ROBIN WILLIAMS THE ONE-MAN BAND
ACTOR, Good Morning, Vietnam, Aladdin, The Birdcage, Fiubber, Mrs. Doubtfire, RV
Q: When did you first know you were fumy?
A: When I was on my mother's breast and said. "Is this thing on?" No, actually, I didn't know I was funny till maybe high school; I started to realize, this is a great way to meet chicks.
Q: There are people who say funny things and people who say things funny. Which are you?
A: I'm someone who looks funny.
Q: Can you teach humor? If so, who taught you?
A: Ah. Over a long period of time. And someone who taught me, Jonathan Winters. But that was by infusion
Q: What's funnier: a banana cream pie in the face or slipping on a banana peel?
A: A bunch of bananas in the face is painful, but it hasn't been done a lot.
Q: Pants falling down or people falling down?
A: People falling with their pants down.
Q: Animals or babies?
A: Animal babies.
Q: Who is the funniest person in politics?
A: It's hard because you have pretty much a commedia dell'arte going on right now. I would have to say for me, the greatest, the funniest voice in politics was Henry Kissinger, just 'cause you always wanted to hear him say [in deep voice with German accent], "Two Jews walk into a bar."
Q: When is sex funny?
A: The faces you make during an orgasm rival the Three Stooges. Even they would say it would be too much.
Q: Fill in the blanks: Comedy is to tragedy as x is to x.
A: As clowns are to birthdays.