Robbie set for stand-up
January 05, 2006
BRITISH pop star Robbie Williams is getting bored with music and is toying with the idea of becoming a stand-up comedian like his father, he told a German newspaper. 
Williams told the weekly
Die Zeit in a report to be published on Thursday that the foray into comedy could help change his image as a gifted performer who becomes plagued by depression when the curtain falls. "My father was a stand-up comedian for years. Maybe I will be one day too," he was quoted as saying in remarks printed in German.
"I notice sometimes on stage that the music suddenly gets in the way because I just want to talk to the audience or make them laugh."
Williams complained that he was seen in the press as haunted by demons and unable to enjoy his fame and fortune.
http://[img]http://mercury.tiser...id=1[/img]"For years there has been this public image of me that I have never understood. They say again and again that I'm a deeply depressed, sad bloke who is barely able to get out of bed to see the next day," he said.
"The media seem to like it - he is on the one hand the famous entertainer Robbie Williams but on the other hand he cannot enjoy his life at all. He can't be happy! He is depressed, a horrible person, he can't sing and he must be gay."
The singer-songwriter accepted substantial, undisclosed libel damages last month over false claims in a tabloid newspaper and two magazines that he was secretly homosexual.
Williams said his best friend Jonathan Wilkes would be going with him on his next tour and that Wilkes helped him cope with the pressure of fame. "I've known him for 25 years, since he was a baby. I believe it is my mission in life to take care of him. I cannot imagine not being with him. Life is so much easier with him. When I go on tour soon for five months, he'll be coming along. I simply don't want to be without him."