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Watch Robin Williams' improv at TED2008's BBC debate

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RobinAll.jpgDuring the BBC World Debate hosted at TED2008 last month, a brief technical delay threatened to become an awkward, show-stopping break. Then a heckler stood up in the crowd. As Wired’s Epicenter reports:

… a voice behind me spoke up, presumably a heckler, and began speaking loudly as if he were conducting a live news feed, joking that he was reporting live from TED but … was “wondering why at a technology conference everything is running so shittily” (at least that’s the word I think he used; it was hard to hear the last word through the audience’s laughter).

It was Robin Williams, and he ran onstage to do a 10-minute improv in front of Queen Noor, Sergey Brin and the rest of the BBC panelists. Video or it didn’t happen, you say? Here’s Robin Williams’ improv, or 2+ minutes of it, from the BBC website >>

Missing, though, is the TED Blog’s favorite quote from Williams:

Before the Web, there was just one guy running around saying “I KNOW!”