I'm watching this because I just got done watching Man On The Moon. I guess humour is really a personal thing because I didn't crack a smile. Actually this performance depressed me.
Imagine if he were still alive, we'd all have to pretend like he's still relevant and tolerate seeing him on Leno or Letterman every now and then, like Robin Williams.
While it is awkward, tense and slightly uncomfortable.... it still isn't funny to me. Perhaps slightly amusing but no laughs coming from me. no lolololololol
Letterman is pissed because this time the one that gets attention was the host and not him! I've never seen anyone like Kaufman. He is so strange in his own way. He doesn't want to show off for everyone and make stupid jokes, he doesn't even care if he is on letterman or not, he is himself and that means he plays each character of himself. Fascinating.
aww c'mon folks this was YEARS before his cancer diagnosis.
it's a JOKE! how could anyone be familiar with andy's genius and not realize that this is an act, just like in his 77 routine improv, he started unsure and telling bad jokes, this is just that, but to another level. i wish we had more andy's in the world.
i just want to point out that kaufman was dying at this point and he knew it, but he kept it a secret, you can hear him coughing which is his lung cancer
"I'm not a comic, I've never told a joke. The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him. My only promise is that I will try to entertain you. I can manipulate people's reactions. There are different kinds of laughter. Gut laughter is where you don't have a choice, you've got to laugh. Gut laughter doesn't come from the intellect. They say, 'Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a funny guy.' But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads."
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This takes comedy right to the dangerous edge. He dares to do a boring monologue, asks the audience NOT to laugh, then goes out collecting money from audience members. Brilliant. Are we seeing reality (which would be horribly sad) or are we seeing someone extracting comedy from the audience's discomfort and uncertainty? As Mark Twain explained, true comedy always grows from tension and discomfort.
This the first thing I've seen from this guy. Predictable and not very funny. I see what he was trying to do, but maybe he had ran out of random material. No doubt the guy at the end taking him away was all part of a pretty piss sketch. I'll prob see what else he has thou :)
I think appreciating Kaufman is a matter of being amused by the tensions created between 'ordinary' expectations and Andy's subversion of them. An audience member who feels uncomfortable, confronted, liberated, etc, while watching him, becomes another character in the scene for the amusement of everyone else. His canvas was the situation and everyone in it, not the comic monologue. He was willing for people to hate him in order for that situation to be funnier. IMO, a comedy genius.
@thetwentyfourth In many ways he wasn't a comedian or an actor,but the impersonation of what it means to be on a stage,to be perceived and to be representation on a stage. Brecht would be proud of the way he performed to destroy the very fabric that separates the audience and the artist and turning them both the subject and the object of the equation. What Andy was,you constructed what he did was so disparate you had to connect it yourself.In many ways,what is a joke but artificial laughter?
@thetwentyfourth Humour is subjective and distant;so often are sketches disposable and forgettable and comedians mere disposable ttols to achieve that often absurd laugh(in Monthy Python,the absurdity wasn't the sketch itself,but your laugh.You had to dismantle the word;in Andy,,you dismantle the image). But Andy made it personal and desired to insert you in the fictionality that is a laugh and analyze how much of it is ours and how much of it wasn't his.In the end he performed his life.
@thetwentyfourth Why? Because then he transcended the stage,the lines,the audience and translated reality into fiction. He destroyed the audience and the comedian as essences of the entertainment and made you face him as Andy Kauffman,the man, and not Andy Kauffman,the artist. Thus,you needed to be involved and he walked the thin line between performance and reality,just as you did with him as,in the end,andy Kauffman,the dangerous entertainer.
I know its part of the joke but when he says not to laugh I'm not trying to be funny right now is actually sad considering how people reacted to his cancer and death
It's a tribute to his genius that decades pass and people of the world get more and more cynical and jaded and "savvy"... and, judging by the comments, this guy's performances STILL confuse people, freak them out, and go right over their heads.
You guys...all the people interpreting this as comedy are sad, sad, sad people. This IS a bullshi-fest but if you think that people who exhibit this kind of behavior are "funny" then you have my pity as well.
This comedian is satirizing people in dire need of help. Imagine if that guy or girl was your relative or friend and was acting like that. Pretty funny, ya?
@Prometheus1st You really don't understand the purpose of Andy Kaufman's act. Everything he did, was to gain a reaction out of people, whether that be love or hatred. He did not view himself as a comedian or his act as a comedy act. He was working the audience, keeping them on their feet. You never knew what you were going to get with Andy, and that's the way he wanted it. The man did a whole live set in a British accent while reading the Great Gatsby. That's not comedy, it's genius.
