Only thing he did that was funny was Taxi and that was because he had to follow a script that real comedians wrote. Left on his own, he succeded in being weird, but was only getting laughs by accident. The Sat Night Live audience voted him off for being a self absorbed suck that wasn't entertaining, just strange.
Some people confuse Kaufman with a comedian. He wasn't. He liked to get the audience pissed at him and to pull elaborate pranks that appeared real. Most stage performers do everything they can to avoid awkward moments. Andy Kaufman tried to make awkward moments.
Basically what it comes down to is this: Some people got Kaufman and some did not. Just because you do not understand something does not mean that the ones that do get it are "retarded". Grow up
Basically he is playing "the phony jerk"; a nice guy in front of the camera and a jerk when the cameras are off. But then after sweet innocent Latka break him down Latka is then revealed as a similar phony jerk. LOL. Kaufman was a genius. The problem is some people couldn't recognize his abstract humor.
He thrived on people not getting it. Not getting a) the gentle deceptions of show biz, where the audience thinks it's complicit (b) the harsh deceptions of 'reality', when you wonder who or what you can trust. Half the comments here think they're getting at the 'real Andy Kaufman', not realizing that was just another layer of the onion. The real Andy was the detached watcher whom we'll never know through clips.
never seen foreign man so assertive -- yuk yuk -- can't get enough -- he was going for the feel of one of those low budget children shows that every local station used to do -- usually early mornings after 'news and farm report' and before the game shows
thank ending was priceless. what a mind-fu@k! :) he was so ahead of his time, people just couldnt handle shit like that in the early 80's, they wanted their celebrities in black and white. shame.
No dont get me wrong but it were a bit confusing I mean that in the end were fake right I mean he couldnt have been that bad as he acted out right??....right?
Yes he meant what he said after the credits about people being sheep....that was his cynicism coming out...I just think he was trying to let people understand that yes, he was cynical but that he was trying to come to terms with it. I love Andy Kaufman and its too bad he died before I was birthed.
I get the impression this was inspired by the ending to Andy Griffith's "Face in the Crowd" movie where the other Andy goes on about what sheep the masses are right after he thinks the cameras are turned off, only here it's used to comedic effect.
Comment to drek258 : Well, lots of people - not from the USA - did not have the chance to know him and thanks to Man on the Moon we can get to have a good time now, even years after he´s passed away. I don´t see the big deal with it...This was a friendly, friendly comment, uh?
"I'll pave this place and turn it into a parking lot"
That made LOL!
sherox08 1 month ago
genuis and all... quite a singer too haha
pablo6733 6 months ago
sublime
japps 7 months ago
:)
HUBWAA 10 months ago
hahahahhaha its so goood
Ansofiie 1 year ago
hahaha the end with latka, ''where's my hamburger, who wants to wrestle''
lol lmfao
DefinitiveConor 1 year ago
This is the best thing that ever went on tv! So sad that most people dont get/ like it and it was a one-time special.
valentinasteinberg 1 year ago
Total COMIC GENIUS... period.
YeahRight825 1 year ago 2
@YeahRight825
Only thing he did that was funny was Taxi and that was because he had to follow a script that real comedians wrote. Left on his own, he succeded in being weird, but was only getting laughs by accident. The Sat Night Live audience voted him off for being a self absorbed suck that wasn't entertaining, just strange.
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo Ok, that your opinion... thanks for your high and mightly superior input.
YeahRight825 1 year ago
@YeahRight825 **that's
YeahRight825 1 year ago
(I Love The Credits)
Sheep!
They follow along..
Gotta find a leader, huh? BOY! And they bought that crap that I was a vegetarian HA! I can't believe they bought that I was a vegetarian!
CourtneyxCourtney95 1 year ago
I have this song on my MP3 Player; Andy brightens my day where-ever I go (:
God bless you, crazy b*tch! You were so magical.
CourtneyxCourtney95 1 year ago
Let me be more clear since the whole video is and ending somehow. I am talking about from 3:50 to the end. simply the best. genius, andy!!!!
limafilho27 1 year ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Best ending of a youtube video EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
limafilho27 1 year ago
I can't think of a better way to have ended this show.
lonelygnome1 2 years ago 3
whats the song
UneducatedGenius 2 years ago
I LOVE the "I Love Grandma" Shirt, and Foreign Guy's bad side HAHAHAHA I LOST IT!
TheHaunterBlogs 2 years ago 4
I love this clip, because it showcases Andy's genius. He deconstructs four shows in less than four minutes!
