"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!"
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The specificity does the heavy lifting. Wilmington and L.A. read like working-actor coordinates (shooting location versus industry base). “My trailer” is the tell: this isn’t a casual recommendation, it’s a survival tool between takes, a portable mood regulator. Comedy here is less entertainment than ballast. That’s the quiet subtext: a hyper-scheduled life needs an instant, reliable reset, and Williams is framed as the one performer who never fails to deliver it.
Calling Live on Broadway something that “never gets old” also gestures at Williams’s particular superpower: velocity. His improvisational barrage rewards repetition because you’re always catching something new, like rewinding a song to hear the lyrics you missed. And “funniest, wittiest man on the planet!” isn’t meant as a debatable claim; it’s emotional punctuation, the kind of declarative hyperbole that signals gratitude more than argument.
Culturally, it’s a snapshot of early-2000s celebrity taste-making: actors publicly staking sincere, uncoolly earnest attachments to other performers. Bush positions Williams as both genius and comfort object, a reminder that even inside the machine, you still need someone who makes you feel human.
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Bush, Sophia. (2026, January 15). I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-own-four-copies-of-robin-williamss-live-on-166681/
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Bush, Sophia. "I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-own-four-copies-of-robin-williamss-live-on-166681/.
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"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-own-four-copies-of-robin-williamss-live-on-166681/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.




