I once entitled a keynote speech, “Expect the Unexpected” and the audience loved it. That’s right, if you know life is going to throw you curve balls, get out your mitt and be ready for what comes your way. Funnyman, Robin William is the epitome of the unexpected – he will have you laughing, crying, and rolling on the floor, if space permits, with his barrage of insights that rise up spontaneously from a deep reservoir of innate brilliance. Just a few minutes with Williams and you know surprises are the norm and expectations are justifiably, outside the ballpark.
Williams’s close friend Billy Crystal describes his pal by saying, “After all these years it’s not gotten tired, and it’s pretty wild to be around. He bounces around a room like light off a mirror.” With more than 40 industry honors to his credit including four Oscar nominations and one win, two Emmy awards, four Grammys and six Golden Globes including the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award, Williams has become one of the most successful and beloved figures in entertainment history. In addition to his current tour, Williams will next be seen starring in the Disney comedy Old Dogs opposite John Travolta and will reprise his role as ‘Teddy Roosevelt’ in the sequel Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian.
Williams’ last American comedy tour was in 2002 when he returned to the stand-up scene after a 16-year hiatus. That sold-out tour earned the distinction of being one of the highest-grossing comedy tours in history and culminated in a final performance filmed by HBO and broadcast live from New York City. The resulting July 2002 HBO broadcast, Robin Williams: Live on Broadway, was nominated for five Emmy awards. 
He’s on the road again, this time with his “Weapons of Self-Destruction” Tour that stops at Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on March 4th and 5 th . Williams will chatter nonstop to amuse you, but his charity work makes him tick. He’s made three trips to Afghanistan and two to Iraq to entertain the troops, regularly visits sick children through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and founded Comic Relief—which has raised $50 million for the homeless—20 years ago with Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg. Williams is also on the board of the Christopher Reeve Foundation (CRF), which is devoted to spinal-cord-injury research. He and Reeve were roommates at Juilliard, where they became lifelong friends.
AARP recently asked Williams about being a baby boomer and how our generation will redefine aging. He said,”Work doesn’t define us as much as it did our parents. For my father, work was everything. He had amazing hobbies, but even after he retired from the Ford Motor Company he worked again for a bank because that was still his modus operandi; that was the thing that kept him going. My mother was different, because she always had charities and tennis and other stuff. The boomers—I mean, work is incredible, but there’s always been another level of something, other aspects of our lives. You can see in these new retirement communities, they are much more oriented toward outdoor activity— tennis, golf, basketball, gyms, and pools all these different things, especially communal living.
There’s that one community of heavily armed people somewhere in Arizona Williams laughs, “It’s based around owning guns, and it has a shooting range. It’s a “we’re armed and proud of it” gated community called Smith & Wesson Village.”
That’s right, I told you… when it comes to Robin Williams, expect the unexpected and then you’ll be ready for all his “Weapons of Self Destruction” and more! Go laugh yourself silly in March. This is your RX from Liz Sterling and Robin Williams! Nanu Nanu.