How could there not be upon the arrival of Jonathan Winters, the wildly inventive comedian whose improvisational riffing was the prototype of Robin Williams? Winters died Thursday at home at 87.
The first time I saw Williams and Winters appear together on the old Late Night with David Letterman I actually fell off my bed from laughing so hard. Winters was best without the constraints of someone else's ideas or story, so he never broke through on television or in big movie roles. But check out any of his own albums or some of the clips online and you can see what made him unique.
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