when we got the terrible news that

Robin Williams had died, and

we acted pretty much, we were stunned

And talked about it a little bit with Will Arnett here on the show

But it's an impossible thing to process, obviously

And here we are now 24 hours later

and it felt appropriate just to take a moment here

and talk about this absolutely incredible man

How he touched all of our lives

Yeah, really. –Such a fantastically funny guy and everybody knows that side of him

What I think a lot of people don't know and you're starting to hear all these stories come out

Is how he was crazily generous, he was so generous

Such a nice person

Yeah, and not just in a material way, but with his time

I mean, you know, he's spent so much time entertaining the troops

Which I didn't really know about, which means…

Cause he didn't talk about it

He didn't talk about it- He didn't talk, and he just did it

You know, he didn't do it for publicity

He did it because…

and I think the department in defense even

issued a statement in gratitude for all the work he'd done for the troops

He was generous in so many ways. He just set such a generous spirit as well

I knew Robin just in show business

and we did a few projects, benefits and things together

He'd been a guest on the show

And for my money, best talk show guest ever, probably

Just really brilliantly funny and

that's obvious to everyone, what a brilliant talent he was

But just as a quick example of what he was like

A bunch of years ago.

Five years ago I went through publicly, kind of a bump in the road and I was feeling a little low

Out of the blue,

Robin Williams buys me a bicycle

And it sounds like silly thing, you know

Like he was the first person to buy me a bicycle since my parents bought me a bicycle

When I was 35.

But I was, you know, kind of low,

and Robin loved to ride and I loved to ride

And he bought me a bicycle but this is so Robin Williams

He bought me this bicycle

and he had it delivered to my house

And it was the most absurd bicycle you've ever seen

Yeah, it looked like a Mardi Gras parade.

It did! It was beautiful It did! It was beautiful and really top-notch

Yeah, but it was bright orange and bright green and had shamrocks on it

So I called Robin up. I mean, who does that?

I didn't know him well enough to justify

this kind of… You didn't get me anything. And..

I knew you had a bike

Yeah, so I called him up and I just said,

"Robin, I'm flooded by this bike."

And all he would say is that, "Well, I knew you ride and I knew you could use it"

And he went, "Does it look ridiculous? Does it really look ridiculous?"

And I said, "Yeah, it looks ridiculous." And he went, "Good.

Do you look really stupid riding it"

And I said, "Yeah, I'm gonna look stupid" and he's like,

"Well, then that's good then."

He had just that amazing spirit of fun.

The generosity, but also the fun at the same time.

And so often, I would just look at that silly bike and think,

"What a wonderful spirit! What an amazing spirit!"

And we know now that he had his battles. He had his…

He's a… he's an…

And I think he's very courageous. I think it's particularly courageous for someone

to be that generous of spirit

in the face of that kind of depression

Just such a lovely, special man

We wanted to do one thing tonight, which is

you can talk about Robin or you can just

let him have the floor

So we put together just a couple of, a few moments

from his visits with us over the years

And we thought it might just be nice to go back

and have a visit

Let's do that right now

I had a parrot once and do not, in any form,

put them in your bedroom cause you think it'd be lovely to wake up to the parrot

Because they hear everything

And there, you'll have the bird out and it'll one day be sitting there and you'll be thinking,

"what a lovely bird!" and it'll go, "Not in the ass!"

This is the hairiest man I've ever seen in my life

It is frightening. It is an amazing thing.

I've actually been at the zoo and had monkeys go,

"what are you doing outside?"

Occasionally, I've had to do a thing where they, you know, for certain movies I've had to wax, and I had a lady…

You've done that actually? –Once.

and it was like this woman, half way through she said, "Do you mind if I take a break?"

You feel like you should have like people on your back going,

Nobody knows

the trouble I've seen,

taking the hair off Robin

So I couldn't have a stiff drink,

Or maybe have a really long talk

for the executives at NBC.

*Beep* the bastards that can't take a joke!

*Beep* the bastards that can't take a joke!

He's the best talk show guest in the world. He's Robin Williams

Thank you very much

The best talk show guest in the world

Robin, thank you for so many deliriously funny moments

and for so much happiness that you brought so many people

We'll take a break. When we come back

Damon Wayans, Jr. is here. We'll see you in a second