The real Andy Kaufman
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- This is an excerpt of an uncirculated DVD featuring a rare uncensored clip of Andy Kaufman out of character during an interview with a personal friend, Seth Schultz, after a particularly brutal reception on stage in the Catskill's Mountains, New York in 1979.
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I don't think Andy was ever out of character.
I'm not comparing them but Tim and Eric's style is pretty much Andy.
They're both known for breaking character constantly. Tim has put out a few serious albums where he's being himself and done a lot of interviews as himself. Eric has directed videos and done serious interviews with the likes of Marc Aaron. I love Tim & Eric but there's no comparison to Kaufman there.
Completely agree. Not when a camera was around. I also think there came a time when they were one and the same.
I have this conspiracy theory that he didn't know who he really was because of his many personas and stunts. I know it's far out, but if you think about how he constantly changes from one character to the next, it must've been hard to pin-points exactly who he really was.
If he's never out of character, that's him. There is nothing underneath... just sayin'.
About Andy Kaufman, David Letterman once said “You got the impression that the engine was running but no one was behind the wheel.”
David letterman is retardant
I think thats just a very old common expression letterman lifted to describe Andy.
Reading the whole of The Great Gasby to an annoying audience, brilliant.
This simply comment made me laugh harder than anything i've ever seen on youtube. thank you messofanego.
"I don't know what you want from me, I gave them the best."... just pure brilliance.
Messofanego love your profile pic man
What's brilliant about it? He charged people money and he read them a book.
That always bothered me, too, particularly after seeing Man in the Moon. Thought that was a pretty crappy way to treat people that invested their time/money for you. Though I will say (not having been there) that if it was as he described, and they we're booing him from the 1st moment, like some kind of Apollo Theater audience... heck, might have served them right! :D haha
I bet he was a really nice guy
Really seemed like it. Jim Carrey played him as a total douche in the movie though
The whole interview was still in character except “Is that what you want?” And “Nah, I don’t want to do that”. Incredible.
Yeah, but I guess we’re not gonna get any closer
Maybe they said boo-urns
I was saying "Boo-urns"
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
TheSpanishzombie have the Rolling Stones killed
I was saying Booooo-urns.
@@malcyn1 no you weren't i was sitting next to you
He's not fully out of character here, he's just a little tired.
littleripper312 yelp
yep*
yes.... he was.
If there was a camera, he was in character... If there wasn't one, maybe he wasn't... Depends on when you caught him.
Andy was not always in character, his tom Cottle interview was pure andy, just like this one.
He's such an inspiration for me. He always pushed his limits and pushed the art of comedy. He was truly exceptional and the only one of his kind.
+glitterallydead watch part 2
I agree, he was one of a kind and exceptionally talented. I think his nearly life-long meditation played a key role in his ability to do what he did.
what did he push? He was not mentally well and his performances showed that.
@@Holret What...
ya but gurls aren't funny
they were so RUUUUDE!
I could listen to Andy say Rude all day long. What a sweet man.
Daniel Valdivia he's in character...of a sweet man
Made it popular way before Michelle Tanner
Lmao right
Robin James could’ve fooled me.
So Ruuuude. He had a certain naivety and strangeness about him..but this was only 2 years into his career and he was reflecting on earlier shows. What do you expect though, if you're a comedian and an audience doesn't like your act at all, they're going to boo in small clubs. It happens a lot to some new comedians where the comedy is like Andy's, too radically different to what a club is used to and not well received. Many people prefer conventional comedy or are expecting a regular standup comedian doing social commentary comedy, slapstick or regular jokes with punchlines. Andy's foreign man persona comedy was very funny and its hard to imagine how an audience wouldn't laugh, but who knows in the early days as he was perfecting his routine it may not have been like the later performances. It is hard being a stand-up comedian. Booing is the worse thing possible. You have to not take it personally and quickly adapt to it, or you're gonna die on stage and/or lose the audience. Maybe that's why Andy later made it a KEY part of his routine, the whole dying on stage, getting flustered, and being lost and then crying etc.
Andy's humor was closer to the U.K. than the U.S.A. (Just watch Vic Reeve's Big Night Out). He was a Genius; his bravery was unmatched.
