
- 00:43:17,922 --> 00:43:19,588
- Dawber:
- I said, "I have something
- really terrible to tell you."
- 946
- 00:43:19,672 --> 00:43:21,172
- He said, "What?"
- And I said...
- 947
- 00:43:22,672 --> 00:43:25,297
- "John Belushi's dead.
- He died. He OD'ed."
- 948
- 00:43:25,380 --> 00:43:26,714
- He said, "I was
- with him last night!"
- 949
- 00:43:26,797 --> 00:43:28,505
- And I said, "I-- I know."
- 950
- 00:43:28,588 --> 00:43:30,630
- He goes, "I was
- with him last night!"
- 951
- 00:43:30,714 --> 00:43:32,422
- And I said,
- "I know, Robin.
- 952
- 00:43:32,505 --> 00:43:35,214
- I know you were."
- 953
- 00:43:35,297 --> 00:43:39,131
- And so, we just
- walked together
- towards our trailers
- 954
- 00:43:40,505 --> 00:43:41,380
- and...
- 955
- 00:43:42,547 --> 00:43:44,297
- just before he went
- into his trailer
- 956
- 00:43:44,380 --> 00:43:46,672
- and I said--
- this is gonna
- make me cry.
- 957
- 00:43:51,505 --> 00:43:53,797
- I said, "If that
- ever happens to you,
- 958
- 00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,380
- I will find you
- and kill you first."
- 959
- 00:43:56,463 --> 00:44:00,131
- ♪ ♪
- 960
- 00:44:00,214 --> 00:44:02,547
- He said,
- "Dawbs, that's never
- gonna happen to me."
- 961
- 00:44:22,422 --> 00:44:24,714
- Newswoman:
- A Los Angeles County
- grand jury has begun
- 962
- 00:44:24,797 --> 00:44:28,214
- its investigation of the death
- of comedian John Belushi.
- 963
- 00:44:28,297 --> 00:44:29,839
- -(indistinct chatter)
- -(cameras clicking)
- 964
- 00:44:29,922 --> 00:44:33,131
- Newsman:
- Comedian Robin Williams was
- the grand jury's star witness.
- 965
- 00:44:33,214 --> 00:44:35,214
- Williams was
- one of three people
- with Belushi
- 966
- 00:44:35,338 --> 00:44:38,839
- the night before
- he died of an overdose
- of cocaine and heroin.
- 967
- 00:44:38,922 --> 00:44:42,338
- His attorneys said
- Williams was cooperating
- in the investigation
- 968
- 00:44:42,422 --> 00:44:46,797
- and did not have
- to be subpoenaed
- in order to testify.
- 969
- 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,755
- Robin: Here's this
- guy who was a beast,
- who could do anything...
- 970
- 00:44:49,839 --> 00:44:53,338
- and he's gone,
- and that sobered
- the shit out of me.
- 971
- 00:44:53,422 --> 00:44:57,214
- ♪ ♪
- 972
- 00:44:57,297 --> 00:44:58,547
- Dawber:
- And that's
- when Robin stopped.
- 973
- 00:45:00,297 --> 00:45:03,256
- Storm:
- He backed off for a while
- and cleaned up.
- 974
- 00:45:05,755 --> 00:45:09,588
- ♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la,
- la, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪
- 975
- 00:45:09,672 --> 00:45:11,338
- -Pardon me.
- -(gasps)
- 976
- 00:45:11,422 --> 00:45:12,630
- Could you not
- make so much noise?
- 977
- 00:45:12,714 --> 00:45:14,172
- You're scaring away
- all the flies.
- 978
- 00:45:14,256 --> 00:45:17,214
- I directed him once,
- in The Frog Prince.
- 979
- 00:45:17,297 --> 00:45:18,755
- He's dressed as a frog.
- 980
- 00:45:18,839 --> 00:45:21,463
- He just learned
- in the papers
- 981
- 00:45:21,547 --> 00:45:23,297
- that they'd canceled
- Mork & Mindy.
- 982
- 00:45:26,588 --> 00:45:28,714
- He gathered
- a crowd around him.
- 983
- 00:45:28,797 --> 00:45:31,547
- He just went
- into a rant about ABC
- 984
- 00:45:31,630 --> 00:45:33,338
- and all
- of the people
- who ran it
- 985
- 00:45:33,422 --> 00:45:35,256
- and all of the people
- who had the shows
- 986
- 00:45:35,338 --> 00:45:36,297
- and how awful
- they were.
- 987
- 00:45:37,797 --> 00:45:39,797
- Robin:
- Just going,
- "Fuck these people."
- 988
- 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,880
- Oh you mean
- from inside the Frog--
- "Fuck these people,"
- 989
- 00:45:41,964 --> 00:45:43,422
- inside this giant frog head.
- 990
- 00:45:43,505 --> 00:45:46,172
- -It was crazy shit. Painful.
- -Man: Oh yeah.
- 991
- 00:45:49,422 --> 00:45:52,714
- At that point,
- everything is like,
- "Fuck, it's over."
- 992
- 00:45:52,797 --> 00:45:55,131
- ♪ ♪
- 993
- 00:46:01,797 --> 00:46:03,839
- Robin:
- "What's gonna happen next?
- What are you gonna do?"
- 994
- 00:46:06,006 --> 00:46:07,338
- There was fear.
- 995
- 00:46:11,338 --> 00:46:12,797
- Velardi:
- Hollywood was
- eating us up.
- 996
- 00:46:16,505 --> 00:46:18,380
- Robin and I
- decided to leave
- 997
- 00:46:18,463 --> 00:46:21,214
- and come back
- to Northern California.
- 998
- 00:46:27,922 --> 00:46:30,797
- ♪ ♪
- 999
- 00:46:42,714 --> 00:46:44,505
- Velardi:
- We just wanted
- to be together
- 1000
- 00:46:44,588 --> 00:46:48,547
- where we didn't have
- all that noise coming in.
- 1001
- 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:01,463
- Robin:
- It's the idea
- of "This is it.
- 1002
- 00:47:01,547 --> 00:47:03,422
- I don't need to live--
- 1003
- 00:47:03,505 --> 00:47:05,880
- I can't-- I mean,
- I don't do well in LA.
- 1004
- 00:47:11,047 --> 00:47:12,797
- Velardi:
- And we wanted
- to have children
- 1005
- 00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,505
- and have
- a life together.
- 1006
- 00:47:17,380 --> 00:47:20,839
- You go-- you're a good boy.
- Hey, Zachary.
- 1007
- 00:47:20,922 --> 00:47:23,006
- Today, we're going
- to have the baptism.
- 1008
- 00:47:23,089 --> 00:47:26,422
- Christopher Reeve
- as the godfather,
- 1009
- 00:47:27,672 --> 00:47:29,880
- and Valerie
- and Robin Williams
- 1010
- 00:47:29,964 --> 00:47:31,588
- as the proud parents.
- 1011
- 00:47:34,839 --> 00:47:37,547
- Should we button
- that top button?
- 1012
- 00:47:37,630 --> 00:47:39,880
- -You want this on too?
- -Yeah.
- 1013
- 00:47:39,964 --> 00:47:41,380
- Now we can do Superbaby.
- 1014
- 00:47:41,463 --> 00:47:44,880
- Velardi:
- No. Oh yeah, he can
- fly into his baptism.
- 1015
- 00:47:44,964 --> 00:47:46,880
- (laughing) No,
- I don't want to fly
- him any place.
- 1016
- 00:47:55,089 --> 00:47:59,922
- We gather
- to say thank you to
- God for the gift of you.
- 1017
- 00:48:00,006 --> 00:48:02,672
- With your wishes
- come on from
- your heart.
- 1018
- 00:48:02,755 --> 00:48:04,297
- What would you share?
- 1019
- 00:48:12,630 --> 00:48:15,880
- (indistinct chatter)
- 1020
- 00:48:15,964 --> 00:48:17,505
- That-- that comes
- with the package.
- 1021
- 00:48:19,505 --> 00:48:21,505
- Pastor: To follow
- his inner self. Beautiful.
- 1022
- 00:48:29,630 --> 00:48:31,463
- (indistinct chatter)
- 1023
- 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,839
- Robin:
- You just have to be prepared
- when you have a child.
- 1024
- 00:48:38,922 --> 00:48:41,380
- Must prepare yourself.
- Get ready.
- 1025
- 00:48:41,463 --> 00:48:43,505
- You get this feeling
- of like, "Okay.
- 1026
- 00:48:43,588 --> 00:48:45,797
- (laughs nervously)
- "Okay.
- 1027
- 00:48:47,797 --> 00:48:50,588
- Series has been
- over for a while, okay."
- 1028
- 00:48:50,672 --> 00:48:53,922
- That's so hard.
- I gave up the series.
- 1029
- 00:48:54,006 --> 00:48:56,588
- I didn't want
- to make that much money
- for no reason anymore.
- 1030
- 00:48:56,672 --> 00:49:00,463
- (laughter, applause)
- 1031
- 00:49:00,547 --> 00:49:02,089
- Really does
- sober your ass up
- when you realize
- 1032
- 00:49:02,172 --> 00:49:03,714
- you'll have to,
- six years from now,
- be going,
- 1033
- 00:49:03,797 --> 00:49:05,505
- "Daddy doesn't
- really knows what
- he does for a living.
- 1034
- 00:49:06,922 --> 00:49:08,505
- What do you want
- for your birthday?"
- 1035
- 00:49:08,588 --> 00:49:10,338
- (child voice)
- "Power of attorney."
- (normal voice) "Okay!"
- 1036
- 00:49:12,089 --> 00:49:14,964
- Stand up is
- a great survival
- mechanism.
- 1037
- 00:49:15,047 --> 00:49:18,422
- For me that's a joy,
- that's jazz.
- 1038
- 00:49:18,505 --> 00:49:19,880
- That's what
- I have to do.
- 1039
- 00:49:19,964 --> 00:49:21,422
- That one-on-one thing.
- 1040
- 00:49:21,505 --> 00:49:23,547
- Maybe-- maybe
- millions of years ago,
- there were people--
- 1041
- 00:49:23,630 --> 00:49:25,422
- instead of clubs, there was
- somebody at a cave door,
- 1042
- 00:49:25,505 --> 00:49:27,089
- going, "Two rock minimum."
- 1043
- 00:49:27,172 --> 00:49:29,047
- (laughter)
- 1044
- 00:49:29,131 --> 00:49:30,672
- (grunts)
- 1045
- 00:49:32,547 --> 00:49:35,880
- Some guy stood up in front of
- the fire going... (grunts)
- 1046
- 00:49:35,964 --> 00:49:38,131
- "How many Neanderthals
- does it take to light a fire?
- 1047
- 00:49:38,214 --> 00:49:41,714
- Come on. None!
- They don't know!"
- 1048
- 00:49:41,797 --> 00:49:42,839
- (grunts)
- 1049
- 00:49:44,839 --> 00:49:46,422
- Two guys in the back
- with a big rock going...
- 1050
- 00:49:46,505 --> 00:49:48,047
- "I'm really
- fucked-up. Here."
- 1051
- 00:49:49,714 --> 00:49:51,380
- Talk about your life,
- talk about drugs,
- 1052
- 00:49:51,463 --> 00:49:53,172
- talk about
- the things in the country,
- talk about anything
- 1053
- 00:49:53,256 --> 00:49:54,964
- and not have
- some network
- executive going,
- 1054
- 00:49:55,047 --> 00:49:57,922
- "God, we're excited
- about some of the things,
- 1055
- 00:49:58,006 --> 00:49:59,797
- but can you
- just tone it back?"
- 1056
- 00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:02,588
- You ever think that God
- might get stoned?
- 1057
- 00:50:02,672 --> 00:50:04,797
- Look-- look at it--
- oh, a strange thing.
- 1058
- 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,964
- If you look at a platypus,
- I think that you think
- God might be stoned.
- 1059
- 00:50:08,047 --> 00:50:10,047
- Think that God's up there
- in heaven going...
- 1060
- 00:50:10,131 --> 00:50:12,006
- (inhales)
- "Okay.
- 1061
- 00:50:12,089 --> 00:50:13,089
- "Let's take a beaver...
- 1062
- 00:50:16,256 --> 00:50:18,672
- "let's put on
- a duck's bill, okay?
- 1063
- 00:50:18,755 --> 00:50:19,964
- (maniacal laugh)
- 1064
- 00:50:20,047 --> 00:50:21,839
- "Hey, what are you
- gonna do? I'm God!
- 1065
- 00:50:21,922 --> 00:50:24,880
- "Okay. Uh... it's a mammal,
- 1066
- 00:50:24,964 --> 00:50:27,922
- "but it lays eggs.
- What the hell!
- 1067
- 00:50:28,006 --> 00:50:29,714
- "Hey, Darwin!
- (kisses) Okay.
- 1068
- 00:50:29,797 --> 00:50:31,089
- I don't know."
- 1069
- 00:50:36,588 --> 00:50:38,672
- Velardi:
- Robin loved working.
- 1070
- 00:50:38,755 --> 00:50:41,006
- He was working
- on a national tour,
- 1071
- 00:50:41,089 --> 00:50:43,089
- and he made films.
- 1072
- 00:50:43,172 --> 00:50:44,964
- and we oftentimes
- would come
- 1073
- 00:50:45,047 --> 00:50:48,547
- on movie sets
- with Robin.
- 1074
- 00:50:48,630 --> 00:50:51,047
- But for the most part,
- he would come back
- 1075
- 00:50:51,131 --> 00:50:54,006
- to the ranch
- and be with us.
- 1076
- 00:50:54,089 --> 00:50:55,630
- ♪ ♪
- 1077
- 00:50:57,172 --> 00:50:59,172
- He was quiet.
- He was very quiet.
- 1078
- 00:51:00,755 --> 00:51:05,047
- When he was home,
- he would shut off
- and recharge.
- 1079
- 00:51:05,131 --> 00:51:07,880
- ♪ ♪
- 1080
- 00:51:07,964 --> 00:51:09,880
- I was supposed to be
- making a home
- 1081
- 00:51:09,964 --> 00:51:13,630
- and taking care
- of my son,
- 1082
- 00:51:13,714 --> 00:51:15,880
- but I had
- no sense of order.
- 1083
- 00:51:15,964 --> 00:51:20,047
- I didn't know how
- to manage a household.
- 1084
- 00:51:20,131 --> 00:51:23,714
- So, I interviewed
- Marsha as a nanny.
- 1085
- 00:51:23,797 --> 00:51:26,131
- She was
- very organized,
- 1086
- 00:51:26,214 --> 00:51:28,630
- and she took very
- good care of Zachary.
- 1087
- 00:51:29,964 --> 00:51:34,256
- She was organized
- the way we weren't.
- 1088
- 00:51:34,338 --> 00:51:37,588
- And so it was
- good to have that
- kind of "tuck-tuck."
- 1089
- 00:51:37,672 --> 00:51:39,089
- It worked.
- 1090
- 00:51:39,172 --> 00:51:41,505
- ♪ ♪
- 1091
- 00:51:43,755 --> 00:51:47,006
- Robin's managers were
- now taking care of him.
- 1092
- 00:51:47,089 --> 00:51:54,172
- I was no longer involved
- with his day-to-day
- material making.
- 1093
- 00:51:54,256 --> 00:51:57,755
- He would spend more
- and more time away, working.
- 1094
- 00:51:57,839 --> 00:52:00,922
- (cheers, applause)
- 1095
- 00:52:01,006 --> 00:52:03,588
- Arthur Grace:
- I got a call from the director
- of photography at Newsweek
- 1096
- 00:52:03,672 --> 00:52:05,588
- to do a cover story on Robin.
- 1097
- 00:52:05,672 --> 00:52:06,922
- They just sent me
- out on the road
- 1098
- 00:52:07,006 --> 00:52:10,256
- to be with
- Robin Williams
- for a month.
- 1099
- 00:52:10,338 --> 00:52:13,338
- ♪ ♪
- 1100
- 00:52:13,422 --> 00:52:16,630
- He was on the road
- working on his material.
- 1101
- 00:52:16,714 --> 00:52:20,922
- We traveled together in lousy
- little cigar-tube planes.
- 1102
- 00:52:21,006 --> 00:52:23,630
- He was not getting quote
- "first-class treatment"
- 1103
- 00:52:23,714 --> 00:52:25,047
- in travel
- or anything else.
- 1104
- 00:52:25,131 --> 00:52:28,131
- He was
- in the airport terminal
- like everybody else,
- 1105
- 00:52:28,214 --> 00:52:30,047
- and he was
- always polite
- 1106
- 00:52:30,131 --> 00:52:32,630
- and always talked
- to the people.
- 1107
- 00:52:32,714 --> 00:52:35,797
- I couldn't believe
- they were paying me
- to hang out with him.
- 1108
- 00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,131
- ♪ I'm a fool to do
- your dirty work ♪
- 1109
- 00:52:38,214 --> 00:52:40,672
- ♪ Oh yeah... ♪
- 1110
- 00:52:40,755 --> 00:52:43,006
- Grace:
- Before the show,
- he would go
- 1111
- 00:52:43,089 --> 00:52:47,755
- into his private room
- and get ready.
- 1112
- 00:52:47,839 --> 00:52:51,630
- ♪ I'm a fool to do
- your dirty work ♪
- 1113
- 00:52:51,714 --> 00:52:54,131
- Robin would stand there,
- 1114
- 00:52:54,214 --> 00:52:57,672
- looking down,
- his arms hanging loose,
- 1115
- 00:52:57,755 --> 00:53:01,214
- completely quiet,
- completely silent.
- 1116
- 00:53:01,297 --> 00:53:04,006
- The first time I saw it,
- I thought he fell asleep,
- 1117
- 00:53:04,089 --> 00:53:07,588
- and I almost
- went over and said,
- you know, "Robin."
- 1118
- 00:53:07,672 --> 00:53:10,839
- He was just quiet
- and still, Zen-like.
- 1119
- 00:53:10,922 --> 00:53:12,214
- (heart beating)
- 1120
- 00:53:13,797 --> 00:53:16,006
- (breathing slowly)
- 1121
- 00:53:16,089 --> 00:53:17,630
- (muffled cheers, applause)
- 1122
- 00:53:17,714 --> 00:53:19,089
- Announcer (on P.A.):
- Ladies and gentlemen,
- 1123
- 00:53:19,172 --> 00:53:21,006
- -Robin Williams!
- -(cheering continues)
- 1124
- 00:53:21,089 --> 00:53:24,047
- Let's go!
- Let's move it!
- Let's move it!
