Robin Williams or Jim Carrey

Made it to 1:12 into the video, that's all I could stomach.

Robin's early stand up work and his Mork and Mindy stuff was pretty good.  His style was based on improv and he was  very quick.  The movie Good morning Vietnam captured that side of him very well when he did his radio routines. I loved watching Robin and Johnathon Winters working together. It just seems though these guys lose their edge and then become unfunny by playing it too safe over time. As for Jim Carrey I find some of his stuff good and some of it very annoying. His one style of acting gets old.  

I used to like Carrey growing up - Dumb and Dumber, the Mask, Ace Ventura. Didn't like Bruce Almight though, so I probably wouldn't watch them now.

Moogtron III wrote: I do like Jim Carrey, didn't like him first, but his way of acting grew on me. I like especially Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar and The Truman Show.   Robin Williams, I used to like him - not so much anymore these days. I do like him in Awakenings, but that was a more serious role.

I despised Jim Carrey until I saw the Truman Show, which I loved.  And then Man on the Moon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind really won me over.  A good director can get good perfomances out of him if they reel him in.  No doubt his acting has improved over the years. Oh, and I liked the Majestic.

When I was biggest on Rowan Atkinson back in the the early 90s, I liked to draw cartoons with Jim Carrey being stupid unfunny and Rowan Atkinson pwning him.

I also lost interest in Robin Williams.  I was never that big an appreciator, though I would tune into Mork and Mindy, and  liked various movies he was in.


Edited by Logan - March 12 2011 at 11:27

this one is really funny

Crap! I voted Jim Carrey but I wanted to vote Robin William!

In terms of their prime, I'm saying Jim Carrey.  He could do lots with his face and body as well as having good ability to think on his feet.

I actual prefer Robin Williams in dramas overall.  His comedy sometimes comes across as hacky (more stereotypical-based characters in his improv), but he has a certain weirdness and energy to me that can still pull out some laughs.  Nowadays, neither of them interest me.

Robin Williams. Both are talented and both have done some very good and some very bad movies. For me Williams' stand up is the difference-absolutely insane and funny. IMHO, no one improves as well as him. 

Is it just me or are they both annoying in their own special ways?  Which is not to say they haven't given me a few good laughs.

I can't stand Robin Williams. Jim Carrey is pretty good, Dumb and Dumber is one of the best feel good movies I know.