@Prometheus1st it obiously would not be funny if someone i knew asked for that, but its funny because he's a celebrity asking for free handouts from an audience of total strangers. thats the real point of this satire, and andy kaufmans own brand of humor, is the breaking down of certain walls of where certain behavior would be accepable
Andy lived to make people feel uncomfortable! Interesting that even while he was a big star on Taxi, he never quit his job as a dishwasher at a local restaurant.
Whether madness, genius or gimmick..whether funny or unfunny, Andy got your attention. You can't ignore him. You think about him, debate about him, passionately hate him, or intensely love him.
The point is that he is able to captivate you. No matter how you feel about his performance, shock, anger, confusion, entertainment, offense, love..you don't soon forget it. Everything he did was a performance.
Why is this making me sad? It almost feels like Andy's bidding farewell. It's like Bill Hick's last presentation on Letterman (the one they refused to air and we all saw years later), there's an element of impending tragedy in it...
I agree with the dude that commented earlier, "andy knows what he's doing. He doesn't give a fuck about what you think. He is completely conscious through this entire piece. And it saddens me that no on is able to see that."
Andy is a regular lame person with no showmanmship, and figures that'll be his show - this was his entire career. And people bought into this because he was the only one who did it, so people are buying into nothing really, since it is lame and meaningless in the first place. The only brilliant thing about Andy is he knew he could market his stuff since no one did it before - that is, since no one tried to be famous being a nobody. He's smarter than the people who like him though, heh heh
This dude really paved the way for all the awkward comedy we see today. He was literally a genius in the true sense as louis ck described a genius "someone who had a thought nobody had ever had before"
@esTebanLRD I'm not saying they are direct comparisons, but the whole, pretending your a total cracked out wreck in order to get laughs comparison is definitely there.
@pokes101 Ok folks, stop over-reading into what I said, Jesus. I just said it's kinda obvious Joaquin was trying to do something similar. I didn't say he did it better, or that they are identical. I just said there are similarities. Let it die. Christ.
@idster: Andy wasn't a smoker, the cough was likely either part of the act or he actually had a cold and played off it. Ironically he died of a rare form of lung cancer, but according to family, he didn't start exhibiting symptoms until years after this appearance.
the funniest people are often the saddest of people,this is proven time and time again,Andy Koffman was a comic genius,but i think inside he was a very very lonely and sensitive person.who held on to his relationships with everything he had,which can often strain a relationship.but he was the type to give it everything he had and then some.
Ok, so I'm surfing YouTube while I'm eating dinner and I click on this clip because I had never seen this before and I'm an Andy fan. When he gets to the part where he says, "If you can spare some extra money..." I laugh so hard I spit food all over my computer. What a genius. As the years pass, his stuff only gets funnier.
Andy K marched to the beat of a different drummer. You either love him or you cant stand him...nobody sits on the fence with Andy. He certainly had a unique way of getting laughs- but he got the laughs. So that made him a good comic.
@SnapCraft316 no it's called "interactive performance" where the audience becomes the performer. Perhaps you don't get it because you don't understand what a "prankster event", a "happening" or a "freak-out" is. Your loss. If you WANT to get it, I'd recommend reading up on the "MERRY PRANKSTERS". Peace. And ps- andy is a genius. And double ps- he NEVER wanted to be a comedian and NEVER referred to what he did as "stand up". Peace.
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andy knows what he's doing. He doesn't give a fuck about what you think. He is completely conscious through this entire piece. And it saddens me that no on is able to see that.
@huisman23 'good little next generation douche' lol dude he was just awkward and people like to laugh at awkward people. omg a comedian who is pretending he doesnt want to be laughed at. fascinating character, made a good movie after he was dead, but SO NOT FUNNY!!!! honestly if i went to any of his shows, i highly doubt i would leave in a better mood. i mean fuck, he seems depressed as fuck here. this is funny to you? this makes you laugh. fucking weird.
@afatdutch its an act to make people laugh and feel bad about it on the inside, like when your a kid and fat people get stuck in small doorways or the elderly fall and you laugh when you know you shouldnt. its Schadenfreude... pleasure from other peoples misfortune. im sure this was the center of his comedy.
