Duck! Here's Robin!
Robin Williams is a brilliant stand-up comic, a highly original talent who gives an over-the-top, irreverent, profane, iconoclastic, hilarious performance. It's a very funny show. Williams is alone on the large stage, his only prop being a small table loaded with bottles of mineral water. He is constantly gulping and spilling water while he sweats profusely. The bottles are used at times very comedically to demonstrate various functions.
Williams has a myriad of targets: the haughty French, President Bush, Osama bin Laden, the augmentation of body parts, cats staking out their territory, Viagra, the child molestation scandal involving priests, various churches and denominations, his own hairiness, etc. The list is long. His delivery is rapid-fire, frenetic, and sometimes too hectic and too harrowing. He is trying hard, sometimes working too hard for laughs, but he almost always hits a homer.
It's definitely not for the kiddies or for the prudish or linguistically timid. Little is sacred. It's a very visual, animated type of humor which relies on his actions as well as his words. An audio version would not do it justice. He's crude; he's coarse, but not as wild in his use of profanity as George Carlin. He returns to certain themes and riffs with the French coming in for extra jabs.
It's a broad type of almost slapstick humor that doesn't seem as satiric as just plain funny. He'll do almost anything for laughs, with the visual often topping the linguistic.
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Best Stand-Up Comedy I've Ever Seen!
Robin Williams is the Einstein of comedy. His skits in this performance are incredibly funny. What makes a better stand-up comedian is an actor. Williams really gets into his roles when he performs his skits. If Williams wasn't so good at imitations then I don't know what would be so humorous. His cultural characters are so hilarious, I just about cried. I would have never guessed that Williams would be so vulgar, but sometimes you have to jump outside the boundaries and laugh at what you're missing. Robin Williams is one of the funniest men on the planet, and this film is one of the best displays of his talent. Any Robin Williams fan must aquire this work of art. It is one of the best movies he's done. If you enjoy stand-up comedy then view this titan. Live on Broadway truly raises the benchmark of American comedy.
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