Eschew obfuscation

The way he captures the weird stutter and eye-roll is uncanny and hilarious

Robin did the same impression in Aladdin

Two brilliant comedians.

[Robin] Williams as William [F. Buckley Jr.] and he's more Buckley than the original!

Before this Robin was a regular on Richard Pryor Comedy Show in 1977

@Filmation77 My sentiments exactly.

Lol I was just about to comment on that too. I'm shocked I never thought they did anything together.

Williams hosted SNL at least twice that I can recall

Good catch! I totally missed that.

Norm MacDonald had good one. kzfaq.inforonoTDhTiXI

Me too! I was 10 or 11, and it's so much more funny now than it was then. More relevant as well.

I was literally JUST thinking the exact same thing.

Ok.... What about second? WHAT ABOUT SECOND?!?

@J J Buckley Jr was a pompous sh!tbag - how could anyone have watched that guy? Lol Watch his debate with Chomsky and Baldwin - he literally tells them he'll punch them in the face if they step out of line lol

It’s quite possible that this entire sketch was ad lib.

No the rest of the February 11 1984 SNL episode includes Robin and Eddie as babies thinking about busting out of "Baby Pen."

I was thinking the same thing, I don't think I ever saw them do anything together.

as ald fart myself, i remember buckley....robin nailed it.

I remember this as a kid. Williams nailed it. The face.

His guests were usually statesman and writers.

@@douglaslowe5 No one needs to remember him, almost all of his episodes are easily found online and dude has a point. I've been watching a bunch lately and just finished the documentary "Best of Enemies" which is about the 1968 Vidal/Buckley debates, not hard at all to find and watch comparisons.

very funny comination

Cum-i-nation?!

Mushu and the Genie in 1 skit.

funkdafied

The only thing he got wrong was that he didn't open with "I should like to begin by asking Doctor Holder... "

Nah, Williams is too manic. Buckley was almost comatose

He wasn't even close.

@@MicahCTheory That's what I'd say, he's too fast. But besides that, he's got the basic mannerisms down.

Never saw the Thomas sowell one but the eldrige cleaver one was like some sort of white vs black "swagger off"

They have great chemistry.

@Jeff Whitman Never said it was the greatest of all time. Reading is fundamental. They said "MY favorite of all time."

True would a been great or it woulda been perfect if thay done a third Nutty professor it woulda got Eddie back as Sherman klump Buddy love & robin playing back his role as danny hillard it woulda got him back doing mrs doubtfire woulda been the Nutty professor meets mrs doubtfire Perfect

@Adam Modrak I get that he's more manic in his mannerisms, but also remember it's a caricature more so than an impression... If he wanted to nail Buckley, he should have slowed it down the delivery to the pace of a funeral march and do that grimace/grin Buckley often did especially when looking around or when he was agitated. It probably wouldn't have been as engaging, but who knows.

@@shelbyherring92 ? He didn't speak particularly slowly.

​​​@@naysayer1238 well, he was quite a bit slower than in this sketch, albeit not really slow over all; Williams is just going much too fast. Buckley did have a kind of see-saw talking speed though, where he would speed up and slow down in a kind of rythmic pattern. The slow parts of that are pretty slow

@@shelbyherring92 Agree, the Buckley grimace/grin was definitely an omission in this impersonation but he also missed the one-eyed eye flutter while in the process of grimace/grinning ;)

That definitely was not a Thomas Sowell impression. Thomas Sowell is a libertarian. Yes he is conservative but black conservatives do not refer to other black men as brotha's. Also the sketch clearly stated his views were left wing conspiracies which was in line to the time when black men blamed the system for keeping black men down. What conservatives at the time would refer to as the angry black man symptom. Black conservatives usually blame the black community itself and black culture for slowing progress for black society, black liberals blame the society around them . The joke was to take an absurd accusation for why black men can't succeed in entertainment based on society circumstances and make it actually true. If anything he was reflecting more of a Cornell West or Jesse Jackson.

Outtakes of a live show?

Yeah, real shit impersonation. Way too fast, trying to be funny.

