On a Monday night in 2009 I was standing in the the back office of UCB talking to Fernie and Susan when Robin Williams poked his head in and asked if he could sit in with one of the teams. Fernie and I both kinda looked at each other and then said, well you can sit in with us. I'll always remember how on board he was for everything. Here was a guy who had been in a ton of movies, but had absolutely no ego about doing silly warm-ups with Sentimental Lady in the back hallway by a bunch of dumpsters (he quickly caught on to how to play thumper, and we still say his thumper before every show to this day). Before the show he chatted with us like he was any other comedian that was around the theater (I remember we talked a bunch about World War 1), then he came out and did a Harold with us and it was great. Pretty much every move the man made was hilarious and you could see this was a guy that just loved being on stage. It's sad Robin Williams is gone but I'll always remember how this man loved comedy and performing so much that for a few months he would regularly show up at UCB and do the Jam or sit in with teams.
