Robin Williams - Come Inside My Mind

[kalowski]

Apologies if I missed a previous thread. I'm very interested in this.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/caIFNg_JRL4

From Chortle

The documentary promises never-before-seen footage and interviews with Billy Crystal, Eric Idle, Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman, his Mork & Mindy co-star Pam Dawber and others

The tone is set by a comment from Steve Martin who said: 'He was really comfortable on stage, offstage I felt he was holding himself together.'

I can't find a release date for the uk. 16th July on HBO - I assume that's stateside only.

[RedRevolver]

Fuck's sake. I got distracted by the rude joke and it took several reads to climb down from the fact that this was not, in fact, a documentary about Robbie Williams where it turns out he can tell a rude joke or something.

Might give it a watch, fanx 4 the reccy!

[kalowski]

This was on Sky Atlantic on Sunday. I watched it last night. I really enjoyed it. They had loads of outtakes from Mork and Mindy as well as some from his movies. Picked exactly the right moment from Good Will Hunting. Plenty of interviews with people who knew him and well chosen interviews with Robin Williams himself. Some great home movie clips too, and film of Williams and Steve Martin in Waiting for Godot.

My wife, who's not a fan of his stand up, thought it was "alright" - what struck me was that segments of his stand up don't work well on their own, out of context. You need the full Williams' performance to get drawn in.
The friendship between Williams and Billy Crystal, and Williams and Bobcat Goldthwaite was clear to see, and the film had plenty of moments where my eyes became a little damp, I will admit.

[EOLAN]

My wife, who's not a fan of his stand up, thought it was "alright" - what struck me was that segments of his stand up don't work well on their own, out of context.

Probably out of the context of the original performer who they were taken from. Actually, my wife watched a small bit with me and got right annoyed with me when I was making joke thievery jibes.

Aside from that; he was certainly a strong manic and very fast paced performer. Could see why he wouldn't necessarily have a written down set and a lot of his comedy is in the moment and feeling the energy. I must admit, given his comedic/public persona; I wasn't overly surprised that there was an unfortunate dark side to his personality. A reasonably good documentary.

As an aside; as someone who feels like defending Eric Idle on the Comedy Comebacks/Monty Python threads, I did give an exhale of "Oh for Fuck sake", when his tribute song to Robin was played over the end credits.

[Satchmo Distel]

A bit like Ken Dodd in the sense that he has to keep talking because when he stops, there's a void of deep loneliness there.

[Replies From View]

A bit like Ken Dodd in the sense that he has to keep talking because when he stops, there's a void of deep loneliness there.

That applies to all dead people though really.

[Maurice Yeatman]

Robin Williams being particularly funny on Clive Anderson's show... and is this a 29-year-old Paul Sinha in the audience 15 minutes in, or am I embarrassingly race-insensitive? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4yJAF0WDdk#t=15m13s

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Robin Williams'  stand up career was the world's longest cocaine hangover, he never topped " Mork and Mindy" ( although he *did* top himself, orbviously ), he made loads of crap films, and myself and Paul Heaton got really pissed off with people telling us we looked like him.

[studpuppet]

The bar has already been set high for films on Robin Williams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZGGD__8B8E

[Shaky]

As much as his shtick could get annoying (I seem to recall Stephen Fry of all people making a few digs at him during a Parky interview), Williams always came across as a remarkably down-to-earth, lovely guy.

[the science eel]

A bit like Ken Dodd in the sense that he has to keep talking because when he stops, there's a void of deep loneliness there.

I don't get that from Dodd at all. He always seemed pretty laid-back and sweet-natured in interviews.

[kalowski]

The bar has already been set high for films on Robin Williams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZGGD__8B8E

This could be the greatest thing I've ever seen.

Lots of "back of the head" shots!

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Robin Williams being particularly funny on Clive Anderson's show... and is this a 29-year-old Paul Sinha in the audience 15 minutes in, or am I embarrassingly race-insensitive? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4yJAF0WDdk#t=15m13s

Christ Clive Anderson is such a horrible obsequious little turd

[Maurice Yeatman]

Christ Clive Anderson is such a horrible obsequious little turd

Ameliorated his glabrousness with zhuzh and we're all secretly jealous.