@huisman23 holy shit dude, you think you are just soooo fucking right dont you? you can think its funny if you want to, just dont imply everyone else 'doesnt get it'. he acts clueless and unaware that he's on a talk show and has an awkward runny nose (almost as funny as poopie and farts, right!!!!), and thats not how he was expected to act based on the formula everyone is used to seeing on tv. i get it, its just not that funny. hes a performance artist, not a comedian.
This guy s know shit, first he is not funny, second that was in 1980, people were, much more naive and you could fool them with a cheap shit joke laike that, and it is obvius that kaufmann cant act like he doesnt know a shit, very pathetic and unfunny guy, a prefer british humor.
ok, this is NOT funny. don't act like you understand some deep meaning of this, because this is just simply stupid and bad. people are laughing because they think they're supposed to.
Andy Kaufman could have been funny. To bad he let his artistic license run away with him. I had promise. I hope he comes back in 2014, and knocks us dead with really comedy. No pun intended. =P
He is original. Maybe he was influenced by Lenny Bruce? I really don't know, but he's clever and his successfully entertained in a very understated way.
@MegaFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNF very sharp observation but I´m afraid I have to disagree with you on that, Letterman supported Andy Kaufman throughout the 80s that is why he put him on the show so many times. This was a MORNING show in 1980, I think it takes some courage to feature an unusual act like that :-)
@MegaFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNF Oh c'mon, you seriously think Letterman wasn't in on it? Letterman just continues to put an unstable lunatic on his show time after time after time after time and doesn't know it's a joke?
....never understood his schtick when I was young. Looking back now I realize that this guy was the master of the theatre of the absurd. Kaufman was a supremely confident performer who would carry a premise to the squirmy limits of uncomfortability. He relished playing the "heel" and satirized the the very vehicle that got him to the dance. Pure genious that was years ahead of his time.
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Family Guy is the true inheritor of Andy Kaufman's shittiness. Random crap that begins at not funny and drags on to painfully not funny. Same fucking premise to everything he did. I don't wanna say something mean like I'm glad he's dead, but I am.
@Wulfiebaby I actually agree with this. Kaufman, Monty Python, they all led to this mundane and unfunny culture we have today. Family Guy tries so hard to make utter shit funny, shows like Arrested Development rely on a narrator to point out what's funny, and the worst is they both got brought back to life.
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MockEmpire 22 hours ago
@MockEmpire Nope.
HugoManz1 12 hours ago
that was brilliant.I really miss Andy......
starquant 1 day ago
the dude even dressed like the future.
BOBAFETTYODAASS 2 days ago
MAYBE THE FUNNIEST MOMENT EVER
ELVIS4221 2 days ago
letterman was,is,and will allways be a horses cunt !!
pitkinator 2 days ago
what did the lady scream out???
shmayy 3 days ago
Daxflame in 10 years.
SSJkiller 3 days ago
Andy was the original troll! Awesome guy!
BeansOnGhost 3 days ago
I'm watching this because I just got done watching Man On The Moon. I guess humour is really a personal thing because I didn't crack a smile. Actually this performance depressed me.
LeonardoNasir 4 days ago
This appearance occurred October 15, 1980, not June 24. His first appearance, a cameo, occurred two days earlier (not one), October 13.
dongiller 4 days ago
unsolved mysterys of the universe - people who watch videos they dislike.
thevoicessaidso 4 days ago
Unsolved mystery of the universe - Andy Kaufman being on TV for any reason.
StoneyMcJuicyBuds 4 days ago
Unsolved mystery of the universe - People who think Andy Kaufman was talented.
StoneyMcJuicyBuds 4 days ago
@3:13 I hope you're not sick Andy
goharma 4 days ago
Imagine if he were still alive, we'd all have to pretend like he's still relevant and tolerate seeing him on Leno or Letterman every now and then, like Robin Williams.
goharma 4 days ago
@goharma now, now. Robin Williams may not be in good movies anymore, but every single interview he does is HILARIOUS.
rishabhpb 4 days ago
While it is awkward, tense and slightly uncomfortable.... it still isn't funny to me. Perhaps slightly amusing but no laughs coming from me. no lolololololol
jer3887 4 days ago
I'm pretty sure the first guy to give him money was his partner Bob Zemudo (or something). The guy Paul Giglimotti played in man on the moon.
freestrike2000 6 days ago
He says NOTHING for two minutes, and it's flipping hilarious
masteroftheobvious86 1 week ago
since tony clifton and andy are the same person tony did smoke i strongly feel he is depressed and niggaz is just laffing at him
speakdatruth2 1 week ago
Letterman is pissed because this time the one that gets attention was the host and not him! I've never seen anyone like Kaufman. He is so strange in his own way. He doesn't want to show off for everyone and make stupid jokes, he doesn't even care if he is on letterman or not, he is himself and that means he plays each character of himself. Fascinating.
