“I would like to do for you now, a Japanese science fiction movie: "Attack of the Killer Vibrators."”

—  Robin Williams

Performance at the L.A. Improv (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7crqRvhhc

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American actor and stand-up comedian 1951–2014

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