Robin Williamshad a knack for making us all laugh, includingJosh Gad.
The 38-year-old actor and comedian sat down onSunday Today with Willie Geistfor an in-depth interview and recalled a time when he and the late Williams — who Gad says is one of his idols — were neighbors in the same apartment building during their time on Broadway.
“Robin Williams lived in my apartment building at the time I was doing[The Book of]Mormonand he was doingBengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,”Gad recalled. “And we would come home from work and Robin would just literally make me laugh and cry every night with an anecdote about the show and the day.”
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Their friendship evolved and when Williams finally decided to move out of the building, he offered Gad a parting gift.
“And then, when he left, he left me his bike. And I didn’t accept it. I was like, ‘Robin, look at my body. You’re wasting a bicycle on me. I’m gonna stare at it. I’m never gonna do anything,'” theFrozenstar laughed to Geist. “And it really was one of the great regrets of my life, that I didn’t keep that bicycle from Robin Williams.”
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“He could not help but be funny all the time,” Ben Stiller, who starred with Williams in theNight at the Museumfilms told PEOPLE last year for the commemorative issue,Robin Williams: Celebrating the Life & Career of a Comedy Icon,honoring the fifth anniversary of his death.
Tune intoSunday Todaywith Willie Geiston Jan. 26 and listen to the full unedited conversation on theSunday Sitdownpodcast.
source: people.com
