The Andy Kaufman Show - See? Isn't it fun? Isn't it?!

[ralphs400]

did pee wee herman steal from andy a little

and would i like to find the tony cliffton puppet at a yard sale or thrift store

[ralphs400]

did pee wee herman steal from andy a little

[theendlessdidi]

he is so funny! Jim carrey didn't do him justice...hes more hilarious in these clips than how jim played him! very talented and very funny!

[CourtneyxCourtney95]

WOW interactive television much! Love you Andser...Wait that's a..that's a HORRID nickname. How about Ander? Yah ok that's better!

I will see you in Heaven ALRIGHT? Are you up there? Are you- Are you really? You sure? Ok..SEE YOU TONIGHT!

[iseeredpeoples]

oh my god he just sat there for 34seconds

amazing

[ALittleBitOfGreen]

lol....genius... love him... haha..

[jolive91]

"The shoes and socks lounge in Tahoe" hahaha

[ac27272727]

Andy Kaufman is an inspiration to us all. Live beyond the borders of the status quo. Live beyond reason, there is no reason in life unless reason be forgotten and trusted.

[JRBwithME]

Love him too. Sweet.

[54spiritedwill54]

what a sweet guy!

[walterpisante]

Could someone explain what exactly The Andy Kaufman show is? Is it an actual series? I'm a bit confused.

[rog944]

A black magic marker on a black screen?? Too funny!!

[corndog125nalald]

Am i the only one who drew on a magic screen? It realy is fun. . .DO IT

[sidgallup]

ahaha.. nice Tv there.

[wnsk]

is he throwing his voice, like a ventriloquist? or is that pre-recorded or something?

[vinicjbeverage]

I'm sure it's Zmuda.

[robertsonator]

hahahahaha this is absolutly hilarious, the screen is black, a black crayon would not show, you cant draw on saranwrap with crayons, im naming any kaufman the best prankster of all time

[15razers]

NO ANDY ITS NOT FUN!

[zcabinet]

I scored the whole special off of shareaza...Kaufman was a total original

[thejobloshow]

My God. How painful would it be being in the auidence...

[zcabinet]

Alright..this kind of shows my age...but...once upon a time I saw Kaufman "perform" at the improv...Table-chair-box of cereal (frosted flakes),bowl,spoon,pitcher,mil­k...he walked on and ate a bowl of cereal...ignoring the audience...and then...he saw us !!

He got paranoid as if maybe we were not real...maybe we wanted HIS cereal....maybe HE was not real....it was performance art

[dem0n0maniac]

Wow. I'm so jealous. I would have loved to have seen that. Wasn't it fun?

[HtotheB]

That sounds awesome. I take it this was early in his career? Like mid-1970s?

It sounds familiar. I think I might have seen him do something like that on TV at some point, but I'm not sure.

[antiatheistman]

a black crayon and the screen is black?

[docjazz4]

That was his point...he liked screwing with people's minds.

[OverConfidentDunces]

yeah, like the thing where he wanted to make people think the tv was screwed, i don't know if that actually happened, it was in Man On The Moon, but it sounds like something andy would do.

[HtotheB]

It did actually happen. It was back in the days of rabbit ears and vertical hold buttons and people everywhere messed up their sets trying to "correct" the picture, myself included. I was about 10 or 11 years old at the time.

Everything in 'Man on the Moon' did happen. All the confusion lies in Kaufman's intentions and who was in on what.

Andy drove you nuts like that, god bless him.

[watty024]

i wouldn't say that everything in man on the moon did happen. it was a movie afterall. people looking for the real andy kaufman should just look here on youtube, and not rely on the jim carrey danny devito movie, good as it is.

[wookie72]

My problem with Man On the Moon is that it took too many liberties, and I think it was probably because of the screenwriters, who did similarly "embellished" biopics about Ed Wood and Larry Flynt. The difference is that while Ed Wood was largely not in the public eye, people could still remember Andy. I think it would have been more interesting if Charlie Kaufman (no relation) had written it, or if they just did the Tony Clifton script, which would have made about $2 at the box office.

[TheNCrowd]

i just wanna know what the magic screen does!! i wanna have fun too

[kizbo]

it works if u put the plastic wrap on the tv first and then on ur computer. it is fun!

[SarahMacgregor]

what a sweet guy!

[pwnageprata]

LOL This is genius! i feel like watching Man on the Moon now.

[marinasavva]

yes, yes. Kaufman is funny, and well before his time.

pretty unique.

this is good good stuff.

i think i've found my new inspiration!!!!

[honban]

Tony. Clifton. Marionette.

What more needs to be said?