Gosh he's handsome
You need corrective eye surgery
Out of character he's very hot!
gorgeous
Andy always seemed more interested in gaining a reaction from the crowd over being just "funny". This is why I always see him as more of a performance artist than a traditional comic. What makes him the best at what he did is how hard it was to tell when he was really being natural. He was (is?) awesome and will forever be remembered as the greatest prankster in history.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
His pranks are on an entirely different level, though. It is almost like instead of pranking others, he sort of pranked himself, or rather, provoked people to ''prank'' him by making them pretend to like his show and to sing along, act along etc. And those reactions from people were the ultimate goal for Andy. In a way, it's an anti-prank.
He looks like the bass player for Nirvana.
krist novoselic
supadupasexiestguy No, he's saying that Andy Kaufman looks like the bass player for Nirvana
***** Yeah, and he just said the bass players name.
He does!
TheIkaika777 lol so true
So behind his mask, Andy was first of all a professionist who took his job really seriously, and he was proud of his experiences and shows around. He liked to do artistic experimentation and push himself to the limit all the time. Surely he was a really busy man and didn't have a boring life.
He got fired from SNL because he was extremely and showed up with hookers. So not exactly
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He showed up with hookers as Tony Clifton, so he was acting. The producer had to hire Andy as Tony Clifton for some episodes and he did what his character liked to do. After that the producers fired Tony. Tony, not Andy. I guess he loves to see reactions of people in this kind of situations.
+Matt Moves He provoked the audience and I liked that.
Matt Moves pretty sure he's just a doofus who had people going. A smart doofus
That was the "Tony Clifton" character on Taxi (and that was all an act). SNL held an on-air call-in poll where they asked people if they wanted him to stay on the show or not and the audience voted him off.
I saw Andy Kaufman at a grocery store in Los Angeles back in 81. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
hahahahahahahahah
The very first scanning of the now-ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode was on a pack of Wrigley Company chewing gum in June 1974
I've heard that same story told with other celebrity names. Lately they've been saying it was Ellen DeGeneres. But I think Andy would like it.
GOD damnit
Really? Wow
Its a cruel world but mr kaufman did stand his ground
8:07 -8:16 was the closest we will ever get to an out of character Kuafman . His real voice
You know what's crazy about that? In that moment, Andy Kaufman disappears, and he just seems like an ordinary, middle aged college grad lol followed by the almost reactionary "you want me to do it?"
I think he was comfortable and didn't mean to break character there and reeled it back in
I think Andy was unaware sometimes that people didn't know it was a character.
And sometimes he didn't either. This interview may have been a window into a fractured world. He was something else, that boy. Genius.
I can't help but wonder if a lot of the hate Andy still gets has anything to do with his wrestling bit. If so, then bravo for not understanding that wrestling is fake, and Andy was just using that medium for his own amusement. But, it's also kind of cool, considering a negative reaction was what he was going for anyway.
Andy respected wrestlers never even calling Jerry Lawler anything but Mr. Lawler privately. But yeah, he got the art of that form of entertainment.
He liked gettin a response from people, ruclips.net/video/2jQ0C0BvQrs/видео.html watch this, he told jerry lawler(who was in on the entire thing) that if he could give up all the money, all the fame, and just do wrestling, he would do it in a second. He loved playing the villain and getting a negative response from everyone, but still getting everyone to respond. The problem with this is, people never really accepted wrestling was fake till the late 90s. But doesn't that say something about the wrestlers? They were so good at faking this shit that everyone thought it was real for 50 years. I hate that people talk down about pro wrestling, when pro wrestling is about 10% actual wrestling, 10% gettin in shape, and 80% getting a reaction outta the crowd. Which is exactly what andy did his entire career.
I think a part of it stems from the fact that he was more of a performance artist than a comedian. Publicly, he was pigeonholed into the comedian category because no one really knew how to categorize him (and people like categorizing everything), so when he wouldn't deliver the typical comedian approach, they got mad as though it was HIS error for not conforming, rather than their error of being incorrect in the first place.
it's krist novoselic
Thir is and hes right now "donald trump". proof: "krist novoselic" and "donald trump" have never been in the same room.
THAT'S who he reminded me of!
HAHA! I've been saying that for years!
For sure! It's uncanny.
Interesting that three years after Kaufman "died," this "Novoselic" guy appears out of nowhere and co-founds Nirvana.
I like this real side of Kaufman. You can see after the show he was tired, relaxed and being himself. Actually a very normal guy. Funny as hell when he wanted to be.
