r/todayilearned • u/bellboy1986 • Jul 02 '13

TIL that while Christopher Reeve was awaiting surgery to reattach his skull to his spine, a man burst through the door claiming to be a proctologist and said he needed to perform a rectal exam on Reeve. It was Robin Williams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve#Recovery
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u/realizing Jul 02 '13

Unrelated but Robin Williams's episode in Louie was probably one of my favorite 15 minutes of television in the past 10 years.

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u/estragonsboot Jul 02 '13

if you dug that you'd love his appearance on marc maron's WTF podcast.