people online: wow, people back then just did not understand the GENIUS of Andy Kaufman like we do now People back then: *uproarious laughter and standing ovations for Andy Kaufman*
I was watching him then and I thought he was hysterical. I loved his wrestling the women-I just thought it was funny I didn’t find it offensive. Course, I always hoped she’d win, though.
If he stuck around for the internet this guy would be huge. He is like an original troll, parodying things without any indications of parody so people get upset, sometimes just messing with people's heads with senseless stuff.
"This guy" WAS huge. But if the internet had been a thing, it's quite possible he would have been huger. Also he might still be alive. Usually I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but if anyone were going to fake their death for shits and giggles, it would be Kaufman.
Nah dude, he's just laying down some mad build up for the greatest punchline anyone's ever seen. My bet? He's secretly been Barack Obama. The entire time. Best. Prank. Ever.
+Trisador9 any indications lol its clearly a joke, nobody's walking away from his set thinking he's serious, and if you think he has anything in common with trolls you failed to understand what he and many other past and present alternative comedians do.
Gotta disagree with your 3 year old comment. What Kaufman did ironically would mix in perfectly with what trolls do today. You'd be damned surprised how many people can't distinguish silly from serious these days. Millions of people can't fathom irony. Millions.
I know its subjective but I like to enjoy any pointlessness that comes my way. I suspect all the people gushing at his genius enjoy not enjoying themselves. I enjoy The Office cringe humour, but Kaufman to me is strangely mean spirited
@@katehamilton7240 I think people think it makes themselves look like a genius when they call Andy a genius. Like only really brilliant and special people get his humor when in fact a lot of his act was just kind of dumb. If Andy went up on stage and brushed his teeth they would call THAT " genius". If he opened a box of Corn Flakes and ate a bowl of cereal on stage they would call THAT genius too. The whole thing reminds of The Emperor's New Clothes.
@@tesz-vesz1985 I'm not sure that I fully grasp the 'genius' either. I think Kaufman's whole shtick was to leave the audience wondering if he was fully connected or not.
@@kenmoelhoff3122 he was the first troll of the comic scene he wanted to confuse and amuse the audience and he did that perfectly so i do believe genius is right
Andy was so good playing this character. He genuinely makes me feel sad and sorry for the fella his portraying. The childlike naiveté, innocence and oblivious sincerity are captured so genuinely.
I know its subjective but I like to enjoy any pointlessness that comes my way. I suspect all the people gushing at his genius enjoy not enjoying themselves. I enjoy The Office cringe humour, but Kaufman to me is strangely mean spirited
@@indridcold3762 ahead of his time is how Andy kaufman was. He was so ahead of his time that time was unable to catch up to his time which was ahead of everyone else's time. He only ever set his clock forward on daylight saving time and never back. That's how far ahead of his time he was. Indeed, many people in time were ahead of their time and time was of little importance to them, but andy kaufman was indeed the most ahead of his time of all the ahead of their timers.
I saw this live when I was 10, did not know of Andy. To see it in 1975 the routine drew you in and I felt exactly how he wanted me to feel....then he let me out of the box. It was wonderful an emotional serpentine. Genius.
Jim Carrey outside of actually playing him in man on the moon basically became him in personality for most of his career. They even made a documentary about it.
TheChap1234 billions what ?? Yeah he was unique he was a complete idiot that people laughed at how much of a goofball he was and he profited off of it y'all actually think that was genius comedy??!! That literally makes me cringe when u associate genius with this idiot. I could get up on stage and do that type of shit . That's the easiest type of comedy cause basically your just acting like a child and saying random stuff and fake crying wow sooooooooooooooo genius dude!!! Bahahahaha gtfoh
@ a real 1: I dare you to try it. You will quickly find out that what looks stupid simple is actually hard to pull off. Even Elvis hisownself thought that Kaufman was the best Elvis imitator ever. I'm kinda sad that you never got the joke, but there you are. True, the cast of 'Taxi' was annoyed with him rarely showing up for rehearsal, but then Andy not only knew all of his lines, he also knew everyone else's. Had something very close to an eidetic memory (I've read that Jackie Gleason was like this also). Also, not breaking character is more difficult than you'd think and Andy was perfect at that. He could be a sweet naif and then turn into a monster in a microsecond. He truly was brilliant so, tell ya what. Give him a rest and come back to his stuff in a year or so. You might just change your mind.
