Genie In A Bottle

Dear Mr. Robin Williams,

In the hopes of brightening our so far dour week, we here at If I Blog It They Will Come decided to browse youtube for a pick me up. Naturally, the first thing we searched for was your name. Who better to cheer up a somber bunch than the always funny (except when he means to be serious) Robin Williams?

Our search immediately proved fruitful as we happened upon this decidedly hilarious clip of you from BBC Two's Graham Norton Show in which Graham announces that since everybody loved Aladdin, he'd chosen two people from the audience to play a genie. The first genie gives a completely lackluster performance and the second one, despite an enthusiastic "Alakazaam!" leaves much to be desired. This just goes to prove that there can never be a substitute for a 100% true original like yourself.

You see Mr. Williams, after spending more than 520 days as Prince Ali in pursuit of our Jasmine (a.k.a a photo of yourself looking at our blog sent to our inbox at djayek@yahoo.com), we here at If I Blog It They Will Come could have easily moved on to another celebrity to grant our one main wish, but doing that just wouldn't have felt right. It would've been like asking a cross between Shaquille O'Neal's rappin' genie in the film Kazaam and guy #1 from the above video to star in a remake of Aladdin. In other words, there could be no suitable replacement for the magic you would immediately bring to our site. In any case, we will continue to rub our lamp in the hopes that you will one day be moved to emerge and question our motives for doing so or just send us a photo of you looking at our blog. We thank you for your time and consideration and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,
The Lamp Rubbing Prince Alis at If I Blog It They Will Come