Weapons of Self Destruction

Locations
Call Number: CD Spoken-Word Williams Weapons
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Spoken-Word Williams Weapons	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Spoken-Word Williams Weapons	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Spoken-Word Williams Weapons	2-week checkout	Due 05-06-2024

CD: What's up DC?!? Chicago/Rio Olympics -- Fires, weed and the weather -- Hybrids and animals -- Healthcare and heart surgery -- Bush, Cheney, and the Obamas -- Sarah Palin, the Clintons, and Jack -- Arnold, the economy and alternative fuels -- Technology -- The Summer Olympics and athletics -- Drugs, alcoholism and more drugs-- -- Religion and marriage -- Intelligent design -- Porn -- A Touching tribute.
DVD: Past show highlights -- Local highlights.
Performed by Robin Williams.
Compact disc and DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

So-so submitted by emjane on August 10, 2012, 12:00pm I will always have a fondness for Robin Williams because of Aladdin and Mrs. Doubtfire, two of my favorite movies as a kid, and The Birdcage and Dead Poets Society, two I enjoy now. However, it turns out that that affection does not extend to his stand-up.

Listening to Williams’s comedy act, Weapons of Self Destruction, I was disappointed at how un-funny I found most of his material. Though you could argue that I was not his intended audience—as many of his bits centered on sex, masturbation, and profanity, something thought of as “boy humor” – I expected to enjoy the comedy special more than I did.

Williams did make me laugh, however, with his political jokes. Though those bits mainly consisted of one-sentence summaries of current events that would surprise people from the past, Williams had the timing down and edited these “headlines” in a way to maximize their humor.