You kidding? Mork and Mindy was an improv showcase for Williams. I remember reading while the show was still on the air that sometimes the script just read: Mork enters, and he was on his own. Pam Dawber was giving a cue line to break in with when the craziness got out of hand, so they could get back to the script.
Do we really have to put all these sanctimonious posts about his drug use. ?
He was great to the troops and very funny, I still laugh at his movies. And the “good Morning Vietnam” was a clssic put down on beuarocracy and praise for the veterans.
My previous post was not aimed at you.
I still remember a scene from that show, you could tell he was just making it up as he went along.
The set up was something about Mindy needing to get dolled up for a date, or something like that.
Suddenly Mork becomes a Puerto Rican hairdresser (a gay Puerto Rican hairdresser? Maybe.) and he is babbling away in Spanglish and touselling her hair and then, with a flourish, he declares: HOKAY HONEY- BACK ON THE STREETS!
My brother could get like that sometimes, just snap into a fully formed, entirely fictitious character.
And my brother was a very good mimic also, did a great George H.W.Bush and a great Reagan, he had that on his answering machine for a while.
I miss the 80s!
Jonathan Winters was his idol. Winters could improvise a joke about any object too.
Sadly, both Williams and Winters suffered from mental health issues. May they both rest in peace.
Really? Wow, didn’t realize he was that awesome. Well, of course he was awesome, but....