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Release the Video of Steve Martin and Robin Williams’ Controversial Stage Performance

Following the release of STEVE! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces, a lot of fans may be tempted to revisit some of Steve Martin’s greatest films, such as The Jerk, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and, well, pretty much any of his movies other than Shopgirl (I’d watch Cheaper by the Dozen 2 before subjecting myself to Shopgirl again). But, somewhat frustratingly, one of Martin’s most significant performances remains completely unavailable to the majority of the viewing public.

Despite being two comedy mega-stars of roughly the same age, Martin and Robin Williams never starred in a movie together. But they did share the stage for a production of Samuel Beckett’s existential “tragicomedy” Waiting for Godot, all about two characters who, well, wait for Godot.

Patricia Richardson Disowns Tim Allen’s ‘Home Improvement’ Reboot: ‘Zach Is A Felon’

Every few years, Tim Allen pitches an idea for that Home Improvement reboot no one is asking for. Late last year, for example, he confided that he’s been talking to Richard Karn and “the boys” about a new version in which Tim becomes a grunting, chainsaw-wielding grandpa. “Home Re-Improvement or something like that,” was the trial balloon that Allen floated into the TV Land ether. Now his sitcom wife is poking a safety pin in that balloon, declaring that it will take more than the Tool Man’s power drill to put that rickety house back together again. 

“It was so weird,” Richardson said last week on the Back to the Best podcast. “ I would hear (Allen) was coming out publicly and saying this stuff about everyone was on board to do a Home Improvement reunion, but he never asked me.”

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