Re-animated excerpts from an unheard 1991 interview with Robin Williams.

Robin Williams on Masks Blank on Blank

Premiered December 04, 2014
Robin Williams on Masks

"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh. To make us realize we still are part animal.... So you don't take yourself seriously and destroy the species." - Robin Williams in 1991, as told to Lawrence Grobel

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Vintage interview tapes. New animations. Our mission is simple: curate and transforms journalists' unheard interviews with American icons. The future of journalism is remixing the past.

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