First of all, I was
living in New York City.
I wasn't in LA.
I didn't understand LA.
I didn't understand
the architecture.
I couldn't relate to it.
So I was flown out
to do publicity
with this Robin Williams,
who I had never met.
I was still living there.
We hadn't started
filming anything.
There was no pilot.
We were just gonna
start the show,
and so after meeting Robin,
and working with him
for the first time,
he said, "Hey, I'm gonna be
at the comedy club tonight,"
you know, I was like,
"Where's the comedy club?"
I was the Holiday
Inn over on Highland,
and so I had a friend
that I knew from Michigan,
so I called, that
was living in LA,
called him, said, "Hey, you
wanna go to The Comedy Store
"and see this guy I'm gonna
be doing this show with?"
"No!"
"Everyone I ever known"
"There are people here I've 
slept with twice"
(laughing)
And we went, and it was like,
I couldn't believe
how brilliant it was.
I mean, I wasn't a comedy
club devotee anyway,
but we had to watch other
comedians until Robin came on,
and it was like, oh my God.
This guy is brilliant.
This is a poem, now.
A poem written under the
influence of Quaaludes
entitled (mumbling).
(audience laughs)
(audience applauds)
It was so cerebral and so funny,
but so deep and his stuff
had really wonderful
inner meaning.
It was--
it was amazing.
I couldn't believe how I had
dropped into this pot of luck,
that I was gonna be able
to be on TV with that guy.
Robin's comedy was
really his own.
Generally, comics, it
can be very joke-y,
but Robin did characters,
because Robin was an actor,
and so he really understood
delving into characters
and then finding the
absurdity within that,
but he would go places
that nobody went to,
and I know people
always like to liken him
to Jonathan Winters, and
there's a lot of that,
but Robin was much more
cerebral in his early stuff.
