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To: Abathar

Nobody has more talent than he does. Nobody.


4 posted on 08/09/2006 12:41:44 PM PDT by Semper911 ("We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." -Marge Simpson)
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To: Semper911

I agree completely, he really is the best.


6 posted on 08/09/2006 12:42:41 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Semper911

Not intending to invite flames, but I can't think of a single Williams movie or show (except possibly Goodwill Hunting) that I enjoyed. I guess I don't get his humor.


9 posted on 08/09/2006 12:43:11 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: Semper911

Nobody has more talent than he does. Nobody.


Yeah just ask him to me he is a johnny one note


10 posted on 08/09/2006 12:43:52 PM PDT by al baby
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To: Semper911

What is funny is when other comedians imitate him. Many do and it isn't difficult fwiw.


15 posted on 08/09/2006 12:45:31 PM PDT by subterfuge (If Liberals hated terrorists like they hate Bush the war would be over by now)
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To: Semper911
"Nobody has more talent than he does. Nobody."

The extremely thin line between genius and insanity.

He is talented. The problem is that whenever I have seen him, and he wasn't reading from a script, his talents have descended into dick jokes and general filth. I wish he would discipline himself more and perhaps this trip to rehab will help. I wish him well.
26 posted on 08/09/2006 12:49:46 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (God Bless the United States of America and all that defend her hard earned freedom!)
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To: Semper911

Could be worse. His career could have descended to the Steve Martin level.


37 posted on 08/09/2006 12:54:04 PM PDT by keat (I'm carbon neutral - how 'bout you?)
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To: Semper911

I really enjoy his movies and appearances. I hope he gets it together soon. Alcholism and drug addiction are no joke. They make you do things you really don't want to do.


116 posted on 08/09/2006 1:42:09 PM PDT by brwnsuga (Black, Proud, Conservative!)
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To: Semper911

"Nobody has more talent than he does. Nobody."

Except his mentor, Johnathan Winters. Both improv experts.


117 posted on 08/09/2006 1:42:40 PM PDT by hophead ("Enjoy Every Sandwich")
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To: Semper911

What was the name of that movie where he was a creepy drugstore employee that worked in the photo area?


121 posted on 08/09/2006 1:46:27 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: Semper911

In the industry Robin Williams is a well known "thief" of others material, constantly using the best "bits" he has seen or heard other comics do and making them his own before millions of viewers while the originators of the material don't have the fame or opportunities that he has.

Also in the same ilk is Dennis Leary, who basically stole, word for word, body motion, voice inflection, etc. the act of the late comic Bill Hicks who died of lung cancer.

What's the link between these two? Williams and Leary were both professional actors who latched on to the comedy craze, stole others material and did it mostly better than the comics they stole from and parlayed others work into great fame.

Look it up.


139 posted on 08/09/2006 2:48:22 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob
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I would love for him and Jim Carrey to appear in a movie together.


149 posted on 08/09/2006 6:51:54 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (404 Page Error Found)
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To: Semper911
Nobody has more talent than he does. Nobody.



The original.
162 posted on 08/09/2006 9:47:11 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: Semper911
To me, his ham-handed humor is not funny at all.

Different jokes for different folks, I guess.

Leni

178 posted on 08/10/2006 8:55:07 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Israel Holds Firm !................No Retreat means No Repeat !)
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