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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. >> the laugh is great, but the laugh is over and thats a 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. >> theres no more painful realization that the other side o...

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. >> but the laugh is over and thats a 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. >> theres no more painful realization that the other side of whatever comic genius is is sometimes this, tha...

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

Hurt in many ways that if i couldnt get it out with comedy, it was a waste of time. >> 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. >> laughs are grea great healer are 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 be...

Can you tell me when he started telling those jokes, was it like 28 years evaporated like that? >> he was always so brilliant from day one when i met him. it was great that you were at the show this weekend. >> yeah, saturday night. >> thats so cool. i met eddie and talked about it at a private din r at the smithsonian on a saturday night before the sunday event. and i spoke from the heart and there was hundreds of people in the room. i never really told eddie how grateful i was to this kid for ...

Dick gregory the first african-american comedian to make it big says, quote, there are only three comic genius, mark twain, len bruce and richard pryor, richard pryer disappeared with dick gregory about that. he said dick gregory was the greatest and the first. somebody had to break down that door. at the peak of his stardom, he began a transition in to more serious pursuits beginning with the civil rights movement. he became a close friend of martin luther king jr., malcolm x and robert kennedy...

The tsarnaev brothers before and after the bombs went off. dzhokhar tsarnaev faces the death penalty in the attack that left three dead and 264 injured. the crisis in ukraine is the subject of the senate hearing looking for ways to counter aggression. meantime vladimir putin is revealing the plan to annex crimea was ordered before the referendum. putin said the referendum was the reason for the annexation. a group of cave explorers ss stumbled across silver coins and jewelry more than 2,000 ...

Explorers stumbled across a treasure. silver coins that are over 2,000 years old. minted with alexander the great on one side. experts believe this may have been hidden by local residents who fled during a period of unrest. a comic genius has died. sam simon, co- creator of "the simpson simpsons." he gave millions to rescue animals and feed the hungry after diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2008. sam simon died on monday. he was 59. he was associated with "the simpsons" for four years. he had ...

>> this was a joyous movie for any actor to be part of. i was a huge robin williams fan. i absolutely adored him. no one made me laugh like robin williams. and the job for me came at the most wonderful time of my life. "mrs. doubtfire." the sequence of which you speak was outrageous because it my close-up in that sequence and there was no one there. kids werent there. robin just ripped it up and was as rude and crude and as funny and its very difficult to keep a straight face when you have someo...

Men and women of dod. so many of whom were personally touched by his humor and generosity. >> weve raised over about a million dollars. i think there is more coming in. i feel real good. >> an active supporter of comic relief from its inception in 1986, williams helped raise more than $50 million to combat homelessness. regarding the shocking news of his dear friends death, billy crystal tweeted, "no words." >> darcy here grew up riding horses. >> williams was also a tireless advocate for st. ju...