One night, Robin Williams turned up unannounced. “They bring on Robin, people go crazy,” he smiles. “They’re like, ‘From Mrs Doubtfire and Jumanji and every movie you’ve ever heard of, Robin Williams!’” Also performing that night was Schwartz, who didn’t have a single credit to his name. He did, however, have good comedic instinct. “I walked onstage and as a bit I said, ‘You better give it up! You give that to Robin, you give nothing to me?’ I’m making people give me the standing ovation they gave Robin, and Robin is cracking up. It was so exciting. Afterwards he was like, ‘I needed to get onstage so desperately; I needed to make people laugh.’ He went around every single one of us to say thank you. It was amazing. I’ll never forget that.” Schwartz, 43, has come a long way since those fledgling days in New York.