Good Mourning Vietnam

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US actor Robin Williams has been found dead, aged 63, in an apparent suicide, California police say.

Marin County Police said he was pronounced dead at his home shortly after officials responded to an emergency call around noon local time.

Williams was famous for films such as Good Morning Vietnam and Dead Poets Society and won an Oscar for his role in Good Will Hunting.

He had been open in the past about his struggles with alcohol and drugs.

He had recently returned to a rehabilitation centre to "fine-tune" his sobriety, the Los Angeles Times reported in July.

"At this time, the Sheriff's Office Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia, but a comprehensive investigation must be completed before a final determination is made," police said in a statement.

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A very fine actor, RIP

[Bono Estente]

IN MEMORY of Robin Williams’ passing, here are 50 of his greatest jokes.

1. “If it’s the Psychic Network, why do they need a phone number?”

2. “The Second Amendment: It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!”

3. “We had !Removed! burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.”

4. “Oy! Ten thousand years in a tin can will give you such a crick in the neck!” — as Genie in Aladdin (1992)

5. “Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.” — as Tim Dobbs in Man of the Year (2006)

Robin Williams with his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Good Will Hunting.

Source: AFP

6. “I had s*x with a prostitute when I was 21. I was so bad, she gave me a refund.”

7.

“I will be there as soon as I can! You have to give me a more specific

location, you are a big country. You are the kindest country in the

world. You are like a really nice apartment over a meth lab.” — Reddit

AMA response to a fan asking if he’d come to Canada to hug them.

8. “If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.”

9. “Cricket is basically baseball on Valium.”

10.

“They said that marijuana was a ‘performance-enhancing drug.’ Marijuana

enhances many things — colours, tastes, sensations, but you are

certainly not f**king empowered. When you’re stoned, you’re lucky if you

can find your own goddamn feet. The only way it’s a

performance-enhancing drug is if there’s a big f**king Hershey bar at

the end of the run.”

Williams dressed as a cheerleader in 1979 for Mork and Mindy.

Source: AP

11. “The other people that came out against !Removed! marriage were

the Mormons ... They used to perfect polygamy. A Mormon giving marital

advice is like the Octomom running a Planned Parenthood clinic.”

12. “You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the South? Nothing! Someone’s losing a trailer, number one.”

13. “Inside of you, there’s a fashion model just waiting to throw up.” — As Fender in Robots (2005)

14. “My first day as a woman and I’m getting hot flashes.” — as Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

15. “The definition of pornography is quite simple. Erotic is using a feather, pornography is using the entire chicken.”

16. “Do you think God gets stoned? I think so — look at the platypus.”

Mrs Doubtfire

17. “I think God made babies cute so we don’t eat them.”

18. “Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently — and for the same reasons.” — as Tim Dobbs in Man of the Year (2006)

19. “Cocaine is God’s way of saying that you’re making too much money.”

20.

”Some people say Jesus wasn’t Jewish. Of course he was Jewish! Thirty

years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his

father’s business, his mum thought he was God’s gift — he’s Jewish! Give

it up!”

21. “Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a

paraplegic lap dancer — you can do it, just not as well as the others,

really.”

22. “It’s more inbred than an Appalachian encounter group.” — on Los Angeles

Robin Williams was a comedy legend.

Source: Getty Images

23. “Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing

manly things: ‘You’ve just killed a small animal. It’s time for a light

beer.’ Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing

about beer, where someone goes, ‘It’s 5 o’clock in the morning. You’ve

just ****** on a dumpster. It’s Miller time.’”

24. “I wonder what chairs think about all day. ‘Oh, here comes another a**hole.’ ”

25. “Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.”

26. “I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.”

27. “We’re not laughing at you. We’re laughing near you.” — as John Keating in Dead Poets Society

28. “I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.”

29. “It’s not bad enough that they make !Removed! movies, they make !Removed! movies of my movies. They made Good Will Humping. It’s okay. Wet Dreams May C**, all right. Snatch Adams? That was scary. A clown with a strap-on. F**k off! You know, Popeye, I would watch.”

30. “If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t there.”

Robin Williams toured in Australia a couple of times.

Source: Getty Images

31. “See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a *****, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”

32. “Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.”

33. “And if we bury you a** up, I have got a place to park my bike.” — as Patch Adams

34.

“A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a

weapon that kills. They’d make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a

while.”

35. “You could talk about same-s*x marriage, but people who have been married say, ‘It’s the same s*x all the time.’ ”

36. “You know, you get that tattoo of barbed wire when you’re 18, but by the time you’re 80, it’s a picket fence.”

Williams was 63 when he died.

Source: AP

37. “You do an eclectic celebration of the dance! You do

Fosse, Fosse, Fosse! You do Martha Graham, Martha Graham, Martha Graham!

Or Twyla, Twyla, Twyla! Or Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd,

Michael Kidd! Or Madonna, Madonna, Madonna! … But you keep it all

inside.” — as Armand in The Birdcage

38. “Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”

39. “Ballets: men wearing pants so tight you can tell what religion they are.”

40. “Look! The moon, like a !Removed!, hangs low in the sky.”

41. “Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table’s ready.’ ”

From an appearance in Britain with Prince Charles and Camilla in the audience.

Robin Williams

42. On President Obama’s name:

“Obama, which is an old Kenyan word for Kennedy, God bless us.”

43. On the end of the George Bush presidency:

“It’s the end of the reign of George the Second. The reign of error is over. America is officially out of rehab.”

44. On the American economy:

“And

you can’t blame the economy on [George W. Bush]. They say the economy

is essentially sound because people are considering buying things.

That’s like saying fat people are healthy because they might exercise.”

Robin Williams after being awarded Hasty Pudding Theatrical's Man of the Year award for 1989.

Source: AFP

45. “Where did they get Sarah Palin? ... Did Ronald Reagan

have a kid with Posh Spice? It’s like she came from some reality show — Project Running Mate.”

46.

“We’ll never have a s*x scandal with jack [Nicholson]. He’s done

everybody. I had Angelina Jolie and afterwards she adopted me.”

47.

“And you’ll never have a drug scandal. Jack’s [Nicholson] done every

drug known to mankind. He’s the only guy in the world where Keith

Richards will go, ‘I have to go home now, jack.’”

Robin Williams

48. From the Mork & Mindy pilot, 1978:

Mindy: “How do you say ‘Thank you’ in your language?”

Mork: “We spit.”

Mindy: “Mind if I don’t say thank you?”

Mork: “No sweat off my front.”

Robin Williams performs "Blame Canada", a song nominated for Best Original Song, during the 72nd Academy Awards.

Source: AFP

49. Mork: “I was a test-tube baby. My father was an eye-dropper, the scum. He ran off with a bottle of nose drops.”

50. Mork: “Why a man dates a woman?”

Fonzie: “Don’t men date on your planet?”

Mork: “Hard to tell. Parts are interchangeable.”

[Bono Estente]

R.I.P. Rob X