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Robin Williams on Barack Obama, George Bush, Sarah Palin and Keith Richards?

By Elizabeth Snead

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December 13, 2008 6:34 PM

News flash: Robin Williams is politically funnier than ever.

Listen to the rehabbed, newly single comic (introduced as Robbie Williams by John Cleese) talk to a British audience about President-elect Barack Obama's White House ("A basketball court in the Rose Garden!"), list George W. Bush's top comedy routines from his eight years in office and what the former POTUS will do when he leaves office ("Clearly, a speaking tour is out of the question").

Williams also compares John McCain to your crazy uncle who is on some new medication and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as being straight off a reality TV show, "Project Running Mate."

Williams explains to the Brits that he lives in California, where 60% of the population is Latino and the governor is Austrian.

"Even old Nazis are going, "That's weird."

And who knew he could do such a spot-on Keith Richards and Bono.

Watch the video. If you don't laugh at least once, let me know and I will send you a dollar.

Maybe.


18 Comments

Robin certainly is spot on with funny jokes about some of the political figures. He is so funny with his nonstop rapid fire delivery.. Seems to have a new lease on life. Wonder what he takes.


I laughed out loud. And I'm British...


i was watching that stand up live on tv here in the uk it was hilaiorus.


Mrs. Sarah Palin, the problem is not that the media hates you or it is about sexism. The real issue is you were not up to the job you were seeking. You sounded dumb and stupid most of the times and even my thirteen years old daughter thinks you are a disgrace to women, that is not sexism. Go back to school and improve yourself or get some good people around you and get back to learning American history, not radicalism right wing rubbish. may be the future might be kinder to you.


All of you that say unkind things about Sarah are so jealous of her. If you would put forth as much effort towards something constructive we would all be better off. You continue to bash her for every move she makes. No one has the right to judge, only OUR Heavenly Father.


And THAT, Mardeanne, is precisely why the rest of us so clearly see her as a moron and you elect not to.

See, it's no longer up for negotiation. We were right. Have been all along. The majority of the American public all saw the same thing. While I think it;s nice, sweet, noble for you to have these ecclesiastical ideals about what we're "allowed" to feel, perceive, and act upon, the bottom line is this:

MOST of us saw a yahoo and a nitwit embarrassing herself. We chose not to vote for her. SOME of you (hell, maybe you're better people than the rest of us. Good on you.) inexplicably dismiss these myriad examples of dismal stupidity and coddle her ineptitude. But hey, that's fair. I wouldn't vote for YOU either.

Personally, I hope she IS back in '12. Preferably paired with a more suitable running mate. Maybe a Tickle-Me Elmo. I don't necessarily want to throw my weight behind Obama 4 years hence until I've seen his performance, but I've definitely had enough Bush to last a lifetime.


Frankly I just just think of Palin as Bush in skirts what more does one need to say?


Robin Williams is a disgrace to his profession.

And the laughter from Great Britan makes me think of the little class the Palms have. By the time Barry Obama is done America will have fell to Socialism and on the verge

of a Civil War, or another revolution.


It's "will have fallen" Larry. Do please try to add a little class of your own if you are going to criticise others dear boy. There's a good chap. Nice and sunshiney in Arizona is it? Go get some and give your obviously overtaxed brain a rest.


It's "All of you who say unkind things," Mardeanne, not all of you that say unkind things. Plus, it's toward, not towards, Mardeanne, and I am not jealous of people who shoot God's beautiful wolves from aircraft; what, she eats all of the wolf meat too? What if you were a mother in a meadow with your offspring, and all of a sudden bullets were flying toward you and your children? Would that be God's will too, Mardeanne? I just wanna know. Does God love any of his Alaskan wild life, Mardeanne, or only the wildlife in the rest of the 49 states? No, not jealous, Mardeanne, sad. Very, very sad. I have a feeling that some of the attention concerns those terrible killings Sarah commits for sport, Mardeanne.


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