gabitangerine 1 week ago
@gabitangerine You're nuts! this is the kind of stuff Letterman loves.
freestrike2000 6 days ago
the talented die young
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who decided this was funny?....
zetasong 2 weeks ago
the way he looks reminds me of krist novoselic from nirvana
dbows94 2 weeks ago 5
@dbows94- Exactly!
piemakesmelol 2 weeks ago
aww c'mon folks this was YEARS before his cancer diagnosis.
it's a JOKE! how could anyone be familiar with andy's genius and not realize that this is an act, just like in his 77 routine improv, he started unsure and telling bad jokes, this is just that, but to another level. i wish we had more andy's in the world.
oceankiddd 2 weeks ago
i just want to point out that kaufman was dying at this point and he knew it, but he kept it a secret, you can hear him coughing which is his lung cancer
theABHshow 2 weeks ago
WTF? Joaquin Pheonix totally ripped this off!
Threedeehoo 2 weeks ago
This was several years before his death. I wonder if the coughing was an act or a symptom of the lung cancer which would eventually take his life.
chadkwill 2 weeks ago
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"I'm not a comic, I've never told a joke. The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him. My only promise is that I will try to entertain you. I can manipulate people's reactions. There are different kinds of laughter. Gut laughter is where you don't have a choice, you've got to laugh. Gut laughter doesn't come from the intellect. They say, 'Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a funny guy.' But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads."
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ceskabomba2 3 weeks ago
This guys nothing special. Hes trading his dignity for some laughs. I see guys like this on the street all the time.
Eaglemerica 3 weeks ago
Its simple and its called reverse psychology.
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Eaglemerica 3 weeks ago
Totally unfunny talentless cunt of a kike! liked by the pseudo's and stupid!
Richthor1889 3 weeks ago
He is a genius!
gusyyy23 3 weeks ago
This takes comedy right to the dangerous edge. He dares to do a boring monologue, asks the audience NOT to laugh, then goes out collecting money from audience members. Brilliant. Are we seeing reality (which would be horribly sad) or are we seeing someone extracting comedy from the audience's discomfort and uncertainty? As Mark Twain explained, true comedy always grows from tension and discomfort.
LaszloBencze 3 weeks ago 23
Pure Gold.
smicko77 3 weeks ago
This the first thing I've seen from this guy. Predictable and not very funny. I see what he was trying to do, but maybe he had ran out of random material. No doubt the guy at the end taking him away was all part of a pretty piss sketch. I'll prob see what else he has thou :)
seanjoseph84 3 weeks ago
I don't get any of this. To me it's kinda embarassing to watch- I find this fellow very sad.
Hoodinski 3 weeks ago
andy did these things on purpose
m4ttyk4kes 4 weeks ago
okay this is the first time i've ever seen anything of andy kaufman and already I see he's brilliant.
newrealization12 4 weeks ago
The fact that most of the people who dislike this video only do so because they have the IQ of a potato is.... amusing.
SSJkiller 4 weeks ago
haha he almost broke character after letterman's "mint" question lol
07foxmulder 4 weeks ago
I think appreciating Kaufman is a matter of being amused by the tensions created between 'ordinary' expectations and Andy's subversion of them. An audience member who feels uncomfortable, confronted, liberated, etc, while watching him, becomes another character in the scene for the amusement of everyone else. His canvas was the situation and everyone in it, not the comic monologue. He was willing for people to hate him in order for that situation to be funnier. IMO, a comedy genius.
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@thetwentyfourth
Exactly I especially like how you said: "being amused by the tensions created between 'ordinary' expectations and Andy's subversion of them."
This is spot on
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Eaglemerica 3 weeks ago
@thetwentyfourth In many ways he wasn't a comedian or an actor,but the impersonation of what it means to be on a stage,to be perceived and to be representation on a stage. Brecht would be proud of the way he performed to destroy the very fabric that separates the audience and the artist and turning them both the subject and the object of the equation. What Andy was,you constructed what he did was so disparate you had to connect it yourself.In many ways,what is a joke but artificial laughter?
RDV333 2 weeks ago
@thetwentyfourth Humour is subjective and distant;so often are sketches disposable and forgettable and comedians mere disposable ttols to achieve that often absurd laugh(in Monthy Python,the absurdity wasn't the sketch itself,but your laugh.You had to dismantle the word;in Andy,,you dismantle the image). But Andy made it personal and desired to insert you in the fictionality that is a laugh and analyze how much of it is ours and how much of it wasn't his.In the end he performed his life.