Deconstruction #1: The original show is deconstructed by his lapsing into the "bad guy" persona ("where's my hamburger")
Deconstruction #2: Foreign Man confronts Bad Guy
Deconstruction #3: Bad Guy admits that, at heart, he's really a sensitive, hurt man
Deconstruction #4: Foreign Man closes out the show and shows his "true colors" -- it was like a foreign man assassination!
NicoleCushingWriter 2 years ago 4
I can't take Foreign Man being the bad guy. It's too damn much.
doombuggy123 2 years ago
It's funny when he goes on the rant the clapping dies down. Stupid fucks.
And the majority of those fucks are posting here now, that doesn't include me by the way.
I'm smarter than all of you. Fools.
YouDickwod 2 years ago
You're from Hollywood
You have brains.
audiodan1 2 years ago
of course you are
KiittyCupcake 2 years ago
Who wants to wrestle?
willsabo 2 years ago 2
"I love grandma"
LOL
SenorTucan0594 2 years ago 3
lol!! great!!! he's just the best!!
ALittleBitOfGreen 2 years ago
brilliant
rockercorey999 2 years ago
Why are you idiots comparing Cobain and Kaufman?
randyest 2 years ago 5
Both married to Courtney Love ;o)
B1ggu5 2 years ago 3
because courtney love played kaufmans girlfriend in "man on the moon"
mmfhl 2 years ago
I like the part where he says "I'll pave this place and put up a parking lot."
I think he's quoting "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell.
:-) hehe!
tygersflowerz 3 years ago
Lol...
It sounds terrible...but I always burst out laughing every time Kaufman cries xD
wingedhamham 3 years ago
Amazing, he was a genius.
darthanakin13 3 years ago 2
oh yes i was looking for this sweet song
alphadot 3 years ago
Classic...absolutely classic!
maxeythecat 3 years ago
who wants to wrestle? c´mon, who wants to wrestle?
hahaha just great!
RIP Andy
racingMind 3 years ago 4
Lol. Andy Kauffman Wuz the best comedian.
NinjaKiller112 3 years ago 3
where is my hamburger?
frunkiss 3 years ago 5
I miss you Andy! Rest in peace! I will see you in Heaven! Nice video! It is so funny!
RowanAtkinsonBean 3 years ago 4
Somehow I think we won't have to wait for heaven to see Andy again ;)
danceonair86 3 years ago 17
so funny!!
kerouac003 3 years ago
Did you also upload his opeing song? That's what I was looking for? "Hi to you and hi to me, hi to everyone"
CrystalClearNews 3 years ago
Before his time.
WildAnimalJack 3 years ago
okey??
faraway0678 3 years ago
very intelligent . .. but I still wonder where most of the ideas came from ? did he have writers or were these his own ideas ?
monsieurhassan 3 years ago
Most of them came from a one-armed man, he came up with the rest himself.
EchoCannon89 3 years ago
where is my hamburger?
mynamesdan 3 years ago
where is my hamburger?
mynamesdan 3 years ago
AMAZING...GENIUS!
greendaygirl919 3 years ago
LOL, that was gooood...i don't think some people understood Andy's comedy.
penetralia6 4 years ago 12
It's quite possible to understand it and still not like it. It's just comedy, you can take it or leave it.
tjodolF2 3 years ago 7
thats right
loko5555 3 years ago
I agree, personally I think it's genius though ;)
Oderus24 3 years ago 2
My favorite part is when he says ; "talking about stupidity and ignorance".LMAO!!!The whole video is priceless ,but this specific moment is top...
Edgaros 4 years ago 5
so funny! luv it:)
PeaceLoveMonika 4 years ago
latka at the end was the best...'are we off the air ? ...where's my hamburger?'...lmao
luke3679 4 years ago 4
WHO WANTS TO WRESTLE??? LOL
Deboka 4 years ago
Some people confuse Kaufman with a comedian. He wasn't. He liked to get the audience pissed at him and to pull elaborate pranks that appeared real. Most stage performers do everything they can to avoid awkward moments. Andy Kaufman tried to make awkward moments.
DouglasWatts 4 years ago 6
no he didn't.....he was a brilliant comedian
CubansChokehold 4 years ago 6
shut up!!
CrazyTrain57 3 years ago
Basically what it comes down to is this: Some people got Kaufman and some did not. Just because you do not understand something does not mean that the ones that do get it are "retarded". Grow up
Laura477 4 years ago 3
yeah exactly i agree
CubansChokehold 4 years ago
Oh ok all powerful overlord of opinion.
Idiot.
zeejustin6 4 years ago
Awesome
toveraap 4 years ago
Basically he is playing "the phony jerk"; a nice guy in front of the camera and a jerk when the cameras are off. But then after sweet innocent Latka break him down Latka is then revealed as a similar phony jerk. LOL. Kaufman was a genius. The problem is some people couldn't recognize his abstract humor.
