I caught Robin Williams' HBO Comedy special last night. He really isn't very funny at all. His act was nothing but a series of cheap laughs, consisting mostly of current events jokes intermixed with potty humor. The current events jokes are really a shame, in that they seriously date his performance. Take a look at a Bill Cosby performance from the 60s, and it is still hilarious today. Cosby's act was based on the timelessness of the family unit, and not political subjects that are out of date after 6 months.

Also, Robin had a few problems with accuracy that really got on my nerves. First, he did a whole bit on golf and golf carts. Several times he made reference to pro golfers using golf carts, which they do not. As a matter of fact, a few years ago, a handicapped golfer had to sue the PGA (which he did, successfully) just to be allowed to use a golf cart. Second, I'm being very nitpicky, but he mistakenly attributed the Mars orbiter crash to an engineering mixup between feet and meters, when it was actually a mixup between newtons and kilograms.