when "Late Night" first started.

And I was out trying to do standup.

And I snuck in.

I asked Bobby Slayton if I could open for him.

And he was like, "Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, sure. Don't worry about it."

So, I go, "Alright. So, I snuck in.

And I go to do my act, and it's terrible.

You know, I don't know what it is,

what order it is, if it's funny.

And who's there? Robin Williams comes to see me.

-Oh, that's terrible.

-I go, "Dude, what are you doing, man?

I'm working it out. I haven't --"

He goes, "Oh, I don't mind. I just want to hear it.

Come on. Come on, just do it. It will be funny.

Come on. I'll sit in the back."

And then I was like -- I go,

"I think I do an impression of you in my act."

He's like, "Oh, oh, yes.

It's a beautiful thing. Yes, go do it.

Go do it. Yes, go do it, my man! Yeah, thank you!"

You know? And he started --

And, so, I was doing my act, and it was bombing,

except for one guy laughing in the way back,

and it was Robin Williams laughing his head off

at me bombing.

-Yeah, yeah, I love that.

By the way, I have a Robin Williams great story, too.

-What?

-I followed him at the -- It's not that great of a story.

But I followed him at the Improv

when I was young, when I was like 22.

And he killed, and I went up and I did reasonably okay.

And it was kind of like the big moment.

Like, "Sandler. Sandler followed Robin Williams.

He held his own, man."

And it was such a lucky, like --

He was, like, nice to me at the end of his show.

He said, "Be good to the next comedian."

Blah, blah, blah.

You know, he did the right thing for a --

-That's a big moment in a standup's life.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was amazing. -No way!

-He was such a great sweetheart, man.

I ate dinner with Robin Williams

and a table filled with great actors, right?

And everyone's hanging out.

Literally nobody spoke but Robin,

and everybody was slamming the table, laughing the whole time.

He was so incredible and sweet, man.

-Gosh, I love when I see someone kill that hard, you know?

Especially at, like, a dinner or something like that.

-Oh, yeah. He just took over. I was just like, "Oh, my God!

Robin Williams cannot stop destroying everything

that got brought out."

Like, "Oh, chicken."

And he'd have five minutes on the chicken.

And it was insane.

-You know, everyone selected a charity,

'cause everyone needs our help right now.

And, so, you're working with directrelief.org,

and I think it's awesome, 'cause this is

helping out all the healthcare workers

and the nurses and the doctors,

who desperately need everything.

They need masks. They need food.

They need just -- I'm telling you, man.

I've seen videos.

I don't know if you've seen them.

You know, Higgins' daughter, Anna, is a nurse,

and she videotaped her walk to work in Manhattan.

And people are just hanging out the windows going,

"Whoo! We love you!

We got this! Thank you!" -Oh, my God, dude. Amazing.

They are incredible, stepping into this stuff and taking --

and just seeing such tough things to see.

And thank you so much for everything

you guys are doing for us.

And people in the hospital, we love you.

Thank you so much for all, and we all pray for you guys.