Is it just me or is Jimmy Fallon a big sycophant here? Is his entire show like this? Yikes.

I hear he is or was a avid WOW player as well.

Anything to avoid talking about Old Dogs.

> Is it just me or is Jimmy Fallon a big sycophant here?

a bit annoying yes

all talk show hosts are sycophants generally, except occasionally david letterman

fallon always rubbed me the wrong way. he was terrible on SNL. i don't know how he got his own show when there are so many incredibly talented people available. he must be someone's nephew

This is why every talskhow should have Norm McDonald in the second chair.

God, it must be so tiring to spend a day with Robin Williams. Always the voices and the little characters.

Didn't know about WoW, around the time of the first Half-Life 2 E3 showing I read he got to see it and had been a big Half-Life fan.

>> ^harry:
God, it must be so tiring to spend a day with Robin Williams. Always the voices and the little characters.

Yes. He must go through personal assistants like tic tacs.

It must suck to have to pretend laugh at everything Robin Williams says. You'd think he'd know he's not terribly funny and cut it out.

Except I'm sure that everyone always laughs at all of his "jokes" (with quotation fingers) because he's

Robin Williams ™

So maybe he doesn't know...

I've hear Jon Stewart is an avid gamer as well. He mentioned playing UT on his show a few years ago, so I imagine he still dabbles.

Well I think he thinks if he throws enough jokes out there someone will think one of them is funny. So if has ten bad jokes and one good one then hes had at least one laugh. I bet hes not like that off the cameras. Then again what do I know.

I'm guessing Robin Williams would have your busting stitches constantly.

He's a clown. People like that read your body language and engage you personally. It almost doesn't matter what he's saying because with people like him it's an intimate interaction. I'd be the first to say he's made some pretty unfunny movies but I don't doubt his ability to kill every one of you doubters with laughter.

No love for Williams? I remember him appearing on a chat show a few years ago alongside Stephen Fry and he ran rings round him. Fry couldn't get a word in edgeways, and he continually changed the subject to obscure topics that Williams would instantly respond to with quicksilver witticisms.

Ain't nothing faster than Robin Williams all coked up.

I love Williams I just dont get everything he says. Maybe its over my head.
>> ^DrivelsAdvocate:
No love for Williams?

only stupid teenage boys that do school shootings play video games. we have known that since the 90s

Jimmy Fallon:
  Got the job because he was in the same building. Conan left and they just looked in the hallway and saw Fallon walking around and said "hey kid, you want your own show?"

Robin Williams:
  Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
But seriously- he is genuinely talented, just too over-the-top.

Robin Williams used to go to the annual West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco waaay back in the day before he was super famous, he liked to see the new games being demoed.

>> ^DrivelsAdvocate:
I remember him appearing on a chat show a few years ago alongside Stephen Fry and he ran rings round him. .


Do you remember what show it was? I'd really love to see that.

Also, my new clan tag for MW2 is now VFVW. haha.

Robin Williams is a major long term gamer, and not just video games.

He plays the Warhammer table top miniature game - he apparently has a massive Ork army.

For what it is worth, he used to frequent the Games Workshop store at the Metreon in San Francisco for his Warhammer fix and sometimes go across to the Portal One video arcade there as well where he would play DDR with his kids.

yeah, link to the Fry vs Williams video?

>> ^lavoll:
yeah, link to the Fry vs Williams video?


I haven't been able to find it on the Sift or on YouTube. It's an episode of Parkinson from a few years ago, in which Fry discusses his new book - A Peruvian Diary - while Williams continually interrupts him. Well worth sifting if you can locate it.

Don't dis Robin Williams. I love him!

I would say he >> ^jwray:
Don't dis Robin Williams. I love him!


Agreed. And I do believe he has done more good than bad movies.

I seem to recall Robin Williams on a late night talk show back in the mid-late 90s (maybe 96 or 97) talking about getting owned in Quake. That was exciting back then because playing an FPS over a network was still a new thing, so he seemed hip.

Fallon's great at impressions and stuff. His little Jon Meyer song from Weekend Update in late 2003 is one of the funniest bits of musical parody ever. But just like Jon Stewart, Fallon ruins almost every single bit and joke by pretending to be cracked up by the material. If he was actually cracking up it might not bother me so much. But it's just bad acting which fails to manipulate as designed. Rather than making me laugh, suddenly I feel insulted, like it's been assumed I'm a simpleton. Indignation!

Wasn't it Fallon who played Robin Williams back in SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy days?

*dead

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by legacy0100.

*blocked
*length=2:11

The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 2:11 - length declared by bareboards2.

This video has been flagged as having an embed that is Region Blocked to not function in certain geographical locations - declared blocked by bareboards2.

*dead

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

Mordhaus has fixed this video's dead embed code - no Power Points awarded because Mordhaus's points are already fully charged.