- 1125
- 00:53:24,131 --> 00:53:25,964
- And then, like he was--
- 1126
- 00:53:26,047 --> 00:53:27,922
- (snaps fingers)
- ...somebody launched
- him out of a rocket.
- 1127
- 00:53:28,006 --> 00:53:30,630
- ♪ Dirty work no more ♪
- 1128
- 00:53:30,714 --> 00:53:35,880
- ♪ I'm a fool to do
- your dirty work, oh yeah ♪
- 1129
- 00:53:35,964 --> 00:53:38,797
- He put so much energy
- into the show,
- 1130
- 00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:40,839
- so much of himself
- into the show.
- 1131
- 00:53:40,922 --> 00:53:45,047
- When he came off stage,
- he was just dripping...
- 1132
- 00:53:45,131 --> 00:53:48,714
- exhausted,
- mentally and physically,
- emotionally exhausted.
- 1133
- 00:53:48,797 --> 00:53:50,047
- ♪ ♪
- 1134
- 00:53:50,131 --> 00:53:51,297
- He left it all on the stage.
- 1135
- 00:53:52,505 --> 00:53:54,214
- After we'd check
- into a hotel,
- 1136
- 00:53:54,297 --> 00:53:56,047
- he was full
- of energy again.
- 1137
- 00:53:56,131 --> 00:53:58,964
- He didn't wanna
- go to sleep, so, okay,
- so it's midnight,
- 1138
- 00:53:59,047 --> 00:54:01,797
- and there's
- this after-hours place,
- 1139
- 00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:03,714
- and out into the night
- we'd go.
- 1140
- 00:54:03,797 --> 00:54:06,964
- And then the next day,
- get up, go again.
- 1141
- 00:54:08,797 --> 00:54:14,672
- ♪ I'm a fool to do your dirty
- work, oh yeah... ♪
- 1142
- 00:54:14,755 --> 00:54:16,755
- Robin:
- There's a real
- incredible rush, I think,
- 1143
- 00:54:16,839 --> 00:54:18,922
- when you find
- something new
- and spontaneous.
- 1144
- 00:54:19,006 --> 00:54:21,422
- I think your brain
- rewards that with a little
- bit of endorphins going,
- 1145
- 00:54:21,505 --> 00:54:24,214
- "If you think again,
- I'll get you high
- one more time."
- 1146
- 00:54:24,297 --> 00:54:27,380
- ♪ Dirty work, oh yeah ♪
- 1147
- 00:54:27,463 --> 00:54:30,380
- Grace:
- The cover came out,
- did well.
- 1148
- 00:54:30,463 --> 00:54:32,047
- And then I got a call
- from him saying,
- 1149
- 00:54:32,131 --> 00:54:34,922
- now he was
- at the Metropolitan
- Opera House.
- 1150
- 00:54:35,006 --> 00:54:37,922
- He's actually gonna
- step out on that stage,
- 1151
- 00:54:38,006 --> 00:54:40,214
- in this environment,
- 1152
- 00:54:40,297 --> 00:54:42,297
- in front
- of 3,800 people,
- 1153
- 00:54:42,380 --> 00:54:45,172
- and make them laugh
- for 90 minutes?
- 1154
- 00:54:45,256 --> 00:54:47,714
- This is like
- being a gladiator.
- 1155
- 00:54:47,797 --> 00:54:54,214
- ♪ I don't wanna do
- your dirty work no more ♪
- 1156
- 00:54:54,297 --> 00:54:59,047
- ♪ I'm a fool to do
- your dirty work, oh yeah ♪
- 1157
- 00:54:59,131 --> 00:55:00,714
- Whoa-ho-ho!
- 1158
- 00:55:04,463 --> 00:55:06,463
- What the fuck
- am I doing here?
- 1159
- 00:55:06,547 --> 00:55:08,463
- This is incredible.
- I'm scared shitless.
- 1160
- 00:55:08,547 --> 00:55:11,172
- I can't lie.
- 1161
- 00:55:11,256 --> 00:55:14,214
- How do you get to the Met?
- Money. Lots and lots of money.
- 1162
- 00:55:15,547 --> 00:55:17,338
- God damn.
- I wonder if Pavarotti's
- 1163
- 00:55:17,422 --> 00:55:19,463
- at The Improv going,
- "Two Jews walk into a bar.
- 1164
- 00:55:19,547 --> 00:55:21,380
- (laughter)
- Yes."
- 1165
- 00:55:22,839 --> 00:55:24,964
- We'd done-- I don't know--
- 20 or 30 shows on the road
- 1166
- 00:55:25,047 --> 00:55:27,422
- for six months,
- maybe eight months.
- 1167
- 00:55:27,505 --> 00:55:30,089
- We had really
- worked on this.
- 1168
- 00:55:30,172 --> 00:55:33,463
- The show that
- we taped at the
- Night at the Met...
- 1169
- 00:55:33,547 --> 00:55:36,922
- there was 25%
- that I'd never
- heard before.
- 1170
- 00:55:37,006 --> 00:55:39,131
- -(applause)
- -The whole country's intense.
- 1171
- 00:55:39,214 --> 00:55:40,880
- You wanna know why
- the police are intense?
- 1172
- 00:55:40,964 --> 00:55:42,297
- Because we're intense.
- 1173
- 00:55:42,380 --> 00:55:45,172
- We're armed
- and they're armed. Yay!
- 1174
- 00:55:45,256 --> 00:55:48,089
- God, in California,
- everybody's got handguns,
- 1175
- 00:55:48,172 --> 00:55:49,380
- even ladies who are
- just carrying .22's,
- 1176
- 00:55:49,463 --> 00:55:50,797
- just makes a small hole.
- 1177
- 00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,131
- (mimics gunfire, splatter) Ah!
- 1178
- 00:55:53,214 --> 00:55:55,131
- I got tired of carrying my mace
- 'cause I used to mix it up
- 1179
- 00:55:55,214 --> 00:55:56,463
- with my breath freshener
- and go, pssh,
- 1180
- 00:55:56,547 --> 00:55:59,047
- -"Oh, there goes the day."
- -(laughter)
- 1181
- 00:55:59,131 --> 00:56:01,338
- It's to the point
- in California where we're
- gonna come home and go,
- 1182
- 00:56:01,422 --> 00:56:02,463
- "Honey, I'm home!"
- "Easy, dear."
- 1183
- 00:56:02,547 --> 00:56:04,006
- "Hold it, honey."
- "Dad, I gotcha."
- 1184
- 00:56:04,089 --> 00:56:05,089
- "Hold it, boy."
- "Watch out, dear."
- 1185
- 00:56:06,630 --> 00:56:10,755
- It's Family Feud:
- The Home Game.
- 1186
- 00:56:10,839 --> 00:56:14,505
- There are guys
- who won't go on the stage
- at The Comedy Store...
- 1187
- 00:56:14,588 --> 00:56:18,214
- unless they have
- their eight minutes
- written out.
- 1188
- 00:56:19,297 --> 00:56:21,214
- Robin did
- a two-hour show.
- 1189
- 00:56:21,297 --> 00:56:22,505
- A nuclear bomb--
- 1190
- 00:56:22,588 --> 00:56:23,922
- it's basically
- a man's way of saying,
- 1191
- 00:56:24,006 --> 00:56:26,214
- "I'm gonna fuck up
- the Earth, yeah."
- 1192
- 00:56:26,297 --> 00:56:28,047
- A woman would never
- make a nuclear weapon.
- 1193
- 00:56:28,131 --> 00:56:29,880
- They would never make
- a bomb that kills you.
- 1194
- 00:56:29,964 --> 00:56:31,964
- They'd make
- a bomb that makes
- you feel bad for a while.
- 1195
- 00:56:33,463 --> 00:56:35,297
- See? It'd be
- a whole other thing.
- 1196
- 00:56:35,380 --> 00:56:37,214
- That's why
- there should be
- a woman president.
- 1197
- 00:56:37,297 --> 00:56:39,214
- Don't you see?
- That'd be a wonderful thing.
- 1198
- 00:56:39,297 --> 00:56:40,880
- (cheers, applause)
- 1199
- 00:56:40,964 --> 00:56:42,964
- Be an incredible time
- for that.
- 1200
- 00:56:43,047 --> 00:56:44,380
- There would
- never be any wars,
- 1201
- 00:56:44,463 --> 00:56:46,463
- just, every 28 days,
- some intense negotiations.
- 1202
- 00:56:46,547 --> 00:56:48,006
- (laughter)
- 1203
- 00:56:48,089 --> 00:56:49,797
- That'd be
- a good thing, yeah.
- 1204
- 00:56:54,422 --> 00:56:55,839
- (Spanish accent)
- This is Carlos,
- 1205
- 00:56:55,922 --> 00:56:57,547
- who for years
- was my stand-in
- when we made--
- 1206
- 00:56:57,630 --> 00:56:59,297
- (Spanish accent)
- We-- he and I are like this.
- 1207
- 00:56:59,380 --> 00:57:01,047
- We are.
- Which one is me?
- 1208
- 00:57:01,131 --> 00:57:03,047
- (both chatter)
- 1209
- 00:57:03,131 --> 00:57:04,547
- I love you so much.
- I love what you stand for,
- 1210
- 00:57:04,630 --> 00:57:06,256
- -even when you're sitting.
- -Thank you very much.
- 1211
- 00:57:06,338 --> 00:57:10,256
- Robin and I both
- did sets at Catch.
- 1212
- 00:57:10,338 --> 00:57:12,338
- He had rented
- a townhouse.
- 1213
- 00:57:12,422 --> 00:57:14,880
- and I didn't
- know him very well,
- 1214
- 00:57:14,964 --> 00:57:16,380
- but I wanted to.
- 1215
- 00:57:16,463 --> 00:57:19,422
- And he said,
- "I'm gonna go home.
- Do you wanna come by?"
- 1216
- 00:57:19,505 --> 00:57:20,922
- I say, "Sure."
- 1217
- 00:57:21,006 --> 00:57:22,588
- So I walk him back
- to his townhouse,
- 1218
- 00:57:22,672 --> 00:57:25,922
- and Zak,
- he's crying like crazy.
- 1219
- 00:57:26,006 --> 00:57:27,463
- Robin's-- you know,
- he's trying--
- 1220
- 00:57:27,547 --> 00:57:28,964
- so I was like,
- "May I? Can I?"
- 1221
- 00:57:29,047 --> 00:57:31,089
- Simple little effleurage
- 1222
- 00:57:31,172 --> 00:57:32,505
- with the index finger
- 1223
- 00:57:32,588 --> 00:57:35,089
- on the base
- of the skull of the baby,
- 1224
- 00:57:35,172 --> 00:57:37,505
- and Zak starts
- to quiet down,
- 1225
- 00:57:37,588 --> 00:57:39,964
- and he quiets down
- and he falls asleep
- in my arms.
- 1226
- 00:57:40,047 --> 00:57:42,131
- And then I handed him
- back to Robin
- 1227
- 00:57:42,214 --> 00:57:44,422
- and he just looked
- at me like I was--
- 1228
- 00:57:44,505 --> 00:57:47,089
- you know,
- like this genius.
- 1229
- 00:57:47,172 --> 00:57:49,131
- And that was
- the first time
- we connected
- 1230
- 00:57:49,214 --> 00:57:52,047
- in a different way that
- wasn't about comedy.
- 1231
- 00:57:52,131 --> 00:57:56,630
- It was about...
- being a father
- and being a friend.
- 1232
- 00:57:56,714 --> 00:57:59,297
- It was really-- yeah,
- I remember that so well.
- 1233
- 00:57:59,380 --> 00:58:01,505
- ♪ ♪
- 1234
- 00:58:03,380 --> 00:58:06,297
- Everybody wanted
- something from him.
- 1235
- 00:58:06,380 --> 00:58:08,588
- I had no agenda.
- I just liked him.
- 1236
- 00:58:16,380 --> 00:58:18,422
- Velardi:
- Oh, here's Robin!
- He's used to this.
- 1237
- 00:58:18,505 --> 00:58:20,089
- (laughs)
- 1238
- 00:58:20,172 --> 00:58:21,006
- -A piece of cake.
- -You know...
- 1239
- 00:58:23,588 --> 00:58:24,547
- You know...
- 1240
- 00:58:26,505 --> 00:58:28,880
- It's a strange sorta thing.
- Won't you follow me?
- 1241
- 00:58:36,755 --> 00:58:38,380
- Grobel:
- The end of your
- first Playboy interview
- 1242
- 00:58:38,463 --> 00:58:40,422
- you spoke
- of your future,
- and it said,
- 1243
- 00:58:40,505 --> 00:58:43,505
- "I'll settle for Valerie and me
- living on our ranch in Napa."
- 1244
- 00:58:43,588 --> 00:58:46,297
- And it's like--
- so much for your seer-like
- qualities, you know?
- 1245
- 00:58:46,380 --> 00:58:48,131
- Robin:
- Yeah. Yeah and that--
- 1246
- 00:58:48,214 --> 00:58:49,547
- you know, obviously that
- fell apart, again,
- 1247
- 00:58:49,630 --> 00:58:51,256
- 'cause it wasn't
- strong enough to hold.
- 1248
- 00:58:53,422 --> 00:58:55,630
- I had this wanderlust,
- you know, and so did she.
- 1249
- 00:58:55,714 --> 00:58:57,672
- ♪ ♪
- 1250
- 00:58:57,755 --> 00:59:00,588
- Velardi:
- Robin and I
- had drifted apart.
- 1251
- 00:59:01,672 --> 00:59:03,214
- I wanted out.
- 1252
- 00:59:03,297 --> 00:59:06,672
- I no longer
- wanted this life.
- 1253
- 00:59:06,755 --> 00:59:08,547
- It's not what
- I had signed up for.
- 1254
- 00:59:08,630 --> 00:59:11,131
- I wanted Robin
- and the fun that we had,
- 1255
- 00:59:11,214 --> 00:59:14,380
- and then it turned
- into an industry,
- 1256
- 00:59:14,463 --> 00:59:17,089
- and I was less
- and less a part of it.
- 1257
- 00:59:19,131 --> 00:59:21,547
- Robin wanted
- to further his career,
- 1258
- 00:59:21,630 --> 00:59:23,047
- and I wanted that
- for him too.
- 1259
- 00:59:23,131 --> 00:59:25,214
- I didn't want
- to hold him back.
- 1260
- 00:59:25,297 --> 00:59:28,630
- So... we...
- gave each other up.
- 1261
- 00:59:28,714 --> 00:59:31,463
- ♪ ♪
- 1262
- 00:59:34,463 --> 00:59:37,380
- The saddest thing
- in the world is life, man.
- 1263
- 00:59:37,463 --> 00:59:39,047
- -You telling me?
- -Mm-hmm.
- 1264
- 00:59:39,131 --> 00:59:41,547
- It gets so bad sometimes,
- I don't think I'll make it.
- 1265
- 00:59:41,630 --> 00:59:43,297
- (laughs lightly)
- 1266
- 00:59:44,505 --> 00:59:46,089
- I ever tell you
- I had a kid?
- 1267
- 00:59:47,797 --> 00:59:49,422
- I got involved
- with this girl, man,
- 1268
- 00:59:49,505 --> 00:59:51,547
- and she got pregnant,
- went on back home
- to Alabama.
- 1269
- 00:59:51,630 --> 00:59:54,422
- Thomas Ava Witherspoon,
- five years old.
- 1270
- 00:59:54,505 --> 00:59:57,672
- -I think of that kid,
- I want to cry.
- -Oh, that's wonderful.
- 1271
- 00:59:59,338 --> 01:00:00,714
- Well, why don't
- you cry, man?
- 1272
- 01:00:01,839 --> 01:00:02,755
- It's good for you.
- 1273
- 01:00:02,839 --> 01:00:04,047
- Oh, I don't have to cry.
- 1274
- 01:00:04,131 --> 01:00:05,006
- I don't need to cry.
- 1275
- 01:00:05,089 --> 01:00:06,547
- Lionel. Lionel.
- 1276
- 01:00:08,297 --> 01:00:11,380
- You know...
- I have whole family
- 1277
- 01:00:11,463 --> 01:00:13,214
- I will never
- ever see again.
- 1278
- 01:00:18,630 --> 01:00:22,256
- Velardi:
- Contrary to what
- national papers said,
- 1279
- 01:00:22,338 --> 01:00:26,547
- Robin and I had ended
- our marriage...
- 1280
- 01:00:26,630 --> 01:00:30,131
- and then Robin
- and Marsha started up
- a relationship.
- 1281
- 01:00:32,172 --> 01:00:35,131
- That story of him
- running off with the nanny,
- 1282
- 01:00:35,214 --> 01:00:37,214
- everybody got carried
- away with it,
- 1283
- 01:00:37,297 --> 01:00:39,505
- and because
- I didn't counter that,
- 1284
- 01:00:39,588 --> 01:00:42,047
- because I don't talk
- to the press...
- 1285
- 01:00:44,547 --> 01:00:47,547
- they got skewered,
- and I was sorry for that.
- 1286
- 01:00:50,131 --> 01:00:52,505
- And I'm sorry
- for Marsha,
- 1287
- 01:00:52,588 --> 01:00:55,797
- that she had to start
- her adventure
- 1288
- 01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:58,505
- with Robin in such
- an unpleasant way.
- 1289
- 01:01:00,338 --> 01:01:02,463
- Robin:
- It was a year after
- I had been separated.
- 1290
- 01:01:02,547 --> 01:01:04,588
- And she only took care
- of Zachary for a short time
- 1291
- 01:01:04,672 --> 01:01:08,131
- and then became
- my assistant.
- 1292
- 01:01:08,214 --> 01:01:11,297
- When I was on the road,
- she would help me
- write material.
- 1293
- 01:01:11,380 --> 01:01:13,547
- ♪ ♪
- 1294
- 01:01:15,380 --> 01:01:17,256
- I started to get
- my life together,
- 1295
- 01:01:17,338 --> 01:01:18,588
- I fell in love
- with Marsha.
- 1296
- 01:01:22,797 --> 01:01:24,422
- I started
- to just go, "Wait,
- 1297
- 01:01:24,505 --> 01:01:28,172
- I don't have
- to live this kind
- of madhouse existence."
- 1298
- 01:01:28,256 --> 01:01:31,755
- And that's when
- my life was saved by her,
- not ruined by her.
- 1299
- 01:01:36,547 --> 01:01:38,547
- ♪ ♪
- 1300
- 01:01:46,463 --> 01:01:48,422
- She's real
- honest about things,
- about everything...
- 1301
- 01:01:50,256 --> 01:01:52,380
- in terms of work,
- in terms of life.
