Robin Williams is the sort of comedian of whom the phrase “comic genius” is nowadays used. Not because he is a genius or even particularly comical, but because that’s just the sort of phrase favored by the sort of people who like his sort of comedian.
I started watching Mork and Mindy during the Williams publicity blitz last year. It was fun for a while: he is indeed a superlatively inventive young man. Then one night I couldn’t bring myself to watch him again. Never have I tired of a performer so abruptly. It was a mystery to me: I’d expected to enjoy him, until I faced the immediate prospect of turning on my set.
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