Tree Garden Life “very normal” ? No one normal could achieve what Andy did. Let alone someone ‘very’ normal. I don’t think that word means what you think it does. I think you mean his humanity was on display in this clip.
He’s not fully normal in here. He’s still pretty in character. It’s the closest we ever got to a Kaufman character break on-camera, but not a full on character break.
@@zoewells31608:08 "Nahh, I don't wanna do that"
This man helped shape my sense of humor. I loved him so much.
I prefer when he played bass for Nirvana
hahahahahahahahhahahahha
Chris Johnson maybe he reincarnated as him
Incredibly funny not to mention original.
Andy made a high art out of being a consummate liar. That he did it so believably is what makes it so funny. That he even thought of doing it is what makes him a genius.
He has such a sweet personality. What a beautiful human
He had a reputation for being pugnacious, more in line with his character Tony Clifton at times.
i really wish i could have met him. all the interviews ive seen make him seem like just the sweetest most interesting guy.. I cant learn enough about him
Lol, everyone denying he's acting like his normal self, don't idolize people folks, he was just a human like everyone else.
I dont know about you, but I've met a lot of different people and some of them are quite different. Also, some of them are worth more than others. A 1913 liberty head nickel is a nickel, but I'd literally kill someone to have it. For a regular nickel? I wouldn't even sniff my own finger. That shit is only worth 5 cents.
@@dh6959 "Literally"?
@@gonufc Do you know how much one of those coins is worth?
@@dh6959 Approximately 25 to life?
This is all part of the act. He must have been a consummate observer of people to nail his naturalness.
Andy was doing "performance art" for lack of a better term, and these crowds were used to Freddy Roman and Alan King...
+Joeyland you can tell his homosexual tendencies really come out when he is tired. His buddy zmuda told in an interview recently he was struggling with being gay...
+Mark Ratcliffe Interesting fact: If you pay close attention you'll notice that he doesn't show any kind of sexual tendencies in any direction. There is actually nothing sexual about this interview at all!
are you a girl? your gaydar is WAYY off.
+Mark Ratcliffe Did you know it has actually been proven that "gaydar" is terrible? www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/09/08/new-study-finds-that-your-gaydar-is-terrible/
+Joeyland More like he was trolling the audience.
If anything comes through on this video, its his sweet, gentle nature
Beautiful voice!
Raw fucking genius.
+rdecredico Randy?
He's putting you on like always
Even his "real life interview" is in character. This guy is fascinating. Do we thing he's an absolute genius or a guy who just loved to piss people off?
I think it was the second part that led him to the first part. He hit something by accident that got him well known ...
Zach Mohl Both.
He was no genius. Unbalanced.
Genius. Everyone who knew him agreed. A pure genius.
Every celebrity describes every other celebrity they work with as a "genius". The word has no real meaning in Hollywood. Just another inflated descriptor.
I saw Andy in the beginning, and after decades I still come to the conclusion, he was either an amazing entertainer the best ever to hit the stage, or he was the most insane person ever to get paid for being nuts. Or both..... ingenious as he was there will never be another Andy.
Closest we might have right now is Joe Pera, but yeah-that’s not really comparable
@@mikeytrains1 Joe is like the anti-Andy in that his comedy is used to uplift and not cause chaos. I also truly believe Joe is closer to his actual real life self than Andy's stage persona.
@@mikeytrains1 I would say Oliver Tree is way closer to Andy Kaufman in his entertainment style
I like how he turned the "get outta here" guy into an aspie having a meltdown.
Andy was a genius pf the arts, God bless the man
He's a genius in the sense he made money being unfunny and lame.
It's so hard to watch Andy Kaufman and EVER know if he's really completely out of character. There almost seemed to be no real independent personality behind the façade. You never knew if and when he was truly sincere.
He seems like he was a really cool and pleasant dude. What a comic genius. I wish Jim Carey explored more of that side. You can only fit so much in a biopic movie without boring the audience.
colorful personality
I wonder what he would've been like today. He was truly one of a kind.
he would have been a nothing.death furthered his career.
Aracely Emmett No, he would be THE great comedian.
If it wasn't cancer that got him, it probably would have been a mental breakdown. He was too wired to live a long life. The candle that burns twice as bright lasts half as long.
I think watching this video is the first time I've ever heard Andy speak in a normal voice, out of character. I only ever remember hearing his "foreign man" voice or maybe Tony Clifton. Seems strange to hear his real voice and getting perhaps a glimpse of the "real" Andy.