RDV333 2 weeks ago
@thetwentyfourth Why? Because then he transcended the stage,the lines,the audience and translated reality into fiction. He destroyed the audience and the comedian as essences of the entertainment and made you face him as Andy Kauffman,the man, and not Andy Kauffman,the artist. Thus,you needed to be involved and he walked the thin line between performance and reality,just as you did with him as,in the end,andy Kauffman,the dangerous entertainer.
RDV333 2 weeks ago
@thetwentyfourth A true Genius. And ahead of his time.
winexprt 1 day ago
I know its part of the joke but when he says not to laugh I'm not trying to be funny right now is actually sad considering how people reacted to his cancer and death
A2Z83 1 month ago
kinda funny how benji from howard stern prefected this style. kaufman looks like a amateur compared to benji
sleepyasfuck 1 month ago
he proofed , you can be funny your own way
MrMAMLOVE 1 month ago
You guys crack me up on these posts. He is still doing it to you from the grave. Don't try to figure it out, just enjoy it!
daytripperhd 1 month ago
I JUST noticed, at the end, David Letterman sounds like Kermit the Frog.
margretteleigh 1 month ago
TROLOLOLOLOL
FWalshingham 1 month ago
It's a tribute to his genius that decades pass and people of the world get more and more cynical and jaded and "savvy"... and, judging by the comments, this guy's performances STILL confuse people, freak them out, and go right over their heads.
tuskedbeast 1 month ago 3
131 dislikes people..you just deserve rest bullshitt videos on Youtube...not Andi kaufman !! he was a great artist
bedazzeledd 1 month ago
HAAHAHAH he doesnt say anything to letterman but he talks to the audience about his personal affairs hahaa
bakersakter 1 month ago
You guys...all the people interpreting this as comedy are sad, sad, sad people. This IS a bullshi-fest but if you think that people who exhibit this kind of behavior are "funny" then you have my pity as well.
This comedian is satirizing people in dire need of help. Imagine if that guy or girl was your relative or friend and was acting like that. Pretty funny, ya?
Prometheus1st 1 month ago
@Prometheus1st You really don't understand the purpose of Andy Kaufman's act. Everything he did, was to gain a reaction out of people, whether that be love or hatred. He did not view himself as a comedian or his act as a comedy act. He was working the audience, keeping them on their feet. You never knew what you were going to get with Andy, and that's the way he wanted it. The man did a whole live set in a British accent while reading the Great Gatsby. That's not comedy, it's genius.
capnfooDRIVEin 1 month ago
@Prometheus1st it obiously would not be funny if someone i knew asked for that, but its funny because he's a celebrity asking for free handouts from an audience of total strangers. thats the real point of this satire, and andy kaufmans own brand of humor, is the breaking down of certain walls of where certain behavior would be accepable
The96ify 1 month ago
@The96ify spot on
jimmiow 1 month ago
@Prometheus1st Don't over think it. Or the joke is on you.
daytripperhd 1 month ago
He was kinda hot...
MissLori 1 month ago
He had Cancer . these people and Letterman are F'k up.. how sad..
selenarose23 1 month ago
@selenarose23 they didnt know he had cancer and neither did he at the time, it was meant to be a joke.
jimmiow 1 month ago
I bet he snorted a rail before he walked on stage rofl.
FreeTh1nk3r 1 month ago
no. andy kaufman was funny. especially the jerry lawler
royalnaz1 1 month ago
This is just embarassing.
Granitoons 1 month ago
Andy lived to make people feel uncomfortable! Interesting that even while he was a big star on Taxi, he never quit his job as a dishwasher at a local restaurant.
justentime77 1 month ago
Fuark Letterman looks young as
iRandomX 1 month ago
This was Daves 1st show in the morning . I stayed home and skipped my 1st class of school for every single show.
wan2bvader 1 month ago
IDOTA
MrLeondario 1 month ago
NOT FUNNY... NEVER HAS... NEVER WAS
EPIC FAIL
ripster8675 1 month ago
he was a man, i mean, a real man
ghodium 1 month ago
wow look at how young david letterman is
lovemetalhatejuggalo 1 month ago
Whether madness, genius or gimmick..whether funny or unfunny, Andy got your attention. You can't ignore him. You think about him, debate about him, passionately hate him, or intensely love him.
