Robin Williams Led An Extraordinary Life

Robin Williams Led An Extraordinary Life


January 25, 2025 | Samantha Henman

Robin Williams Led An Extraordinary Life


When we lost Robin Williams, we lost a little bit of brightness in the world, but we’ll never forget the laughter and joy he brought us. However, there’s so much more to Williams’ story than his most memorable parts or his tragic end—and these facts are proof.

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Toto, Africa
MUSIC
February 18, 2026 Jesse Singer

Bands Younger Baby Boomers Loved That Most Older Boomers Don’t Remember At All

Baby Boomers technically span from 1946 to 1964. Which means the oldest were already paying bills when the youngest were still discovering FM radio with the bedroom door closed. So when younger Boomers start reminiscing about “their bands,” older Boomers sometimes respond with a polite smile that says, ‘I have absolutely no memory of this.’
Mitch Hedberg, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
ACTORS
February 18, 2026 Jesse Singer

Mitch Hedberg Jokes That Prove He Was The Greatest One-Liner Comedian Of All Time

Mitch Hedberg didn’t build long narratives or dramatic callbacks. He walked on stage, squinted into the lights, and dropped perfectly engineered one-liners. It was pure comic genius the likes of which we’d never seen before and might never see again.
VIDEO
February 18, 2026 Peter Kinney

Sylvester Stallone's most brutal fights happened behind closed doors.

While the hero archetype has always been around in film, the 1980s introduced a whole new class of Hollywood macho men, one of the most iconic of which was Sylvester Stallone. Whether he played a boxer, a veteran, or a law enforcement officer, Stallone was integral to ushering in the era of classic action stars. However, behind the scenes, he may have personified the worst parts of this masculine stereotype.
Will Ferrell
MOVIES
February 17, 2026 Marlon Wright

Critics Wrote Off These Dumb Movies, While High IQ Viewers Realized They Were Genius

You probably dismissed these movies as meaningless or silly trash. Everyone did initially. But underneath the crude humor and ridiculous plots lived razor-sharp observations about capitalism, consumerism, corporate greed, and more.
Screenshot from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Touchstone Pictures (1988)
MOVIES
February 17, 2026 Peter Kinney

Movies That Raised The Bar For Special Effects And Made Hollywood Rethink What Was Possible

Special effects have never been just about flash. At their core, they’re about solving impossible problems, dreaming up ways to show audiences something that technology hasn’t quite caught up with yet. Every so often, a film arrives that doesn’t just wow viewers; it changes the rules for everyone.
American rock group Journey, New York, June 1979.
MUSIC
February 17, 2026 Alex Summers

Iconic Bands That Reinvented Themselves Without Losing Their Soul

Great bands don’t always stay in one lane. Sometimes evolution is less about surviving trends and more about reshaping them while keeping the core of what made something special in the first place. These artists stepped beyond comfort zones, experimented with new sounds or approaches, and came out with work that still felt authentically them.

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