Robin Williams' Golden Globe lifetime achievement award

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>> We all saw him martian on mork and mindy, and in many ways we still do. Sees surely not of this earth, he's the superhuman from another planet. To watch and listen to him is to feel serious pain in our abdominal muscles, since hard and long laughing is as painful as doing a few dozen sit-ups. Try it. Try and working with him over the course of a whole movie. It really hurts.

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>> so we all know he's probably the funniest man on earth or mars. Not everyone knows of his -- well, I'm sorry, there's no other word -- but goodness. He's adored by everyone on the set and the theert because he is kind and thoughtful with everyone. He is a great husband and father to his wife and children, and they get right back at him by being the best. He is a rare friend. He takes care of his friends, always. He goes without fanfare to iraq and to afghanistan twice, because he thinks the soldiers there would probably like some laughs. He is, to put it simply, a wonderful man. In 1992, robin received a special award from the hollywood foreign press association for giving us the voice of the genie in the animated feature aladdin, and in that film he sang a wonderful song which sums up howl we all feel about his career. The world of entertainment has never had a friend like this. 41F341A2.JPG

>> Ay! 10,000 years will give you such a krick in the neck.

You ain't never had a friend like me

you ain't never had a friend never had a friend you ain't never had a friend like me

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>> robin, come and get it!

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>> thank you! My english is not so good.

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>> i thank the hollywood foreign press. Gracias. Danke. Mercy.

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>> thank you hollywood foreign press! Thank you for this, little nippley thing on the top. A wonderful award. And quick, janet jackson! 41F34233.JPG

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>> i have to thank the hollywood foreign press because, nn award as best newcomer and two years later you gave the same award to pia zadora. Thank you!

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>> that was very humbling. Thank you! You're quite amazing that way. I didn't know what the foreign press was. I always thought it was a wrestling move. And then i went to my first hollywood foreign press. They had it, it was the press conference and i said, who are the peoplethe buffet? I said, those are the ho foreign press. What a lovely thing! Try the danish! Some nice danish is good for m at that time, a long time ago, they all had day jobs. I guess things have changed. You go to a restaurant saying, hi, table for two? It's always nice to go there they take the pictures. I had the magazine upside down. I'm very sorry to the chinese people. I'm very sorry. I'd like to thank also the hollywood foreign press for, number one, having an open bar. This makes this evening go kind of well. Especially the year that gerard had a couple of bottles of wine and said, I want to give jeffrey a big, wet kiss! I hope that happens someday. I also want to thank you for having prince,... William shatner,... Puff daddy and mick jagger on the same stage. 41F3428A.JPGThat is the si apocalypse. Thank you! That is the end of the world as we know it! I also want to thank the hollywood foreign press for acknowledging comedy. Jim, you know this. Normally they look at comedians as special people, "thank you very much" and you allow us to be in the room with adults. You even have a category for us: Comedy and dancing! There's a lot of dancers who could have been up here tonight, but they didn't make it!

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>> i also want to thank the hollywood foreign press for their lovely "star trek the musical" set.

[ Laughter ] but do you acknowledge comedy, which is a wonderful thing, over the years, and that's been a glorious, glorious thing. You know, comedy is very hard. Comedy is about women with wonderful hands, and ... 41F342BD.JPG

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>> a governor in california who talks like this.

[ Imitating arnold schwarzenegger ] a man who says "welcome to california!" I want to thank them. Because every time i would go to the hollywood foreign press, they would say -- and if i knew the movie wasn't very good, there was this one woman named dora who would go: How are the kids? So dora, i brought my kids tonight. They're here tonight. I want to introduce cody, the ninja poet. Cody. Zelda. Photographer, actress. Big fan of "hello kitty." Zachary, the linguist. He does very good. He's going to open up a syntax repair shop. And I also want to share this award with a very special woman, a lifetime achievement award. With marcia. I would like to give you my praise for living with a comedian. Isn't that right, sybill? Yes! We're a little rough. But thank you for offering me a shelter in the midst of all this. Thank you. A wonderful thing. I also want to thank another amazing woman, and rebecca spencer, who is my assistant, has a quick way of really leveling me when i get too infused in myself, going i'm a star. She'll go: Hey, mork guy! 41F3431D.JPGOh, did yo private plane? Life's a bitch. Come on, let's go. Rebecca. Freud once said: If it's not one thing, it's your mother. I thank you, mom.

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>> thank you for getting me hooked in this profession. You got me started. I also want to thank my hebrew crew. You know who i'm talkin' about. I'm sending out my representatives. I'm sending a big hey! Out to david steinberg, larry, buddy if he's awake. Jack rollins, the most ethical man in show business. And I want to thank a very, very special person tonight. I dedicate this award to the memory of a friend of mine. Chris reeves, I miss you, and i also say, may flights of angels send thee to thy rest, sweet prince. Good night. 41F3435F.JPG

>> We co for best actor and actress in a motion picture drama on the golden globes.


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