Picks and Pans Review: Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met

By Jeff Jarvis

UPDATED 10/13/1986 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 10/13/1986 at 01:00 AM EDT

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Robin Williams, once the most brilliant, manic, amazing stand-up comic in the country, arrives at New York's Metropolitan Opera House and announces that he's off booze and off drugs and high on fatherhood and life. Too much preaching, too few punch lines.