The first purpose of alcohol is to make English your second language. You may be a Nobel prize physicist, but after nine, ten Heinekens you're speaking fluent Drunken-ese. Next thing you know, you have a friend in a headlock, "I love ya, I love ya, that's the kinda love I have for you, goddamn it."

In this stand-up riff, Robin Williams uses exaggeration and quick character-switching to describe alcohol’s social and linguistic effects. The joke hinges on the idea that intoxication overrides education and status—“Nobel prize physicist” becomes irrelevant once drinking reaches a certain point. By inventing “Drunken-ese,” Williams frames drunken speech as a separate “language,” marked by slurred intimacy and impulsive physicality (the headlock hug). The humor also carries an implicit critique: alcohol can manufacture feelings of camaraderie and emotional openness that are loud, messy, and performative, blurring affection with aggression. The bit showcases Williams’s talent for turning a common experience into a vivid, theatrical scene.