Andy Kaufman on Letterman (June 23rd 1980)

[clintallen123]

Holy shit.  This was back when Letterman was on in the morning. I remember seeing his show when I was like 7 or 8 years old during the summer. Holy shit. Mindfuck here.

[abc1000001]

Weird.

[MillBelater]

This show was probably the first WTF? moment for millions of viewers.  I can see June Cleaver vacuuming in her pearls while this is on.

[wannawatchu66]

I don't think this aired June 23, 1980. If it had, this would have been David's first show, and it wasn't. The set was different, for one thing. Early on, David's guests would walk through a door, not simply around a corner and onto the set like Kaufman does here. Also, David mentions running a contest "for the past few weeks." Maybe that was a joke, but this wasn't David's debut show.

[WayneJetski69]

@wannawatchu66 Hey dingus it was his short lived morning show, my parents watched it way back when

[wannawatchu66]

@WayneJetski69 Hey dingus, I WATCHED that short-lived morning show too, INCLUDING the first morning show -- which aired June 23, 1980.

[wiedep]

it was a PLANNED BIT !!!

DON'T U GET IT?

[KillinDaWelfareMCs]

No wonder NBC gave the tonight show to Jay.

Dave is horrendous..

[bigbosscentral90]

Letterman gets Kaufman's style of comedy. Dave gets Kaufman's misdirection and this whole thing was probably planned between the two of them. Nothing you see on tv is genuine because so many people are involved in its production and transmission. Kaufman's genius was to trick people into thinking that they were witnessing a rare unguarded tv moment. When in fact everything he did was meticulously planned.

[MiamiPush2theLimit]

omg i died of laughter.. Andy has a kind of sick sense of humor xD

[foolsbetrippin]

this is just like the jimmy kimmel show with matt daemon.

invite em on and run out of time.. all started here.

[MeningsMod]

Its a set-up.

Classic Andy Kaufmann humor!!!

[MitchGambino]

The title of this video says 23th instead of 23rd.

[alexlee7773]

kaufman style prank! admittedley on a much smaller scale

[expardisi]

I got the hurge to hug him : D

[spacegeek]

wow i thought Dave was a nice guy, how did he cut him off like that?? : (

[promontorium]

That's the whole joke.

[pbmachinima]

Do you think Letterman ever got any of Andy's jokes?

[WayneJetski69]

@pbmachinima Letterman was a big supporter and friend of Kaufman, they began as comedians together, don't be a dingus, Dave supports all talent unlike selfish and insecure Leno

[hunyghan]

Space age meat...in my pants!

[njolnir]

Classic!