[Andr4s]

Sacha Barens Cohen's character Borat is influenced by Andy Kaufman I think.

[hmmbadgors11]

thats what i thought too

[grevitoe]

Plus Andy was very talented. He had a great imagination, his public performance were ingenious. He sang quite well, he played bongos amazingly, and had his own language gibberish! Yes, his career were doomed cause he was misunderstood (people wasn't told that it was all just a joke) but his "spiritual career" was and still is powerful. After 22 years you searched and found and watched this video here, what that tells to us?? ;)

[HtotheB]

He once got on stage at a comedy club, rolled out a sleeping bag, and laid motionless for 20 minutes.

[grevitoe]

Hey Farfalotis, maybe Andy didn't wanted to be the most famous comedian in the world. And by the way, at the end of his "career" he made only practical jokes, which i like much more than he plaiyng Latka in a sitcom.. I think he loved to shock people, "how dare he do that?!" "what is his point?!". He didn't think "oh my gosh, if i do this i won't be famous anymore", no not at all. He wanted and did it on his own bizzard way!:)

[orson198305]

Don't listen to people posting that don't actually like andy kaufman. These people are complete idiots & have nothing better to do other than to try and blacken the name of people they don't understand. You should feel sorry for these people don't make fun or argue with them. They were just born with a lower intellectual capacity than us. Don't hold that against them. Anyone with half a brain hold andy kaufman as one of the great comics.

[grevitoe]

Thank you orson.

But people will and should always disagree about things. That's all right.. :) Andy Kaufman is a person who had and still have many fans and anti-fans who will phrase their own opinion untill the end of the world. And that's great! I'm open-minded. Are you? You should explore the both sides of the coin.. ;)

[busybeingbla]

@grevitoe you summed that up very well. :)

I feel like he's very honest with the fun. He's not playing arrogant while being illogical and sarcastic. So simple. So not simple. I feel like I couldn't write a description. I could talk a verb or so and get arguments to prove it right or wrong. To me he seems like a real person, real in the sense of himself and his range of actions which he shows openly, variously applied to situations.

[Farfalotis]

Let's all agree to disagree, but let's all examine the fact that if he was "just funny", that there wouldn't be a debate. He was funny to start with, and then chose to crash, burn and destroy his own career in the end. Interesting concept, done before, but not on TV and so publicly. A footnote, still.

[Sonovox01]

I bet you're a big Dane Cook fan.

[slvr4surfer]

You did not just compare the very unimaginative, unoriginal and stupid Dane Cook to Andy Kaufman!!! Curse you...

[TheHSFT]

Aww c'mon man! Superfinger is priceless shit! SuFi! LOL

[Farfalotis]

I assume that you live in a cardboard box, if you consider this complete waste of time "Genius". It's a shame that in this day and age the word "Genius" and phrases like "Supermodel" are thrown around so loosely. A Genius he's not. An oddity, a curiosity, he definitely he is. A footnote to the 1970's mass confusion of comedic styles, only. NO more, no less. He existed, made an odd mark, and will be forgotten soon enough for the talentless oddity that he is.

[cziffra1980]

Don't be such a tool. The bit where he actually goes ahead and sits there doing nothing for 30 seconds is genius. This is a 'footnote'? The influence has been widespread.

[Farfalotis]

Name ONE modern day comic that has STATED that Andy Kaufman was "one of (my) big influences", like you hear about Pryor, Carlin, Martin, etc etc etc... He's a footnote. More like a toe-note.

[cziffra1980]

Well obviously nobody was influenced by him then. You've just 'proved' it.

These kind of jokes are commonplace these days. Think how many tv shows have started by pretending to be another programme etc and how much of this style is around today. Who started it, if not Kaufman?

[Nikki82]

Robin Williams, Jim Carrey that Ali G/Borat guy all state Andy as one of their biggest influences..there are many more.

[Farfalotis]

Wasn't funny then and isn't funny now. I'm glad he died.

[range2rust]

You obviously didn't get the saran wrap.

[OverConfidentDunces]

i wanted to, but if i did , i would've wrecked my computer screen because of the pressure of the crayon, but if i had my old computer witht he glass screen i would've done it.

[yodisio]

this coming from someone with a skit called 'nigger family' in their favourites list. twice.

[fredtellum]

Here's a funny. Go to the kitchen get the saran wrap - wrap your head tightly and after a few minutes we will all laugh at your pathetic last post.

[filinan550]

i know its so much fun! especiallyif you stuff the magic crayons up your nose first!

[precario]

FABULOUS!!!

[ahjinry]

yep it's fun :P

the stairs is lol