ReeseMac 4 years ago
duh!
HtotheB 4 years ago
Well looking at some of the comments on Kaufman and this clip its doesn't seem to be so "duh!".
ReeseMac 4 years ago 2
He thrived on people not getting it. Not getting a) the gentle deceptions of show biz, where the audience thinks it's complicit (b) the harsh deceptions of 'reality', when you wonder who or what you can trust. Half the comments here think they're getting at the 'real Andy Kaufman', not realizing that was just another layer of the onion. The real Andy was the detached watcher whom we'll never know through clips.
gotgatGIT54 4 years ago 4
deconstruction of the Television industry.
OscarLimaMike 4 years ago
I know somebody who played at the improv who says he met andy, and he was just like any normal person.
YouDickwod 2 years ago
Nircelaj5....non capisci un cazzo di comicità e neanche di espressione artistica...
Guarda il grande fratello porogramo...
fabiogbg 4 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Honestly this guy sucks. He's not funny at all and if people think this is funny then you're retarded.
Nircelaj5 4 years ago
never seen foreign man so assertive -- yuk yuk -- can't get enough -- he was going for the feel of one of those low budget children shows that every local station used to do -- usually early mornings after 'news and farm report' and before the game shows
daleroes 4 years ago
thank ending was priceless. what a mind-fu@k! :) he was so ahead of his time, people just couldnt handle shit like that in the early 80's, they wanted their celebrities in black and white. shame.
rikki444 4 years ago 2
hahahahaha!! that was the best thing ever! *where is my hamburger ... hwo wants to wrestle*
superluigi2000 4 years ago
He was showing his two personalities the press/media accused him of having. Latka was what everyone wanted him to be, they didn't want him to be Andy.
Really he was insecure and attention seeking yet he did have a gentle soul.
Nikki82 4 years ago
Ok that was a bit weird.
No dont get me wrong but it were a bit confusing I mean that in the end were fake right I mean he couldnt have been that bad as he acted out right??....right?
Ingridthepoet 4 years ago
Yes he meant what he said after the credits about people being sheep....that was his cynicism coming out...I just think he was trying to let people understand that yes, he was cynical but that he was trying to come to terms with it. I love Andy Kaufman and its too bad he died before I was birthed.
youiscrazygurl 4 years ago
Kaufman ment every word he said in the bit after the credits. He was showing everyone who he really was.
drmoonrat 4 years ago
so, he wasn't a vegetarian then? wrong. who are you to say who this man 'really was'?
dalisman 4 years ago
Hahahahahahahah, one of the best Kaufman clips I've seen on Youtube!
haleyfan 4 years ago
Wahahaha!! This is Brilliant!
psykjerker 4 years ago
have a lot of pity for this man
greendaise82 4 years ago
Folks, Don't have pity, have respect for this "genius"
haleyfan 4 years ago
i have a lot of pity for you. i have respect for this man.
OverConfidentDunces 4 years ago 2
I get the impression this was inspired by the ending to Andy Griffith's "Face in the Crowd" movie where the other Andy goes on about what sheep the masses are right after he thinks the cameras are turned off, only here it's used to comedic effect.
Ravewolf24 4 years ago
this is such a GREAT CLIP!!!
the first part stands also on the CD :)
ahjinry 4 years ago
Comment to drek258 : Well, lots of people - not from the USA - did not have the chance to know him and thanks to Man on the Moon we can get to have a good time now, even years after he´s passed away. I don´t see the big deal with it...This was a friendly, friendly comment, uh?
TheEyesOfTruth 4 years ago 2
thanks! i taped over the end of this on accident never thought id see it again!
jackisback1967 5 years ago
I wish i was around to see him in his prime and not only find out about him from man on the moon and watch his clips on youtube.
drek258 5 years ago 10
yep.. me too...
grevitoe 5 years ago
oh ok...it looks like it would have been awesome.
AdamLord 5 years ago
fuck, this rules
dapadau 5 years ago
oh okay, so was "The Andy Kaufman Show" a one time thing? are all the clips on YouTube from the same time or..?
AdamLord 5 years ago
I don't know for sure was it ever broadcasted but these clips are from the same, one hour show..
grevitoe 5 years ago
why isnt "The Andy Kaufman Show" mentioned on the man on the moon movie
AdamLord 5 years ago
it is- its his network special
lankybgoode 5 years ago
this is so great
1Vurgas1 5 years ago
'are we off the are yet?' IT'S GREAT! XD
'i got enough money to buy u and keep u for a pet!' :D
and Latka...this is such a funny clip!
ahjinry 5 years ago