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You know, what i really feel like i got from my family was low self-esteem, which it runs deep. it started with my grandparents. they lived in this condo in florida, death wish village. >> laughs are great. a healer of pain. but the laugh is over, and theres the pain again. >> comedian robin williams was found dead this morning inside his northern california home. his publicist says as of late williams had been battling severe depression. he was 63 years old. >> theres no more painful realizatio...

Thats why they still are. jack lemmon became billy wilders favorite actor but the director never teamed up again with tony curtis and although he called her a true comic genius never made another movie with marilyn monroe who died three years later in one nine hundred sixty two after a downward spiral of depression drugs mental illness scandal and exhaustion yet beautiful twenty five you are part of the century and about what that you know that i have and i write. she will notice. she was so imp...

Jack lemmon became billy wilders favorite actor but the director never teamed up again with tony curtis and although he called her a true comic genius never made another movie with marilyn monroe who died three years later in one thousand nine hundred eighty two after a downward spiral of depression drugs mental illness scandal and exhaustion yet british twenty five in jail you are part of the century and about what that you know that has been right. she will notice. she was so. impudent. and ch...

Thats why they still are. jack lemmon became billy wilders favorite actor but the director never teamed up again with tony curtis and although he called her a true comic genius never made another movie with marilyn monroe who died three years later in one nine hundred sixty two after a downward spiral of depression drugs mental illness scandal and exhaustion yeah british twenty five in jail you are part of the century. about what about you know that i have and im right. she will notice she was s...

Low self-esteem, which it runs deep. it started with my grandparents. they lived in this condo in florida, death wish village. >> laughs are great. a healer of pain. but the laugh is over, and theres the pain again. >> comedian robin williams was found dead this morning inside his northern california home. business lub less publicist says as of late williams had been battling severe depression. he was 63 years old. >> theres no more painful realization that the other side of whatever comic geniu...

Think colbert went to devin nunes to do this or the other side? >> i think that colbert -- i say this and im going to tick a lot of people. hes a comic genius, the numbers went up after attacking the president. neil: hes very good at it. >> i hope jimmy does it on sunday night, when the president brings everybody together at perfect shooting, neil, he talked to columbine parents, heart wrenching stories and he layered down the people, he went to young black father who got a kid who got shot in i...

>> i, you know, its basically, you know, what i really feel like i got from my family was low self-esteem, which it runs deep. it started with my grandparents. they lived in this condo in florida, death wish village. >> the laughs are great. healer of pain. but the laugh is over and theres the pain again. >> comedian robin williams was found dead this morning inside his northern california home. his publicist says of late williams had been battling severe depression. he was 63 years old. >> ther...

This is a very intelligent man that really knew the craft? >> he was a total professional. like i said, he wrote -- he was an otor. he was nominated for a global peace prize for work with muscular dystrophy. his genius as a comic genius and who he inspired, countless comedians who have been inspired by jerry lewis and his comic genius. again, it goes bar none his contribution. just expansive. its such a loss. >> yeah, yeah. >> certainly is. well never see that kind of thing again. >> certainly s...

This is a very intelligent man that really knew the craft? >> he was a total professional. like i said, he wrote -- he was an otor. he was nominated for a global peace prize for work with muscular dystrophy. his genius as a comic genius and who he inspired, countless comedians who have been inspired by jerry lewis and his comic genius. again, it goes bar none his contribution. just expansive. its such a loss. >> yeah, yeah. >> certainly is. well never see that kind of thing again. >> certainly s...

Youve already hit me. im down here. >> did i hurt you? >> no. >> following the breakup, lewis hit the ground running. he wrote, starred, and sometimes directed a series of paramount hits that have gone on to become comedy classics. one, the nutty professor was remade by murphy in 96, introducing a whole new generation to lewiss comic genius. in 1966, lewis first hosted the muscular dystrophy labor day telethon. truly his labor of love, lewiss annual 21 1/2 hour telethon raised well over a billio...