# Oh man, I miss Robin Williams
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971 "2020-07-22T02:47:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/1 "2020-07-22T02:47:33Z")
I was reading about the 1997 movie _Good Will Hunting_. What a genius he was.
[YouTube (5:00), Good Will Hunting | ‘Your Move Chief’ (HD) - Matt Damon, Robin Williams | MIRAMAX](https://youtu.be/oRG2jlQWCsY)
Oh man, I miss Robin Williams.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/2 "2020-07-22T02:48:33Z")
Right there with you.
And can you imagine a stand-up special with him and Carlin going on about #45?
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### Author:  [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/3 "2020-07-22T23:17:47Z")
Robin was great in that movie. I loved the baseball scene:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am3UC5i7ytY)
Last week I watched “The Birdcage” again. That is a great movie.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/4 "2020-07-23T02:56:22Z")
Yesterday, when this topic was posted, would have been Robin Williams’ 69th birthday.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/5 "2020-07-23T07:00:46Z")
I just watched the whole movie, Good Will Hunting.
Robin Williams is such a comedy genius. I’m old enough to have watched Mork & Mindy in my high school years, and that was great, and his quick mind and wit were displayed to us in so many ways through the years.
But in his serious roles, like Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting, the soft-spoken, subtle, quiet, slow-talking psychiatrist, he also shines.
> [@Morgyn](#):
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> Right there with you.
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> And can you imagine a stand-up special with him and Carlin going on about #45?
That would be awesome. #45 is such a target-rich environment that Carlin and Williams would have us in stitches.
Yes, @TheCuse, that baseball scene is a good one.
> [@cochrane](#):
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> Yesterday, when this topic was posted, would have been Robin Williams’ 69th birthday.
Actually when I started this thread, I wasn’t aware it was his birthday. I probably overheard that somewhere.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/6 "2020-07-23T07:12:47Z")
I moved this to CS.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/7 "2020-07-23T14:45:37Z")
I mostly cannot stand Robin Williams’ humor, but “Good Will Hunting” is one of the two movies I really enjoyed him in.
The other is the little-seen “Moscow on the Hudson”.
mmm
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/8 "2020-07-24T01:06:13Z")
YouTube has the very underrated _Mork & Mindy_ episode _Mork Meets Robin Williams_. It’s a telling episode about why Williams chose to be in show business. Even though it’s scripted, you can tell Williams is speaking in his own words. It has its moments of hilarity, too.
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDqSCHdtq5o)
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### Author:  [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/9 "2020-07-24T01:52:34Z")
I’d recommend to any fan the 2018 documentary “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind.”
It covers what you’d expect of his stand-up and movie careers and personal life, but it’s particularly good in the segment on Williams’ preparation for the movie “Awakenings.” Williams spoke with mental patients and appeared to find some intriguing parallels with the way his brain worked, and the ways in which Parkinsons and related disorders affected the patients’ minds.
The documentary also has some great anecdotes from Williams’ many show-biz friends (Billy Crystal, Bobcat Goldthwait, etc.).
> **[Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams:_Come_Inside_My_Mind)**
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> Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Marina Zenovich, celebrating the life and career of comedian Robin Williams, who died in 2014. An HBO production, it features interviews with Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman, Billy Crystal, among others. It also includes outtakes and little known clips from Williams' stand-up routines.
> The film played six sell-out screenings at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. I...
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### Author:  [@Mr\_BinJu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_BinJu)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/10 "2020-07-24T09:32:42Z")
I never understood why that hairy monkey armed man did it. I always found his suicide as selfish since so many people loved him and sure without a doubt he inspired so many people. I think Bicentennial man was an amazing movie that showed he wasn’t just a voice for a goofy character or there for quick laugh.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/11 "2020-07-24T12:41:08Z")
Lewy body disorder.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/12 "2020-07-24T14:59:55Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> I mostly cannot stand Robin Williams’ humor, but “Good Will Hunting” is one of the two movies I really enjoyed him in.
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> The other is the little-seen “Moscow on the Hudson”.
[Did you ever see World’s Greatest Dad? It’s another amazing performance from him and if anyone missed it, you missed out.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Greatest_Dad)
It streams commercial free on Hoopla. Hopefully everyone’s library utilizes Hoopla.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/13 "2020-07-24T17:33:41Z")
> [@Mr\_BinJu](#):
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> I never understood why that hairy monkey armed man did it. I always found his suicide as selfish since so many people loved him and sure without a doubt he inspired so many people.
It wasn’t selfish. Lewy Body Disorder is a horrible and ravaging disease which destroys normal cognitive functions and took away his ability to reason out the consequences of his actions.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/14 "2020-07-24T18:28:30Z")
It’s also undetectable in a living patient. They didn’t discover Williams’ disorder until after his death.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/15 "2020-07-24T22:25:30Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> > I mostly cannot stand Robin Williams’ humor, but “Good Will Hunting” is one of the two movies I really enjoyed him in.
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> > The other is the little-seen “Moscow on the Hudson”.
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> [Did you ever see World’s Greatest Dad? It’s another amazing performance from him and if anyone missed it, you missed out.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Greatest_Dad)
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> It streams commercial free on Hoopla. Hopefully everyone’s library utilizes Hoopla.
I never saw that. Will have to watch it one day.
I also liked him in another of his serious movies, “The World According to Garp”. It’s a quirky story, but Williams’s sincerity and genuineness in it shined through for me.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/16 "2020-07-25T06:53:09Z")
Didn’t he adlib most of this dialogue on Mork & Mindy?
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### Author:  [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/17 "2020-07-25T14:02:35Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> I’d recommend to any fan the 2018 documentary “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind.”
thanks for the recommendation: that looks really good and I can watch it on prime for free if I get the 7 day HBO trial.
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### Author:  [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/18 "2020-07-25T23:36:44Z")
Worth using up the trial; it will stick with you.
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### Author:  [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/19 "2020-07-26T19:24:39Z")
I did watch it the ending was unbearably sad, but the whole thing was beatifully made. I like it was mostly his words, and interviews with his friends and family.
and now I have HBO for a week: what should I watch?
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### Author:  [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-man-i-miss-robin-williams/915971/20 "2020-07-26T22:46:20Z")
That probably deserves a thread of its own. My top HBO essential is “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver;” everyone will have their own recommendation.