Buckley was indeed a ridiculous character.

@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns Well, despite not always agreeing with his political leanings, Buckley certainly had some odd mannerisms -- but that is all they were. Mannerisms. We all have them. And actually, he was not a ridiculous character, meaning open to ridicule. His character as a human was quite solid. A razor sharp intellect, well read, a deep thinker, good debater, confident, usually polite, very witty, able to give ground and be swayed by argument, inviting contrarian positions only his show. How many talk hosts do that nowadays? In those days, respectable people did not make fun of odd mannerisms. They engaged with the substance of the mind. And whereas Buckley added much to the social debate of his times and was always true to his own nature, Williams made a career out of cheap imitative humour and entertainment, thinly veiling what an insecure and messed up human he really was. Never found him funny or clever. Just a ham.

@@sd67b Well yes ... you and I and many others may "pull apart" Buckley's various opinions, views, statements about his own and his shared political positions, but this thread started -- and my posts have only been about -- the matter of his mannerisms and Robin William's portray of them. Then I commented on matters of character. But I sure ain't gunna buy into YOUR agenda of disagreements with Buckley's views on any topic. If you are American, and if you believe in so called free speech, then you, me, us all, must allow all voices to be heard, including the Limbaughs and Buckleys of this world. You cannot take away from Firing Line the massive platform he chose to give to viewpoints differing with his, such that YOUR BIGOTRY shows more clearly than his own. So many pundits today ONLY HAVE on their shows like-minded bigots. Their positions are so weak they cannot invite challenge. Hats off to Firing Line for not being so closed minded.

@@sd67b You badly confuse and conflate mannerisms, manners, character, opinions, and morals. Please study a dictionary on these terms before you comment on these topics again. And, you obviously do not read very carefully. "A ridiculous character" -- as Joseph McDermot posted -- is not the same as a having a character open to ridicule.

Definitely has that vibe

His blackness burned away

You fucking tried it😂

Yet there was the Pepsi commercial.

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@@lookbovine the same year as this too

No he doesn’t 🙄

Whats the biography called? Im gonna have to get it. Yes, I could just google it, but I prefer interaction with people if possible.

@@kari7403 Robin.

@@freddyrichards878 Thank you! Love that guy. I'll be reading that for sure. Thanks for mentioning it.

How minorities are entertaining rather than educated into more formal jobs.

Cringe

Gunther Malessom 🤔

🔥 😂

wait, what?

this skit is from 84

And Donkey

I agree, it was good humoured, not nasty, and presumed intelligence of its viewers in order to get the joke.

Not even f close.

At least sketches in shows that Robin guest hosted

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KQQNWELL is nothing special

@wings of a butterfly He's definitely got a better sense of humor. No disrespect to Sowell, I'm sure he's a fine economist, but he (Sowell) comes off as having a preset notion of the world before he explains the data, which as a social scientist you'd think it'd be the other way around: research first, extrapolate all the data, and then make an observation based on the data. But then again, you don't sell too many books by them being just an endless list of figures and a simple conclusionary statement. That said, Sowell is a fairly interesting character as a person, especially when you delve into how he thinks of the world.

@@shelbyherring92 Sowell actually does have a pretty good sense of humor, though of course Murphy is something special in that respect. Obviously you write the book stating your thesis at the outset; that need not correspond to how you originally came to the idea of the book. Sowell is far more empirical and data-driven than most social scientists and political economists, including those who criticize him.

Also, this isn't remotely close to a Sowell impression, either in speech or in mannerism. Whether that interview was the inspiration for this sketch, though, I couldn't say.

I really see no characteristics shared between Eddie's character and Thomas Sowell other than they're both black and wear glasses.

It's from 84 according to the description, so I think it was the newest look they could do

@@JachAnen I do not remember ever watching this video before, leaving this comment or why I didn't notice this was made in the 80s at the time. I just saw my comment here and...it is strange what you remember and forget after 4 years.

Ismail Farah Robin and Eddie should’ve done a movie together

@@jerramaurice7836 Exactly thaat's what im been saying 2