A YouTube channel honouring Robin Williams has launched

The estate of Robin Williams has launched a YouTube channel honouring the comedian’s brilliant career. The channel was launched in partnership with TIME Life, and features archival clips from Williams’ stand-up specials, and interviews.

It’s the kind of joy and silliness that we’re all so desperately yearning for during these anxiety-inducing times. You can never overstate the healing quality that Robin Williams’ work has on the soul.

The channel was launched in conjunction with TIME’s new 22-DVD box set, Robin Williams: Comic Genius. So far, there are five clips that have been uploaded for your viewing pleasure. Including segments from Williams’ special Live on Broadway.

If you woke up this morning with the desire to feel like your guts were being ripped out, the channel has uploaded Williams famous “Spark of Madness” speech from his 1978 special Off the Wall. It’s not even 9 am and I’ve cried twice watching it.

“You got to be crazy. It’s too late to be sane. You’ve got to go full-tilt bozo,” Williams muses in the video. “Because you’re only given a little spark of madness, and if you lose that, you’re nothing. Don’t. From me to you, don’t ever lose that, because it keeps you alive.”

We think that the perfect tonic for this peculiar Thursday is to make yourself a warm brew and binge your way through these videos. We’re assuming you have a surplus of tissue paper you panic bought in the great toilet paper crisis that you soon realised you couldn’t flush down the loo — now is the perfect occasion to put it to use.

Watch: Robin Williams – “Spark of Madness”

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