The point is that he is able to captivate you. No matter how you feel about his performance, shock, anger, confusion, entertainment, offense, love..you don't soon forget it. Everything he did was a performance.
snoopy072782 1 month ago
Andy "Comedic Genius" Kaufman
flamingmonkays 1 month ago
Joaquin Phoenix tried to do the same thing and failed miserably. At least Dave Chappelle had the decency to walk away and jack up his cred.
Prometheus1st 1 month ago
@Prometheus1st is there a video any where of him doing that?
adambelfast1 3 weeks ago
I still think he wasn't that funny.
cleancab 1 month ago
Why is this making me sad? It almost feels like Andy's bidding farewell. It's like Bill Hick's last presentation on Letterman (the one they refused to air and we all saw years later), there's an element of impending tragedy in it...
koshkatoverdrive 1 month ago
Now i kinda wanna search for the Jet-Powered Bowling Bowl.
Reach1335 1 month ago
He was being serious. He would even say "I never tell jokes." I believe he was sick with lung cancer at this point.
crystrol227 1 month ago
@crystrol227 Actually, I don't think he was diagnosed until 1983.
flamingmonkays 1 month ago
he bites his cheek at 48 to hold his laugh in hahaha
heavyhitter242424 1 month ago
Was the cough his lung cancer?
Playboysmurf1 1 month ago
its not funny. hes autistic. people are basically laughing at his autism
ningali 2 months ago
@ningali He wasn't autistic. This was funny to him...this was similar to reading The Great Gatsby to the audience.
Galactis 2 months ago
@ningali That's gotta be the stupidest description of Kaufman. He wasn't autistic.
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MrAkshay8opeth 1 month ago
Was Kaufman putting on an act or was he serious?
Imran500 2 months ago
@Imran500 serious.
ningali 2 months ago
@Imran500 He was never "off".
You ever see The Prestige? Watch it. It'll give you an idea of how Andy lived his life.
Lady Gaga is attempting to do this, but it's obvious and not genius.
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I agree with the dude that commented earlier, "andy knows what he's doing. He doesn't give a fuck about what you think. He is completely conscious through this entire piece. And it saddens me that no on is able to see that."
PaulJuliusSokoloff 2 months ago
Andy is a regular lame person with no showmanmship, and figures that'll be his show - this was his entire career. And people bought into this because he was the only one who did it, so people are buying into nothing really, since it is lame and meaningless in the first place. The only brilliant thing about Andy is he knew he could market his stuff since no one did it before - that is, since no one tried to be famous being a nobody. He's smarter than the people who like him though, heh heh
PaulJuliusSokoloff 2 months ago
@PaulJuliusSokoloff
I see him as a modern artist more than anything. I just like his kind, like Andy Warhol :)
dfhzrf 2 weeks ago
what am i missing here? why is everbody laughing?
3xWink 2 months ago
@3xWink
a cerebral cortex.
DSAK55 1 month ago
@DSAK55 no need to get rude. this man simply ain't funny.
3xWink 1 month ago
He's alright. The bit drags on a little too long.
dedbusted 2 months ago
the harry houdini of comedy.
roscoegino 2 months ago
This dude really paved the way for all the awkward comedy we see today. He was literally a genius in the true sense as louis ck described a genius "someone who had a thought nobody had ever had before"
BigDaddyDJD 2 months ago
I miss coke.
ashburnhouse 2 months ago
When he started coughing I goddamn started crying in hysterics...
cjrebelofficial 2 months ago
Andy was believing in illusion - You believe what you see . But in fact the TRUTH is different . So OPEN YOUR EYES and listen your heart :+))
PresleyStudios 2 months ago
Ditch the hair, superimpose the face on John Belushi.....try it, see what you get.
MrJMH1954 2 months ago
Holy inspiration for Joaquin Phoenix batman. I know it's obvious. But...wow. So awesome. lol
gdwhat 2 months ago 10
@gdwhat ?
esTebanLRD 1 month ago
@esTebanLRD search Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman you'll find what I'm talking about eventually. Or watch the mockumentry "I'm Still Here".
gdwhat 3 weeks ago
@gdwhat I KNOW ALL ABOUT THE PHOENIX FILM WITH HIS BEARD AND ETC, BUT I DON´T THINK THAT ARE THE SAME THING.
esTebanLRD 3 weeks ago
@esTebanLRD I'm not saying they are direct comparisons, but the whole, pretending your a total cracked out wreck in order to get laughs comparison is definitely there.