- 1302
- 01:01:52,463 --> 01:01:54,338
- If I start to get
- a little kind of like this,
- 1303
- 01:01:54,422 --> 01:01:55,672
- she'll say, "Wise up."
- 1304
- 01:01:55,755 --> 01:01:57,089
- If I start to get
- too insecure,
- 1305
- 01:01:57,172 --> 01:01:59,214
- she'll say,
- "Stop it. You're great."
- 1306
- 01:01:59,297 --> 01:02:00,755
- She's really grounded
- in that sense.
- 1307
- 01:02:11,630 --> 01:02:15,839
- Someone who
- was very childlike
- in a lot of ways
- 1308
- 01:02:15,922 --> 01:02:19,422
- was awesome
- to have as a dad
- as a young kid.
- 1309
- 01:02:21,422 --> 01:02:24,505
- He would set up
- a whole yard
- 1310
- 01:02:24,588 --> 01:02:27,214
- filled with,
- you know, toys.
- 1311
- 01:02:27,297 --> 01:02:29,380
- My dad wasn't afraid
- to get his hands dirty,
- 1312
- 01:02:29,463 --> 01:02:34,630
- and jump in
- and play with kids
- but on their terms.
- 1313
- 01:02:38,714 --> 01:02:41,505
- Man:
- B28 take 2,
- "A" and "B" cameras.
- 1314
- 01:02:45,006 --> 01:02:45,922
- Barry Levinson:
- Action!
- 1315
- 01:02:46,006 --> 01:02:50,880
- (flute plays tune)
- 1316
- 01:02:50,964 --> 01:02:55,422
- Good morning,
- Vietnam!
- 1317
- 01:02:55,505 --> 01:02:58,630
- Hey, this is not a test.
- This is rock 'n' roll!
- 1318
- 01:02:58,714 --> 01:03:01,505
- Time to rock it
- from the Delta
- to the DMZ!
- 1319
- 01:03:01,588 --> 01:03:03,672
- Is that me, or does that sound
- like an Elvis Presley movie?
- 1320
- 01:03:03,755 --> 01:03:04,922
- "Viva Da Nang."
- 1321
- 01:03:05,006 --> 01:03:07,547
- ♪ Ohhhh, viva Da Nang ♪
- 1322
- 01:03:07,630 --> 01:03:08,880
- ♪ Da Nang me,
- Da Nang me ♪
- 1323
- 01:03:08,964 --> 01:03:10,922
- ♪ Why don't they get
- a rope and hang me? ♪
- 1324
- 01:03:11,006 --> 01:03:12,755
- Hey, is it a little too early
- for being that loud?
- 1325
- 01:03:12,839 --> 01:03:14,338
- Hey, too late.
- 1326
- 01:03:14,422 --> 01:03:17,422
- In those days,
- television and film were
- two different worlds.
- 1327
- 01:03:17,505 --> 01:03:20,338
- It was rare that you had
- crossover TV people
- 1328
- 01:03:20,422 --> 01:03:22,755
- doing film
- and film people
- doing TV.
- 1329
- 01:03:22,839 --> 01:03:26,505
- Good Morning, Vietnam!
- was the first real
- commercial hit,
- 1330
- 01:03:26,588 --> 01:03:31,297
- and it established Robin
- as a real actor.
- 1331
- 01:03:31,380 --> 01:03:33,630
- And he suddenly was
- becoming a movie star.
- 1332
- 01:03:33,714 --> 01:03:35,880
- ♪ ♪
- 1333
- 01:03:44,672 --> 01:03:46,463
- Steve Martin:
- I don't remember
- when I met him.
- 1334
- 01:03:46,547 --> 01:03:48,463
- You know,
- we would brush up
- against each other,
- 1335
- 01:03:48,547 --> 01:03:51,006
- but we got
- to know each other
- a little bit better
- 1336
- 01:03:51,089 --> 01:03:53,172
- when we did
- Waiting for Godot.
- 1337
- 01:03:55,463 --> 01:03:56,630
- He was debating
- whether to do it,
- 1338
- 01:03:56,714 --> 01:03:58,755
- and I said, "We do
- Waiting for Godot,
- 1339
- 01:03:58,839 --> 01:04:00,463
- I mean, who--
- who could touch us?"
- 1340
- 01:04:00,547 --> 01:04:02,505
- (laughs)
- You know, who's-- who's--
- 1341
- 01:04:02,588 --> 01:04:04,547
- What comedians are doing
- Waiting for Godot?
- 1342
- 01:04:04,630 --> 01:04:06,463
- -Moron!
- -Vermin!
- 1343
- 01:04:06,547 --> 01:04:08,964
- -Abortion!
- -Morpion!
- 1344
- 01:04:09,047 --> 01:04:11,256
- -Sewer rat!
- -Curate!
- 1345
- 01:04:11,338 --> 01:04:14,422
- -Cretin!
- -Critic!
- 1346
- 01:04:14,505 --> 01:04:16,588
- (audience laughs)
- 1347
- 01:04:22,839 --> 01:04:24,547
- Robin:
- I was learning from him
- physical comedy
- 1348
- 01:04:24,630 --> 01:04:28,006
- and just the nuts
- and bolts of timing.
- 1349
- 01:04:28,089 --> 01:04:29,964
- Because obviously
- when I do my act,
- I don't have timing.
- 1350
- 01:04:31,047 --> 01:04:31,964
- Oh!
- 1351
- 01:04:32,047 --> 01:04:32,922
- (audience laughs)
- 1352
- 01:04:34,755 --> 01:04:38,588
- Robin:
- And he is just literally
- about the comedy of pause,
- 1353
- 01:04:38,672 --> 01:04:39,755
- you know,
- holding back.
- 1354
- 01:04:39,839 --> 01:04:42,714
- -Ack!
- -Didi! Didi!
- 1355
- 01:04:42,797 --> 01:04:44,714
- (vocalizes
- The Twilight Zone
- theme music)
- 1356
- 01:04:44,797 --> 01:04:46,547
- (audience laughs)
- 1357
- 01:04:46,630 --> 01:04:48,505
- Didi! Didi.
- 1358
- 01:04:48,588 --> 01:04:49,922
- (reporter speaks)
- 1359
- 01:04:51,588 --> 01:04:53,880
- No, it's-- it's--
- it's definitely theater.
- 1360
- 01:04:53,964 --> 01:04:55,839
- (reporter 2 speaks)
- 1361
- 01:04:58,463 --> 01:04:59,922
- Martin:
- I-I-- I don't know how
- to answer that.
- 1362
- 01:05:00,006 --> 01:05:03,714
- The differences are
- obvious to me.
- 1363
- 01:05:03,797 --> 01:05:05,755
- And to do this play,
- it's one of the most
- powerful pieces
- 1364
- 01:05:05,839 --> 01:05:07,422
- of literature
- in the 20th century.
- 1365
- 01:05:07,505 --> 01:05:08,714
- I think it kind of helps.
- 1366
- 01:05:08,797 --> 01:05:09,839
- Martin:
- Except for Cruel Shoes.
- 1367
- 01:05:09,922 --> 01:05:11,047
- Cruel Shoes I think was
- 1368
- 01:05:11,131 --> 01:05:12,797
- one of the second most
- powerful pieces of literature.
- 1369
- 01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:14,380
- You know, it really helps
- to do something
- 1370
- 01:05:14,463 --> 01:05:15,672
- that's so amazing,
- that every night
- 1371
- 01:05:15,755 --> 01:05:18,547
- you can do it differently,
- but yet it's the same.
- 1372
- 01:05:18,630 --> 01:05:20,505
- You can get deeper
- and deeper within this play
- 1373
- 01:05:20,588 --> 01:05:22,588
- and find things,
- every night you can change
- 1374
- 01:05:22,672 --> 01:05:24,588
- because it's so amazing.
- 1375
- 01:05:24,672 --> 01:05:25,714
- Funny. For me,
- I figured it out
- 1376
- 01:05:25,797 --> 01:05:27,547
- on day one,
- and it never changed.
- 1377
- 01:05:27,630 --> 01:05:29,006
- (laughter)
- 1378
- 01:05:32,172 --> 01:05:33,463
- Your turn.
- 1379
- 01:05:35,172 --> 01:05:36,380
- You think
- God sees me?
- 1380
- 01:05:37,463 --> 01:05:38,338
- You must close
- your eyes.
- 1381
- 01:05:39,839 --> 01:05:41,505
- God, have pity
- on me.
- 1382
- 01:05:41,588 --> 01:05:42,672
- And me.
- 1383
- 01:05:42,755 --> 01:05:44,422
- On me. On me.
- 1384
- 01:05:44,505 --> 01:05:45,922
- Pity on me!
- 1385
- 01:05:46,006 --> 01:05:49,047
- His character
- was interestingly...
- 1386
- 01:05:50,797 --> 01:05:54,047
- hurt, and he played it
- very vulnerable,
- 1387
- 01:05:54,131 --> 01:05:56,006
- as I think
- he was in life too.
- 1388
- 01:05:57,672 --> 01:06:01,714
- Onstage he was
- the master and in charge
- 1389
- 01:06:01,797 --> 01:06:04,338
- and funny and quick.
- 1390
- 01:06:04,422 --> 01:06:06,922
- And in life, you know,
- he wasn't onstage anymore.
- 1391
- 01:06:07,006 --> 01:06:09,880
- I just felt a little bit of...
- 1392
- 01:06:11,672 --> 01:06:14,047
- I think he was really
- comfortable onstage
- 1393
- 01:06:14,131 --> 01:06:17,006
- and less comfortable offstage.
- 1394
- 01:06:18,797 --> 01:06:21,380
- Always felt him holding--
- holding himself together.
- 1395
- 01:06:24,172 --> 01:06:26,089
- It was at a time
- I think he was...
- 1396
- 01:06:27,547 --> 01:06:29,839
- clean... and--
- 1397
- 01:06:29,922 --> 01:06:33,547
- and it was
- a very difficult... clean.
- 1398
- 01:06:33,630 --> 01:06:34,922
- You know, it's hard,
- it was hard.
- 1399
- 01:06:38,214 --> 01:06:40,797
- I don't mean
- that he slipped
- or anything like that.
- 1400
- 01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:46,047
- He didn't. I just
- think he really had
- to concentrate... on that.
- 1401
- 01:06:46,131 --> 01:06:48,089
- There you are.
- You've become
- a reformed alcoholic.
- 1402
- 01:06:48,172 --> 01:06:49,839
- You've got
- a steaming glass
- of Perrier, going,
- 1403
- 01:06:49,922 --> 01:06:53,422
- "I feel so much better
- about myself! God damn it."
- 1404
- 01:06:54,797 --> 01:06:57,505
- "I feel really healthy now!
- (laughs)
- 1405
- 01:06:57,588 --> 01:06:58,839
- "No, go ahead,
- have your cocktail.
- 1406
- 01:06:58,922 --> 01:07:00,588
- "I'll be over
- in the corner
- hurting the cat.
- 1407
- 01:07:01,797 --> 01:07:05,839
- (maniacal laugh)
- Oh God damn!"
- 1408
- 01:07:05,922 --> 01:07:09,131
- (cheers, applause)
- 1409
- 01:07:09,214 --> 01:07:11,797
- Man: Do you know
- of any other people whose
- minds work faster than yours?
- 1410
- 01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:14,422
- Robin: Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, I'm starting
- to meet them.
- 1411
- 01:07:16,755 --> 01:07:18,172
- Oliver Sacks,
- playing him
- in Awakenings.
- 1412
- 01:07:18,256 --> 01:07:19,297
- Man:
- Right.
- 1413
- 01:07:19,380 --> 01:07:20,672
- Robin:
- He's such
- a compassionate man,
- 1414
- 01:07:20,755 --> 01:07:21,964
- and the idea
- of treating the brain
- 1415
- 01:07:22,047 --> 01:07:24,006
- as a subjective subject.
- 1416
- 01:07:24,089 --> 01:07:26,131
- This is the idea
- of the brain
- 1417
- 01:07:26,214 --> 01:07:28,089
- can be one thing
- and then the other
- simultaneously.
- 1418
- 01:07:30,755 --> 01:07:32,964
- What about this?
- 1419
- 01:07:33,047 --> 01:07:34,588
- (laughs)
- What do you
- mean, this?
- 1420
- 01:07:34,672 --> 01:07:35,755
- It's a strobe.
- 1421
- 01:07:36,797 --> 01:07:38,047
- You're wrong.
- 1422
- 01:07:38,131 --> 01:07:40,214
- All of this before
- is the strobe.
- 1423
- 01:07:40,297 --> 01:07:41,964
- This is me saying
- his name to him.
- 1424
- 01:07:46,297 --> 01:07:47,463
- Excuse me.
- 1425
- 01:07:52,214 --> 01:07:54,047
- Robin:
- Oliver is someone
- who thinks
- 1426
- 01:07:54,131 --> 01:07:55,964
- on-- on levels that
- I've never dreamed of.
- 1427
- 01:08:01,131 --> 01:08:03,714
- Man: He introduced you
- to a guy with Tourette's
- syndrome named Shane.
- 1428
- 01:08:03,797 --> 01:08:05,964
- It had a profound
- influence on you.
- 1429
- 01:08:06,047 --> 01:08:07,422
- Robin:
- Definitely.
- 1430
- 01:08:07,505 --> 01:08:08,922
- I-I began-began
- touching-touching,
- 1431
- 01:08:09,006 --> 01:08:10,131
- you know,
- touching-touching things.
- 1432
- 01:08:10,214 --> 01:08:12,047
- You know, touching,
- you know. (shouts)
- 1433
- 01:08:12,131 --> 01:08:14,089
- Robin: Here's a disease
- that basically makes you
- 1434
- 01:08:14,172 --> 01:08:16,755
- do, physically, things
- you have no control over.
- 1435
- 01:08:16,839 --> 01:08:20,672
- Along with it
- comes this incredible
- mental acceleration,
- 1436
- 01:08:20,755 --> 01:08:22,797
- lets you think faster
- than most people.
- 1437
- 01:08:29,297 --> 01:08:30,172
- Pardon me?
- 1438
- 01:08:30,256 --> 01:08:31,547
- Oh yeah, sure.
- 1439
- 01:08:34,338 --> 01:08:35,672
- Robin:
- And the price
- you pay is
- 1440
- 01:08:35,755 --> 01:08:37,089
- that you can't control
- a lot of those movements.
- 1441
- 01:08:37,172 --> 01:08:39,922
- The complexity and
- the total unpredictability
- 1442
- 01:08:40,006 --> 01:08:42,172
- of the human brain,
- that's what I learned
- from meeting Shane.
- 1443
- 01:08:44,630 --> 01:08:46,672
- The brain is
- one thing that controls
- bodily functions,
- 1444
- 01:08:46,755 --> 01:08:51,006
- and then there's this
- other thing which is divine,
- called the mind.
- 1445
- 01:08:51,089 --> 01:08:53,672
- There is deity within you,
- there is that-- that spark,
- 1446
- 01:08:53,755 --> 01:08:56,214
- that divine thing,
- that thing that is soul.
- 1447
- 01:08:59,380 --> 01:09:00,880
- And that's what's exciting,
- 1448
- 01:09:00,964 --> 01:09:03,338
- the idea you could explore
- creativity at any price
- 1449
- 01:09:03,422 --> 01:09:05,089
- is like-- this is
- what we're kind
- of dealing with
- 1450
- 01:09:05,172 --> 01:09:08,256
- as artists, comedians,
- writers, actors.
- 1451
- 01:09:08,338 --> 01:09:09,714
- You're going
- to come to the edge,
- 1452
- 01:09:09,797 --> 01:09:10,964
- you're going to look over,
- and sometimes
- 1453
- 01:09:11,047 --> 01:09:12,338
- you're going to step
- over the edge,
- 1454
- 01:09:12,422 --> 01:09:13,922
- and then you're going
- to come back, hopefully.
- 1455
- 01:09:16,214 --> 01:09:17,089
- (shouting)
- 1456
- 01:09:21,047 --> 01:09:21,964
- Parry!
- 1457
- 01:09:22,047 --> 01:09:23,172
- What are
- you looking at?
- 1458
- 01:09:23,256 --> 01:09:25,630
- (Parry whimpers)
- 1459
- 01:09:25,714 --> 01:09:26,588
- Parry.
- 1460
- 01:09:26,672 --> 01:09:28,630
- Help! (shouts)
- 1461
- 01:09:28,714 --> 01:09:30,964
- McLaurin:
- Robin could never
- let go of a role.
- 1462
- 01:09:31,047 --> 01:09:32,880
- He would become
- the role he was playing,
- 1463
- 01:09:32,964 --> 01:09:34,588
- and then it'd become
- 1464
- 01:09:34,672 --> 01:09:37,797
- another part
- of his-- his
- personality.
- 1465
- 01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:39,964
- Come along!
- 1466
- 01:09:40,047 --> 01:09:41,755
- -(car honks)
- -(tires screech)
- 1467
- 01:09:43,172 --> 01:09:44,338
- Driver:
- Holy shit!
- 1468
- 01:09:44,422 --> 01:09:45,755
- Jack:
- Parry!
- 1469
- 01:09:45,839 --> 01:09:47,297
- Robin:
- Now when I see
- someone on the street
- 1470
- 01:09:47,380 --> 01:09:49,922
- ranting at the world,
- it isn't just lumped
- 1471
- 01:09:50,006 --> 01:09:51,672
- into "There's
- a generalized
- crazy person."
- 1472
- 01:09:51,755 --> 01:09:53,964
- You know that
- they're suffering
- from something specific...
- 1473
- 01:09:56,214 --> 01:09:57,922
- and that they have
- a life, a past...
- 1474
- 01:09:58,006 --> 01:09:59,964
- and-- you know,
- and a present,
- 1475
- 01:10:00,047 --> 01:10:01,755
- and it gives you
- a different point of view.
- 1476
- 01:10:01,839 --> 01:10:03,714
- ♪ ♪
- 1477
- 01:10:05,422 --> 01:10:08,964
- Won't you join us
- for a once-in-a-lifetime
- comedy event?
- 1478
- 01:10:09,047 --> 01:10:10,839
- -As some of today's...
- -And yesterday's...
- 1479
- 01:10:10,922 --> 01:10:12,797
- -And tomorrow's...
- -Funniest stars
- come together
- 1480
- 01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:14,839
- for an unforgettable
- night of laughter.
- 1481
- 01:10:14,922 --> 01:10:15,964
- -Comic Relief.
- -Live!