Mandy Pandy Yeah, almost just a normal guy. Who could've thought.
+Mandy Pandy Thats what I thought the first time Seth showed me the footage, I financed it cause I thought its was unique and I knew how close Andy and Seth were so I wasn't surprised by the access he had. It did surprised me how many people still didn't buy it as real.
Andy is beautiful
Well, I think one of his best routines that I have come across is the David Letterman Show with him yelling at Jerry Lawler. Hilarious.
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jesussssssssssssss. you're an idiot.
The movie Man on the Moon failed miserably at portraying the real Andy. Instead they portrayed some weird unlikable caricature of Andy that was miles away from who he really was.
Jim Carrey really understood the character and would've done a great job portraying him but Milos Forman altered his delivery and changed his performance too much.
@@oceanguy1249 I think much of it also changed on Carrey's shoulder in the Netflix documentary, 'Jim and Andy.' He was "method acting," even when they're not shooting, to everyone's annoyance.
That’s why I searched out this clip to see what he was like unrehearsed. Carey was method acting of course but you’re right it seems like he was way more coherent and aware than Carey’s portrayal of him was. Carey kind of made him seem like he was psychologically deranged instead of a slightly weird guy putting on a calculated performance. But who knows
@@p.z.arnott2329 Jim Carrey from what I have seen appears to be woefully, uncomfortably lacking in self-awareness. Being around a human being like that in real life is cringeworthy and obnoxious, and when you become that rich and famous, it's easy to insulate yourself from that self-awareness.
@@p.z.arnott2329 Watching the doc, I can't help but feel that Milos and Jim were in on the joke from the get go and planned for this doc to drop decades later. Things got far, far too outrageous towards the end with Carrey going to Andy's family and telling her that Andy was in him and the fact that certain outrage scenes seem almost TOO perfectly cherry picked. Just a thought, I guess. I don't know what really happened.
Jesus. He is a human being, he gets tired. He's a genius and he could have said so many other things than "rude," but he didn't. This video just proves how real of a person he is. He's a sweet guy and I miss him!
I really think it was a joke. Maybe just to himself, but still a joke. He said he was scheduled for 1 hour, but that he stayed on for an hour and 45 minutes. It's absurd to think that someone who was being booed would stay out there for an extra 45 minutes. And it would actually be the performer, forcing himself on a booing audience for an extra 45 minutes, who was being "rude".
He's fucking joking around. Holy Christ...
this is part of his act this is how he worked he lived his life that way every moment for him was acting
@Let Your LIGHT Forever Shine i am god read your bible it say right in it i was created in his image making me a god so go forth hate other races other religions its ok and after go forth and multiply
Yeah, he never cussed IRL. Unless he was in Clifton character. Very polite person for the most part.
Remember when Jim Carrey didn’t understand what Andy was all about?
The most authentic Andy you'll ever see for sure.
And even then he was mostly in character.
"Sometimes when you look into Andy's eyes, you get the feeling someone else is driving." - David Letterman
His genius of bending reality within comedy and mingling it with humans ability to say SO much while saying nothing. He made so many laugh. I miss uninhibited comedy so very much.
When not in character he actually had no eccentricities at all. Very interesting (completely normal) side to him.
+Austin-Smith Kelly yup
That was great, that was the real Andy Kaufman. I've never seen him out of character before. Just a young experimental comedian expressing his feelings after a gig.
He looks like Sufjan Stevens
WHAT ARE YOU DOING STILL READING THE COMMENTS? THE VIDEO IS OVER! GET OUTTA HERE GET OUTTA HERE C'MON GET C'MON GET OUT WHOOOOO WHOOOOOO
😂
Saw him at San Diego State college. He invited the entire audience across the street to Jack in the Box for a bag of fries after the show. He was great.
Norm McDonald asked Bill Hader if Bill Hader is unknowable. That's how I feel about Andy. I don't think this is Andy out of character at all. He always mixed honesty with the act. That's why the audience never knew where the line was.
Total Tony Clifton at the end there!
My heart hurt watching this...
Why?
It's neat to hear him talk about his San Diego gig. He had just done it. I was 10, sitting there with my mom at UCSD Mandeville Hall. She was a huge fan and I got a little of what he was doing. After the bunny hop incident he took the entire audience out for milk and cookies.
Some of the Taxi cast have said they had conversations with Andy where he was not "in character" they would talk about family and so on.
