[Tommy]

I have a slightly different view of Robin Williams's performance. First, it seemed more canned and rehearsed than his earlier performances. It was if he had done it exactly the same way many times before. In fact, he commented on the one joke where he substituted the name of a Briton and it didn't get much of a laugh. Because it seemed like a well used act, my sense is not that he was bashing America before a foreign audience to make a point. My sense is that he just reused the same act he always uses. He didn't bother to make up new material for the Brits. It felt a little stale to me.

Given the way the majority of Brits seem to feel about the Bush administration, I doubt that he did any harm.