Nothing like a bunch of joyless politicos to bring a person down. Robin Williams is a gem--a great comic with a very fast wit, and a fine dramatic actor as well. Geez, you guys act like he's Karl Rove!

Ugh.. somebody kill Celine Dion already.

"why are his talk show appearances funnier than his movies?"

Because Williams still remembers what it was like doing coke. Apparently the staff there remembers too.

His "comedy" is really very tired and tiresome. I just can't watch it anymore.

Yep,

Gotta agree with WW here. Never thought Robin Williams was particularly funny. Comedians, like other performers should grow and mature. For instance, does Steve Martin still do the "wild and crazy guy" thing with the arrow through the head?

Robin Williams stopped being funny a long time ago -- probably when he went on his crusade in films to make us all better human beings (Patch Adams or Dead Poets Society, anyone?)

Does anyone else but me think that Celine Dion is one of the most unattractive "divas" ever to exist? She's just this bony, anorexic, and rather homely singer who doesn't even have that great of a voice. She makes it sound as if she is "giving her all" on a piece but because of the timbre of her voice being so nasal, notes that are not that high or difficult to reach tend to sound as if she is straining to pass a kidney stone when she sings them. It's really an unpleasant picture.

OK, now everyone out there that likes these 2 stars, go ahead and pile on.

Great clips. For Celine, having come off of five years of a large stage show, she'll probably have a lot of residual air guitar solos for a very long time. But, man, what talent!

Robin Williams? He's a genius with a million different people of all nationalities running around in his brain, and all talking at once! He is funny and brilliant.

Judging from the years long hype I would appear to be in the minority. But I never thought Williams was that funny. Interesting at times, a spectacle, sure. Funny? Not so much.

"He also has such a super-absorbent brain, fellow comedians in the late 70's and 80's refused to do new material if he was at the comedy club because "elements" of their bits would "magically" show up in his riffs"

Really bugsbonzai? I thought that was called ripping other artists off...your praise of him sounds like someone making excuses for a charlatan. Sounds like you've heard him regurgitate every lame line in the book and you are still enthralled. Sorry, thats just the way it sounds. My personal view, not that you asked for it....and not that you care, hehe...

Watching Robin Williams do Robin Williams? I would rather be waterboarded. I can think of no more horrific torture than watching this embarassing, infantile, neurotic, spastic, humanoid trying to be funny. In fact, I'm surprised he has not performed at Gitmo.

What has always made Robin Williams interesting is that because he's talking quickly and extemporaneously, it seems "improvised". However, having admired Robin from afar for 25 years of my life and having never passed up a chance to see him perform or on a show, RARELY is anything he says actually off the top of his head, but rather recycled material filtered through his rapid response brain. For instance, he used a joke in Aladdin I heard him "riff" way back on an episode of Mork & Mindy ("also makes Julian fries"). Almost every joke he used in the Actor's Studio interview was old hat, I'd heard him do before, just not in that order or context. At one point he seemingly "improvised" a scene using a scarf from the audience using the pun "So Sari", which I've heard him do on at least 5 separate occasions over the years.

He also has such a super-absorbent brain, fellow comedians in the late 70's and 80's refused to do new material if he was at the comedy club because "elements" of their bits would "magically" show up in his riffs. At the Comedy Store, they actually used the lights that marked stagetime for comedians to warn those performing that Robin had stepped into the room. Not to take anything away from him- what's made him brilliant is because he has such an amazingly expansive repertoire of humor at the edge of his brain and is able to connect to it so quickly, he's been able to "fool" people into thinking it's all off the top of his head. It's never as fun when you pull back the curtain on the wizard, but even knowing all this, I still love watching him!

he is humor incarnate. His Actors Studio performance is tour de force. But your right, whats up with his shit films?

What's with Robin and meat?