- 1482
- 01:10:17,089 --> 01:10:18,714
- Crystal:
- It was our Farm Aid.
- 1483
- 01:10:18,797 --> 01:10:21,714
- The three of us hosted
- these comedy telethons
- 1484
- 01:10:21,797 --> 01:10:23,964
- to raise money
- for medical aid
- 1485
- 01:10:24,047 --> 01:10:25,797
- for the homeless
- on the streets
- of America.
- 1486
- 01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,047
- -(applause)
- -I'll take these.
- You take those.
- 1487
- 01:10:28,131 --> 01:10:29,964
- -(speaks gibberish)
- -(laughter)
- 1488
- 01:10:30,047 --> 01:10:31,922
- We would like
- to say how happy
- we are to be here.
- 1489
- 01:10:32,006 --> 01:10:33,672
- -(man shouts)
- -Oh, sorry.
- 1490
- 01:10:33,755 --> 01:10:34,839
- -All right.
- -(laughter)
- 1491
- 01:10:34,922 --> 01:10:37,047
- It was a great way
- for all the funny people
- 1492
- 01:10:37,131 --> 01:10:41,338
- to join in to...
- not only be funny
- but be compassionate.
- 1493
- 01:10:41,422 --> 01:10:44,797
- ♪ ♪
- 1494
- 01:10:57,047 --> 01:11:00,338
- The only reason that I am
- not running for president
- 1495
- 01:11:00,422 --> 01:11:02,131
- is-- I swear to God--
- I have this fear
- 1496
- 01:11:02,214 --> 01:11:03,672
- no woman
- would come forward
- 1497
- 01:11:03,755 --> 01:11:05,755
- -to say she had
- sex with me.
- -(laughter)
- 1498
- 01:11:05,839 --> 01:11:08,214
- I would be
- doing one of those
- interviews on CNN,
- 1499
- 01:11:08,297 --> 01:11:09,380
- looking into a camera, going,
- 1500
- 01:11:09,463 --> 01:11:11,422
- "Come on, Susan!
- You know you fucked me."
- 1501
- 01:11:11,505 --> 01:11:12,839
- (laughter)
- 1502
- 01:11:12,922 --> 01:11:15,214
- Robin:
- We had just amazing
- people come on
- 1503
- 01:11:15,297 --> 01:11:18,755
- and raised
- that much money
- and used comedy
- 1504
- 01:11:18,839 --> 01:11:21,338
- as this vehicle
- to change a world.
- 1505
- 01:11:21,422 --> 01:11:24,755
- Yes, God made babies cute,
- so you don't eat them.
- 1506
- 01:11:24,839 --> 01:11:26,797
- (laughter)
- 1507
- 01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,338
- How many people do you
- know that you would
- let shit on you,
- 1508
- 01:11:29,422 --> 01:11:31,880
- piss on you,
- keep you up
- all fucking night?
- 1509
- 01:11:31,964 --> 01:11:33,714
- -(laughter)
- -Woman:
- Whoo!
- 1510
- 01:11:33,797 --> 01:11:35,839
- They wake up
- at five o'clock the morning,
- 1511
- 01:11:35,922 --> 01:11:37,089
- and I don't know
- what drug they are--
- 1512
- 01:11:37,172 --> 01:11:38,755
- is there some sort
- of Fisher Price cocaine
- 1513
- 01:11:38,839 --> 01:11:41,297
- that they're
- in there going...
- (snorts) "Ah!"
- 1514
- 01:11:41,380 --> 01:11:43,131
- Goldberg:
- Great people
- make you better.
- 1515
- 01:11:43,214 --> 01:11:45,131
- You got over the
- fact that it was
- Robin, and then
- 1516
- 01:11:45,214 --> 01:11:47,797
- you went to work,
- you did what you
- needed to do,
- 1517
- 01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:50,505
- because you wanted
- to be up to speed.
- 1518
- 01:11:50,588 --> 01:11:53,964
- It's just like, "Oh
- no, you're not leaving
- me in the dust.
- 1519
- 01:11:54,047 --> 01:11:56,256
- I'm going to be right here,
- right next to you, running."
- 1520
- 01:11:56,338 --> 01:11:59,131
- You wanted to be able
- to play and keep up.
- 1521
- 01:11:59,214 --> 01:12:02,172
- -But seriously,
- there'll be more.
- -Okay, so taking care
- 1522
- 01:12:02,256 --> 01:12:04,256
- of Bill and the big chubby
- jokes have begun.
- 1523
- 01:12:05,547 --> 01:12:06,922
- This is a penis thing.
- 1524
- 01:12:07,006 --> 01:12:09,172
- -I didn't--
- -It's all a-- Did you
- never notice that?
- 1525
- 01:12:09,256 --> 01:12:10,964
- Wait a minute!
- Let him talk
- for a moment!
- 1526
- 01:12:11,047 --> 01:12:13,172
- -Oh!
- -(laughter)
- 1527
- 01:12:14,839 --> 01:12:16,463
- -Put that thing away!
- -Ow! Ow!
- 1528
- 01:12:16,547 --> 01:12:18,463
- -Put it away!
- -No, no, no.
- 1529
- 01:12:18,547 --> 01:12:21,006
- -You know, Whoopi.
- -Yes?
- 1530
- 01:12:27,422 --> 01:12:28,964
- -I...
- -Robin:
- Nice to see you, Whoopi.
- 1531
- 01:12:30,964 --> 01:12:34,089
- You didn't see my lips
- move once, did you?
- 1532
- 01:12:34,172 --> 01:12:36,463
- -No, but I never do.
- -Whoopi, I have
- a confession to make.
- 1533
- 01:12:36,547 --> 01:12:38,422
- -Yes?
- -Robin:
- Me too.
- 1534
- 01:12:38,505 --> 01:12:40,338
- (chuckles)
- 1535
- 01:12:40,422 --> 01:12:42,256
- I am not what
- I appear to be.
- 1536
- 01:12:43,422 --> 01:12:44,422
- I am a Jew.
- 1537
- 01:12:51,922 --> 01:12:53,214
- And I'll tell you
- something else.
- 1538
- 01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:56,256
- Is it me or is it
- cold in here?
- 1539
- 01:12:59,338 --> 01:13:02,256
- Yeah, it's-- it's
- very convenient,
- you know?
- 1540
- 01:13:04,547 --> 01:13:06,047
- This is--
- 1541
- 01:13:06,131 --> 01:13:08,256
- It's already--
- you know, it's not like
- 1542
- 01:13:08,338 --> 01:13:11,006
- I could come out and I do,
- "So, guys, what's up?"
- 1543
- 01:13:11,089 --> 01:13:13,380
- -It doesn't--
- -Hey. What the hell?
- 1544
- 01:13:13,463 --> 01:13:14,797
- (laughter)
- 1545
- 01:13:14,880 --> 01:13:16,588
- -Robin:
- So, guys, what's up?
- -Are you kidding me?
- 1546
- 01:13:16,672 --> 01:13:18,172
- What's happening?
- 1547
- 01:13:21,214 --> 01:13:23,256
- Priest:
- We commend
- into your hands
- 1548
- 01:13:23,338 --> 01:13:26,338
- the spirit
- of your servant,
- 1549
- 01:13:26,422 --> 01:13:28,797
- Ronald Wilson Reagan.
- 1550
- 01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:30,922
- Crystal:
- I'm watching
- Ronald Reagan's funeral
- 1551
- 01:13:31,006 --> 01:13:34,797
- and the phone rings.
- And I go, "Hello?"
- 1552
- 01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:36,964
- (mimics Reagan)
- "Bill? Hi, its Ron Reagan."
- 1553
- 01:13:38,547 --> 01:13:40,839
- (normal voice)
- "So... what a coincidence.
- 1554
- 01:13:40,922 --> 01:13:42,964
- I'm watching your funeral."
- 1555
- 01:13:43,047 --> 01:13:45,505
- (mimics Reagan)
- "Well, I just want to tell you
- that I'm in heaven now
- 1556
- 01:13:45,588 --> 01:13:48,297
- and I'm at a party.
- I'm having a wonderful time."
- 1557
- 01:13:48,380 --> 01:13:51,089
- (normal voice)
- I said "Oh Really?
- What's heaven like?"
- 1558
- 01:13:51,172 --> 01:13:55,172
- (mimics Reagan)
- "Well, it's a lot hotter than
- I thought it was gonna be."
- 1559
- 01:13:55,256 --> 01:13:57,380
- (normal voice)
- "Oh, really? You know,
- 1560
- 01:13:57,463 --> 01:13:59,547
- "you may not be
- in heaven, sir.
- 1561
- 01:13:59,630 --> 01:14:01,463
- You may be
- in the other place."
- 1562
- 01:14:01,547 --> 01:14:05,089
- (mimics Reagan)
- "Oh! That would explain
- why I'm in a hot tub with Nixon
- 1563
- 01:14:05,172 --> 01:14:07,297
- and his balls are resting
- on the bridge of my nose."
- 1564
- 01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,463
- Wherever I was,
- when the phone would ring,
- 1565
- 01:14:11,547 --> 01:14:15,089
- I'd look at it,
- and I'd see the
- 415 area code,
- 1566
- 01:14:15,172 --> 01:14:16,131
- I knew it was him.
- 1567
- 01:14:17,380 --> 01:14:19,839
- I knew it was gonna be
- something really good.
- 1568
- 01:14:19,922 --> 01:14:21,172
- (answering machine beeps)
- 1569
- 01:14:21,256 --> 01:14:24,338
- Answering machine:
- Sunday, 1:21 p.m.
- 1570
- 01:14:24,422 --> 01:14:25,505
- (beeps)
- 1571
- 01:14:25,588 --> 01:14:27,505
- (Robin speaks
- in British accent)
- 1572
- 01:14:43,547 --> 01:14:45,214
- ♪ ♪
- 1573
- 01:14:51,089 --> 01:14:53,214
- (answering machine beeps)
- 1574
- 01:14:53,297 --> 01:14:55,214
- (Robin speaking with lisp)
- 1575
- 01:15:17,755 --> 01:15:20,505
- Crystal:
- As the friendship
- really grew and grew,
- 1576
- 01:15:20,588 --> 01:15:22,588
- we kind of needed
- each other more.
- 1577
- 01:15:29,672 --> 01:15:31,256
- (answering machine beeps)
- 1578
- 01:15:32,422 --> 01:15:35,214
- (Robin mimics computer)
- 1579
- 01:15:43,297 --> 01:15:45,214
- Should be very simple.
- I think I shouldn't
- expand too much
- 1580
- 01:15:45,297 --> 01:15:46,755
- with that one,
- should just, "Hell!"
- 1581
- 01:15:46,839 --> 01:15:50,214
- Do you want
- to talk about when
- she goes off, and she's--
- 1582
- 01:15:50,297 --> 01:15:52,338
- We did that one
- where we thought,
- "Oh, I'm not doing this.
- 1583
- 01:15:52,422 --> 01:15:54,380
- "I can't do this.
- How can you do this?
- 1584
- 01:15:54,463 --> 01:15:55,755
- You fickle creature."
- 1585
- 01:15:55,839 --> 01:15:59,089
- Man: And then you
- catch onto the fact
- that she's performing.
- 1586
- 01:15:59,172 --> 01:16:00,463
- "She's acting!"
- 1587
- 01:16:01,630 --> 01:16:04,006
- I have decided
- to make my final wish.
- 1588
- 01:16:04,089 --> 01:16:07,089
- I wish
- for Princess Jasmine
- 1589
- 01:16:07,172 --> 01:16:10,214
- to fall desperately
- in love with me.
- 1590
- 01:16:10,297 --> 01:16:12,297
- (mimics buzzer, chuckles)
- Uh, Master,
- 1591
- 01:16:12,380 --> 01:16:15,547
- uh, there are
- a few addendas,
- some quid pro quos.
- 1592
- 01:16:15,630 --> 01:16:18,006
- Don't talk back to me,
- you big blue lout!
- 1593
- 01:16:18,089 --> 01:16:21,256
- You will do
- what I order you to do!
- 1594
- 01:16:21,338 --> 01:16:23,380
- (choking)
- I am unable to do what
- you ordered me to do
- 1595
- 01:16:23,463 --> 01:16:25,214
- at this present point,
- because that is not part
- 1596
- 01:16:25,297 --> 01:16:27,380
- of my programming.
- Warning, warning!
- 1597
- 01:16:27,463 --> 01:16:30,547
- -♪ ♪
- -(hissing)
- 1598
- 01:16:30,630 --> 01:16:33,089
- (mimics Robinson)
- Come on kid, see?
- Gotta get the snake, see?
- 1599
- 01:16:33,172 --> 01:16:35,588
- (mimics King) I promoted
- the fight. I'm hoping it's
- gonna be as best it can.
- 1600
- 01:16:35,672 --> 01:16:37,547
- (mimics Brando)
- The horror.
- 1601
- 01:16:37,630 --> 01:16:41,630
- The young boy
- up against a giant snake.
- 1602
- 01:16:41,714 --> 01:16:45,214
- Idle: He would
- just take a thought
- and improvise on it.
- 1603
- 01:16:45,297 --> 01:16:48,172
- It might just dinner
- or it might be 2,000 people,
- 1604
- 01:16:48,256 --> 01:16:51,422
- it's the same
- improvisational
- thing that goes on.
- 1605
- 01:16:51,505 --> 01:16:52,338
- (clacks)
- 1606
- 01:16:54,380 --> 01:16:55,714
- -Man: Set.
- -Man 2: Action.
- 1607
- 01:16:55,797 --> 01:16:58,131
- Miranda:
- When did he pass on?
- 1608
- 01:16:58,214 --> 01:17:00,422
- Eight years ago, dear...
- 1609
- 01:17:00,505 --> 01:17:01,630
- this November.
- 1610
- 01:17:03,672 --> 01:17:05,047
- Miranda:
- What happened?
- 1611
- 01:17:05,131 --> 01:17:08,463
- Oh, he was quite fond
- of the drink really.
- 1612
- 01:17:10,505 --> 01:17:12,630
- 'Twas the drink
- that killed him.
- 1613
- 01:17:12,714 --> 01:17:14,588
- Miranda:
- How awful.
- He was an alcoholic.
- 1614
- 01:17:14,672 --> 01:17:17,714
- Oh no, dear.
- He was on his way
- to the pub
- 1615
- 01:17:17,797 --> 01:17:21,047
- to have a drink,
- walked in the door,
- 1616
- 01:17:21,131 --> 01:17:22,297
- and someone
- had spilled a beer
- 1617
- 01:17:22,380 --> 01:17:24,422
- and he slipped
- and broke his neck.
- 1618
- 01:17:24,505 --> 01:17:25,672
- He was on his way
- to the pub,
- 1619
- 01:17:25,755 --> 01:17:27,714
- and a Guinness truck
- was passing by
- 1620
- 01:17:27,797 --> 01:17:31,047
- hit a bump,
- and six kegs fell off.
- 1621
- 01:17:31,131 --> 01:17:32,380
- He finished
- the first three,
- 1622
- 01:17:32,463 --> 01:17:34,463
- but the last three got him.
- 1623
- 01:17:34,547 --> 01:17:36,380
- He was hit
- by a Budweiser truck.
- 1624
- 01:17:37,922 --> 01:17:39,797
- First time in America too.
- 1625
- 01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:41,214
- (crying)
- "This Bud's for you."
- 1626
- 01:17:43,380 --> 01:17:45,380
- Oh God,
- so it was quite literally
- 1627
- 01:17:45,463 --> 01:17:47,131
- the drink that killed him.
- 1628
- 01:17:47,214 --> 01:17:50,172
- (crew laughing)
- 1629
- 01:17:50,256 --> 01:17:51,714
- (gruffly)
- Get it together, asshole!
- 1630
- 01:17:51,797 --> 01:17:53,131
- (normal voice)
- Sorry, man.
- 1631
- 01:17:53,214 --> 01:17:54,463
- -Man:
- And...
- -(laughter)
- 1632
- 01:17:54,547 --> 01:17:55,797
- Even Sammy's
- behind us going,
- 1633
- 01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:58,256
- (mimics Sammy Davis Jr.)
- "Come on! I'm here,
- 1634
- 01:17:58,338 --> 01:18:00,672
- waiting,
- decomposing man."
- 1635
- 01:18:00,755 --> 01:18:02,338
- Clear!
- 1636
- 01:18:02,422 --> 01:18:03,797
- What happened?
- 1637
- 01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:05,755
- (laughter)
- 1638
- 01:18:08,131 --> 01:18:10,672
- I'm waiting!
- 1639
- 01:18:10,755 --> 01:18:14,172
- Idle:
- It was vital for him
- to have an audience.
- 1640
- 01:18:14,256 --> 01:18:16,380
- And he was hilarious,
- but it was a need,
- 1641
- 01:18:16,463 --> 01:18:20,630
- very needy for him
- to-- to communicate
- and be funny.
- 1642
- 01:18:20,714 --> 01:18:22,505
- Yoshi:
- Hey, Mrs. Yorkin.
- 1643
- 01:18:22,588 --> 01:18:23,755
- Nina:
- Hey, Yoshi.
- How are you?
- 1644
- 01:18:23,839 --> 01:18:26,256
- Yoshi:
- How have you been?
- Long time, no see.
- 1645
- 01:18:26,338 --> 01:18:27,714
- Mark Romanek:
- He gave such
- a detailed,
- 1646
- 01:18:27,797 --> 01:18:29,672
- focused performance,
- 1647
- 01:18:29,755 --> 01:18:31,256
- but the second
- you said, "Cut,"
- 1648
- 01:18:31,338 --> 01:18:33,588
- he would be back
- to the crazy,
- 1649
- 01:18:33,672 --> 01:18:35,338
- insane, psycho
- Robin Williams.
- 1650
- 01:18:35,422 --> 01:18:38,338
- (gruff voice)
- Hi, I'm Sy Parrish,
- the photo guy.
- 1651
- 01:18:38,422 --> 01:18:41,505
- -(laughing)
- -It plays
- with the hard drive.
- 1652
- 01:18:41,588 --> 01:18:43,714
- (normal voice)
- I can't help you, it's not
- really my section, but--
- 1653
- 01:18:43,797 --> 01:18:45,630
- -You're Will Yorkin!
- -Oh Jesus.
- 1654
- 01:18:45,714 --> 01:18:47,505
- Oh, ho ho!
- 1655
- 01:18:47,588 --> 01:18:49,839
- Romanek:
- The urge to be funny
- 1656
- 01:18:49,922 --> 01:18:53,214
- and to make people laugh
- was so innate in him
- 1657
- 01:18:53,297 --> 01:18:56,463
- and so, like-- almost
- like breathing for him
- 1658
- 01:18:56,547 --> 01:18:59,630
- that if he didn't get
- that out of his system...
