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TOPIC: Robin Williams tributes from Australians George Miller, Adam Hills, Austen Tayshus

Robin Williams tributes from Australians George Miller, Adam Hills, Austen Tayshus 10 years 8 months ago #28095

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Australian director George Miller, who worked with Williams on Happy Feet and Happy Feet 2, describes him as a genuine genius as an actor and comic.

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There was a quality in the way that his mind worked so quickly and was able to construct brilliant tour de force pieces, unbidden as it were and perfectly formed, he told Fairfax Media. That was an extraordinary thing to watch.

And what people may not know was that he was also a magnificent human being. He had a huge heart and that intelligence you saw in his humour was in his normal conversation as well. He could range so widely and deeply on every single topic you could imagine. It was quite breathtaking.

So in every way, it will be a deeply felt absence.

Miller said Williams worked off a script in the Happy Feet movies but would improvise brilliantly.

He would go off on his interpretations. It was like comic jazz and without exception he would come up with something better. You d just let him go and how it came out so perfectly was extraordinary.

Australians said as much on Twitter on Tuesday, calling Williams everything from an artistic genius to beautifully original and a comic's dream .

For hours the terms #RIPRobinWilliams, Mrs Doubtfire, Rest in Peace and What Dreams May Come were the top four nationally trending topics on Twitter.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills, ABC journalist Leigh Sales tweeted in a reference to Williams' role as English teacher John Keating in 1989 film Dead Poets Society.

The world's lost an amazing personality and human being. RIP Robin Williams, Socceroos legend Tim Cahill tweeted.

While golfing stalwart Greg Norman wrote: My fav comedian of all time is longer with us. As I take off I am in a state of shock. RIP Robin Williams u were to good a man to b gone.

Singer Delta Goodrem tweeted that Williams had a special place in everyone's heart .

Comedian Adam Hills also paid tribute to the Good Morning, Vietnam star.

Robin Williams was the reason I started doing comedy. I got to tell him that once. I wanted to tell him again. So sad. So very very sad, the former Spicks and Specks host tweeted.

Williams was known for his impromptu performances Down Under at local haunts such as Sydney's Harold Park Hotel, where Hills also used to perform.

Roars of laughter were said to have erupted from the popular Forest Lodge pub, which also hosted the likes of Andrew Denton, Ben Elton and Tom Gleeson.

Comedian Austen Tayshus was present for two such sets during the late `80s and described them as raucous .

Particularly for an audience in an intimate space like that, he said.

The place was roaring with laughter.

Tayshus, who's best known for his 1983 comedy single Australiana, hailed Williams as a white Richard Pryor for his snappy stand-up style that spawned his debut comedy album Reality ... What a Concept in 1980.

He was fast and furious, and he was energetic - and very improvisational, he said.

We were all very influenced and inspired by that style of stand-up, which was very different from the previous generation of telling one-liners.

During a stint living in Australia during filming of Happy Feet 2, Williams continued his impromptu stand-up acts, performing at King Cross club The Sugar Mill in Sydney, during which he affectionately labelled AFL as rugby in a thong .

That year the actor made Australians laugh - and angered Kevin Rudd - when he jokingly dubbed Aussies English rednecks on US TV.

He apologised to the then-prime minister, and offered to take him to a strip club the next time he visited the US.

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