Twitter: Norm Macdonald recalls 'funniest man in the world,' Robin Williams

[Electric Monk]

It was my first stand-up appearance on Letterman and I had to follow the funniest man in the world. #RIPRobinWilliams

I was a punk kid from rural Ontario and I was in my dressing room, terrified. #RIPRobinWilliams

I was on the phone to a friend back home when the funniest man in the world ambled by. #RIPRobinWilliams

There was no one else on the floor. In shock, I told my friend who just walked by. Only the funniest man in the world. #RIPRobinWilliams

I guess he heard me say his name, cause in an instant he was at my side. #RIPRobinWilliams

He was a jewish tailor, taking my measurements. He went down on his knees, asked which way I dressed. #RIPRobinWilliams

I told my friend on the phone that the funniest man in the world was on his knees before me, measuring my inseam. #RIPRobinWilliams

My friend didn't believe me so I said, "Could you talk to my friend, sir. #RIPRobinWilliams

The funniest man in the world took the phone and for ten minutes took my friend's chinese food order. #RIPRobinWilliams

I laughed and laughed and it was like I was in a dream because no one else was there. No one. #RIPRobinWilliams

The place was out of Moo Shoo Pork, and there was nothing he could do about it. #RIPRobinWilliams

He angrily hung up on my friend and I was about to thank him when he said I hadn't even tried the jacket on. #RIPRobinWilliams

Then the funniest man on earth dressed me, a complete stranger, and i remember he ended with a windsor knot. #RIPRobinWilliams

He spoke mostly yiddish, but when he finished he was happy with his job and turned me to a mirror to present myself to me.#RIPRobinWilliams

No one witnessed any of this. No one. #RIPRobinWilliams

The funniest man alive was in my dressing room a good half-hour and was far funnier than the set I had to do soon.#RIPRobinWilliams

When he left my dressing room, I felt alone. As alone as I ever remember feeling. #RIPRobinWilliams

Until today. #RIPRobinWilliams

Unacceptable. #RIPRobinWilliams

— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald)

https://twitter.com/normmacdonald

http://www.today.com/entertainment/robin-williams-meeting-remembered-norm-macdonald-1D80054126

[riverwalker]

1. how he made Chris Reeves laugh after his accident

His approaching operation to reattach his skull to his spine (June 1995) “was frightening to contemplate. … I already knew that I had only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the surgery. … Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent.” The man announced that he was a proctologist and was going to perform a rectal exam on Reeve. It was Robin Williams, reprising his character from the film Nine Months. Reeve wrote: “For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/the-lifelong-friendship-of-robin-williams-and-christopher-re#3vi9igh