- 1659
- 01:18:59,714 --> 01:19:02,839
- it would've infected
- his performance
- in a bad way.
- 1660
- 01:19:02,922 --> 01:19:04,839
- Fu! Boy.
- 1661
- 01:19:04,922 --> 01:19:07,755
- You're here
- in the flesh.
- Woo hoo!
- 1662
- 01:19:07,839 --> 01:19:09,256
- Not often I see
- you in here.
- 1663
- 01:19:10,422 --> 01:19:11,297
- Yeah, you--
- 1664
- 01:19:11,380 --> 01:19:13,089
- -(man chuckles)
- -Hi.
- 1665
- 01:19:13,172 --> 01:19:15,588
- Romanek:
- So I would just let him go,
- as long as it was reasonable
- 1666
- 01:19:15,672 --> 01:19:17,214
- for time in the day
- 1667
- 01:19:17,297 --> 01:19:18,505
- to just get
- it out of his system.
- 1668
- 01:19:18,588 --> 01:19:19,880
- And then,
- actually, I realized
- 1669
- 01:19:19,964 --> 01:19:22,297
- that when he makes
- people laugh that hard,
- 1670
- 01:19:22,380 --> 01:19:23,672
- he used to kind
- of get high from it--
- 1671
- 01:19:23,755 --> 01:19:25,797
- you know,
- like an endorphin
- rush or something.
- 1672
- 01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:29,922
- And so if he was being
- really funny one second
- before the take,
- 1673
- 01:19:30,006 --> 01:19:31,922
- I would-- he would,
- you know, quiet down,
- 1674
- 01:19:32,006 --> 01:19:33,380
- and I'd say, "Action,"
- 1675
- 01:19:33,463 --> 01:19:36,297
- he almost had
- this like glow of joy.
- 1676
- 01:19:36,380 --> 01:19:38,714
- Even though he was playing
- this very serious scene,
- 1677
- 01:19:38,797 --> 01:19:41,422
- that also kind of gave
- this patina of weirdness
- 1678
- 01:19:41,505 --> 01:19:43,297
- to the performance.
- 1679
- 01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:46,588
- Will:
- Oh excuse me,
- I need some help here.
- 1680
- 01:19:46,672 --> 01:19:48,422
- I'm trying to figure out if this
- will work with my Mac.
- 1681
- 01:19:48,505 --> 01:19:50,131
- I'm sorry,
- this isn't my section.
- 1682
- 01:19:53,839 --> 01:19:54,880
- You're Will Yorkin.
- 1683
- 01:19:56,755 --> 01:19:59,422
- Cheri Minns:
- Robin would just be--
- 1684
- 01:19:59,505 --> 01:20:01,880
- whatever the person
- he was with,
- 1685
- 01:20:01,964 --> 01:20:04,797
- he'd be what
- they wanted
- him to be.
- 1686
- 01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:06,588
- ♪ ♪
- 1687
- 01:20:08,047 --> 01:20:10,839
- He just didn't operate
- like normal people.
- 1688
- 01:20:13,547 --> 01:20:15,755
- He was very vulnerable
- that's for sure,
- 1689
- 01:20:18,463 --> 01:20:19,880
- He held
- onto a lot of things
- 1690
- 01:20:19,964 --> 01:20:22,214
- and internalized
- a lot of things.
- 1691
- 01:20:24,047 --> 01:20:25,463
- He felt everything.
- 1692
- 01:20:25,547 --> 01:20:27,714
- ♪ ♪
- 1693
- 01:20:31,380 --> 01:20:34,714
- Crystal: He needed that
- little extra hug that you can
- only get from strangers.
- 1694
- 01:20:34,797 --> 01:20:37,839
- It's a very powerful thing
- for a lot of comedians.
- 1695
- 01:20:39,463 --> 01:20:41,964
- That laugh is a--
- is a drug.
- 1696
- 01:20:42,047 --> 01:20:46,547
- That... acceptance...
- 1697
- 01:20:46,630 --> 01:20:48,755
- that thrill is
- really hard to replace...
- 1698
- 01:20:50,422 --> 01:20:52,755
- with anything else.
- 1699
- 01:20:52,839 --> 01:20:55,338
- Miranda:
- Why do you always make
- me out to be the heavy?
- 1700
- 01:20:55,422 --> 01:20:56,964
- Oh, lighten up,
- will ya?
- 1701
- 01:20:57,047 --> 01:20:58,755
- Just realize you're
- spending too much time
- 1702
- 01:20:58,839 --> 01:21:00,880
- with those corporate clones
- you used to despise!
- 1703
- 01:21:00,964 --> 01:21:02,672
- I spend
- too much time
- with you, Daniel!
- 1704
- 01:21:02,755 --> 01:21:05,463
- It's over!
- It's over!
- 1705
- 01:21:05,547 --> 01:21:06,422
- (sighs)
- 1706
- 01:21:07,964 --> 01:21:08,964
- Come on, Miranda.
- 1707
- 01:21:09,047 --> 01:21:10,755
- Listen, we've got problems,
- but who doesn't?
- 1708
- 01:21:10,839 --> 01:21:12,922
- We could work 'em out.
- What are you talking about,
- "It's over"?
- 1709
- 01:21:13,006 --> 01:21:16,505
- We've been trying
- to work them out for 14 years.
- 1710
- 01:21:16,588 --> 01:21:18,505
- Come on, please. Listen.
- 1711
- 01:21:18,588 --> 01:21:20,755
- Maybe we need
- some help, okay?
- 1712
- 01:21:21,964 --> 01:21:23,505
- Maybe we can go
- to a family therapist.
- 1713
- 01:21:23,588 --> 01:21:24,922
- They'll help us
- through this together.
- 1714
- 01:21:25,006 --> 01:21:26,672
- We have nothing
- in common.
- 1715
- 01:21:26,755 --> 01:21:29,256
- Oh, sure we do.
- We love each other.
- 1716
- 01:21:35,047 --> 01:21:38,297
- Come on, Miranda.
- We love each other.
- 1717
- 01:21:42,755 --> 01:21:44,964
- ♪ ♪
- 1718
- 01:21:45,047 --> 01:21:47,089
- Robin:
- I don't know the great
- secrets of acting.
- 1719
- 01:21:47,172 --> 01:21:49,547
- It's like some sort
- of Zen concept where
- you finally say,
- 1720
- 01:21:49,630 --> 01:21:51,755
- "Okay, what you
- think is acting,
- 1721
- 01:21:51,839 --> 01:21:54,463
- don't do that anymore
- and-- and stop."
- 1722
- 01:21:56,047 --> 01:21:58,880
- If you just relax,
- listen, be in the scene,
- 1723
- 01:21:58,964 --> 01:22:00,714
- you won't have
- to worry about finding
- 1724
- 01:22:00,797 --> 01:22:03,256
- that one funny line
- or... acting.
- 1725
- 01:22:04,714 --> 01:22:06,505
- If you just
- don't interfere
- with yourself,
- 1726
- 01:22:06,588 --> 01:22:07,588
- you're quite interesting.
- 1727
- 01:22:07,672 --> 01:22:10,422
- ♪ ♪
- 1728
- 01:22:10,505 --> 01:22:11,839
- People will register
- your thoughts
- 1729
- 01:22:11,922 --> 01:22:13,922
- and they will pick up
- on what you're going through
- 1730
- 01:22:14,006 --> 01:22:15,630
- because your face
- is accessible.
- 1731
- 01:22:17,839 --> 01:22:20,380
- And you'll be
- in character,
- 1732
- 01:22:20,463 --> 01:22:21,922
- the audience
- will be following along,
- 1733
- 01:22:22,006 --> 01:22:23,588
- And the most
- important thing is
- for an audience
- 1734
- 01:22:23,672 --> 01:22:25,089
- to follow
- the character through.
- 1735
- 01:22:25,172 --> 01:22:27,006
- ♪ ♪
- 1736
- 01:22:30,714 --> 01:22:33,463
- Don't do anything
- and you'll be amazed
- how much you're doing.
- 1737
- 01:22:35,089 --> 01:22:37,463
- Don't do anything.
- Just talk.
- 1738
- 01:22:40,089 --> 01:22:42,089
- My wife used to fart
- when she was nervous.
- 1739
- 01:22:42,172 --> 01:22:43,380
- She had
- all sorts
- of wonderful
- 1740
- 01:22:43,463 --> 01:22:44,714
- -little
- idiosyncrasies.
- -(both laugh)
- 1741
- 01:22:44,797 --> 01:22:46,505
- You know what?
- She used to fart
- in her sleep.
- 1742
- 01:22:48,714 --> 01:22:50,839
- Sorry I shared
- that with you.
- 1743
- 01:22:50,922 --> 01:22:52,964
- Ah, but, Will,
- she's been dead two years,
- 1744
- 01:22:53,047 --> 01:22:54,630
- and that's the shit
- I remember.
- 1745
- 01:22:54,714 --> 01:22:56,505
- Wonderful stuff,
- you know,
- 1746
- 01:22:56,588 --> 01:22:57,839
- little things like that.
- 1747
- 01:22:57,922 --> 01:23:00,422
- Ah, but,
- those are the things
- I miss the most,
- 1748
- 01:23:01,922 --> 01:23:04,089
- those little idiosyncrasies
- that only I knew about.
- 1749
- 01:23:05,256 --> 01:23:06,422
- That's what
- made her my wife.
- 1750
- 01:23:07,672 --> 01:23:08,964
- Oh, and she had
- the goods on me, too.
- 1751
- 01:23:09,047 --> 01:23:11,880
- She knew
- all my little peccadillos.
- 1752
- 01:23:11,964 --> 01:23:13,922
- People call
- these things
- "imperfections,"
- 1753
- 01:23:14,006 --> 01:23:18,006
- but they're not.
- Oh, that's the good stuff.
- 1754
- 01:23:18,089 --> 01:23:21,047
- And then we get
- to choose who we let
- into our weird little worlds.
- 1755
- 01:23:23,672 --> 01:23:25,006
- You're not perfect, sport.
- 1756
- 01:23:25,089 --> 01:23:27,755
- And let me save you
- the suspense:
- 1757
- 01:23:27,839 --> 01:23:30,672
- This girl you met?
- She isn't perfect either.
- 1758
- 01:23:30,755 --> 01:23:34,964
- But the question is
- whether or not you're
- perfect for each other.
- 1759
- 01:23:35,047 --> 01:23:37,547
- That's the whole deal.
- That's what intimacy
- is all about.
- 1760
- 01:23:39,089 --> 01:23:41,714
- ♪ ♪
- 1761
- 01:23:41,797 --> 01:23:44,131
- Robin: Every person
- is driven by some deep,
- deep, deep, deep,
- 1762
- 01:23:44,214 --> 01:23:46,588
- deep, deep, deep,
- deep secret,
- 1763
- 01:23:46,672 --> 01:23:48,172
- and finding that
- for a character
- 1764
- 01:23:48,256 --> 01:23:51,006
- gives you that
- which drives it through.
- 1765
- 01:23:51,089 --> 01:23:53,630
- You look for it
- and then you try
- and find that essence,
- 1766
- 01:23:53,714 --> 01:23:56,006
- what drives them.
- 1767
- 01:23:56,089 --> 01:23:57,839
- If you can find it,
- if you find the right one,
- 1768
- 01:23:57,922 --> 01:23:58,755
- you'll know it.
- 1769
- 01:24:06,172 --> 01:24:08,131
- (panting)
- 1770
- 01:24:15,172 --> 01:24:17,089
- Idle:
- He had a restless mind.
- 1771
- 01:24:17,172 --> 01:24:19,214
- His thing was
- physical exertion.
- 1772
- 01:24:19,297 --> 01:24:21,630
- He'd go for 60 miles,
- 70 miles on his bike.
- 1773
- 01:24:25,630 --> 01:24:26,964
- I think that stopped
- the thoughts...
- 1774
- 01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:31,588
- 'cause the thoughts
- can be... disturbing.
- 1775
- 01:24:37,839 --> 01:24:39,131
- I think
- he didn't feel worthy.
- 1776
- 01:24:40,755 --> 01:24:43,630
- There's no "I'm wonderful."
- No. It was--
- 1777
- 01:24:43,714 --> 01:24:46,089
- it's lack of self-worth
- somewhere in there, too.
- 1778
- 01:24:48,922 --> 01:24:52,755
- Announcer:
- Welcome to the 2003
- Critics' Choice Awards.
- 1779
- 01:24:54,131 --> 01:24:56,214
- The nominees are...
- 1780
- 01:24:56,297 --> 01:24:58,922
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- for Gangs of New York...
- 1781
- 01:24:59,006 --> 01:25:00,172
- (applause)
- 1782
- 01:25:05,131 --> 01:25:07,630
- Jack Nicholson
- for About Schmidt...
- 1783
- 01:25:07,714 --> 01:25:09,672
- (applause, cheers)
- 1784
- 01:25:12,297 --> 01:25:14,630
- Edward Norton for--
- no, I'm just kidding.
- 1785
- 01:25:14,714 --> 01:25:17,256
- -(laughter)
- -Um, Robin Williams...
- 1786
- 01:25:17,338 --> 01:25:20,505
- for One Hour Photo.
- 1787
- 01:25:20,588 --> 01:25:22,172
- (cheers, applause)
- 1788
- 01:25:26,839 --> 01:25:29,922
- (gasps)
- Drama.
- 1789
- 01:25:30,006 --> 01:25:32,630
- There's been a tie.
- I swear to God.
- 1790
- 01:25:32,714 --> 01:25:34,964
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- for Gangs of New York...
- 1791
- 01:25:35,047 --> 01:25:37,006
- (cheers, applause)
- 1792
- 01:25:37,089 --> 01:25:39,256
- and Jack Nicholson
- for About Schmidt.
- 1793
- 01:25:42,172 --> 01:25:44,131
- Nicholson:
- Well, I don't usually
- get this baked
- 1794
- 01:25:44,214 --> 01:25:46,131
- -when it's on television.
- -(laughter)
- 1795
- 01:25:46,214 --> 01:25:48,797
- Robin, would you
- come up and give...
- 1796
- 01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:50,714
- (cheers, applause)
- 1797
- 01:25:52,922 --> 01:25:56,297
- Would you--
- would you give the funniest
- acceptance speech ever?
- 1798
- 01:25:56,380 --> 01:25:58,922
- What Jack is
- trying to say here...
- 1799
- 01:25:59,006 --> 01:26:01,089
- (laughter)
- 1800
- 01:26:01,172 --> 01:26:02,839
- is he's so happy
- to be here,
- 1801
- 01:26:02,922 --> 01:26:04,755
- he could drop a log, really.
- 1802
- 01:26:06,380 --> 01:26:08,839
- Nicholson: Until he
- got here, I couldn't
- think about anything
- 1803
- 01:26:08,922 --> 01:26:11,964
- but spanking Jillian Hall.
- I don't what happened to me.
- 1804
- 01:26:12,047 --> 01:26:13,755
- -I could do that all night.
- -Robin: Ho, ho, ho, ho!
- 1805
- 01:26:13,839 --> 01:26:15,755
- -Let's do that
- for the deaf now.
- -Yeah, yeah.
- 1806
- 01:26:23,214 --> 01:26:25,214
- Whoo!
- Whoo. Whoo.
- 1807
- 01:26:28,755 --> 01:26:31,588
- I really wanted to say
- how grateful I am
- 1808
- 01:26:31,672 --> 01:26:35,922
- to the film critics
- for honoring Robin, and...
- 1809
- 01:26:36,006 --> 01:26:37,880
- -(laughter)
- -(sighs)
- 1810
- 01:26:37,964 --> 01:26:39,256
- Yeah, thanks for nothing!
- 1811
- 01:26:39,338 --> 01:26:41,297
- (laughter, applause)
- 1812
- 01:26:44,006 --> 01:26:46,047
- -It's a tie
- with three people!
- -Yeah.
- 1813
- 01:26:48,297 --> 01:26:49,755
- You pretty much said,
- "(bleeps) you, Robin."
- 1814
- 01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:53,630
- Thank you,
- I hope that's televised!
- 1815
- 01:26:57,422 --> 01:26:58,588
- (Nicholson clears throat)
- 1816
- 01:27:00,131 --> 01:27:02,964
- (laughter)
- 1817
- 01:27:03,047 --> 01:27:04,297
- For those
- of you at home...
- 1818
- 01:27:06,297 --> 01:27:08,588
- Jack is getting ready
- to bring out a five iron.
- 1819
- 01:27:10,964 --> 01:27:13,839
- Robin, since they didn't
- give you an award,
- 1820
- 01:27:13,922 --> 01:27:15,256
- -you can have...
- -Oh, thank you.
- 1821
- 01:27:15,338 --> 01:27:16,880
- ...both of their names
- in the tie.
- 1822
- 01:27:16,964 --> 01:27:18,964
- Thank you.
- I want to thank
- Jack Nicholson
- 1823
- 01:27:19,047 --> 01:27:22,297
- and Daniel Day-Lewis
- for giving me this
- piece of paper.
- 1824
- 01:27:24,880 --> 01:27:26,256
- Has their names
- on it, not mine.
- 1825
- 01:27:28,006 --> 01:27:30,922
- And I'm glad
- to be left out
- of this incredible group.
- 1826
- 01:27:32,922 --> 01:27:35,338
- I want to thank Jack
- for-- he is, to me,
- the greatest actor,
- 1827
- 01:27:35,422 --> 01:27:37,214
- and Daniel Day-Lewis,
- the greatest actor.
- 1828
- 01:27:37,297 --> 01:27:40,630
- And... I'm just
- a hairy actor.
- 1829
- 01:27:42,505 --> 01:27:43,755
- And it's been
- a wonderful evening
- 1830
- 01:27:43,839 --> 01:27:46,714
- for me to--
- to walk away
- with nothing.
- 1831
- 01:27:48,006 --> 01:27:49,297
- Coming here
- with no expectations,
- 1832
- 01:27:49,380 --> 01:27:51,880
- leaving here
- with no expectations...
- 1833
- 01:27:51,964 --> 01:27:54,006
- it's pretty much been
- a Buddhist evening for me.
- 1834
- 01:27:55,505 --> 01:27:56,964
- -Thank you.
- -(applause)
- 1835
- 01:28:04,422 --> 01:28:09,131
- Zak:
- His pathos was seeking
- to entertain and please.
