Andy Kaufman - Thought, Counterthought

[snoopy072782]

He has the weirdest laugh..huuu huuu huu

[danduryea]

@anarchistory, it was Shana Alexander and James Kilpatrick - the parody on Saturday Night Live featured Jane Curtin as Jane Alexander (Dan,you sadistic, elitist, sexist pig) debating Dan Aykroyd (Jane, you ignorant, misguided slut). It was a scream at the time, probably most wouldn't get the reference today.

[lessthanpinochet]

Uma Thurman?

[venomize1]

andy once told zmunda about faking his death, zmunda said it would never work. andy was the kind of person if you said he couldnt do it he would find a way to do it and prove them wrong, and that includes his best friend bob zmunda, everyone at his funeral got punked and andy laid there listening to all the people cry and sob over a prank, AND STILL THE UNDISPUTED KING OF PRANKS....ANNNNNNDYYYYYY KAAAUUUUUFMANNNNN!!!!!!!!!!

[anarchistory]

Kaufman's skit is a spoof of Point - Counterpoint, a segment that appeared on the TV series, 60 Minutes. The original short segment appeared at the end of 60 Minutes, wherein two idiotic pundits, Jane Alexander and some now-forgotten male idiot, yelled at each other. Kaufman, and later Colbert, offered their own parodies.

[Bigum99]

No not Tony Clifton, but Ralf Crammer!

Tea baggers unite!

[Malandrobuenciego]

This is great not in the 'it is the WORST ever' way, but in the

'is NOT meant to be good, but to be the worst would be predictable' way. Sort of medium un-funnyness.

[ThwartedVillainy]

So this is where Colbert got point/counterpoint from?

[CatapultYourMom]

Who's the anorexic woman at the start?

[kittyprydekissme]

@CatapultYourMom Melanie Chartoff.

[Stylefree83]

i love how he just abandons the skit like his brain had a counterthought about the skit in general and he said screw this.

[Ape65]

Even when he screws up he's funny as hell!

[sweetjimmyhotpants]

he acts badly and blows the bit on purpose, it's something he always did.

[martpast1]

its not about text here or play of actor. its about...? .... he is just sincere at the end

[holm81]

It's kinda a shame that Andy was such a lousy actor, like when he "laughs" here lol... Also I think he could've done much more with this skit...

In general though, He's the best..

[Teflon65]

This appears to be from the old show, "Fridays", which was a west coast version of "Saturday Night Live".

[Kramnosnits]

He blows his line at 1:22......badly.

[pokeronskis]

@Kramnosnits - I think that his mistakes, slight at first (Looking back the other way before getting out of his chair) and gradually becoming more and more pronounced, are part of his act. Like FreakoutFreakshow started to get at below, I think he's satirizing comedians, kind of poking fun at how seriously the art world takes itself.

[FarEastBeast]

@pokeronskis You got it. His whole thing was satire and he spared no one, his "audience" least of all. He felt the same about his Fridays audience, his stand-up audiences and his wrestling audiences.

[JABBADABBADOODOO]

"You don't need a national endowment for hockey, because hockey's exciting! What do you say about that?" I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? Derrr, I'm from May-em-fiss Ten-ah-see, derrr

[FreakoutFreakshow]

This was Andy making fun of the show and writers.

Friday's wasn't that funny but Andy was a genius.

[Malandrobuenciego]

Just because he did some Genius stuff doesn't mean that everything he did was gold. This looks rather uninspired.

[DharmRakshak2]

That was realy not funny!

[ParadiXe311]

Give me a "P"... P! Gimme a "U"!! Ahhh fuck it, I was gonna spell "PURE GENIUS" but I think you all know it by now :-)

[HRPoodersmith]

I think that might have been the real andy! couldn't read the cue cards so he just started wingin' it and started laughing

[RAINRIEN]

Watch The Original TV Comic Ed Winn

You'll see where Andy got his LAUGH

[RAINRIEN]

Okay You Win

That's Ed Wynn

[ciananal]

he was laughing at all of us.. brillant.

[WestonFlamingo]

That's one craaaaazy Jew.

[Beck436]

...meaning what?

[iloveilovestealing]

lolololol

[ALittleBitOfGreen]

haha...LOL...

[Rawego]

truly retarded, bravo Andy :))

[PolarBeamz]

"Thought provoking exchanges of views". Excellent!

[aj31313]

sounds like Andy vs Tony Clifton

[wingedhamham]

I have to say, Andy put up a great argument, but in the end I'll have to side with Andy.

[SenorTucan0594]

Yeah, of course you'd side with him he's a liberal anything he says you just eat up.

[bobrobertsz]

@SenorTucan0594 People are idiots, that's why they didn't get that joke and gave you thumbs down.

[JABBADABBADOODOO]

@bobrobertsz -what did SenorTucan0594 say? His comment is not there. Maybe I will give him a thumbs up. What do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? I don't know, what do you have to say about that? xD heehee

[bobrobertsz]

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[JABBADABBADOODOO]

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[54spiritedwill54]

How  cute!

[BlueBlueFeelin]

wow that was hilarious. that's what i think.

[korgri]

I think he botched it to embarrass "Friday's" production staff, who probably wanted him to copy SNL's 'Point/Counterpoint' skit, aka: the 'Jane you ignorant slut' bit. They thought the extent of the humour would be him doing it by himself, and he probably resented them wanting to copy other people's ideas so blatantly. So he botched the skit?

[ultimatediscdave]

The brilliance of Kaufman: did he give up or was the scene supposed to have him give up?

[Vpopov81]

That seemed like a misfire.

[ned1171]

I guess what is so endearing about this clip is that so many arguments are ultimately boiled down to silly biases which almost never change to the point where we are all talking heads barking at one another. Kaufman is laughing at all angles--even those he would agree with and its a damn funny thing when you look at it

[DJJayRivm]

.... i get what this guys about but, its hard to say its funny. i think he had alot of issues and he expressed his anger through comedy. He makes fun of the social trance people are in and how we act. hes by far one of the deepest and confusing comedians ive ever seen and i wonder if the people back then knew what he was all about.

[LJARSONBECK]

Ironically it was after viewing some of Kaufmans routines in which Reagan saw how sad the arts had become and chose to stop funding it.

Again kaufman shows his lack of rspect for his audience by being unprepared and not wearing his glasses... the guy blew!!

[LifeNotLost]

Quite funny and clever. Andy Kaufman is great.

[wookie72]

Melanie Chartoff was hot. Still is, actually.

[doctorspankluv]

I was thankin tha same thang. She's fuckin hot.

[whatsparsimony]

yes! thank you.

[Sshelly34213]

Andy was adorable, I love him!

[thighmister]

That chick looks like Tina Fey!

[yonta123]

no. I do.

[thighmister]

You are a cheeky little yonta.

Do you have Tina's current glasses? I tell you, I will marry anyone with those glasses. Man, woman, beast. Dirty little French Bulldog bookworm tease. Filthy lumberjack slut.

[dzemergency]

How frickin cute!

[fullofshoot]

...good.