BREAKING NOW: Robin Williams Found Dead

[Luddly Neddite]

Top 5 stand-up comics of all time:
(in this order)

1. Sam Kinison
2. Andrew Dice Clay
3. Richard Prior
4. George Carlin
5. Robin Williams

I like Dice but he's not in the top 5 IMO.



peace...

Bill Cosby, please!

Jonathan Winters - he had that same lightening fast mind that Williams had.

Damn.

This really is a sad loss. He should have been able to hold grandchildren on his knee on the rocker on the front porch.

 

[Gracie]

oy. Another one.

Geez.

 

[Billo_Really]

Nope.


Richard Prior
George Carlin
Robin Williams
Chris Rock
Mike Meyers/Dana Carvey (tie)

ADC became famous for being boorish.
Kinnison for his whiny voice.
That's not talent, that's schtick.

I'm going to remember you when we're not in some god-damn death thread!

 

[Jarlaxle]

If we don't reply to her....well, that's the best thing.

I've been ignoring that bitch for a while. Scum of the earth.

Coming from you that's a profound compliment. The man was a talented comedian. He was also a drug addict and a drunk. Like all drug addicts and drunks they don't live long.

Off the top of my head, I can name a lush who lived to 90! I know of a lifelong drug addict who lived to 70. (Note: he died of pneumonia, not drugs.)

 

[boedicca]

I like Dice but he's not in the top 5 IMO.



peace...

Bill Cosby, please!

Jonathan Winters - he had that same lightening fast mind that Williams had.

Damn.

This really is a sad loss. He should have been able to hold grandchildren on his knee on the rocker on the front porch.

I'd take Dice and Kinison off the list, and add Cosby and Winters.

And yes, a sad loss.

 

[itfitzme]

 

[Billo_Really]

Very few comedians can fill up a concert hall.

Only 2 comedians in history could go on tour like a rock band and fill up concert halls:

Kinison
Dice Clay​

 

[JimBowie1958]

Top 5 stand-up comics of all time:
(in this order)

1. Sam Kinison
2. Andrew Dice Clay
3. Richard Prior
4. George Carlin
5. Robin Williams

Kinison? Good Lord.

1. Bill Cosby
2. Robin Williams
3. Johnathan Winters
4. George Carlin
5. Red Skelton

 

[boedicca]

Very few comedians can fill up a concert hall.

Only 2 comedians in history could go on tour like a rock band and fill up concert halls:

Kinison
Dice Clay​

Quantity doesn't equal quality, bub. Justin Bieger sold out big places. Bleah.

 

[Billo_Really]

I like Dice but he's not in the top 5 IMO.


Bill Cosby, please!

Cosby was funny.

So was Eddie Murphy.

 

[Gracie]

I loved him in Hook, Awakenings, Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Morning Viet Nam, Birdcage, Bicentiniel Man, The Fisher King, voice of the Genie, and the voices in Happy Feet.
Just to name a few.
So much talent...so much sadness.

 

[itfitzme]

2014-05-10

"It looks as if Robin Williams' return to series TV was short-lived. CBS has axed his comedy "The Crazy Ones" after just one season."

CBS cancels Robin Williams comedy 'The Crazy Ones' - LA Times

 

[Billo_Really]

Quantity doesn't equal quality, bub. Justin Bieger sold out big places. Bleah.

He's a singer, these are comedians.

I saw Dice Clay at the Inglewood forum and I've seen several of Kinison's shows.

The reason they fill up concert halls, is because half of their show, they're playing rock.

Kinison played guitar and Dice played drums.

I still believe no one pushed the envelope further and more often than they did.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Very sad to learn of this news. My condolences to his family.

 

[Billo_Really]

Kinison? Good Lord.

1. Bill Cosby
2. Robin Williams
3. Johnathan Winters
4. George Carlin
5. Red Skelton

I liked Red Skelton and Jonathan Winters.

They were a couple of my favorites growing up.

I was too young to get into Lenny Bruce.

 

[Peach]

You know he was heading to 70 years old?

63, I'll never forget Awakenings.

 

[Billo_Really]

I loved him in Hook, Awakenings, Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Morning Viet Nam, Birdcage, Bicentiniel Man, The Fisher King, voice of the Genie, and the voices in Happy Feet.
Just to name a few.
So much talent...so much sadness.

What about the movie he won his Oscar in?

Good Will Hunting?

 

[Papageorgio]

I wonder why he would do it. There had to be something really bad happening to him if he did really end it all.

I don't think I ever could.

Williams probably made the most rational decision he could, based on his mental state. That is why people with bipolar disorder are such high risk for suicide. The brain takes every positive, switches it to a negative and then darkens the light at the end of a tunnel. It is a bad disease, but the manic, that made him so spontaneous and funny has a the dark side. What goes up, must come down, depression is a strong disease and with drugs and alcohol or not. The depressed patient can turn suicidal quickly. No matter how beloved, or wanted an individual is, the isolation of the mind is so dangerous to those with bipolar.

 

[rightwinger]

Top 5 stand-up comics of all time:
(in this order)

1. Sam Kinison
2. Andrew Dice Clay
3. Richard Prior
4. George Carlin
5. Robin Williams

Kinison? Good Lord.

1. Bill Cosby
2. Robin Williams
3. Johnathan Winters
4. George Carlin
5. Red Skelton

Rodney Dangerfield
Cosby
Carlin
Bob Hope
Johnny Carson

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I loved him in Hook, Awakenings, Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Morning Viet Nam, Birdcage, Bicentiniel Man, The Fisher King, voice of the Genie, and the voices in Happy Feet.
Just to name a few.
So much talent...so much sadness.

What about the movie he won his Oscar in?

Good Will Hunting?

The scene where he talks of his wife's passing gass, farting ... Nothing like that was in the script. He ad libbed it.

Imagine playing a scene with him and having him go off on such a wonderful tangent. All you could do would be hold on for the ride.