- 1836
- 01:28:10,214 --> 01:28:13,006
- And... he felt...
- 1837
- 01:28:14,338 --> 01:28:16,172
- when he wasn't doing that,
- 1838
- 01:28:16,256 --> 01:28:18,172
- he was not succeeding...
- 1839
- 01:28:19,463 --> 01:28:20,630
- as a person.
- 1840
- 01:28:21,964 --> 01:28:26,172
- And that was
- always hard to see...
- 1841
- 01:28:26,256 --> 01:28:29,880
- because in so many
- senses, he is the most
- successful person I know...
- 1842
- 01:28:32,047 --> 01:28:34,131
- and yet he didn't
- always feel that.
- 1843
- 01:28:34,214 --> 01:28:37,714
- -Good morning
- in Kandahar!
- -(cheering)
- 1844
- 01:28:39,380 --> 01:28:41,714
- -("Retreat" plays)
- -Uh-oh!
- 1845
- 01:28:54,505 --> 01:28:56,672
- -(man shouts)
- -(crowd cheering)
- 1846
- 01:29:01,131 --> 01:29:03,880
- -I'm not gonna forget that.
- -(laughter)
- 1847
- 01:29:03,964 --> 01:29:05,505
- I've never had
- an entire audience just go,
- 1848
- 01:29:05,588 --> 01:29:06,839
- "Forget you!"
- 1849
- 01:29:06,922 --> 01:29:08,463
- (laughter, cheering)
- 1850
- 01:29:08,547 --> 01:29:10,131
- "You have no idea!"
- 1851
- 01:29:13,256 --> 01:29:16,505
- I was also wondering,
- "What's coming from that way?"
- 1852
- 01:29:16,588 --> 01:29:18,922
- -(laughter)
- -When an entire--
- 1853
- 01:29:19,006 --> 01:29:21,047
- Lewis Black:
- He actually called me
- and said,
- 1854
- 01:29:21,131 --> 01:29:23,839
- "Do you wanna go
- on a USO tour?
- 1855
- 01:29:23,922 --> 01:29:26,755
- "A Christmas tour,
- just like--
- 1856
- 01:29:26,839 --> 01:29:29,839
- just like Bob Hope?"
- (laughs)
- 1857
- 01:29:29,922 --> 01:29:33,755
- Robin's energy was like
- nothing I'd ever seen.
- 1858
- 01:29:35,089 --> 01:29:37,380
- You'd touch down
- in the Middle East,
- 1859
- 01:29:37,463 --> 01:29:40,380
- then you're going bam,
- bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
- 1860
- 01:29:40,463 --> 01:29:42,006
- It becomes
- a complete blur.
- 1861
- 01:29:42,089 --> 01:29:43,380
- -Get in over here.
- -Woman:
- All right.
- 1862
- 01:29:45,214 --> 01:29:47,338
- Black:
- He hits the ground running
- and whosever's there,
- 1863
- 01:29:47,422 --> 01:29:50,547
- getting ready to greet us,
- he's already doing a show
- 1864
- 01:29:50,630 --> 01:29:54,380
- and giving them a sense
- of how important
- they are to him.
- 1865
- 01:29:54,463 --> 01:29:56,839
- Announcer:
- Give it up
- for Robin Williams!
- 1866
- 01:29:56,922 --> 01:29:58,755
- (cheering)
- 1867
- 01:30:01,214 --> 01:30:03,047
- I hope this shirt says
- "I love New York"
- 1868
- 01:30:03,131 --> 01:30:04,839
- and not
- "I Lick Camel Balls."
- 1869
- 01:30:04,922 --> 01:30:06,380
- (laughter)
- 1870
- 01:30:06,463 --> 01:30:07,964
- I'm really hoping so.
- 1871
- 01:30:08,047 --> 01:30:09,422
- Black:
- And it's every day.
- 1872
- 01:30:11,297 --> 01:30:14,463
- Wherever we are,
- doesn't seem to be
- any down time for him.
- 1873
- 01:30:15,630 --> 01:30:17,380
- I wish you
- from my heart
- 1874
- 01:30:17,463 --> 01:30:19,505
- a Merry Christmas,
- Happy Hanukkah,
- 1875
- 01:30:19,588 --> 01:30:21,047
- Happy Kwanzaa
- for my brothers.
- 1876
- 01:30:21,131 --> 01:30:23,047
- You know who you are.
- 1877
- 01:30:23,131 --> 01:30:25,297
- Black:
- He finishes this,
- and he flies immediately
- 1878
- 01:30:25,380 --> 01:30:27,006
- to Vancouver
- to start a movie.
- 1879
- 01:30:27,089 --> 01:30:29,588
- And I thought, "Wow.
- 1880
- 01:30:29,672 --> 01:30:30,505
- "Wow. That--
- 1881
- 01:30:31,672 --> 01:30:33,547
- that's-- that's hard-core."
- 1882
- 01:30:33,630 --> 01:30:35,089
- He gave you
- a photo? Good.
- 1883
- 01:30:35,172 --> 01:30:37,006
- Merry Christmas, fellas.
- Thank you.
- 1884
- 01:30:37,089 --> 01:30:39,463
- ♪ ♪
- 1885
- 01:30:39,547 --> 01:30:41,463
- Black:
- I mean, he was
- like the light
- 1886
- 01:30:41,547 --> 01:30:43,380
- that never knew how
- to turn itself off.
- 1887
- 01:30:43,463 --> 01:30:45,338
- ♪ ♪
- 1888
- 01:30:57,006 --> 01:30:58,880
- Zak:
- When you have
- a parent
- 1889
- 01:31:00,047 --> 01:31:03,256
- who's so giving,
- so generous,
- 1890
- 01:31:03,338 --> 01:31:05,256
- and wanting
- to give his time
- 1891
- 01:31:05,338 --> 01:31:07,380
- and effort in terms
- of entertaining,
- 1892
- 01:31:07,463 --> 01:31:10,089
- but also to causes
- and to people...
- 1893
- 01:31:11,505 --> 01:31:12,630
- that was challenging.
- 1894
- 01:31:12,714 --> 01:31:14,338
- That was
- really challenging...
- 1895
- 01:31:16,714 --> 01:31:18,630
- sharing and watching
- 1896
- 01:31:18,714 --> 01:31:22,297
- my father give
- his time to others.
- 1897
- 01:31:22,380 --> 01:31:24,505
- ♪ ♪
- 1898
- 01:31:24,588 --> 01:31:25,880
- The selfish part of me
- 1899
- 01:31:27,214 --> 01:31:29,922
- wanted me to keep
- our relationship to myself
- 1900
- 01:31:30,006 --> 01:31:32,380
- and, you know, have us
- just spend time together.
- 1901
- 01:31:34,338 --> 01:31:36,214
- ♪ ♪
- 1902
- 01:31:38,338 --> 01:31:40,172
- Half of the year
- we'd see him.
- 1903
- 01:31:40,256 --> 01:31:43,297
- Some years
- might not be half.
- 1904
- 01:31:43,380 --> 01:31:44,964
- Some years
- we'd see him more.
- 1905
- 01:31:45,047 --> 01:31:46,505
- It-it-- it's just the nature
- 1906
- 01:31:46,588 --> 01:31:48,338
- of the business
- he was in.
- 1907
- 01:31:49,505 --> 01:31:52,047
- So... yeah.
- 1908
- 01:31:52,131 --> 01:31:54,089
- That's something that
- we got used to over time.
- 1909
- 01:31:59,630 --> 01:32:01,463
- Robin:
- Sometimes, indirectly,
- you're talking to people,
- 1910
- 01:32:01,547 --> 01:32:03,214
- you'll just talk
- about shit that--
- 1911
- 01:32:03,297 --> 01:32:05,214
- you would be amazed.
- But when in therapy,
- 1912
- 01:32:05,297 --> 01:32:06,422
- when you're talking
- to a shrink,
- 1913
- 01:32:06,505 --> 01:32:07,547
- he said,
- "Sometimes be careful
- 1914
- 01:32:07,630 --> 01:32:08,547
- "about what
- you talk about...
- 1915
- 01:32:10,338 --> 01:32:11,547
- "because you may be
- in front of a stage,
- 1916
- 01:32:11,630 --> 01:32:13,047
- "in front
- of so many people
- 1917
- 01:32:13,131 --> 01:32:14,256
- "and start talking
- about something
- 1918
- 01:32:14,338 --> 01:32:16,338
- you're not ready
- to deal with."
- 1919
- 01:32:16,422 --> 01:32:19,172
- There's all these drugs--
- Zoloft, Prozac.
- 1920
- 01:32:19,256 --> 01:32:21,422
- I want to have one drug
- encompassing it all.
- 1921
- 01:32:21,505 --> 01:32:23,588
- Call it "Fukitol."
- 1922
- 01:32:23,672 --> 01:32:24,588
- (laughter)
- 1923
- 01:32:24,672 --> 01:32:25,964
- I don't feel anything.
- 1924
- 01:32:26,047 --> 01:32:27,131
- I don't want
- to do anything.
- 1925
- 01:32:27,214 --> 01:32:29,505
- -Fukitol.
- -(laughter)
- 1926
- 01:32:29,588 --> 01:32:32,006
- The closest thing
- to a coma you'll ever be.
- 1927
- 01:32:32,089 --> 01:32:33,630
- Fukitol.
- 1928
- 01:32:33,714 --> 01:32:35,463
- I'm sitting here
- in my own dung.
- 1929
- 01:32:35,547 --> 01:32:36,422
- Fukitol.
- 1930
- 01:32:38,089 --> 01:32:39,922
- (wind blowing)
- 1931
- 01:32:42,338 --> 01:32:44,422
- ♪ ♪
- 1932
- 01:32:46,131 --> 01:32:47,630
- Man:
- What were you
- doing up there?
- 1933
- 01:32:47,714 --> 01:32:49,547
- Robin:
- This movie called
- The Big White.
- 1934
- 01:32:49,630 --> 01:32:51,338
- Just thinking,
- "What am I
- doing here?"
- 1935
- 01:32:51,422 --> 01:32:54,338
- This is crazy
- and feeling
- kind of isolated.
- 1936
- 01:32:54,422 --> 01:32:56,630
- And all of a sudden went,
- "Well, there's one cure.
- 1937
- 01:32:58,214 --> 01:32:59,089
- I could drink!"
- 1938
- 01:33:00,214 --> 01:33:01,588
- Ready for a refill?
- 1939
- 01:33:01,672 --> 01:33:03,380
- Does Mrs. Kennedy
- have a black dress?
- 1940
- 01:33:03,463 --> 01:33:05,714
- (laughs)
- 1941
- 01:33:05,797 --> 01:33:09,714
- All righty.
- Coming up.
- 1942
- 01:33:09,797 --> 01:33:11,630
- Robin:
- It went quick.
- 1943
- 01:33:11,714 --> 01:33:13,588
- ♪ ♪
- 1944
- 01:33:18,672 --> 01:33:21,089
- I started drinking
- the tiny little bottles
- of Jack Daniels
- 1945
- 01:33:21,172 --> 01:33:23,214
- -the little ones
- you get from the--
- -Interviewer: Oh, yeah, yeah.
- 1946
- 01:33:23,297 --> 01:33:25,214
- -And I thought,
- "This is fine."
- -Yeah, it's a small bottle.
- 1947
- 01:33:25,297 --> 01:33:27,131
- And a week later
- I was hiding them,
- 1948
- 01:33:27,214 --> 01:33:29,297
- a big bottle
- of Jack Daniels,
- and just, "Fuck."
- 1949
- 01:33:34,839 --> 01:33:36,338
- It was, you know,
- either fear...
- 1950
- 01:33:38,380 --> 01:33:41,380
- sometimes just
- the sheer wanting
- to run away from it all,
- 1951
- 01:33:41,463 --> 01:33:43,505
- sometimes to run into it all,
- and just go, "Fuck it."
- 1952
- 01:33:47,338 --> 01:33:49,422
- Hey, I just went
- through the cue cards,
- 1953
- 01:33:49,505 --> 01:33:51,047
- and I'm
- telling you,
- you're gonna kill.
- 1954
- 01:33:51,131 --> 01:33:52,797
- It's gonna work
- like a charm.
- 1955
- 01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:54,630
- Don't worry
- about a thing.
- 1956
- 01:33:54,714 --> 01:33:56,463
- Black:
- When we were doing
- Man of the Year,
- 1957
- 01:33:56,547 --> 01:33:58,380
- he was drinking
- around me.
- 1958
- 01:33:59,505 --> 01:34:01,505
- At the bar each night,
- 1959
- 01:34:01,588 --> 01:34:03,256
- usually just before close,
- 1960
- 01:34:03,338 --> 01:34:04,588
- I'd have a couple
- glasses of wine,
- 1961
- 01:34:04,672 --> 01:34:06,089
- and then Robin
- would come down...
- 1962
- 01:34:08,380 --> 01:34:12,172
- and have a tequila and--
- and an espresso.
- 1963
- 01:34:15,214 --> 01:34:17,547
- And he said to me,
- "I think I have a problem."
- 1964
- 01:34:17,630 --> 01:34:20,172
- ♪ ♪
- 1965
- 01:34:25,463 --> 01:34:27,380
- Robin:
- I did three years
- of just insane shit...
- 1966
- 01:34:29,131 --> 01:34:30,380
- just getting worse
- and worse and worse.
- 1967
- 01:34:32,547 --> 01:34:35,839
- We have these things called
- "blackouts" as alcoholics.
- It's not really blackouts.
- 1968
- 01:34:35,922 --> 01:34:37,547
- It's more like "sleepwalking
- with activities."
- 1969
- 01:34:37,630 --> 01:34:39,338
- -Kind of strange.
- -(laughter)
- 1970
- 01:34:39,422 --> 01:34:41,131
- I believe it's
- your conscience
- 1971
- 01:34:41,214 --> 01:34:43,505
- going into a witness
- protection program.
- 1972
- 01:34:43,588 --> 01:34:46,131
- It's your conscience going,
- "You're about to fuck a hobbit.
- 1973
- 01:34:48,297 --> 01:34:49,588
- "I gotta go. Good luck.
- 1974
- 01:34:50,922 --> 01:34:52,547
- "I'm gonna leave the dick on,
- then after an hour
- 1975
- 01:34:52,630 --> 01:34:54,172
- "I'm opening up the asshole,
- 1976
- 01:34:54,256 --> 01:34:55,338
- "but that didn't
- stop you Tuesday.
- 1977
- 01:34:55,422 --> 01:34:57,214
- Good luck. Take care."
- 1978
- 01:34:57,297 --> 01:34:59,630
- Zak:
- The struggles that
- my father dealt with
- 1979
- 01:34:59,714 --> 01:35:03,422
- I think is really
- a symptom of...
- 1980
- 01:35:05,422 --> 01:35:08,839
- just other things
- that underlie... the why.
- 1981
- 01:35:08,922 --> 01:35:11,172
- But he would talk
- about his--
- 1982
- 01:35:11,256 --> 01:35:13,797
- his addiction... issues.
- 1983
- 01:35:15,380 --> 01:35:16,588
- He'd be pretty
- open about it.
- 1984
- 01:35:18,463 --> 01:35:20,880
- Robin:
- As an alcoholic, you will
- violate your standards
- 1985
- 01:35:20,964 --> 01:35:22,422
- quicker than you
- could lower them.
- 1986
- 01:35:22,505 --> 01:35:25,463
- You will do shit that even
- the devil would go, "Dude."
- 1987
- 01:35:25,547 --> 01:35:27,422
- (laughter)
- 1988
- 01:35:27,505 --> 01:35:29,422
- And alcoholics,
- we're like assholes,
- 1989
- 01:35:29,505 --> 01:35:30,880
- we can't wait to shit
- on everybody--
- 1990
- 01:35:30,964 --> 01:35:32,505
- family, friends.
- We'll be like,
- 1991
- 01:35:32,588 --> 01:35:33,714
- "Fuck you! Fuck you!
- 1992
- 01:35:33,797 --> 01:35:34,839
- "Fuck you!
- Fuck you!
- 1993
- 01:35:34,922 --> 01:35:36,422
- "Go fuck yourself!
- Fuck you!
- 1994
- 01:35:36,505 --> 01:35:38,256
- "Fuck! F...
- 1995
- 01:35:38,338 --> 01:35:39,463
- I'm fucked."
- 1996
- 01:35:41,422 --> 01:35:42,797
- They tried to send
- my ass to rehab
- 1997
- 01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:45,131
- and I went,
- "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
- 1998
- 01:35:45,214 --> 01:35:46,755
- And I went to rehab
- in wine country,
- 1999
- 01:35:46,839 --> 01:35:48,172
- just to keep
- my options open.
- 2000
- 01:35:50,922 --> 01:35:52,839
- ♪ ♪
- 2001
- 01:35:58,880 --> 01:36:02,463
- Zak:
- Being sober and embracing
- his sobriety was great...
- 2002
- 01:36:04,547 --> 01:36:06,964
- and he did lean on us
- when he needed...
- 2003
- 01:36:07,047 --> 01:36:11,630
- to talk through stuff...
- but it was hard.
- 2004
- 01:36:11,714 --> 01:36:13,588
- There's no crutch
- in his circumstance.
- 2005
- 01:36:13,672 --> 01:36:15,256
- You can't rely
- upon, you know,
- 2006
- 01:36:15,338 --> 01:36:17,380
- a bottle
- to comfort you.
- 2007
- 01:36:17,463 --> 01:36:19,172
- ♪ ♪
- 2008
- 01:36:21,297 --> 01:36:22,714
- Interviewer:
- Divorce done?
- 2009
- 01:36:22,797 --> 01:36:24,172
- Robin:
- Done and,
- you know, dealt with,
- 2010
- 01:36:24,256 --> 01:36:25,714
- I mean, I think
- as much love
- 2011
- 01:36:25,797 --> 01:36:27,338
- as we can do
- with that situation.
- 2012
- 01:36:29,922 --> 01:36:31,964
- Being around my kids is
- really much more like,
- 2013
- 01:36:32,047 --> 01:36:35,172
- "I love you guys.
- I live separately,
- but I'm okay."
- 2014
- 01:36:37,505 --> 01:36:38,922
- It's difficult for them,
- but they're all like--
- 2015
- 01:36:39,006 --> 01:36:39,922
- they've dealt with it.
- 2016
- 01:36:40,006 --> 01:36:43,297
- ♪ ♪
- 2017
- 01:36:43,380 --> 01:36:45,256
- And I'm, you know,
- pretty much like,
- 2018
- 01:36:45,338 --> 01:36:46,505
- "Okay, it's a different game."
