I’ll have to be doing duck and cover just to get to the bathroom! For the WiiU or the PS4, at this point I haven’t seen them yet but I might have to check into the cyber wing at Betty Ford.” It will be like these characters are living in your house. “I’m looking forward to the next Xbox,” he said, adding that he was currently playing “Battlestations: Pacific.” “I can’t imagine the graphics being any better. “It’s been very unusual for me because I’ve done trips overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan, and I would see guys who had just come back from patrol playing ‘Call of Duty,’ and I would say ‘you’re living this stuff! And yet you’re still playing this game …'”Īt the time of the interview, Williams also was looking forward to the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox One. “‘How are you doing?’ I need a joystick.”ĭuring a revealing Q&A session on Reddit to promote CBS’ comedy “The Crazy Ones,” Williams called “Portal” “insane,” “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” “the best” and “Call of Duty” humbling, because “getting my ass kicked by an 11 year old is very humbling!” “That’s when you realize you have a cyber addiction problem,” Williams joked to Fallon (watch the video below). He would also tell friends he would trash talk teenagers while playing “Counter-Strike” and “Call of Duty” late at night. When asked what he was playing in 2005, he said “‘Battlefield 2 - the 2 stands for 2 in the morning.” In fact, Williams preferred military games, given that he loved World War II movies like “Saving Private Ryan,” which had him play snipers in Electronic Arts’ “Battlefield” franchise. In light of his suicide Monday, it may seem morbid that Williams talked about gaming in the language of drugs and drug addiction. But the comedian was unusually candid in discussing his struggles with drugs and alcohol, so it’s not entirely surprising he described videogames in a similar vein. In interviews to promote his projects, Williams would often talk about his love for videogames, which began with “Zelda,” and also included fantasy fare like Blizzard Entertainment’s “ World of Warcraft,” puzzle games like “Portal,” sci-fi shooters like “ Half-Life” and its sequel and more recent military actioners like Activision’s “ Call of Duty” franchise, calling it “cyber cocaine.”
Aping the archetypal tight-lipped über-Wasp’s response to the rise of Tiger Woods, he howls, “My God, we’re doomed! How did he learn to play? We wouldn’t have let him join.“What a great name for a girl, Zelda,” Williams says. “I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing ‘Legend of Zelda’ at the time, and it was addicting and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.” (Though you may do well to read one once you’ve stopped laughing.) Suffice to say that, in just under five minutes, Williams manages to send up almost everyone and everything associated with the sport: the Scots who invented it (“You realize how drunk they get, they could wear a skirt and not care!”) the out-of-shape lunks who play it (“It’s such an athletic sport: whack the ball, get in the car whack the ball, get in the car”) the hideous outfits that it inspires (“Even the alligator’s going, ‘Asshole’ ”) and the hushed tones of its television commentators (“Could people be quieter? I’d like to hear the grass grow”).Īnd, yes, Williams also did what had to be done, skewering the racist country-club mentality with which the sport has long been associated.
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I won’t spoil the fun or run the gauntlet of our arbiters of good taste by providing a full transcript.
On Tuesday, Golf Digest posted a link to the clip. A clip of it on YouTube has been viewed more than seven million times. In some circles, Williams’s golf bit is considered a cult classic.
(Back in the nineties, these stories were collected in a book called “The Golf Omnibus,” a copy of which I have just taken down from a shelf.) But Wodehouse, despite his inimitable (and yet often imitated) prose style, had nothing on Williams in full flow, as he was in July, 2002, when he performed a Grammy-winning one-man show. Wodehouse’s gentle stories featuring Archibald Mealing (“one of those golfers whose desire outruns performance”), the Oldest Member, and other golfers, to be the pinnacle of links humor. Many students of golf literature-yes, there is such a thing-consider P. G. But the tweets got me thinking about whether these golfers, and the millions of lesser hackers who are mourning the loss of Williams, know that he is responsible for what is probably the funniest, and the most profane, peroration on the sport that anybody has ever delivered.
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