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Robin Williams Live 2002 Release Date: 2002 11 19 Label: Sony Rating:

Robin Williams has been surprisingly successful at locating cinematic vehicles that provide him with an opportunity to use his special comic gifts, namely a rapid-fire associational ability that finds him jumping from topic to topic as audiences, barely able to keep up, laugh at the juxtapositions as much as the jokes, and a talent for mimicry that extends beyond every known accent to include the imagined voices of a variety of inanimate objects. He has been so successful, in fact, that he has done relatively little of the work that best employs his attributes, standup comedy. But in 2002, after 16 years off the road working in Hollywood, Williams undertook a tour of North America chronicled on this two-CD set. Unlike the simultaneously released Live on Broadway DVD, which depicts the tour's final performance in New York City, the CD is culled from shows around the continent, though the material is essentially the same. While extremely topical, it demonstrates that the 50-year-old comedian remains what he always was, a baby boomer whose sensibility is informed by the drug humor of the 1970s. Sober as he may be today, Williams still comes across as the funniest guy at a pot party, his obscenity-laced raps filled with the facile leaps of logic a doper could best appreciate. That said, he is, as usual, hilarious, and not infrequently witty. His attack on golf, rendered, naturally, in a Scottish accent, is devastating, and his reflections on growing older hit home with his aging fans. The album's first disc contains the basic show, while the second disc devotes individual tracks to each of the cities on the tour, during which Williams speaks in local accents and tells local jokes that are well-appreciated by his listeners. Forget the films; this is what Robin Williams does best. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Hot Enough for You?	Williams	3:13
2	Watching a Lot of the World Cup	Williams	1:07
3	Olympics	Williams	1:10
4	Texas	Williams	0:51
5	But in the Olympics	Williams	4:03
6	Tour de Lance	Williams	0:26
7	Utah	Williams	1:33
8	Something Awful Is Going to Happen	Williams	2:38
9	Cure	Williams	0:41
10	These Are Troubled Times My Friend	Williams	3:20
11	Now You Get on the Plane	Williams	0:54
12	Not Just a Sin	Williams	1:02
13	Back to Our in-Flight Movie	Williams	1:10
14	Homeland Security	Williams	1:00
15	Blair, Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, a Dead Man and Lassie	Williams	4:03
16	Crusade	Williams	2:02
17	Trying to Win the Hearts and Minds	Williams	2:00
18	71 Virgins	Williams	1:51
19	I'm an Episcopal	Williams	2:02
20	I Do Believe There's Miracles	Williams	2:07
21	Joe, I'm Pregnant	Williams	3:01
22	My One Question	Williams	2:27
23	I Could Turn This Place Into Chicken Tikka	Williams	4:09
24	Pot Doesn't Affect You Like Alcohol	Williams	3:27
25	Golf	Williams	4:10
26	And Then There's Boxing	Williams	0:40
27	Drugs Tom Make You Feel Better	Williams	1:37
28	I've Gone to the Zoo	Williams	3:18
29	Maybe It's Because I'm Fifty	Williams	3:39
30	'Cause What Can They Do for You?	Williams	3:58
31	Father, You Have to Set Limits	Williams	3:12
32	Payback's a Bitch	Williams	1:10
33	Grim Rapper	Williams	4:41
34	Chicago	Williams	3:15
35	Milwaukee	Williams	2:41
36	Boston	Williams	2:31
37	Philadelphia	Williams	1:43
38	Atlanta	Williams	1:29
39	Washington, DC	Williams	3:06
40	Cleveland	Williams	0:55
41	Austin	Williams	2:18
42	Houston	Williams	1:36
43	New Orleans	Williams	1:46
44	Minneapolis	Williams	1:31
45	Seattle	Williams	2:00
46	Portland	Williams	1:22
47	Vegas	Williams	0:48
48	Toronto	Williams	2:47
49	Baltimore	Williams	0:20
50	Memphis	Williams	1:22
51	Nashville	Williams	2:10
52	Technology	Williams	4:31

Releases:

Year	Type	Label
2002	CD	Sony

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