- 2019
- 01:36:51,422 --> 01:36:52,964
- Is there
- a deaf signer here?
- 2020
- 01:36:53,047 --> 01:36:54,880
- Oh, how cool is that?
- 2021
- 01:36:57,338 --> 01:36:58,338
- Blow me.
- 2022
- 01:36:58,422 --> 01:37:00,422
- (laughter)
- 2023
- 01:37:01,630 --> 01:37:02,505
- Thank you.
- 2024
- 01:37:05,380 --> 01:37:06,839
- It takes--
- 2025
- 01:37:06,922 --> 01:37:09,714
- It takes big balls
- to do that in my act.
- 2026
- 01:37:11,338 --> 01:37:12,214
- Thank you.
- 2027
- 01:37:13,714 --> 01:37:15,256
- What a great fucking night.
- 2028
- 01:37:18,630 --> 01:37:19,547
- Wow.
- 2029
- 01:37:21,380 --> 01:37:22,714
- This is gonna be
- like Deliverance
- 2030
- 01:37:22,797 --> 01:37:24,964
- with Helen Keller,
- this is...
- 2031
- 01:37:25,047 --> 01:37:27,714
- Thank you.
- What a wonderful idea.
- 2032
- 01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:30,297
- I'll give you
- a break right now,
- 2033
- 01:37:30,380 --> 01:37:31,505
- 'cause there's
- more shit coming.
- 2034
- 01:37:31,588 --> 01:37:33,505
- -Good luck.
- -(laughter)
- 2035
- 01:37:33,588 --> 01:37:34,714
- Nice to be here
- in Washington--
- 2036
- 01:37:34,797 --> 01:37:36,380
- I was on the road,
- I was performing,
- 2037
- 01:37:36,463 --> 01:37:37,672
- and all of a sudden
- I noticed things--
- 2038
- 01:37:37,755 --> 01:37:39,672
- I was just starting
- to run down.
- 2039
- 01:37:39,755 --> 01:37:41,422
- I'd finished a show
- going, "Oh God."
- 2040
- 01:37:42,588 --> 01:37:44,880
- ♪ ♪
- 2041
- 01:37:48,463 --> 01:37:50,338
- I was in Miami,
- I was about to do
- this show, and I said,
- 2042
- 01:37:50,422 --> 01:37:51,922
- "Maybe we should have
- a doctor look at this."
- 2043
- 01:37:52,006 --> 01:37:53,755
- I went to do
- a stress test,
- 2044
- 01:37:53,839 --> 01:37:55,755
- and I was
- on the treadmill
- for one minute,
- 2045
- 01:37:55,839 --> 01:37:58,547
- and the doctor went, "Okay,
- we got what we need."
- 2046
- 01:37:58,630 --> 01:38:00,422
- My heart was beating
- like Tito Puente, like...
- 2047
- 01:38:00,505 --> 01:38:02,839
- (vocalizes fast drumbeat)
- 2048
- 01:38:02,922 --> 01:38:05,797
- Even the cardiologists said,
- "It's off the charts!
- 2049
- 01:38:05,880 --> 01:38:08,463
- It's either an earthquake
- or he's fucking dying!"
- 2050
- 01:38:10,047 --> 01:38:12,380
- When he was in the hospital
- 2051
- 01:38:12,463 --> 01:38:14,047
- and they were shaving him
- and everything like that,
- 2052
- 01:38:14,131 --> 01:38:16,505
- he was making jokes
- and everything,
- 2053
- 01:38:16,588 --> 01:38:19,547
- but it was obvious
- that he was very,
- very frightened.
- 2054
- 01:38:19,630 --> 01:38:22,714
- Crystal:
- It was more of a repair
- than they originally thought,
- 2055
- 01:38:22,797 --> 01:38:24,839
- it was more complicated,
- 2056
- 01:38:24,922 --> 01:38:26,505
- and it was
- really dangerous.
- 2057
- 01:38:27,797 --> 01:38:29,588
- When the operation started,
- 2058
- 01:38:29,672 --> 01:38:32,839
- I started leaving
- messages on his phone
- 2059
- 01:38:32,922 --> 01:38:35,630
- as this guy,
- Vinnie the valve guy,
- 2060
- 01:38:35,714 --> 01:38:38,672
- who was like
- a mechanic character,
- 2061
- 01:38:38,755 --> 01:38:41,588
- who apparently
- supplied the valve
- 2062
- 01:38:41,672 --> 01:38:43,714
- and the-- and the mechanics
- who were gonna do
- 2063
- 01:38:43,797 --> 01:38:45,880
- the work on him,
- like he was an old car.
- 2064
- 01:38:45,964 --> 01:38:47,672
- So when he woke up,
- 2065
- 01:38:47,755 --> 01:38:51,297
- he'd have
- 15 messages
- to laugh to.
- 2066
- 01:38:52,797 --> 01:38:55,714
- Day and half later,
- you know, he was in pain,
- 2067
- 01:38:55,797 --> 01:38:58,338
- he'd just gone through
- this massive surgery.
- 2068
- 01:38:59,672 --> 01:39:01,839
- He called me.
- "Oh God.
- 2069
- 01:39:01,922 --> 01:39:04,755
- "Oh. Oh hilarious.
- 2070
- 01:39:04,839 --> 01:39:07,672
- Can I talk to Vinnie?"
- 2071
- 01:39:07,755 --> 01:39:09,672
- I want to thank everyone
- for all your kind letters,
- 2072
- 01:39:09,755 --> 01:39:11,839
- prayers and thoughts.
- I just want to let you know
- 2073
- 01:39:11,922 --> 01:39:15,547
- I'm doing better.
- See? (laughs)
- 2074
- 01:39:15,630 --> 01:39:16,505
- Thank you.
- 2075
- 01:39:17,755 --> 01:39:19,547
- How long ago
- was the surgery?
- 2076
- 01:39:19,630 --> 01:39:21,131
- -Eight weeks ago.
- -Eight weeks!
- 2077
- 01:39:21,214 --> 01:39:23,089
- Man, remarkable.
- Good for you.
- 2078
- 01:39:23,172 --> 01:39:24,755
- (cheers, applause)
- 2079
- 01:39:24,839 --> 01:39:26,547
- Yes, sir. You and I...
- 2080
- 01:39:27,922 --> 01:39:29,880
- You and I are now
- Brotherhood of the Zipper Chest.
- 2081
- 01:39:29,964 --> 01:39:32,131
- That's right. We got it.
- Now... there must--
- 2082
- 01:39:32,214 --> 01:39:34,505
- My relationship
- with Robin only grew bigger
- 2083
- 01:39:34,588 --> 01:39:36,547
- and stronger
- as we grew older.
- 2084
- 01:39:38,131 --> 01:39:40,047
- We were no longer...
- kids hanging
- 2085
- 01:39:40,131 --> 01:39:42,089
- around the back
- of The Comedy Store.
- 2086
- 01:39:42,172 --> 01:39:43,714
- Did they give you
- that button
- 2087
- 01:39:43,797 --> 01:39:45,463
- -where you can
- medicate yourself?
- -Yes.
- 2088
- 01:39:45,547 --> 01:39:46,797
- Oh, that's a good one
- to have, isn't it?
- 2089
- 01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:48,422
- Yes. I still have it.
- 2090
- 01:39:48,505 --> 01:39:51,630
- (laughs)
- In the middle of the show--
- 2091
- 01:39:51,714 --> 01:39:54,839
- Letterman: As you grow
- older, different things
- become more important
- 2092
- 01:39:54,922 --> 01:39:56,380
- and the humanity
- of life...
- 2093
- 01:39:58,047 --> 01:40:01,588
- is the great guiding light,
- and it was--
- 2094
- 01:40:01,672 --> 01:40:03,672
- it was nice to be able
- to share that with Robin,
- 2095
- 01:40:03,755 --> 01:40:07,463
- who was a different guy
- by then, you know.
- 2096
- 01:40:07,547 --> 01:40:09,547
- (cheers, applause)
- 2097
- 01:40:11,047 --> 01:40:12,880
- Robin:
- I ended up getting
- a bovine valve,
- 2098
- 01:40:12,964 --> 01:40:14,839
- which is a cow valve,
- which is kind of cool,
- 2099
- 01:40:14,922 --> 01:40:16,839
- 'cause you can shit
- standing up. That's great.
- 2100
- 01:40:16,922 --> 01:40:19,797
- (mimics thud)
- Great to be here.
- Nice to be here.
- 2101
- 01:40:19,880 --> 01:40:21,880
- Crystal:
- Suddenly he was mortal.
- 2102
- 01:40:21,964 --> 01:40:23,964
- Suddenly life was different.
- 2103
- 01:40:24,047 --> 01:40:25,964
- Suddenly things
- got more precious.
- 2104
- 01:40:26,047 --> 01:40:27,672
- Do you feel
- it affected you
- 2105
- 01:40:27,755 --> 01:40:29,630
- in terms of your comedy
- any differently?
- 2106
- 01:40:29,714 --> 01:40:31,463
- Robin:
- You know,
- I graze once a week.
- 2107
- 01:40:32,797 --> 01:40:34,214
- I don't think
- it affected the comedy.
- 2108
- 01:40:34,297 --> 01:40:36,006
- I think it--
- a little bit of terms of--
- 2109
- 01:40:36,089 --> 01:40:37,839
- slightly, I just enjoy
- life a little bit--
- 2110
- 01:40:37,922 --> 01:40:39,547
- -you take things
- a little bit slower.
- -Right.
- 2111
- 01:40:39,630 --> 01:40:41,714
- You don't rush--
- stampede as it were.
- 2112
- 01:40:41,797 --> 01:40:44,839
- After the surgery,
- you get very emotional.
- 2113
- 01:40:44,922 --> 01:40:46,839
- It's like-- it's like weird.
- People go, "How are you?"
- 2114
- 01:40:46,922 --> 01:40:49,172
- (crying)
- God! Thanks for asking.
- 2115
- 01:40:49,256 --> 01:40:51,839
- And I got so emotional,
- I thought instead of a valve,
- 2116
- 01:40:51,922 --> 01:40:54,131
- they gave me a tiny vagina,
- which is like, "What?"
- 2117
- 01:40:54,214 --> 01:40:55,880
- -(laughter)
- -"How are you?"
- 2118
- 01:40:55,964 --> 01:40:58,214
- "Much better now,
- thank you!
- 2119
- 01:40:58,297 --> 01:41:00,047
- (moans)
- 2120
- 01:41:00,131 --> 01:41:02,214
- "Oh God!
- Don't use the paddles.
- 2121
- 01:41:02,297 --> 01:41:04,047
- Just rub me here.
- There we go."
- 2122
- 01:41:04,131 --> 01:41:06,755
- ♪ ♪
- 2123
- 01:41:12,131 --> 01:41:14,547
- Hey, listen, I'm going
- on a date tonight,
- 2124
- 01:41:14,630 --> 01:41:16,089
- and...
- if you're hungry,
- 2125
- 01:41:16,172 --> 01:41:17,714
- I could fix you
- some food
- before I go.
- 2126
- 01:41:17,797 --> 01:41:19,880
- You're going
- on a date?
- With who?
- 2127
- 01:41:19,964 --> 01:41:21,630
- Ms. Reed. Hmm?
- 2128
- 01:41:21,714 --> 01:41:22,839
- (chuckles)
- Really?
- 2129
- 01:41:22,922 --> 01:41:23,922
- You're going out
- with the TILF?
- 2130
- 01:41:24,006 --> 01:41:25,630
- -That's great!
- -The what?
- 2131
- 01:41:25,714 --> 01:41:27,922
- TILF.
- "Teacher I'd Like to Fuck."
- 2132
- 01:41:28,006 --> 01:41:29,089
- Nice mouth.
- 2133
- 01:41:29,172 --> 01:41:30,797
- Robin read
- the screenplay...
- 2134
- 01:41:30,880 --> 01:41:32,463
- As a favor, initially,
- 'cause I thought,
- 2135
- 01:41:32,547 --> 01:41:33,922
- "Well, maybe I'll play
- a small part."
- 2136
- 01:41:34,006 --> 01:41:35,588
- Yeah, I didn't know this,
- like he thought,
- 2137
- 01:41:35,672 --> 01:41:37,089
- "Well, he wrote it,
- he's making another movie.
- 2138
- 01:41:37,172 --> 01:41:40,047
- Maybe I'll-I'll--
- I'll help him out."
- 2139
- 01:41:41,338 --> 01:41:43,755
- And then he asked
- if he could be the guy,
- 2140
- 01:41:43,839 --> 01:41:44,964
- which was
- really awesome.
- 2141
- 01:41:46,089 --> 01:41:47,006
- ♪ Okay ♪
- 2142
- 01:41:48,338 --> 01:41:51,588
- ♪ Chippin' around... ♪
- 2143
- 01:41:51,672 --> 01:41:53,630
- Robin:
- I've been through it
- with-- over the years,
- 2144
- 01:41:53,714 --> 01:41:55,547
- and you kinda
- come through it
- out the other side.
- 2145
- 01:41:55,630 --> 01:41:58,755
- It was like,
- "Wow, you're alive."
- 2146
- 01:41:58,839 --> 01:42:03,797
- (singer vocalizing)
- 2147
- 01:42:03,880 --> 01:42:06,172
- Robin:
- "You're still here, homey.
- Let's see what happens."
- 2148
- 01:42:09,630 --> 01:42:11,922
- ♪ It's the terror of knowing ♪
- 2149
- 01:42:12,006 --> 01:42:15,839
- ♪ What this world is about,
- watching some good friends... ♪
- 2150
- 01:42:15,922 --> 01:42:17,297
- Robin:
- Initially, it was
- just supposed to be
- 2151
- 01:42:17,380 --> 01:42:18,797
- diving off the board
- fully clothed.
- 2152
- 01:42:18,880 --> 01:42:20,089
- I went,
- "I'm shedding
- everything.
- 2153
- 01:42:21,297 --> 01:42:22,755
- "It's all gone. This is--
- 2154
- 01:42:22,839 --> 01:42:24,755
- I'm-- I'm freeing
- myself totally."
- 2155
- 01:42:24,839 --> 01:42:26,505
- ♪ People on streets ♪
- 2156
- 01:42:28,630 --> 01:42:29,797
- ♪ Turned away... ♪
- 2157
- 01:42:29,880 --> 01:42:31,131
- And all day long,
- I was like,
- 2158
- 01:42:31,214 --> 01:42:34,214
- "Hey, how you doing?
- Holy crap."
- 2159
- 01:42:34,297 --> 01:42:35,922
- Hello,
- Mr. Diggler.
- 2160
- 01:42:36,006 --> 01:42:38,172
- I do not understand
- why you could be...
- 2161
- 01:42:38,256 --> 01:42:39,672
- -Insecure?
- -...insecure.
- 2162
- 01:42:39,755 --> 01:42:41,797
- I don't even know
- how you--
- 2163
- 01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:44,630
- I just thought you
- were bow-legged
- all these years.
- 2164
- 01:42:44,714 --> 01:42:46,880
- ♪ ♪
- 2165
- 01:42:49,089 --> 01:42:51,131
- Interviewer: We're just
- waiting for Popeye 2,
- the nude version.
- 2166
- 01:42:51,214 --> 01:42:52,964
- -That would be scary.
- -Interviewer:
- The Nude Naps.
- 2167
- 01:42:53,047 --> 01:42:54,714
- "It eats the spinach. Oh.
- 2168
- 01:42:54,797 --> 01:42:56,755
- Olive, you got no tits
- and a tight box."
- 2169
- 01:42:56,839 --> 01:42:58,672
- Did you just say, "It eat--
- it eats the spinach"?
- 2170
- 01:42:58,755 --> 01:43:01,006
- Is that Popeye
- in Silence
- of the Lambs?
- 2171
- 01:43:01,089 --> 01:43:02,922
- -Yeah.
- -"It eats the spinach."
- 2172
- 01:43:03,006 --> 01:43:05,588
- You're throwing spinach
- down the hole.
- 2173
- 01:43:05,672 --> 01:43:07,214
- "It eats the spinach."
- 2174
- 01:43:07,297 --> 01:43:09,588
- (both laughing)
- 2175
- 01:43:13,172 --> 01:43:16,089
- ♪ ♪
- 2176
- 01:43:28,047 --> 01:43:30,131
- Craig Ferguson:
- Congratulations on getting
- married. That's lovely.
- 2177
- 01:43:30,214 --> 01:43:31,880
- -It's wonderful, isn't it?
- -Yeah, it's very nice.
- 2178
- 01:43:31,964 --> 01:43:33,089
- Getting married
- for the third time,
- 2179
- 01:43:33,172 --> 01:43:34,338
- my best man,
- Bobcat, said,
- 2180
- 01:43:34,422 --> 01:43:35,714
- "It's like bringing
- a burn victim
- 2181
- 01:43:35,797 --> 01:43:36,755
- -to a firework show."
- -(laughter)
- 2182
- 01:43:39,297 --> 01:43:41,006
- Did he say that
- during his speech?
- 2183
- 01:43:41,089 --> 01:43:42,797
- -Yes.
- -God Bless him.
- Isn't that lovely?
- 2184
- 01:43:42,880 --> 01:43:44,214
- Three strikes,
- you're out.
- That's it.
- 2185
- 01:43:44,297 --> 01:43:45,839
- Yeah. I wouldn't
- do that again.
- 2186
- 01:43:45,922 --> 01:43:47,630
- No, if you do it again, that's--
- 2187
- 01:43:47,714 --> 01:43:49,297
- you have to give up
- a body part. That's it.
- 2188
- 01:43:49,380 --> 01:43:50,922
- "How many times
- you've been married, Bill?"
- 2189
- 01:43:51,006 --> 01:43:52,172
- (mumbles)
- "Four times.
- Four times."
- 2190
- 01:43:52,256 --> 01:43:54,338
- ♪ ♪
- 2191
- 01:43:56,880 --> 01:43:58,755
- Years went by,
- maybe 20 years...
- 2192
- 01:44:00,880 --> 01:44:02,797
- and I just didn't see him.
- 2193
- 01:44:04,297 --> 01:44:05,297
- So...
- 2194
- 01:44:06,839 --> 01:44:09,089
- that's why I agreed
- to do his show.
- 2195
- 01:44:09,172 --> 01:44:10,672
- I wanted
- to see him.
- 2196
- 01:44:10,755 --> 01:44:12,714
- ♪ ♪
- 2197
- 01:44:12,797 --> 01:44:13,797
- (clears throat)
- Dad?