He was, according to them, during down time, a normal guy. The film gave the impression Andy was "on" 24 hours a day.
Nicolas Cage should have played Andy. Jim Carrey was too busy playing Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman.
I like that song.
He is/was a highly intelligent person. That's for sure.
Sigh. .Needed now more than ever mate. X
Kaufman was the original troll.
***** Just because you don't find their antagonism funny, that doesn't mean that they didn't find it funny. Their attempts to enrage you are for their own comedic enjoyment. Kaufman might have enraged the audience at times (like a troll), but he was always trying to make himself and those in on the joke laugh (like a troll). You might not find it funny, but others do find that conflict/antagonism comical.
***** Its more like good comics push the limits, and some people won't get it- they will either be offended, or think that its not funny. That doesn't change the fact that they were amusing themselves and others that get the joke. And trolls (my original point) are exactly the type of people I'm talking about, in that they appreciate antagonist humor. Conflict, and purposely driving things toward conflict, can be funny when done right. You might not think that he did it well, but I do. I also think he fits the role of troll, in that he attempts to get a rise out of people, and laughs when they stupidly over-react or take him/themselves too seriously.
***** P.S. Stephen Colbert can be another example at times, in that he is antagonistic and drives things toward conflict in order to make other people stupidly over-react. Perhaps that is an example you can better appreciate, because he is a bit more mainstream (not a bad thing), and also isn't antagonistic towards the audience, just certain guests.
That is the second time you try to put words into my mouth, and argue against something I never said. When I did I say he isn't trying to be funny?
Again, it comes down to you thinking that he is not funny, and that your opinion constitutes a fact. You were the one responding to me by the way, arguing that he is not a troll, and implying that I am arguing against your whining that he isn't funny doesn't change that fact. Here is how this went:
1) I said that I thought he was a troll.
2) You said trolls aren't funny, and that Kaufman was trying to be funny but failing.
3) I point out that trolls can use antagonistic humor, even if you don't agree that it is funny (because humor is subjective).
4) You start with this ridiculous assumption that I said something about comedians that aren’t funny mean to not be funny. I said they are being funny, in a way that involves conflict and enraging others (like a troll), and that even though you may not find it funny, others do. How is that the same as me saying he isn’t funny and isn’t meaning to be funny? Just because you can’t argue against me doesn’t mean that you can put words into my mouth, or argue against an argument that I never made.
5&6) I go to the trouble of overly explaining my argument, hoping to stop your attempts to change my argument into one that you want to argue. I explain comic trolling, and how your opinion is not fact- you thinking he is unfunny only makes it so for you. Many of us are able to get the joke, and find the antagonism and conflict funny. I also give an example of a modern comedian’s use of that type of humor, which I hoped was a bit more relatable.
7) You accuse me of moving the goal post, and not being honest, presumably because you just now realize that my argument was not the same as the argument that you were trying to shove in my mouth; however, my argument about Kaufman using antagonistic humor and conflict like a troll never changed- it just wasn’t the one that you wanted to argue. Again, whether or not either of us thinks that he is funny (comedy is subjective), my original point is that he was a troll. You are the one trying to move the goal post, and make it about whether or not you personally think that he is funny. Nice try, troll- committing an offense and then preemptively accusing me of doing the same.
8) I ask how I have moved the goal post, and re-explain my points in greater detail.
9) You again attempt to twist things, saying you commented first and I replied (when it was clearly the opposite), and that the argument is about me trying to argue your feelings, instead of you denying my statement about Kaufman = troll.
10) This post. I make one last attempt to clarify, in the off chance that you are not trolling me. I go to the trouble of summarizing our posts to show you the flow of the debate, and the ridiculousness of your false accusations. If you continue to try to twist things, I will know that you are a troll, and will be amused at your further (failed) attempts to make me angrily overreact. Any future responses on my part would then only be trolling comments that amused me. A serious debate would only continue if the conversation left the irrelevant topic that you tried to force (your opinion about his funniness), and returned to my original topic (Kaufman = troll). If you are as you seem (honest, but lacking intelligence and the ability to debate), hopefully this helped to clear things up; if you are a troll, I look forward to your next post.
quantumperception Jesus Christ dude! Calm down. Andy Kaufman will go down as one of the best comedians ever. You are in the majority. David F knows nothing about goofs or spoofs. But, writing a million words to an idiot is not worth it. Watch more videos, and get a good laugh.
