Robin Williams dead at 63

[stromboli]

Shame. I've had my own battles with depression, so I can understand. He will be greatly missed.

[SGOS]

Too bad.  He was gifted and much too young.

[GrinningYMIR]

You know, I'm genuinely saddened by this, he's one of the guys I've grown up with, and I've enjoyed nearly every movie I've seen him in. He had his troubles, as we all do, but I think he made a lot of difference in his life. RIP Mr. Williams.

"Genie, you're free"

[kilodelta]

It's not your fault.

[Solitary]

Mrs. Doubtfire was a masterpiece of acting. When he was good he was really good, as an actor and comedian. He always had that twinkle in his eye, but also a disturbing sadness about him. It's like we lost a friend.  Solitary

[stromboli]

It didn't help that he was a long time friend and staunch supporter of Lance Armstrong, and admitted he felt stabbed in the back when Armstrong finally copped to it.  Had to be crushing.

[Sargon The Grape]

I don't think a celebrity death has hit me this hard since another childhood hero of mine, Steve Irwin, died.

The world will just not be the same without Robin Williams. He is a great man gone before his time.

[stromboli]

I don't think a celebrity death has hit me this hard since another childhood hero of mine, Steve Irwin, died.

The world will just not be the same without Robin Williams. He is a great man gone before his time.

Yeah, Steve Irwin's death still seems so glaringly wrong. No question Williams' death will feel the same.

[Sargon The Grape]

Alright, well, I believe in celebrating someone's life more than mourning their death, so I'd better get started paying the man proper tribute. For starters, I'd like to imagine his last words went something like this:

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[Youssuf Ramadan]

Fuck, I thought they said Robbie Williams.....

Anyway... I had no idea Robin suffered from depression, but depression does seem to take its toll on the comic genre.....

[SGOS]

In an interview during his "Mork and Mindy days,"  Williams stated that one of his most important idols was the comedian Jonathan Winters, and it's easy to see the Winters influence in Robin Williams.  Both were very funny and masters at improv.  Give either one a script to follow, and then get out of the way.  They probably weren't going to follow it anyway.  Also, Winters had a history of being in and out of mental institutions, although I don't know if it had anything  to do with depression.  Winters occasionally referred to his experiences in "the Funny Farm".  If he didn't actually coin that term, he helped make it popular.  Before I even saw that interview, Robin Williams reminded me of Jonathan Winters.

While Williams was almost always funny, a certain pathos often came through in his personality, like he was struggling with some demon inside him.

[StupidWiz]

RIP. :'(

[Mister Agenda]

Yeah, it is the sad. I thought he had a good decade left in him as a performer. I didn't watch The Crazy Ones, but I assumed it was good, because it had Robin Williams in it.

[Shiranu]

Yeah, it is the sad. I thought he had a good decade left in him as a performer. I didn't watch The Crazy Ones, but I assumed it was good, because it had Robin Williams in it.

It was pretty "meh". It wasn't terrible like some television series, but it was no-where near good.

[Sargon The Grape]

The only one of his films I can genuinely say I hate is "Patch Adams," but it's not because of Robin Williams himself. Besides being just plain stupid, it made a mockery of the real Patch Adams; and in the words of the man himself, "The film promised to build our hospital. None of the profits from the film ever came to us, and so, basically 40 years into this work, we are still trying to build our hospital."

Seriously, just go watch the Nostalgia Critic review of that movie. They explain it a lot better than I can here.