Williams the best Dad

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by: Mike Sampson Jun. 17, 2008

Robin Williams has signed on to the upcoming comedy WORLD'S GREATEST DAD, which was written and will be directed by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait. Williams will play a failed writer teaching poetry at the high school. When his teenage son dies during a freak masturbation accident, he tries to cover up the embarrassment by claiming the death was a suicide. When the father's faked suicide note gets attention, he decides to fake an entire journal to get his writing career off the ground. While the teaming of the comedy stars behind SHAKES THE CLOWN and PATCH ADAMS might seem painful, it actually sounds like a pretty funny concept (assuming Williams doesn't schtick it up too much). The film is being produced by Sean McKittrick (THE BOX, DONNIE DARKO) with filming scheduled to begin next month in Seattle. Williams just wrapped filming on what might be the most painful comedy in recent memory, OLD DOGS, with John Travolta and Kelly Preston.

Source: JoBlo.com

Extra Tidbit: Bobcat's last film was about a woman revealing to her boyfriend that she once gave a dog a hummer.

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Preston_79
1:29AM on 06/18/2008 Add as a friend | MFC profile
This is no laughing matter. Asphyxiation while masturbating could happen to anyone. At least anyone who flogs it sitting on the ground, leaning against a door, with something wrapped around the door knob and my neck, applying just the right amount of pressure.
Why would you joke about that?

This is no laughing matter. Asphyxiation while masturbating could happen to anyone. At least anyone who flogs it sitting on the ground, leaning against a door, with something wrapped around the door knob and my neck, applying just the right amount of pressure.
Why would you joke about that?

 
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xrats
12:58AM on 06/18/2008 Add as a friend | MFC profile
I don't know where the good reviews for Sleeping Dogs Lie came from, because that movie sucked, not funny at all; only got attention for it's "shocking" premise. This sounds like the same kind of idea. And after watching Williams flounder around painfully in License to Wed, I've lost most of my faith in his comic abilities... so this is definitely a wait and see.
I don't know where the good reviews for Sleeping Dogs Lie came from, because that movie sucked, not funny at all; only got attention for it's "shocking" premise. This sounds like the same kind of idea. And after watching Williams flounder around painfully in License to Wed, I've lost most of my faith in his comic abilities... so this is definitely a wait and see.
 
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UnkemptFilmFan
9:30PM on 06/17/2008 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Freak masturbation accident, eh? I'm intrigued...
Freak masturbation accident, eh? I'm intrigued...
 
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fritta316
1:09PM on 06/17/2008 Add as a friend | MFC profile
yes.
sick and twisted? hmmm i wonder if that was their intent, perhaps?

death by masturbation is perfect comedic fodder. kudos to williams for not making bs family comedies for once.
sick and twisted? hmmm i wonder if that was their intent, perhaps?

death by masturbation is perfect comedic fodder. kudos to williams for not making bs family comedies for once.
 
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darkface
11:46AM on 06/17/2008 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Not interested
This doesn't sound funny at all. In fact, it sounds kind of sick. Taking advantage of his sons masterbation suicide to get his writing career off the ground. Sounds pretty sick and twisted to me.
This doesn't sound funny at all. In fact, it sounds kind of sick. Taking advantage of his sons masterbation suicide to get his writing career off the ground. Sounds pretty sick and twisted to me.
 
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fury159
11:30AM on 06/17/2008 Add as a friend | MFC profile
I haven't seen it yet, but "Sleeping Dogs Lie" got pretty good reviews for a film involving bestiality, so who knows? Sounds like Williams might get a chance to redeem himself. Until then, Death to Smoochie might be his last funny film.
I haven't seen it yet, but "Sleeping Dogs Lie" got pretty good reviews for a film involving bestiality, so who knows? Sounds like Williams might get a chance to redeem himself. Until then, Death to Smoochie might be his last funny film.
 
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jeanericuser
11:17AM on 06/17/2008 Add as a friend | MFC profile
hahaha Hmm They should have had someone else do this but I think i like where this may be going.
hahaha Hmm They should have had someone else do this but I think i like where this may be going.