Robin Williams: still great

Robin Williams appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman last Monday night, supposedly to promote his new film, Old Dogs. Instead, he spent the first 2 minutes or so mocking that symbol of the Republican party, Sarah Palin. Great stuff, as usual.

‘It’s wonderful. I went looking for her book, and I found it in the fantasy aisle – but you get the real thing. With Sarah, you get the feeling that in High School, she was voted “Least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one”. It was like, “What happened? What’s going down, girl?”. You look at her and you wonder, “Where did they find her, Project Running Mate? Is that how they got her?”.’ […] ‘I love the fact that they thought that Katie Couric was like “ambush journalism”, with “ambush questions” like “What do you read?”. “Oh, that, that’s a trick question!” “Not if you read, no, it’s not, really.” Caught her off-guard with “Do you read?”’

Mind you, the rest was pretty sweet, too. I don’t understand all the animosity I see aimed at the guy; he’s brilliant without being crude, something altogether too rare these days.

(via @todayspolitics)
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