Robin Williams Salutes Mike Nichols at the AFI Life Achievement Award

ladies and gentlemen Robin Williams those of you right now feel like this is a telethon on mushrooms enjoy we've raised over a million and a half dollars I still have some images running through my mind jack-jack talking about oysters have enemies man you say that even booty would go what are you offering that seems to work my [ __ ] capacitor obey Igor what's happening what's Marx do Igor and May would not have worked as well sounds like a Transylvanian magic act it wouldn't have gone much and you were born in Berlin which makes you the funniest German I know it's kind of like that's like the same funniest German is like sexiest nun it's kind of a short list but have you been born in Vienna you could have been a von Trapp and that would have been a much different musical event the heels are alive with the sound of fleeing Hey a word that sounds like phlegm schwa a color from the Sun oil a man who snips the skin boys the people make us wrong is your amazing guy it's a it's incredible to work with you I mean you are you're a very brilliant child obviously we've talked about that a brilliant child it's rumored that you even had final cut at your own circumcision when we were doing Waiting for Godot one night we jumped queues and we dropped 25 minutes from the first act and it's only 40 minutes so that was like much shorter it's a bit like the French production of Anne Frank she's upstairs you you came backstage at the intermission and you said this you said well that's one way to do it you're a mensch which is an old Navajo word you are a mess the best thing man after my heart surgery you sent me there is this incredible email and it meant more to me than any medication so that was a wonderful thing man thank you Mazel Tov you deserve it enjoy the rest of the rat it's your night man

Channel: American Film Institute

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Length: 2min 46sec (166 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 27 2012