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Time & Perspective Quote by Carlos Alazraqui

"We got to go to Lucas Ranch and at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him"

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Name-dropping Robin Williams isn’t just a flex here; it’s a perfectly calibrated comedy-world status update. Carlos Alazraqui frames the moment like a backstage anecdote, but the real punchline is social: access. Lucas Ranch (read: George Lucas’s inner circle) is already a kind of cultural VIP wristband, and then he casually stacks it with the ultimate badge of comic legitimacy - a car ride with Robin Williams. The syntax does the work: a long, breathless sentence that mimics how comics talk when they’re still excited they were even in the room.

The stated intent is modest - recounting a memory - but the subtext is about hierarchy and validation. “I made all of the other comics jealous” isn’t cruelty; it’s the currency of a scene where everyone is measuring proximity to greatness. He’s not saying “I’m as good as Robin.” He’s saying “For a second, I was adjacent to the mythology,” which is often how comedians narrate their careers: in brush-with-legend moments that confer legitimacy.

There’s also a tender undercurrent in the mundanity of “a condo about a mile from Robin Williams.” It shrinks a towering figure into a neighbor on a map, human-scale. The ride home matters because it implies something rarer than fame: time. Not stage time - personal time. For comics, that’s the real intimacy, the thing everyone wants but only a few get invited into.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Alazraqui, Carlos. (2026, February 16). We got to go to Lucas Ranch and at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-got-to-go-to-lucas-ranch-and-at-that-time-my-121570/

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Alazraqui, Carlos. "We got to go to Lucas Ranch and at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-got-to-go-to-lucas-ranch-and-at-that-time-my-121570/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We got to go to Lucas Ranch and at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-got-to-go-to-lucas-ranch-and-at-that-time-my-121570/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Carlos Alazraqui (born July 20, 1962) is a Actor from USA.

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