How much time does Robbin Williams prepare?
I was watching his routine on HBO tonight. I was completely enraptured not by his message but the amount of transition between topics and amount of content he covered and his performance over his own experience. Heart surgery and alcoholism and pointing fingers (and I won’t tell you where)
It was quite the thing to watch. I calculated that he must have spent at least 18 hours just writing his 90 min hour show. Then to practice and craft that which he entertains us with. Mind boggling time.
Preparation Hours or Preparation H.
What runs through his energetic brain? How does he stay focused? He has so many thoughts strung together that he somehow manages joint together the bone to poke the funny all the while making us think that he just says stuff on the fly. It is seamless.
This is craft. Molded and fostered allowing the personality of his own short cummings to be the center of amusement. To be able to know what the outcome is before he starts. What is it that motivates him? Is it the laughter? Being on stage? The funny things the human race does?
If you were Robin Williams and had to be up on stage with thousands of people expecting you to make them laugh. How much time would you prepare your “show” and practice it?
This gives me a lot to ponder. If I was Robin Williams my philosophy would be to try to see the humor in my own life and see that the little things that make me tick are to tickle the funny bone. That seriously serious things like a heart attack and alcoholism however serious are meant to be a wake up call to take the moments in life seriously funny when you can accept them.
Robin Williams has a true gift. Fly in the seat of your panties and make you laugh at your own foibles all the while making something that appears easy was done with a ton of joyous work with the purpose to laugh.
What is it that makes you get up, shake off your troubles and make you laugh within those rude awakenings by turning your life into something worth watching? If you don’t know where to start what do you think Robin Williams would do or say? Three questions…
“Does it eat? Does it Breathe? Does it grow? Try wearing a banana in your shoe and even when you fail you can still win.”
All you need is some preparation H!
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