Robin, we're gonna miss you.

One of the first things my mama did was teach me how to laugh. She raised me on comedic genius, filtering my movie education through Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, the Marx Brothers, Mel Brooks, Jerry Lewis, George Burns, Monty Python, so many more... and, of course, Robin Williams.

I mean, she told us stories about Robin Williams. The shit he got up to on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson  (shut up, we didn't have YouTube in those days), or the oft-repeated scenario of how he proposed to his wife. We didn't know the guy personally, but we grew up knowing he was funnier than a roomful of ferrets trippin' balls.

Robin Williams made the world a funnier place.

So many of his movies were not funny.

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