When Mork Met Robin Williams

Unsurprisingly, I have been thinking about Mork and Mindy, the 70s sitcom that made Robin Williams a star.  It was not, despite Williams's outsized talents, a great show.  But it had a lot of great moments during its four year run.  One of the oddest moments was when Mork and Mindy (the latter a TV reporter) manage to get in to see Robin Williams for an interview.  It's a weird scene, meta before everything was meta, and set in a parallel universe where Robin was as big a star without a TV show.

But there is a certain amount of poignancy and honesty in what Williams says.  Looking back, knowing what we know now, it's hard not to see that even then his insecurities were not that far away.  I would say that the clip is worth seeing for that, and for a glimpse of both Williams when he was young and when he was Mork.