gdwhat 3 weeks ago
@gdwhat
Joaquin Phoenix was lame, dull and pretentious. There will only ever be one Andy Kaufman.
pokes101 2 weeks ago
@pokes101 Ok folks, stop over-reading into what I said, Jesus. I just said it's kinda obvious Joaquin was trying to do something similar. I didn't say he did it better, or that they are identical. I just said there are similarities. Let it die. Christ.
gdwhat 2 weeks ago
Genius
5teampunker 2 months ago
@idster: Andy wasn't a smoker, the cough was likely either part of the act or he actually had a cold and played off it. Ironically he died of a rare form of lung cancer, but according to family, he didn't start exhibiting symptoms until years after this appearance.
gtelm 2 months ago
was that coughing at 3:00 real? was he a smoker or something?
idster7 2 months ago
the funniest people are often the saddest of people,this is proven time and time again,Andy Koffman was a comic genius,but i think inside he was a very very lonely and sensitive person.who held on to his relationships with everything he had,which can often strain a relationship.but he was the type to give it everything he had and then some.
KeithWasHere1 2 months ago
@KeithWasHere1 this is very true, i know first hand the tears of a clown.
Canusayblunt 2 months ago
Ok, so I'm surfing YouTube while I'm eating dinner and I click on this clip because I had never seen this before and I'm an Andy fan. When he gets to the part where he says, "If you can spare some extra money..." I laugh so hard I spit food all over my computer. What a genius. As the years pass, his stuff only gets funnier.
dave3197 2 months ago 2
He doesn't even have to say anything to be funny and have the audiences' complete 100% attention.
That's brilliance.
Silence is funny.
Laurpalooza 2 months ago 32
@Laurpalooza Silence is funny? Depends what you are thinking.
Montrealien 1 month ago
@Montrealien he's quoting a line from the movie "man on the moon" based on andy kaufman
Xtremedeltateam 1 month ago
@Xtremedeltateam I know, and what I said still stands.
Montrealien 1 month ago
@Montrealien the audience or the comedian?
Xtremedeltateam 1 month ago
@Xtremedeltateam both.
Montrealien 1 month ago
Andy K marched to the beat of a different drummer. You either love him or you cant stand him...nobody sits on the fence with Andy. He certainly had a unique way of getting laughs- but he got the laughs. So that made him a good comic.
Kara0ki 2 months ago
Comic genius.
Fuliginosus 2 months ago
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Loser. Never got him. This is humor?
SnapCraft316 2 months ago
@SnapCraft316 Watch more of his stuff. He's great!
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@SnapCraft316 no it's called "interactive performance" where the audience becomes the performer. Perhaps you don't get it because you don't understand what a "prankster event", a "happening" or a "freak-out" is. Your loss. If you WANT to get it, I'd recommend reading up on the "MERRY PRANKSTERS". Peace. And ps- andy is a genius. And double ps- he NEVER wanted to be a comedian and NEVER referred to what he did as "stand up". Peace.
deadheadlooser 2 months ago
Wonder if his brain tumor had anything to do with he oddness?
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peopledick 2 months ago
Awesome! Love it. This TRUE comic genius
howedelamitri 2 months ago
OMG GENIUS HOLY SHIT BRILLIANT. This is like Normal Activity of comedy.
MrGoldenTracks 2 months ago
Genius!
cards1985 3 months ago
andy knows what he's doing. He doesn't give a fuck about what you think. He is completely conscious through this entire piece. And it saddens me that no on is able to see that.
huisman23 3 months ago
@huisman23 dude, we all know his schtick by now, its not like were all in the dark. its just that it aint that funny.
afatdutch 2 months ago
@afatdutch well
huisman23 2 months ago
then you are very much so in the dark.
huisman23 2 months ago
@huisman23 'good little next generation douche' lol dude he was just awkward and people like to laugh at awkward people. omg a comedian who is pretending he doesnt want to be laughed at. fascinating character, made a good movie after he was dead, but SO NOT FUNNY!!!! honestly if i went to any of his shows, i highly doubt i would leave in a better mood. i mean fuck, he seems depressed as fuck here. this is funny to you? this makes you laugh. fucking weird.
afatdutch 2 months ago
@afatdutch its an act to make people laugh and feel bad about it on the inside, like when your a kid and fat people get stuck in small doorways or the elderly fall and you laugh when you know you shouldnt. its Schadenfreude... pleasure from other peoples misfortune. im sure this was the center of his comedy.
