Late Show: Robin Williams

nice to have those folks with us our next guest tonight is an Academy award-winning actor and a very entertaining man he's just back from performing in his USO tour in Iraq and Afghanistan it's the one and only a Robin ladies and gentlemen general leave before we begin our Civil War Reenactment David will charge the back row and the rest of you just stand there my god you should have your own cough drop how you doing nice to be here with you rabbi thank you very much how much money heavy rains on the lovely Habad telethon we're with David Letterman thank you working in this lovely 8 weeks off converting to Judaism and he's circumcised him Sal oh what a wonderful thing my god man you've aged thank you well eight weeks seems like only a moment endo happy new year to you happy new year grandpa no I remember Exeter I know it's ridiculously careful someone might try and assassinate I just came back from Iraq everyone looks flawless oh um oh uh mom you're not David Letterman to show you uh early on in the strike the Writers Guild strike I see you ordered our young picket line yes sir I was after you handing out doughnuts and caviar just to help them keep them going those young people standing out there picketing at the bottom of the Time Warner building is yelling up a two to nothing real I love the guy who walks around with a blank sign that's truly like there you go daddy that's it in a nutshell I think so I mean we're even without words that'd be pretty rough show good evening nice - back from Hollywood what hello Oh knows that a picture of me online I believe so there it is striking with the peep they are my friend Eric sting goes Justin spindle the Friday a friend with your brother workers out here on buffer workers on the Union line right now I just want to say you're a friend of the brother worker David even though you're dressed right now like Dale Carnegie it looks you look amazing it's a good thing what you've done Dave you've done you've struck a blow against pretty much insanity don't look really we're making progress kha'zix uh the stocks today there's no money on iTunes Oh mr. jobs just standing right on top of it Walter Brennan is back oh my god oh my god Dave will do the truck show let's get out there do a monologue those writers need food come on Nucky that's great I haven't heard Walter Brennan in years hey man Brokeback Mountain would have been scary oh not the a you oh yeah oh Christ dude don't like okay poopy run backer with Robin Williams everybody and the show no we're working around tonight it's going like an Amish computer tell the folks how you spent some of your holiday season you traveled to the Middle East you've been there for three or four times it feels like Bob Hope what a crazy time and you go to Iraq the Iraqi start off in Qatar which is an air base and then go to Iraq Afghanistan Kyrgyzstan and a series of one-night stands it was me this is a pretty wild lineup it was uh Miss USA oh sure Ana and one general introduced her as Miss USDA wishes it some guys go whoa where were the good Domon then there was uh it was uh Louis black mm-hmm Lance Armstrong myself and Kid Rock and Wow good show it's a strength show yeah it uh I don't think the USO is going oh wow what are we gonna do uh but when you when you get there what is the Amelia I mean your world changes completely when you step off that plane doesn't it yeah once you put on body armor it's an interesting day yeah and you get into an armored truck and they take you to the venue and you know you're performing in front of a group of people a lot of them wearing body armor and heavily armed I mean in one of the places we were in a big base in Afghan and at Iraq and it was a it was the first time they had an outdoor show and it looked kind of like an Iraqi NASCAR track they had all these armored Hummers and this thing called an MRAP and it was huge and and everyone was outside and there was a soccer field with a bunker in the middle which makes you know halftime really interesting and they were head and the head there the guy dressed as Santa strapped with two 45s and elves with m16s and ago it's gonna be a fun Christmas here's your gift open it now in front of me Santa go down the chimney drop the gift kids stay with me but for the old backward and how do they seem to be compared to the first time you went over there is the spirit and the morale still is healthy and happy I mean there's quiet which is always lovely mm-hmm any coming is not the thing you want to hear on Christmas no yeah they seem good it was like it's just great to see all because it's especially when they had a show outside was like there was this incredible energy and I think we have some videotape so this is a very strange moment this was one basin was I was in the midst of my thing and all of a sudden you hear it's this thing called the retreat and I heard that later when should we all leave and what no no it's at six o'clock I think it's at sundown they suddenly played this and all of a sudden everybody even every man woman and child turned away towards the flag and I was like okay what'll I do now right in the middle of your ass in the middle of my act there's a bit like being in a small town where everyone's going we have to look at the Sun this whole town are they look at the Sun yeah you're not one of us are you I'm a we live in a town where we have to look at the Sun was it like being in a Celine Dion concert everybody that's uh I love your jacket Paul god bless Liberace in his garage sale oh yeah I said we're the same let's show the videotape a videotape of the retreat all right take a look this is not a wreck you said right just gone on to rehab that's a good show because I was violating my standards quicker than I could lower them I'm not gonna forget that I'm never an entire audience just go forget you Wow who's scheduling the shows oh I'd be wonderful if you played that right now in the entire audience it's right in there thanks Dave great to be here I have enough trouble without that uh but it must be a thrill for you at a thrill for those folks what a tremendously generous thing you can do it's minimum effort for me and you get back so much yeah I would think so and amazing cuz all at one time we were in one base that we couldn't get out to get to this other show is a sandstorm and it's just and it's insane cuz you eventually you end up coughing up a small child which what and Angelina Jolie adopted it Emilia I was that baby good heavens but the weather from from Qatar was 85 to Iraq which was in the 70s in Afghanistan it's snowing it's like it's insane but you meet the most extraordinary people like just people that are out there every day out out of the wire and among among the stuff yeah it's it's it's the best it really is the best these people represent the best don't they of this could I do yeah maybe a hundred years from now that'd be yeah how you doing you doing all right I'm good day did you look like you just got out of rehab just don't shave don't you go Britney on me though thank you very much you

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Keywords: Late, Show, with, David, Letterman, Robin, Williams

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Length: 10min 8sec (608 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 16 2008