[ SECRET POST #2788 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2788 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the thing is, this wasn't just a rumor. Williams was notorious for it in the 80s, at which time he was still doing stand-up but starting to gain more fame on television. The general public didn't know. Why would they? They lacked the media access that makes stories like this go viral on the internet. (See: Carlos Mencia)

Comedians knew. Even in my smallish hometown miles and miles away from Los Angeles and with one comedy club, the comedians who performed there knew.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070217031356/http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/02/take_the_funny_and_run_1.php

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[(Anonymous)]

I've heard somebody tried to call him out on stealing jokes... But he wasn't even at that comedian's show.

He actually talked about it on WTF with Marc Maron.

http://www.prx.org/pieces/63067-wtf-episode-106-with-robin-williams

From an article in Rolling Stone:

"Williams still speaks in tongues, but nowadays you always know who you're talking to. Over the course of the weekend, he'll have some reverent things to say about Dr. Oliver Sacks, upon whom Williams's timorous, inward character in Awakenings is loosely based. He'll have some angry things to say about the fact that not long ago he was hanged in effigy as stand-up comedy's master thief.

""His reputation for taking jokes and quickly making them his own is unequaled, dating back to his sudden emergence in the sitcom Mork & Mindy," GQ magazine reported in the summer of 1989. That reputation — though almost everyone agrees it's a specious one — continues to haunt Williams. "When he walks into a room," says the artistic coordinator of a prominent comedy club, "a lot of comedians don't want to take the stage. I think Williams has got a huge cloud over his head, and I believe he's held at arm's length from the comedy community."

Whoopi Goldberg, who thinks Williams is "the cat's pajamas," says in her friend's defense: "They made it sound as if Robin were taking their livelihood away. Comics do this all the time. Someone says a great line, and it stays with you, and you use it. We had 'Make my day.' Everybody was saying it, is that theft?"

All this is a sensitive subject, but Williams talks about it frankly. "I'm not gonna sit here and plead not guilty," he says. "If you watch comedy eight hours a day, something will register, and it'll come out. And if it happened, I said, 'I apologize. I'll pay you for this.' But I wasn't going out of my way to go fucking grave robbing. 'Cause if you're on top, they're gonna look for your ass.

"Then I started getting tired of just paying, just being the chump," he continues. "I said, 'Hey, wait a minute. It's not true.' People were accusing me of stealing stuff that basically was from my own life. And then I went, 'Wait, this is fucking nuts. I didn't take that. That's about my mother.' " Williams was even accused of stealing a joke from a comic he hadn't seen perform in two years. "So now I'm psychically stealing?" he asks. "What am I, Uri Geller? 'Psychic thief. This week in the Enquirer.'" Williams slowly loses some composure, but he is still funny. "A lot of comedy clubs are like Appalachian encounter groups," he says. "Everybody's doing everybody else. You can go into a club and see fifteen different people, and they're all chewing each other apart. 'You say, "Hello," you prick. That's mine. I wrote Hello.'"

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/robin-williams-fears-of-a-clown-20140811?page=4

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[(Anonymous)]

Interesting article! The part that jumped out at me:

""His reputation for taking jokes and quickly making them his own is unequaled, dating back to his sudden emergence in the sitcom Mork & Mindy," GQ magazine reported in the summer of 1989. That reputation — though almost everyone agrees it's a specious one — continues to haunt Williams.

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[(Anonymous)]

... and yet they only interviewed Williams' friends for the article, eh? I imagine people who might be angry about the joke stealing probably aren't close to the guy.

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[(Anonymous)]

Jesus but some of the guys in that article come off as petty playground thugs who never grew up. Bragging about slamming people into walls, getting two on one with a smaller, inexperienced performer, ruining their career. Those are the the guys that should not be working. The attitude to have is the guy who said write fresher material, newer jokes. Who wants to be telling the same old stale routine for ten years anyway, apart from lazy bums.