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12th Aug 2014

JOE looks at 50 of Robin Williams’ funniest moments

"Sometimes you've got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun."

Paul Moore

“Sometimes you’ve got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.”

The world is still coming to terms with the loss of the incredibly gifted comedian and actor Robin Williams who tragically passed away.

We have already brought you some of our favourite memories from his movies along with this touching tribute from the location of arguably his greatest scene.

There have been plenty of extremely poignant and touching tributes, however, lets take a look at Williams doing what he did best…making us laugh.

Here are 50 of the best moments, jokes and images from his varied and brilliant career.

1) His Oscar Speech

2) “Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”

3) “Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: “You’ve just killed a small animal. It’s time for a light beer.” Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, “It’s five o’clock in the morning. You’ve just pissed on a dumpster. It’s Miller time.”

4) The moment he met Zig and Zag

5) “Do you think God gets stoned? I think so . . . look at the platypus.”

6) “If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.”

7) “You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.”

8) This image of him as a cheerleader

9) Mork and Mindy

10) “We may all be dead and gone, Keith Richards will still be there with five cockroaches. He’ll be going, “I smoked your uncle, did you know that?”

11) “When in doubt, go for the dick joke.”

12) “Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.”

13) His views on football

14) “The moment the Pope dies, they take him through St. Peter’s Basilica, and fifty thousand cell phones are like [pantomimes the clicking sounds of camera phones] And I’m sure that was his last wish. “When I die, I want to be a screensaver.”

15) His guest cameo on the Richard Pryor show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stZc9bjVJ7o#t=165

16) “If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t there.”

17) “And what’s George W. Bush doing now? He’s a motivational speaker. It’s kind of cool. It’s kind of like having Lindsay Lohan as a guidance counselor.”

18) “Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.”

19) “Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”

20) This interview with Johnny Carson

21) Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and “tics” meaning “bloodsucking creatures”

22) His own live stand up show

23) “Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.”

24) “My God. We’ve had cloning in the South for years. It’s called cousins.”

25) His Oscars experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyd6smXGBlM

26) “People go “now, Robin, how do I know if I’m an alcoholic?” Well as one, let me give you some warning signs. Number one, after a night of heavy drinking, you wake up fully clothed going “Hey! Somebody shit in my pants!”

27) “Number two, you have a couple of cocktails, you find yourself on the freeway going, “What are these fu#*ers doing going the wrong way?”

28) “Number three, you get drunk, you go out for Indian food, you wake up in Bombay with a camel licking your balls.”

29) His views on Golf

30) We had gay burglars the other night; they broke in and rearranged the furniture.

31) You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married say, ‘It’s the same sex all the time.

32) I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

33) This tweet about Kim Kardashian

34) “I’d like to start the show by showing you something I’m very proud of. You’ll have to step back, though.”

35) “The manly sport of golf, where you can dress like a pimp and no one will care.”

36) This performance to the U.S troops

37) “Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.”

38) “If it’s the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?”

39) “See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”

40) This routine based solely about a scarf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJAbr5SZcsQ

41) “Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?”

42) “I went to rehab in wine country, just to keep my options open.”

43) This lovely moment with Jack Nicholson

44) “I remember when the economy was working and there was a budget surplus. Yeah! “Where’s Clinton?” We impeached him. “F*’k! For what?” A blowjob. “Wow! Who did he blow, Putin?”

45) “The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material.”

46) His cameo on Friends

47) This tickle fight with a gorilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j1Hq8L28Us

48) “Sometimes you’ve got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.”

49) “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”

50)  His best moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1uWvvMsL5w

H.T – Total Film

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