Host James Lipton asks his guest the following question: “If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?”
Robin replied “There’s seating at the front,” is his immediate answer. “The concert begins at five. It’ll be Mozart, Elvis and one of your choosing.”
Then he lapses into sincerity. “If heaven exists, to know that there’s laughter, that would be a great thing.” He gives the tiniest of pauses to set up the punchline: “Just to hear God go, ‘Two Jews walk into a bar…'”
As Lipton reveals, Williams’s installment of the series was the first-ever two-hour episode: The actor actually spoke and performed for the audience for over five hours, but Lipton and the producers simply couldn’t bear to edit the performance any shorter than two hours, according to the DVD extras.
And odd bit of trivia about this show is that a member of the audience was actually taken away in an ambulance after the show, having developed a hernia from laughing so hard at Williams.
(This video was removed from YouTube and now is only available for purchase, which I highly recommend!)
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