one of them is robin williams. 03 williams entertained and mingled with servicemen in the war zone. reporter sean caleb was there. >> reporter: this is one guy who really had them at hello. >> good morning >> reporter: in robin williams quest for laughs he found a target. men and women who spend a lot of time in aircrafts. >> i love spiraling in. nothing like that to have your colon go, fire in the hole. >> reporter: troops were happy that williams played. >> the way he presented himself to everybody was real nice. come out real nice. all the sports here gave them a show. >> reporter: the king of improv did not miss a beat. >> thank you, i feel like i'm at a golf tournament. we'll be in the third hole in afghanistan. >> reporter: it was a good time to openly laugh, snap some pictures and for a few moments forget how much they missed their families. i remembered these are red blooded troops,. >> i'm for spraying your girl, don't go oprah on me. the man sprayed me. >> reporter: for those who have been getting by with

. >> rose: and they gave you the robin williams scholarship. >> yes, which made it possible for me to go to school, robin williams is an alumni at juilliard, never met him and he very generously gave me a scholarship. >> rose: so you fraud in 2003, you headed to new york or what do you do? >> i stayed in new york, i got right before, two weeks before graduation, i got offered a holding deal with john wells, which was incredible, i remember the very first group, at juilliard to have a long as showcase and john levy went to the showcases, working with john wells and i went in and did a scene for john wells and like 18 people who wrote for west wing, and then i got a call that they were offering me a holding teal which was fantastic because i could still live in new york and do theatre and do a play and fly back and forth to appear on the tv shows and that was the very first time i had ever been in front of a camera. >> rose: what brought you to al pacino? >> i was, i guess martha keller had seen me in the play that i did with david and she told al pacino about me and they were great fri

you've managed to get jennifer aniston, robin williams and others all to do these commercials. i can't get any of them on my show. how are you doing this? >> bathtub is one of the ways. >> jennifer has been with you for a long time. >> some girls wish to grow up and be a princess. other girls wish to simply grow up. may and bailey are friends battling kidney cancer at st. jude children's research hospital. we developed a treatment for their cancer that's helping kids like them across america. >> you know what i wish for? >> what's that, honey? >> my hair back. >> and no more cancer. >> well, girls, st. jude is working on that. >> is it hard to persuade the big stars? >> well, you know, i try to get them down there. the real secret is going to st. jude and seeing the children. i wasn't really expected to do this. i was never going to take this on. my father died 21 years ago. and he made it very clear to my sister and brother and i it was not our burden to carry, which was psychologically brilliant. we call aim about it our own way. when you meet a father who tells you he had al

. >> apatow: so the night would be, like, sandler and paul reiser, and then robin williams would popn, and ellen degeneres was there. and by the end of the night, i would just feel like, "i'm not as good as any of these people and i don't see it happening." >> cooper: what did begin to happen, says adam sandler, is that apatow began to make a name for himself as a writer of comedy for other people. >> adam sandler: then this guy started constantly writing, and then he'd get paid, so he was the first guy i saw just write. none of us were doing that yet. >> apatow: i realized that, you know, how i feel about life works better in writing scenes and showing the different point of views that people have with each other. it just worked better than me, you know, giving a speech. >> cooper: judd apatow executive produced a show called "freaks and geeks." in it, he wrote about his experiences as a lonely child of divorce back in syosset, when every day after school, he studied comedians on tv talk shows. >> apatow: there's a moment where bill haverchuck comes home from school, and he lives al

i'm the robin to his batman. william h. was actually abraham lincoln's chauffeur and caddy -- >> o no, he's a real guys, a real guy. >> he was with lincoln when he gave the gettysburg address. on the way back he died with small position and lincoln with money out of his own pocket had him buried at arlington national cemetery, the first black man buried at arlington national cemetery. and on his headstone he had "william h. johnson citizen." i think it's remarkable, he didn't call him caddy, he didn't call him driver, he called him citizen. >> we'll be right back. it's t. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/price