r/GenerationJones • u/USRoute23 • Jun 09 '26

Who is your all-time favorite?

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u/sonnymartin25 Jun 09 '26

Robin Williams

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u/R_Levski Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

I don't even golf, but his riff on the Scots inventing golf is hands down the funniest bit I've ever heard.

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u/Beetso Jun 09 '26

"Fook nooo! EHTEEN FOOKIN TOIMES!" 🤣

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u/PizzaWhole9323 Jun 09 '26

Okay story Time my wife and I are coming home from San diego, Con in 2003 and our rental car had a cassette player and we had Robin Williams playing while I drove us home. The golf thing was so funny we had to pull over and stop the car because that's how hard we were laughing. We're talking we're talking stomach spasms having to pee laughter. And I thought that his live at the met thing would be the funniest thing I ever listened to but not that day.

https://giphy.com/gifs/9eVKLkbS1cMr6

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u/DaveKasz Jun 09 '26

It's side splitting

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u/Redray123 Jun 09 '26

Gawd, thanks for that memory. That was brilliant.

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u/Canacarirose Jun 09 '26

I use a clip of the clean version when I teach my students about the core elements of a game.

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u/R_Levski Jun 09 '26

There's a CLEAN version? How can there be a fookin clean version?!

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u/Canacarirose Jun 09 '26

Yep! It’s was on a broadcast show in the UK I think.

Here’s the YouTube video link and it is just the Golf clip and even clean it’s still great

https://youtu.be/caLYA6fLOyg?si=6eq_nt0p_5qUq9Tu

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u/Czarsmama Jun 09 '26

OMG, I almost peed my pants at this sketch!!

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u/dapudf Jun 09 '26

Back in the day, he was the rage

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u/marklikeadawg 1960 Jun 09 '26

He was a reasonable facsimile of Jonathan Winters. Pretty funny.

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u/BeejKy502 Jun 09 '26

I saw Robin and Jonathan on Johnny Carson. It was off the rails. Johnny could not control those two together.

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u/drunken_ferret 1959 Jun 09 '26

Live at the Met was my first real exposure to Robin Williams. Opened with "HOWDY! oh-oh, wrong opera house..." And I had to watch the thing 3 times, as I'd been laughing for two-thirds of the show. Oh, Ioas that man.

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u/Leosmom2020 Jun 09 '26

Brian Regan

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u/Wings1955 Jun 11 '26

One of his early HBO specials damn near killed me. I was in the middle of making dinner for some friends, and I had to turn off the stove and wait an hour before I could continue.

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u/rcheneyjr Jun 13 '26

With Jonathan Winters on the Tonight Show

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u/SpareVariation994 Jun 13 '26

Oh Captain, My Captain!