4:00 So sad. "What do I do? I don't know what to do?" We're born and we die, some like Andy, much earlier than others, and between birth and death, what do we do? What's worth my time? What's worth my life?
This is such an experiment in psychology, and he knew it. Wearing an I Love Grandma shirt and testing these people's patience...lmao.
I think he was a gentle soul who just found joy and humor in weirdness. But fame was too much for him.
Seems 8:13 to 8:15 is the only part he's out of character. Barely lol
Completely right.
Interesting... Andy talks about PIPS and loving the chocolate fudge ice cream... but didn't he once (or a few times) introduce that into his routine, just ordering chocolate ice-cream on a stage, with a little cassette recorder with what sounded like cheering from a Nazi rally or something, which he would play between each mouthful and wait until he managed to finish the bowl all proud lol.
I don’t really get what’s so great about him. The whole thing is corny and annoying. I guess he’s great in that he was so convincing, but...
Yes, he was 100% out of character they asked him to do Latka in the dressing room that's why he was doing it. lynne Margulies stated that he was out of character and being himself and he was very pissed at Kutcher's and Kutcher's thought they were booking Latka and got andy instead so the fans booed. Also, she said to watch the Tom cottle interview that in that interview is completely him also.
Can someone direct me to a funny Andy Kaufman video ?
Watch him on the dating game
Bubba Olma Watch him wrestle a 327 pound woman.
Boddah YAS
+Bubba OOO Seriously, he was not funny at all...............
+Bubba OOO Watch all of the Letterman interviews, one of my favorites is when he adopts 3 African American adults because they were mugging him.
He reminds me a little how Kurt Cobain would speak and act during interviews at times. Sort of a childlike enthusiasm with sarcastic quips here and there. Both very interesting people.
I also love the little bits here and there seeing him react like a normal tired/maybe slightly irritated person would whose ready to go home and relax... "Is that what you want?"... I love those parts. I love his bits, but I love seeing the genuine person who has feelings just as well
This is *not* Andy Kaufmann out of character. He is putting people on again.
how do you know?
***** never said otherwise.
В этом весь он!
You could say this about any person you ever meet.
Wildernessence
Yes, of course. Andy just did it to a greater magnitude than almost anyone else.
This doesn't seem out of character. His being aghast at the audience being rude seems like a bit. Unless it wasn't. Oh, Andy...
This interview is also a put on. He couldn't turn it off.
Andy, so happy you were you. I don't care which you that you were. You will always be my favorite. smiles.
I never got this guy, and I suppose I never will. There were a few funny moments on Taxi, but even that character grew old after about five episodes.
Don't understand the "genius" part everyone keeps saying
Me ha encantado esta entrevista, pero las caras de ‘estoy hasta los huevos de esta mierda’ de Andy lo dicen todo. Creo que era un ser humano maravilloso en su intimidad, todo su entorno lo dice, era generoso, bueno, dulce y muy introvertido, aparte de un maldito genio del humor. Fue un pionero, un adelantado a su tiempo y el padre del humor absurdo y surrealista, del improv y del cara a cara con el público, por eso muchos trataron de imitarle (me viene a la mente el personaje de ‘Balki’ en la serie ‘Primos Lejanos’, clarísimo plagio de Latka) pero Andy sólo habra uno. Los genios siempre son incomprendidos en sus épocas, qué tristeza... hoy en día sería una locura maravillosa tenerle aquí con nosotros :)Gracias por haber existido señor Kaufman, este mundo es un poquito menos ‘friendly’ sin gente como usted.
@VooDooKaDoLL Unfortunately he hasn't been around for a long time.
Andy Kaufman is dead.
Right at the very end when he's pretending to be an asshole he did the Tony Clifton face
Everyone's in character, why not just have multiple of them
This guy was awesome. Him and Peter Sellers both
Except I think Andy was a kind and gentle soul. Peter Sellers was a nasty whack job. He banned his own children from his life. He was an egotistical jerk who liked drugs, women, and himself.
Not the real Andy...was there a real Andy ? hahahahaha
I freaking LOVE HIM.......when he died we all lost a great great performer and a great man. There will NEVER be someone like him again. EVER!!!!!
comic genius who helped change comedy forever.
Thanks for posting. I wanted to hear him talk normal forever. It was cool to see.
Andy Kaufman then went on to play bass for Seattle Grunge band, Nirvana.