- 2198
- 01:44:13,880 --> 01:44:15,006
- -Oh!
- -(gasps)
- 2199
- 01:44:15,089 --> 01:44:16,297
- Hey, gang!
- 2200
- 01:44:16,380 --> 01:44:18,964
- May I present
- Ms. Lily Schecter?
- 2201
- 01:44:19,047 --> 01:44:23,256
- Dawber:
- I could just tell something
- was really just not right.
- 2202
- 01:44:23,338 --> 01:44:27,422
- He wasn't that happy
- soul that he had been.
- 2203
- 01:44:27,505 --> 01:44:32,422
- His body was stiff
- and he wasn't
- super sharp.
- 2204
- 01:44:32,505 --> 01:44:34,172
- He looked like
- a wax figure.
- 2205
- 01:44:35,505 --> 01:44:36,922
- -Simon?
- -Mmm?
- 2206
- 01:44:37,006 --> 01:44:38,172
- Where are you?
- 2207
- 01:44:38,256 --> 01:44:40,380
- You're really
- different tonight.
- 2208
- 01:44:40,463 --> 01:44:42,214
- Is there
- something wrong?
- 2209
- 01:44:42,297 --> 01:44:44,380
- Dawber:
- So I started
- questioning him.
- 2210
- 01:44:44,463 --> 01:44:46,297
- No, everything
- seemed great.
- 2211
- 01:44:46,380 --> 01:44:48,297
- "The new wife,
- she's wonderful.
- 2212
- 01:44:48,380 --> 01:44:50,463
- I want you to meet her,
- and everything's great."
- 2213
- 01:44:50,547 --> 01:44:52,256
- And he said, "But I'm
- really freaked out,
- 2214
- 01:44:52,338 --> 01:44:55,922
- "because I'm--
- I'm losing weight
- 2215
- 01:44:56,006 --> 01:44:59,089
- and I don't know why,
- and I'm having tests run."
- 2216
- 01:44:59,172 --> 01:45:01,338
- ♪ ♪
- 2217
- 01:45:10,880 --> 01:45:14,172
- Idle:
- He was here
- doing his sitcom,
- 2218
- 01:45:14,256 --> 01:45:16,047
- I watched him once,
- 2219
- 01:45:16,131 --> 01:45:17,714
- and I thought,
- "Oh, he's so uncomfortable."
- 2220
- 01:45:20,172 --> 01:45:21,463
- And I invited him
- to dinner--
- 2221
- 01:45:21,547 --> 01:45:23,922
- you see, I heard
- he was so down--
- 2222
- 01:45:24,006 --> 01:45:27,755
- and then we just made him
- laugh and laugh and laugh,
- 2223
- 01:45:27,839 --> 01:45:31,006
- and he just--
- "Oh, thank you.
- I really needed a laugh."
- 2224
- 01:45:32,547 --> 01:45:34,172
- Romanek:
- He came to visit us
- and just hung out
- 2225
- 01:45:34,256 --> 01:45:35,755
- at the house all day.
- He was shooting
- 2226
- 01:45:35,839 --> 01:45:37,089
- that sitcom
- he was doing.
- 2227
- 01:45:39,880 --> 01:45:43,131
- Sort of a sparkle
- had gone out of his eye.
- 2228
- 01:45:43,214 --> 01:45:45,047
- And I, you know,
- when I said
- goodbye,
- 2229
- 01:45:45,131 --> 01:45:47,297
- he said, "Thanks,
- I had a really
- nice time,"
- 2230
- 01:45:47,380 --> 01:45:50,006
- which I think he
- did, there was kids
- running around,
- 2231
- 01:45:50,089 --> 01:45:52,297
- new people to meet,
- and he talked to
- everybody.
- 2232
- 01:45:53,547 --> 01:45:55,047
- But I said,
- "Are you all right, Robin?"
- 2233
- 01:45:55,131 --> 01:45:56,297
- And he said,
- "Yeah, I'm fine, boss."
- 2234
- 01:45:56,380 --> 01:45:58,047
- And I-- I knew
- it wasn't true.
- 2235
- 01:45:59,505 --> 01:46:01,505
- And I-- I don't think
- I even said, "Really?"
- 2236
- 01:46:01,588 --> 01:46:03,755
- I just let-- you know,
- he didn't want to go there,
- 2237
- 01:46:03,839 --> 01:46:05,380
- and so I gave him a hug.
- 2238
- 01:46:07,089 --> 01:46:09,714
- He didn't really
- like to talk about
- his issues, you know.
- 2239
- 01:46:11,922 --> 01:46:13,422
- Crystal:
- We met at a movie theater.
- 2240
- 01:46:14,922 --> 01:46:16,256
- I was
- a little concerned
- 2241
- 01:46:16,338 --> 01:46:18,422
- because I felt
- he was very quiet.
- 2242
- 01:46:19,922 --> 01:46:21,422
- When we left each other,
- 2243
- 01:46:21,505 --> 01:46:23,256
- he started to cry.
- 2244
- 01:46:24,880 --> 01:46:26,797
- And I said,
- "What's the matter?"
- 2245
- 01:46:26,880 --> 01:46:29,880
- And he said, "Oh,
- I'm just so happy
- seeing you."
- 2246
- 01:46:29,964 --> 01:46:33,422
- And then he told me
- that he had been diagnosed
- with Parkinson's.
- 2247
- 01:46:34,630 --> 01:46:36,297
- And when he told me,
- I never heard--
- 2248
- 01:46:36,380 --> 01:46:37,922
- I never heard
- Robin be afraid...
- 2249
- 01:46:39,131 --> 01:46:40,297
- except for that moment.
- 2250
- 01:46:42,380 --> 01:46:43,964
- Couple of months later,
- 2251
- 01:46:46,214 --> 01:46:48,463
- we were going on vacation,
- 2252
- 01:46:48,547 --> 01:46:50,297
- Janice and I, to Europe.
- 2253
- 01:46:51,547 --> 01:46:55,131
- And... I called him to say
- 2254
- 01:46:55,214 --> 01:46:56,256
- I was gonna
- be away, and--
- 2255
- 01:46:58,463 --> 01:47:00,214
- but I'm reachable on--
- I said my phone,
- 2256
- 01:47:00,297 --> 01:47:03,214
- I have my computer,
- so whatever.
- 2257
- 01:47:03,297 --> 01:47:06,006
- And he says, "Okay. And...
- 2258
- 01:47:06,089 --> 01:47:08,297
- you know I love you."
- And I said, "I love
- you too, pal."
- 2259
- 01:47:08,380 --> 01:47:11,839
- And... that was the last time
- I spoke to him.
- 2260
- 01:47:11,922 --> 01:47:14,006
- (waves crashing)
- 2261
- 01:47:33,630 --> 01:47:37,463
- ♪ ♪
- 2262
- 01:47:48,047 --> 01:47:50,089
- Newsman:
- We have just received word
- 2263
- 01:47:50,172 --> 01:47:52,297
- that the Academy
- Award-winning actor
- 2264
- 01:47:52,380 --> 01:47:55,422
- and comedian
- Robin Williams has died.
- 2265
- 01:47:55,505 --> 01:47:59,214
- The sheriff's office says
- that suicide is suspected.
- 2266
- 01:48:01,006 --> 01:48:02,256
- "God, no.
- No, no, no, no.
- 2267
- 01:48:02,338 --> 01:48:04,297
- Can't be.
- Can't possibly be."
- 2268
- 01:48:04,380 --> 01:48:07,588
- And so, I just, like--
- I lost it at that point.
- 2269
- 01:48:07,672 --> 01:48:10,006
- I really did, so.
- 2270
- 01:48:11,630 --> 01:48:13,214
- Oh.
- 2271
- 01:48:21,006 --> 01:48:22,047
- Can't talk about it.
- 2272
- 01:48:22,131 --> 01:48:24,880
- (crying)
- 2273
- 01:48:29,547 --> 01:48:32,422
- ♪ ♪
- 2274
- 01:48:54,463 --> 01:48:56,214
- Joe Rogan:
- A lot of people were
- trying to attribute
- 2275
- 01:48:56,297 --> 01:48:58,338
- all sorts of reasons
- for why he did it.
- 2276
- 01:48:58,422 --> 01:49:01,172
- Goldthwait:
- Yeah. You know,
- Robin was my best pal
- 2277
- 01:49:01,256 --> 01:49:04,131
- and-- and his
- coroner's report came out,
- 2278
- 01:49:04,214 --> 01:49:06,505
- and he had
- Lewy body dementia.
- 2279
- 01:49:06,588 --> 01:49:09,463
- -Oh.
- -Goldthwait:
- And I-I witnessed this.
- 2280
- 01:49:09,547 --> 01:49:13,006
- I witnessed
- his processing reality
- completely different
- 2281
- 01:49:13,089 --> 01:49:16,089
- than the way
- everybody else does.
- 2282
- 01:49:16,172 --> 01:49:17,755
- And so when
- I think about that,
- 2283
- 01:49:17,839 --> 01:49:21,547
- I think about
- how strong he was.
- 2284
- 01:49:21,630 --> 01:49:23,297
- You know he would
- have like some days
- 2285
- 01:49:23,380 --> 01:49:26,380
- where he was doing
- kind of OCD stuff
- 2286
- 01:49:26,463 --> 01:49:29,214
- and-and-and--
- and processing
- things incorrectly,
- 2287
- 01:49:29,297 --> 01:49:31,214
- but then you'd have
- a day when he was back,
- 2288
- 01:49:31,297 --> 01:49:33,297
- so you go,
- "Oh. Well, maybe it's"--
- 2289
- 01:49:33,380 --> 01:49:34,755
- Rogan:
- He just had a bad day, or--
- 2290
- 01:49:34,839 --> 01:49:37,214
- No, maybe it's
- the Parkinson's drugs,
- 2291
- 01:49:37,297 --> 01:49:39,214
- and they've gotta
- get those dialed in.
- 2292
- 01:49:39,297 --> 01:49:41,297
- He was going to doctors.
- He was in therapy.
- 2293
- 01:49:41,380 --> 01:49:43,006
- He was doing--
- and it just--
- 2294
- 01:49:43,089 --> 01:49:44,630
- the only reason
- I talk about that is--
- 2295
- 01:49:44,714 --> 01:49:47,505
- is his brain was
- giving him misinformation.
- 2296
- 01:49:49,422 --> 01:49:52,089
- He really was
- getting misinformation
- from his own brain
- 2297
- 01:49:52,172 --> 01:49:54,630
- and was suffering
- from this disease.
- 2298
- 01:49:59,463 --> 01:50:02,505
- (gulls cawing)
- 2299
- 01:50:11,505 --> 01:50:13,422
- In the weeks following
- my father's passing,
- 2300
- 01:50:13,505 --> 01:50:16,297
- it was really hard
- to kind of... feel anything.
- 2301
- 01:50:19,338 --> 01:50:20,505
- Everything felt very...
- 2302
- 01:50:21,797 --> 01:50:23,380
- raw, and it was hard
- 2303
- 01:50:23,463 --> 01:50:25,672
- to kinda put
- everything together.
- 2304
- 01:50:26,714 --> 01:50:28,630
- Bobcat came and visited.
- 2305
- 01:50:30,172 --> 01:50:32,214
- We felt like it would be
- a good idea to...
- 2306
- 01:50:34,714 --> 01:50:35,672
- jump in the ocean.
- 2307
- 01:50:43,338 --> 01:50:46,714
- And it turned out to be
- a really nice thing to do.
- 2308
- 01:50:49,214 --> 01:50:50,089
- It was good to...
- 2309
- 01:50:51,880 --> 01:50:54,047
- jump in, and--
- and actually...
- 2310
- 01:50:54,880 --> 01:50:56,214
- kinda know that...
- 2311
- 01:50:57,380 --> 01:51:00,047
- my father's presence
- and spirit was around.
- 2312
- 01:51:05,839 --> 01:51:07,672
- ♪ ♪
- 2313
- 01:51:09,922 --> 01:51:12,172
- Robin as John Keating:
- I would like you to step
- forward over here.
- 2314
- 01:51:13,422 --> 01:51:15,338
- Peruse some
- of the faces
- from the past.
- 2315
- 01:51:15,422 --> 01:51:16,630
- You've walked
- past them many times,
- 2316
- 01:51:16,714 --> 01:51:18,505
- but I don't think you've
- really looked at them.
- 2317
- 01:51:25,505 --> 01:51:27,422
- They're not that different
- from you, are they?
- 2318
- 01:51:29,256 --> 01:51:32,755
- Same haircuts,
- full of hormones,
- just like you.
- 2319
- 01:51:34,422 --> 01:51:36,463
- Invincible,
- just like you feel.
- 2320
- 01:51:37,630 --> 01:51:39,547
- The world
- is their oyster.
- 2321
- 01:51:39,630 --> 01:51:41,630
- They believe
- they're destined
- for great things,
- 2322
- 01:51:41,714 --> 01:51:42,755
- just like
- many of you.
- 2323
- 01:51:42,839 --> 01:51:44,131
- Their eyes are
- full of hope,
- 2324
- 01:51:44,214 --> 01:51:45,089
- just like you.
- 2325
- 01:51:46,588 --> 01:51:48,338
- Did they wait
- until it was too late
- 2326
- 01:51:48,422 --> 01:51:50,131
- to make from their lives
- into even one iota
- 2327
- 01:51:50,214 --> 01:51:51,338
- of what they were capable?
- 2328
- 01:51:51,422 --> 01:51:53,131
- Because, you see,
- gentleman,
- 2329
- 01:51:53,214 --> 01:51:55,755
- these boys are now
- fertilizing daffodils.
- 2330
- 01:51:59,505 --> 01:52:01,797
- But, if you listen
- real close...
- 2331
- 01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:03,630
- you can hear them whisper
- their legacy to you.
- 2332
- 01:52:05,297 --> 01:52:06,256
- Go on, lean in.
- 2333
- 01:52:07,630 --> 01:52:08,672
- Listen.
- 2334
- 01:52:08,755 --> 01:52:09,630
- You hear it?
- 2335
- 01:52:11,839 --> 01:52:15,131
- (whispers)
- Carpe...
- 2336
- 01:52:17,630 --> 01:52:20,256
- Carpe diem.
- 2337
- 01:52:22,630 --> 01:52:25,630
- Seize the day, boys.
- 2338
- 01:52:27,463 --> 01:52:30,672
- Make your lives
- extraordinary.
- 2339
- 01:52:30,755 --> 01:52:33,463
- ♪ ♪
- 2340
- 01:53:29,922 --> 01:53:31,463
- Robin:
- You've got to be crazy.
- 2341
- 01:53:31,547 --> 01:53:34,714
- It's too late
- to be sane. Too late.
- 2342
- 01:53:34,797 --> 01:53:36,588
- You've got to go
- full-tilt bozo.
- 2343
- 01:53:36,672 --> 01:53:38,297
- (laughter)
- 2344
- 01:53:38,380 --> 01:53:39,714
- 'Cause you're only given
- 2345
- 01:53:39,797 --> 01:53:41,214
- a little spark of madness,
- 2346
- 01:53:42,547 --> 01:53:43,547
- and if you lose that...
- 2347
- 01:53:45,880 --> 01:53:46,839
- you're nothing.
- 2348
- 01:53:48,714 --> 01:53:50,880
- Note, from me to you...
- 2349
- 01:53:52,338 --> 01:53:54,380
- Don't ever lose that,
- 'cause it keeps you alive.
- 2350
- 01:53:59,880 --> 01:54:02,547
- ♪ ♪
- 2351
- 01:55:09,131 --> 01:55:11,588
- ♪ ♪
- 2352
- 01:55:14,422 --> 01:55:17,672
- ♪ Good night,
- Robin ♪
- 2353
- 01:55:17,755 --> 01:55:20,588
- ♪ Thanks for
- all the laughs ♪
- 2354
- 01:55:21,588 --> 01:55:22,755
- ♪ Thanks for all ♪
- 2355
- 01:55:22,839 --> 01:55:24,505
- ♪ The fun you brought ♪
- 2356
- 01:55:24,588 --> 01:55:25,797
- ♪ And all those ♪
- 2357
- 01:55:25,880 --> 01:55:28,047
- ♪ Silly photographs ♪
- 2358
- 01:55:28,131 --> 01:55:31,505
- ♪ Good night, Robin ♪
- 2359
- 01:55:31,588 --> 01:55:34,714
- ♪ Forever in your debt ♪
- 2360
- 01:55:34,797 --> 01:55:36,797
- ♪ The way you made us ♪
- 2361
- 01:55:36,880 --> 01:55:38,463
- ♪ Laugh and laugh ♪
- 2362
- 01:55:38,547 --> 01:55:41,797
- ♪ We never will forget ♪
- 2363
- 01:55:41,880 --> 01:55:43,422
- ♪ And though we'll never know ♪
- 2364
- 01:55:43,505 --> 01:55:44,964
- ♪ Just why you felt you
- had to go ♪
- 2365
- 01:55:45,047 --> 01:55:48,672
- ♪ We'll always miss you ♪
- 2366
- 01:55:48,755 --> 01:55:50,089
- ♪ And though we wonder why ♪
- 2367
- 01:55:50,172 --> 01:55:51,922
- ♪ You made us cry,
- we say goodbye ♪
- 2368
- 01:55:52,006 --> 01:55:55,922
- ♪ And wish that
- we could kiss you ♪
- 2369
- 01:55:56,006 --> 01:55:59,380
- ♪ Good night, Robin ♪
- 2370
- 01:55:59,463 --> 01:56:02,714
- ♪ Thanks for all the fun ♪
- 2371
- 01:56:02,797 --> 01:56:05,964
- ♪ Thanks for all the laughs
- you brought ♪
- 2372
- 01:56:06,047 --> 01:56:07,964
- ♪ And all the funny ♪
- 2373
- 01:56:08,047 --> 01:56:09,922
- ♪ Things you've done ♪
- 2374
- 01:56:10,006 --> 01:56:12,839
- ♪ Good night, Robin ♪
- 2375
- 01:56:12,922 --> 01:56:14,505
- ♪ It's hateful ♪
- 2376
- 01:56:14,588 --> 01:56:16,797
- ♪ That you've gone ♪
- 2377
- 01:56:16,880 --> 01:56:18,797
- ♪ But we're grateful ♪
- 2378
- 01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:20,839
- ♪ For that fateful day ♪
- 2379
- 01:56:20,922 --> 01:56:23,630
- ♪ You came along ♪
- 2380
- 01:56:23,714 --> 01:56:27,714
- ♪ Good night, old pal ♪
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