Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind Page #5

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and Pam Dawber.

Spaceman lives

with girlfriend

in apartment."

And I went, "Oh my God!

This sounds terrible.

Who is this

Robin Williams anyway?"

Howard Storm:

Robin's manager

called Robin.

He said, "Robin,

we got 22 shows,

guaranteed,

and you're

gonna get

$1500 a week."

And Robin

went, "Wow!"

And then Buddy

said, "Schmuck,

$15,000."

(laughs)

Robin was happy

with the $1,500.

He never made

that kind of money.

(theme music playing)

Nanu, nanu.

-(helmet thuds)

-Shazbot!

Tramer:

Robin was

a little nervous.

"All of that energy

is sure to translate.

"My comedy

is so big, and...

you're sure it'll translate

onto a small screen?"

(whistling)

Necrotons! Warning!

Mayday! Mayday!

Red alert! Dive!

In the bunker,

in the bunker!

Hit 'em up.

We're going

to Missouri. Whoo!

Marshall:
He would run

around the stage,

you know.

He would run around

and do crazy things

all the time,

and there was

union cameramen.

He would

do something great,

my dad would go,

"Did you get that?

Did you get that?"

The cameraman would say,

"He didn't come by here."

"You gotta capture this.

He's a genius."

And the cameraman said,

"If he's such a genius,

he could hit his mark."

And so my dad said,

"Wow, this is-- gotta

figure this out."

The sitcom, up until then,

always three camera.

So he brought in

a fourth camera,

kind of a handheld camera,

just to follow Robin.

And that became

the standard.

Now, every sitcom

has four cameras now

because of that.

Well, this week, sir,

I learned that on Earth

things aren't always

what they appear to be.

Orson:

What does this...

You've got the script

in your hand,

motherf***er,

and you're blowin' it?

(audience laughs)

Tramer:

The taping of Mork & Mindy

became like the show to go to.

It was like a three-hour

Robin Williams marathon.

Care for some

iguana jerky?

No, a**hole.

(audience laughs)

Hey, it's a

self-improvement course!

"Evelyn Wood

Speed Orgasm."

Says if you've

read this by now,

you've already come.

-Why'd you laugh at me?

-(laughs)

You were gonna say,

"What an a**hole."

Now, I didn't.

I let you say it!

(laughter)

Storm:

Robin was just flying,

I mean, he was

the hottest ticket in town.

Storm:

Whatever makes

you happy, monsieur.

Well, we can't

do that now.

(audience laughs)

So many lines going

through my mind.

I don't know who I am!

Look! And...

(audience laughs, cheers)

Storm:

All of a sudden, he was

getting all this attention,

making money, and doing

whatever he wanted to do.

-Action, baby.

-Oh, I got--

-Oh, I'm sorry.

-It's happening.

Boy, have I got

a subtext going,

you don't know!

Okay, wait, wait. Wow!

4.5 on the Richter scale!

(both babbling)

I remember you

Hi, Mr. Houseman.

Juilliard really paid off.

Until next week,

Orson, knock knock.

-Orson:

Who's there?

-Cohen.

Orson:

Cohen who?

"Cohen" f*** yourself.

Good night.

Eric Idle:

I first clapped eyes

on him in 1980.

He came on stage,

and it was just like

he took

the place apart.

He just absolutely--

I've never seen

anything like it.

He just completely

commanded it.

He just made

them all laugh

and laugh and laugh,

and he had

one persistent heckler.

And he made the entire

audience pray

for little Timmy

at the back,

that he might die.

And it was

just so hilarious.

He just-- the entire audience

praying for the death

of this heckler

at the back of the room.

Storm:

And keep your hands away

from your wiener.

-Yes, sir.

-(laughter)

You're an adult, Howard.

You can say "penis."

Robin:

I'd go from doing the show

and then coming

to The Comedy Store

and then go

to The Improv.

He would do five,

six sets a night,

and just keep going.

Robin:

And now a native

New York impression,

a New York echo.

(shouts) "Hello!"

-"Shut the f*** up!"

-(laughter)

Velardi:

We were just playing,

you know?

We were out and about.

You can climb a mountain...

Velardi:

It was wonderful

being in Hollywood.

You know he's the star

of the very successful

Mork & Mindy show,

would you welcome,

Robin Williams.

(cheers, applause)

Momma, I'm on TV!

For my friends

in San Francisco,

(slowly)

how are you?

Storm:

He started hanging out

with a lot of major stars.

He was hanging out

with De Niro,

he was hanging out

with Belushi,

and they were impressed

that they were

hanging out with him.

Robin:

There was one crazy night

where he took me

to a series of clubs

to see different bands.

He'd just put you

in a headlock and say,

"Come on, we're going

to this place."

(snorts)

Storm:

In the second year

of the show,

Robin was doing drugs.

Robin:

It was part of the whole

scene at that time.

There was just

so much of it.

There were even

some clubs that used

to pay in white or green.

You'd go hang out at clubs,

and then, um, end up

in the hills,

in some coke

dealer's house.

Everyone used

to just give it to you,

because if you're famous,

you know, it was

just a-- like a thing.

"Hey, come here. Take this."

You know, you'd get

phone calls that say,

"Yeah, Robin left his car."

It's found

some place on Sunset.

Dawber:

I climbed out

of a bathroom window

at Imperial Gardens,

because Robin

was there with people

that he didn't want anybody

to know he was there with.

No! Everyone

I've ever known!

There are people here

I've slept with twice.

Boosler:

He would just sometimes

at the end of an hour

just pick a gorgeous woman

out of the audience

and walk out,

and never saw

her again,

and her boyfriend would

go, "I guess she's gone."

Velardi:

He loved women.

Loved women.

And I got it.

And I understood it.

And I wanted him

to have that,

but I also wanted him

to come home.

You know,

after a night

of partying,

we'd couldn't find him

many times.

Dawber:

He'd come in looking

pretty burned out,

because, you know,

he was out till 3:00,

4:
00 in the morning.

You've had

all week to do this.

(laughs)

Look at him.

He's so pitiful.

'Cause I feel

like sh*t, that's why.

I'm looking at you.

I'm not really

looking at you.

I'm looking at the back

of my mind going,

"There's gotta be

another line.

Someone back there,

send another line forward!"

Storm:

He was drinking and coke.

It was like him jumping

into a giant cake.

You know, your

most delicious cake ever,

and he could eat all--

anything he wanted,

'cause that was what

he was doing.

I believe that cocaine is God's

way of saying, "You're making

too much money."

(laughter)

Idle:

He got really

into it, a lot.

And I would follow

him around to these

various places,

and he'd be funny

and then we'd move on

and then he'd be funny

and move on.

It's not a funny drug.

It just makes you

want more and more

and more of it,

and it doesn't

make you funny.

It would just be

interesting to me

that he would cease

to be funny

the later the evening

went with that drug.

Do you have

any fears, anxieties,

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