oliverjon80 2 months ago 2
@oliverjon80 sounds about right to me.
afatdutch 2 months ago
@afatdutch what a good little next generation douche. what do you like anchorman and all that newschool shit?
huisman23 2 months ago
@huisman23 holy shit dude, you think you are just soooo fucking right dont you? you can think its funny if you want to, just dont imply everyone else 'doesnt get it'. he acts clueless and unaware that he's on a talk show and has an awkward runny nose (almost as funny as poopie and farts, right!!!!), and thats not how he was expected to act based on the formula everyone is used to seeing on tv. i get it, its just not that funny. hes a performance artist, not a comedian.
afatdutch 2 months ago
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This guy s know shit, first he is not funny, second that was in 1980, people were, much more naive and you could fool them with a cheap shit joke laike that, and it is obvius that kaufmann cant act like he doesnt know a shit, very pathetic and unfunny guy, a prefer british humor.
DiegosHideout 2 months ago
@DiegosHideout What cheap joke? He didn't say a single joke the whole time...?
5teampunker 2 months ago
aw he's cute
hobbesthefirstful 3 months ago
act or coccccccccaine?
uutooyu 3 months ago
@uutooyu acting like on coke
arinross523 2 months ago
ok, this is NOT funny. don't act like you understand some deep meaning of this, because this is just simply stupid and bad. people are laughing because they think they're supposed to.
Yekex 3 months ago
Andy Kaufman could have been funny. To bad he let his artistic license run away with him. I had promise. I hope he comes back in 2014, and knocks us dead with really comedy. No pun intended. =P
1q2w3e4r911 3 months ago
he was dying from lung cancer
sharted400 3 months ago
@sharted400 thats what the coughing was
konatown5 3 months ago
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Captlafl69 3 months ago
He is original. Maybe he was influenced by Lenny Bruce? I really don't know, but he's clever and his successfully entertained in a very understated way.
maripocita37 3 months ago
He was a professional pain int he ass.
altops 3 months ago
Wow, effing brilliant! Kaufman was truly a genius.
55westend 3 months ago
I can't believe Joachim Phoenix had Dave fooled for a split second after Andy.
snappycatchy 3 months ago
I dont think he is funny but i do think he was some kind of genious and i am amazed by him
jenwasverydrunk 3 months ago
he looks so coked out
Garrbear12399 3 months ago
Hey look - he did Joaqin Phoenix's Letterman bit decades earlier. Guy was amazing. :)
xtian22801 3 months ago
David Letterman is such a dick
MegaFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNF 3 months ago
@MegaFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNF very sharp observation but I´m afraid I have to disagree with you on that, Letterman supported Andy Kaufman throughout the 80s that is why he put him on the show so many times. This was a MORNING show in 1980, I think it takes some courage to feature an unusual act like that :-)
sisiwasabi81 3 months ago
@MegaFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNF Oh c'mon, you seriously think Letterman wasn't in on it? Letterman just continues to put an unstable lunatic on his show time after time after time after time and doesn't know it's a joke?
whales 3 months ago
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bladhack 3 months ago
everytime i watch andy, afterward i go to wiki to see if what he said was true lol
artistsandbox 3 months ago
....never understood his schtick when I was young. Looking back now I realize that this guy was the master of the theatre of the absurd. Kaufman was a supremely confident performer who would carry a premise to the squirmy limits of uncomfortability. He relished playing the "heel" and satirized the the very vehicle that got him to the dance. Pure genious that was years ahead of his time.
densls1 3 months ago
This is funny????
23Finndog 3 months ago
@23Finndog
Only if you have an IQ of over two digits.
dangraphic 3 months ago
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Family Guy is the true inheritor of Andy Kaufman's shittiness. Random crap that begins at not funny and drags on to painfully not funny. Same fucking premise to everything he did. I don't wanna say something mean like I'm glad he's dead, but I am.
Wulfiebaby 3 months ago
@Wulfiebaby I actually agree with this. Kaufman, Monty Python, they all led to this mundane and unfunny culture we have today. Family Guy tries so hard to make utter shit funny, shows like Arrested Development rely on a narrator to point out what's funny, and the worst is they both got brought back to life.
KifIsARealBoy 3 months ago
so fucking genius
GETFUCKEDRETARD 3 months ago
me at 0:40 why the hell are they laughing so much? 1:34 *laughs too*
Siska0Robert 3 months ago
I woke up the morning and my penis was missing again. It happens quite a lot. Its detachable.
petestrat07 3 months ago