(audience laughs)
- Is that it?
- [Audience Member] Woo!
- [Audience Member] John, we need a joke!
- Alright.
(audience laughs)
Robin, help me, got one?
- [Robin] Alright, here's the deal.
- [Audience Member] Okay.
(audience cheers and applauds)
- [Robin] Just to say, the
projector has been drinking.
(audience laughs)
You're already at a wine festival,
you can't expect a projector
not to have a cocktail.
(audience laughs)
There's actually projecting these clips
for people with severe astigmatism.
(audience laughs)
It's nice to have actually
the first geranium
video tape player.
Fuck you good now!
(audience claps and cheers)
It's actually from Sonoma High School,
from the AD Department.
My fucking knee cracked.
(audience laughs)
How ya doing, John, you doing okay?
- I'm doing fine, Robin.
(audience laughs)
- I can do this in front with my hand.
(hysterical audience laughs)
(jazz pop music plays)
(audience laughs)
I can get you your money back from Target.
I'd like to thank our
other sponsor, Goodwill.
Well, the festival is off
to a running start, John.
Everyone gets a raise.
- [Audience Member] Not enough.
- Well, okay
I guess everyone kind of
time your medication again.
The folks back there who
already hit the wine are going,
aww Jesus, I thought this
was going pretty well.
- [John] Alright.
- [Robin] This is the first
Joke Festival without the jokes.
(audience laughs)
- Ladies and gentlemen,
the one, the only, Mr. Robin Williams.
(audience cheers)
- Thank you Mr. Wasseter,
ladies and gentlemen,
the wine list to every local restaurant.
- I'll take that one.
- This is for basically
California high school graduates
who don't have to read.
Just point to the bottle you like.
This one by the nipples is
especially good white wine.
Before we giveaway another bottle of wine,
I'm supposed to bring up
Polly Jowiseman to get his
lifetime achievement award.
(audience laughs)
This is a wild festival.
There must be one in Switzerland
put on by Sandols that
would be really good.
This year's Two Leary Award.
(audience laughs)
I'm here tonight to talk
about a man Mark Romanek,
a very interesting man,
born to poor Black
parents in Cabrini-Green.
No that's R. Kelly, I'm sorry, um.
(audience laughs)
Actually poor black parents
who became a rich white child.
No, that's Michael.
No, I'm sorry, or has a rich
white child, no, I'm sorry.
Smeagol no, that's mine, precious.
(audience laughs)
Every time I see Michael, Precious no.
I have this weird thing, I'll
share it with you briefly now.
And this is only me.
I have a weird feeling all this
I don't know about,
I believe that when the door
is closed, Michael goes,
this shit, I can't keep this bullshit up.
(audience laughs)
This is bullshit!
Man, no, bitches gonna come to me,
I gotta put on the damn white
face look like a damn geisha
and an elf.
I'm a Black man, mothafucka.
(audience laughs)
What does that have to
do with Mark Romanek?
(audience laughs)
Mark actually did a video
with Michael Jackson.
That's the way basically.
And when you do a tribute to
a guy who's made one film,
that's pretty fuckin' ballsy.
(audience laughs)
There's two films, I didn't
know he made another film but,
neither did alot of other people.
(audience laughs)
And we would have, I guess
we're gonna try again
with our lovely Katherine
Hepburn projector there.
(audience groans and laughs)
Sorry, rough room.
Now, what the privilege was
I got to work with Mark.
They sent me the script
for One Hour Photo.
I mean, it's amazing to
meet someone on the way up
when you're on the way down.
(audience laughs)
It's so lovely, ya know.
After Bicentennial Man, things
were looking kinda bleak.
(audience laughs)
And, uh, ya know, merchandising
didn't go over big.
They were showing it to
hyperactive kids to depress them.
(audience laughs)
And, it was pretty much a long shot,
but then I got this idea they
said do you wanna do a movie
with a first time director?
I said, I just wanna work.
(audience laughs)
And the idea of,
I read this strange script
about this very bizarre man
who lives through
photographs and it became,
I was really touched by
it, but also ya know,
frightened by it, which is a good thing
to make and just said to him,
if your movie scares you, go that way.
Unless, it's Gandhi on Ice.
(audience laughs)
I won't ever say that again.
My wife, she's there as the editor
going oh, fuck this guy.
I also wanna say that we have our wine.
We do grow wine.
We keep it way up in the
hills as a snow manapara.
I live on the line as I always do.
(audience laughs and claps)
But, we have our own
wine, it's grown up there,
even though I don't drink.
It's been like a Vatican selling sex toys.
We have a wine.
The father Pete to all Polish drinking it,
pretty much goes after your kids.
(audience laughs)
But,
I'm new at this.
What does Father Tim get for fellatio?
Usually a pat on the
head and a Hershey bar.
(audience laughs and claps)
Well, I guess the church won't
be sponsoring the festival.
(audience laughs)
Well, maybe if you lay
hands on the projector.
Bu after reading this script,
I was very touched and I met with Mark.
But the second part of the
equation was that he had made
all these amazing videos,
which was I thought well this is great
that he wrote this, but what
is he capable of visually
because the script is very
much about photography visuals
and a very stylized piece.
Then, I saw all of his videos
and I realized I have to do this.
It'd be insane.
I mean not just that the children
have to eat, that's okay.
But the idea of working with
him and then meeting with him.
And, I actually said I wanted to do it.
And he thought was like yea right.
(audience laughs)
He was kinda like bullshit, bullshit.
The typical token meeting in
Hollywood, it's so lovely.
We're all excited about this.
And like we said, the creative executives,
God we wish we could do this but,
we just don't want to.
(audience laughs)
And like you said, most of the time,
movies are no longer made,
they're independent productions.
But most of them now are co-dependent.
(audience laughs)
They're made by several, ya
know, people getting together
and going you got money,
I got money, I got money,
and they go door to door going,
would you like to be part of a film?
(audience laughs)
You buy five shares of Jack Nicholson,
me will put you money
in this wonderful film,
that they will show at a
festival and it will look like
a little child with epilepsy's running it.
(audience laughs)
I would like to now show you
some of the work along with
I think the one film.
Do they have your other film here too?
Don't ask 'em to run it.
(audience laughs)
Poor little deaf guy is
in the back is going,
I didn't know.
(audience laughs)
Have we left out any handicapped group?
But, I would like to show you.
Are we gonna give it another try?
Our lady of lords projector?
(audience laughs)
Okay, let's try and show
you some of Mark's work
on the lovely stutter projector.
(audience claps and laughs)
