Even open heart surgery doesn’t seem to have slowed Robin Williams down.
The 58-year-old comedian stormed through a 90-minute show before a sold-out crowd at the Fox Theatre Friday, guzzling water frequently and pausing for breath seldom.
He had returned to make good on a date he postponed when he had his aortic valve replaced March 13.
“The last time I was here Lake Lanier was empty, Atlanta was on fire and I had a leaky heart. Now Lake Lanier is full, the fires are out and my heart is okay,” Williams said.
His delivery was pure machine-gun, and non-stop blue. (The F-bomb was the fifth word out of his mouth – and seemingly every fifth word after that.)
His best unprintable material was probably his extended improvisation on the battle between the heart and the penis when an open-heart-surgery patient takes Viagra.
But among the repeatable bits, some great lines:
Atlanta’s rain:
“The weather will continue to be moist and unstable. That sounds like a weekend with …
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To celebrate its 75th anniversary, the show is holding auditions in New York and Atlanta (details below). Rhone is hoping to see how auditions have gone for previous contestants, who faced the infamously vocal audience hoping for a shot at stardom.
