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It’s the heartbreaking image Robin Williams posted three weeks before he took his own life.

There is a common belief that comedians are funny to escape their sadness; that often, behind the jokes, pratfalls and silly voices, there hides a depressed, tortured clown, squeezing laughs from audiences in an attempt to evade crippling melancholia. This stereotype, which may have its roots in commedia dell’arte’s tear-faced Pierrot, is not, of course, true of every comic.

The apparent suicide of Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams has shocked the world, but sadly, he is one of many celebrities to have gone too soon. Heath Ledger The Australian-born star of blockbuster hits A Knight’s Tale, Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight died in 2008 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

As the world reels from the loss of comedic legend Robin Williams, many are turning to his social accounts to get an insight into what the man valued most. Williams’ final public words were issued via Twitter and Instagram (see below) with a post shared three weeks ago for his only daughter’s 25th birthday.

The world lost one of it funniest and most versatile actors today with the death of Robin Williams.

OPINION: Meeting Robin Williams about a year ago was an “Oh my God” moment for columnist Michele A’Court.

Kiwi filmmaker Vincent Ward has paid tribute to his friend Robin Williams, describing the Oscar-winning comedian as a “gentle man, with a wild wit”. Williams, 63, was found dead at his Californian home at 12.02pm on Monday (NZT 7.02am Tuesday) after an apparent suicide.

Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63

All Black legend Jonah Lomu has tweeted a farewell to his friend Robin Williams, the comedian and film star found dead in California today.