What an honest, truthful person, that had to protect himself to make a living by trolling the world. And we are still talking about him. Genius, got the entire world wondering, considering, contemplating, never knowing but thought they did.
I think people misunderstand Kaufman, acting as if he's doing this all purposefully, as part of an act. I think, more realistically speaking, he had a neurological disorder (Asperger's?) and he didn't really know how to exist in social situations, which is why his speech often seems scripted and rehearsed. Same for his mannerisms. He wasn't playing a "character," either. Latka was a character. Kaufman's stage persona was very much him. Whenever a camera was on him, he felt he had to be "on," as well. It has a lot to do with the expectations people had for him, and his wanting to satisfy said expectations.
Derek Walker always thought that as well
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I've been sort of fascinated by Kaufman, Belushi, and Farley recently. It seems (to me) they all had some sort of autism..
that's what he wants you to think. it's very planned and deliberate.
He is obviously in character of not being in character
The audience must be punished!
Watching these made me realize that Jim Carrey didn't really understand Andy. A cheap facsimile.
Alexander Noviello even one of the most talented comedians in the world could only ever be a facsimile. At least Jim tried to do the bet job he could. Your expectations are pretty high for someone without a career of their own.
@@camogrrl I guess you don't have much of an understanding yourself. Find a video of Tim Heidecker doing stand up and you'll see a more faithful recreation of the picture that Andy was trying to paint. Jim played some eccentric weirdo who was reminiscent of Andy. In reality, much of those eccentricities were an act. The art wasn't Andy's act itself, it was the chaos, confusion and unease felt among the audience. Andy's comedy was a post modern experiment. Jim's portrayal just doesn't strike at the heart of that.
"We were all bunny-hopping around the court and back inside for encore"
That's not a comedy show, that's an interdimentional experience.
A short trip to another universe.
He’s def playing up at the start of the interview. He was never out of character.
Yeah, especially when he acts like he doesn’t wanna he booed when we all know he thrived off exactly that.
He did seem like a nice person.
Who? Andy or the character he was playing at the time? You never knew.
this interview looked like andy going in and out of character as best as he could because he looked very tired. I don't think there was ever a moment where he WASN'T conscious of his other personna.
I was in high school when Andy become famous, and I thought he was brilliant and hilarious. Many, many, MANY people did not understand or "get him." He was truly avant garde, thinking outside the box. Honestly, there were few people in the middle; you either hated him, and didn't understand that he was breaking ground, or you loved him. Luckily I was in the latter group. That being said, however, I think Andy was a strange dude. Always wondered if he was on the Aspergers continiuum. And while I wanted to believe he was alive, when the 20th anniversary came and went with no Andy, I gave up that fantasy. Plus I think Bob Schmuda would have come clean by now, and IF Kaufman had tried a stunt like that (faking his own death) his best friend would have been in on it. No, sadly he is dead, but we can enjoy his performances here. I've watched the Elvis impersonation he did in '77 on the Tonight Show a zillion times. Andy was a triple threat: he was a comic genius, plus he had a great singing voice, PLUS he could dance. I wish he had lived, because he really pushed the boundaries of what we considered 'entertainment' and I would have liked to see how far he would take his act. RIP.
he took it all the past his death. you're not the only one who wasn't sure he actually died. that's farther than anyone could hope to 'take their act'
aspberger's syndrome is a disease that falls on the Autism Spectrum. and i agree. that is dead on. he was autistic.
Robin Folkers I saw a clip earlier with Jerry Lawler being asked to say about Andy's death and Jerry was still in character saying they were foes etc. I would think Andy didn't die back then but just disappeared from the industry as his game finished and he did investigate human behavior as much as he wanted so he just moved on.
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"Is that what you want?" he keeps asking - as if he thought his buddy filming might use the footage in clips. Or maybe just that pressure to perform.
Am I the only person who sees Chris Novoselic?
Krist
they look similar lol. if Krist could act and do andy kaufman he would have been a good choice for an andy kaufman movie. jim carrey did such a great job
It's sort of funny because Courtney Love played Andy's wife in Man on the Moon.
Also there is some live performance on Nirvana some here, in which Krist does a thick funny euro character and did it quite a bit and it reminds me of Andy. All in all, great guy, all in all.
Daniel Valdivia even more - in the movie you can hear songs of REM - one of Kurt's favorite bands
Lot of connections, Funny Enough.