| A Night at the Met | ||||
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| Studio album by Robin Williams | ||||
| Released | 1986 | |||
| Genre | Stand-up comedy | |||
| Length | 53mins 13secs | |||
| Label | Sony Records | |||
| Producer | David Steinberg, Brooks Arthur | |||
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A Night at the Met is the third official album release by Robin Williams. It features segments recorded live at Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, in 1986. This album won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical for 1988.
The album was released the year before his critically acclaimed performance in the motion picture Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). Williams had been shifting his focus from stand-up comedy to filmmaking for several years, and Night at the Met would be one of his last major concerts during the 1980s. The show is a mix of Williams' rapid-fire humor and voicework, with riffs on the topics of drugs, world affairs, sex and children. References to the events and people of the 1980s are strewn heavily throughout—U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, and President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev are central to many of the jokes.