Robin Williams died, and that sucks. I don't have much to say about that, but these people do, so I'd rather just let them do the talking.
David Letterman remembers the night the hurricane hit the Comedy Store...
Norm MacDonald tweeted a powerful memory of The Funniest Man in the World...
Conan O'Brien remembers when Robin gave him a bicycle...
Jimmy Fallon remembers on behalf of the Tonight Show...
The USO remembers Robin's years of support...
Koko the Gorilla remembers making a friend...
I like that one because it's the least guarded I've ever seen him. The shield of comedy is down, and he's just completely present to the experience.
It seems only right that the last word should belong to his daughter Zelda, sharing the most honest and universal of grief...
“My family has always been private about our time spent together. It was our way of keeping one thing that was ours, with a man we shared with an entire world. But now that’s gone, and I feel stripped bare. My last day with him was his birthday, and I will be forever grateful that my brothers and I got to spend that time alone with him, sharing gifts and laughter. He was always warm, even in his darkest moments. While I’ll never, ever understand how he could be loved so deeply and not find it in his heart to stay, there’s minor comfort in knowing our grief and loss, in some small way, is shared with millions. It doesn’t help the pain, but at least it’s a burden countless others now know we carry, and so many have offered to help lighten the load. Thank you for that.
To those he touched who are sending kind words, know that one of his favorite things in the world was to make you all laugh. As for those who are sending negativity, know that some small, giggling part of him is sending a flock of pigeons to your house to poop on your car. Right after you’ve had it washed. After all, he loved to laugh too…
Dad was, is and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I’ve ever known, and while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world, but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence. We’ll just have to work twice as hard to fill it back up again.”
I, for one, promise to tell more penis jokes, to help pick up the slack. Farewell, good sir.
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