Robin Williams: Difference between revisions

* [[Butt Monkey]]: He seems to play either this or [[Playing Against Type|the villain]] in recent films.

** As of recently, he seems to be this in '''[[Real Life]]'''. Personal problems aside, the public's reception to the films he's made in the past 10 years have been less than stellar.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: For the most part he is one, although he can be serious when he needs to be.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: His stand-up routines are ''very'' salty.

** In one routine, he notes that the parents in his audience apparently ignored the "18 and up" label on the performance flyers. "Kids, you're going to learn some new words today!"

* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: A staple of his later stand-up shows, often drawing from his own experiences (particularly involving cocaine and alcohol). One exception seems to be marijuana: While he brutally mocked stoners in 1986's ''Live At The Met'', in ''Live On Broadway'' and ''Weapons Of Self Destruction'' he is more favorable towards pot (one routine in ''Broadway'' is about how pot is less harmful than alcohol).

* [[Harpo Does Something Funny]]: Several of the movies and television shows he gets cast in often have scripts that say stuff like "Robin can go off here" at numerous intervals.

* [[Motor Mouth]]: When he gets going, he ''really'' gets going.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Whenever he stars in a dramady, you can bet the trailers will play up his comedic scenes.

* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Williams is a fan of ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' video games and even [[Named After Somebody Famous|named his oldest daughter Zelda]]. He and his daughter were both later given the opportunity to star in the commercials for ''Ocarina of Time 3DS'' and ''Skyward Sword'' for Western releases. [[Nintendo]] has also told him he would be their only choice to play Professor Oak if a live-action ''[[Pokémon]]'' movie was ever made.

* [[Throw It In]]: Known for fighting with the directors over how far he can vary from the script. Often it comes down to "One good take done straight, then you can have fun."

*** And of course, there was the skit where Dana Carvey played his hyperactive son.

*** To celebrate the 25th anniversary of ''[[Back to The Future]]'', there was a sketch of previously unseen "audition tapes" for the film, in which Jon Hamm played Williams, auditioning for the part of Doc Brown.

** A short in "Henny Youngman Day" had Babs going to a local club's Open Mic Night to try to spark a career in [[Stand Up Comedy]], only to find out that [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|The in-world version]] of Robin Williams had stopped in for a surprise engagement. Babs choked out on stage until Robin (Who had been told he was the final perfomer of the night) [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|comes back out to give her an assist]].

* Sketch comedy ''[[In Living Color]]'' featured a 1994 sketch where [[Jim Carrey]] played an obnoxious, hyperactive Robin at the Academy Awards. He was seen to make light of the Oscar statuette and the late film producer Irving G. Thalberg and interrupting actors playing James Earl Jones and Whoopi Goldberg (the latter of which grows tried of Robin's annoying antics and beats him about the head with an Oscar). [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], as this skit aired just after Carrey's own career took off.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': The episode "Special Edna" had a brief scene parodying ''Dead Poets Society'' with a John Keating lookalike appropriately voiced by Dan Castellaneta, [[The Poor Mans Substitute|who replaced Robin as The Genie]] in ''Return of Jafar'' and the ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' TV series.

** In one of the comics, the family has just gotten a new satellite dish and is channel surfing with Bart. They come across a show called ''Celebrity Alien Autopsies'' and features, you guessed it, Mork on the autopsy table, wisecracking as usual.

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