Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met
- TV Special
- 1986
- 1h 5m
In this hilarious stand up comedy, Robin Williams is energetic, witty and again hilarious. It's the number one stand up comedy of all time.In this hilarious stand up comedy, Robin Williams is energetic, witty and again hilarious. It's the number one stand up comedy of all time.In this hilarious stand up comedy, Robin Williams is energetic, witty and again hilarious. It's the number one stand up comedy of all time.
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Robin Williams: Then comes a very special time. Your first test as a father: a diaper. You're ready. You may have been a lumberjack, you may have been a Marine, you may have seen blood and guts... but you've never seen caca like this. It's incredible stuff: part toxic waste, part Velcro. The first time you peel back that diaper, "Honey I got it, now..."
[Turns back to the diaper and freezes, stunned]
Robin Williams: "This shit is green! This is incredible! What did you feed him, algae? My God! Damn! Oh, no! He sucks on mother's milk! What does it do, go to Cleveland before it gets to his asshole? What is this?" And you're trying to wipe it off? HAHAHA! You can't. You only got a moist towelette! NO GOOD THAT IS! It's like handling radioactive waste with an oven mitt - NO GOOD!
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He careens from one topic to the next with free abandon and none of it really makes sense if you stop and think about it - for instance he goes from discussing sex and male genitalia to suddenly discussing why women would never create nuclear weapons, and from there he jumps into female presidency, which then leads in to Ronald Reagan, then Nixon, then Disney...it just keeps going and going.
It's almost exhaustive to listen to and if I didn't know any better I'd say he was still on drugs when he recorded it. He wasn't, though - he quit coke after John Belushi's death. However, this doesn't stop him from joking about alcohol, drug abuse and other risqué topics - all in all it's a really hilarious performance and it's a pity we wouldn't see anything this good from Robin again until his 2002 stint on Broadway (which is even better in my opinion, and more frantic).
If you love comedy, give this a go. If you love Williams, this is a must-own. If you don't like Williams, you've got to see or hear this because it might change your mind about him - he really did have talent once; it's just a shame he gave so much of it away to appear in lousy movies.
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes