Robin Williams Ready To Show Off 28 Days' Worth Of New Mel Gibson Material
Fresh from rehab and eager to prove that his newfound sobriety hasn't depopulated his manic improvisational mind of its teeming multitudes who speak in a handful of comically exaggerated accents, Robin Williams is already treating junket reporters to the Mel Gibson material he worked on while drying out:
"I went to rehab the same day that Mel Gibson was arrested on (Pacific) Coast Highway," Williams said in an interview to promote his new movie, "Man of the Year," out Oct. 13. "I think it allowed me a certain anonymity."
Williams added: "God does have a sense of humor that he was stopped by the only Jewish highway patrolman."
As for rumors he was in the same rehab program as Gibson, Williams said at the Beverly Hills press junket, "No, we never met, and we were supposedly keeping correspondence. But I have Jewish agents so I haven't gotten any messages."
Williams then riffed on what it would have sounded like if he had been called by Gibson the night of Gibson's arrest. Using an Australian accent, Williams, said, "Hi, Robin, I'm on the Coast Highway come pick me up. Don't worry!"
The sympathetic reporter was willing to indulge Williams' riff without noting that Gibson does not, in fact, speak in an Australian accent, but immediately concocted an excuse to end the interview when the comedian launched into a bit from the point of view of the Jewish highway patrolman employing his well-known "Phlegmy Rabbi" character.