The technique with which he merges the crying sound into a tune is just so original and awesome! Hats off to Andy Kaufman & also Jim Carrey who portrayed him in a great way! :)
I know its subjective but I like to enjoy any pointlessness that comes my way. I suspect all the people gushing at his genius enjoy not enjoying themselves. I enjoy The Office cringe humour, but Kaufman to me is strangely mean spirited
Why y'all so mean.. must be miserable or something I'm really curious.. like does the drum mean that he was gonna play it the whole time? Like it was the punchline sitting there and still no-one guessed it? Idk but this whole video is very fascinating
@@disherofpain i understand what hes saying. The longer the act went on the more curious you got about what the drums were for. Or if they were for anything at all. Andy was famous for reaching a punchline but not only that just completely pulling the rug from under you. Wish he was still alive.
@@disherofpain How are they being mean? He used the drums at the end, so they really didn't symbolize anything. OP is probably going to pull something from stretching that much.
Watching this as it aired in 1975 as a young teen and seeing Andy's "foreign man" various times, I thought it was a real "foreign guy, right off the boat"....when he switched gears back to Andy, I was blown away!..Such a genius talent level, gone way, way too soon,..oh, what we may have seen over the years!
That was just ... surreal. I knew I had to expect something of him. Towards the end he kind of got to me with the crying, it was really dramatic. This guy really put up a show. And then ... boom, dancing and rhythm.
The thing is that it's so on point that you are immediately inspired to try something similar, yet you know at the same time that there is just nothing left to do for anybody down that road because the bit is just perfect.
I watched this when it aired, sitting on my couch in my pj's with a big bowl of popcorn...I was 15 and I'd never seen anyone like him. I thought he was fabulous...
+Cosmonauteable The hell do you mean "by today standards" lol? What's this extremely sophisticated comedy that you see today? The transition from Andy Kaufman to internet memes and other mainstream sources of comedy wasn't incredibly drastic...Tbh I find him to be a hilarious genius, but to each their own.
I enjoyed it, but also the "you don't find it funny because you don't understand" crowd need to get over them selfs. Lol Not everyone likes family guy. You aren't no elites that sets the standards towards comedy.
“I don’t know if yew er laughing at meh or with me...?” *proceeds to look like when you forget your monologue on stage and you stand there with primal fear in your eyes*
"I am not a comic, I have never told a joke. I don't even watch comedians. The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him. I've never done that in my life. My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can. I can manipulate people's reactions. There are different kinds of laughter. Gut laughter is where you don't have a choice, you've got to laugh. Gut laughter doesn't come from the intellect. And it's much harder for me to evoke now, because I'm known. They say, "Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a really funny guy." But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads." - Andy Kaufman
Karl trembath eric andre doesnt amount to one of tony clifton's moldy toenail clippings. Kaufman was a genius and a pioneer, eric andre is some guy at a frat party pretending to smoke weed so that he has a reason to be acting nervous and drinking their ranch dressing.
He absolutely owns the crowd, and does so mostly with facial expressions that cannot be described or imitated. They're in the palms of his hands, unknowingly mesmerized, hesitantly paralyzed, yet thoroughly enchanted by a persona of his own brilliant creation.
I remember trying to understand this guy back in the day. He totally had me fooled. Thought he sucked, found him uncomfortable to watch, didn't see what was funny, or genius. Looking at it nowadays, it was genius. Seeing him do these characters, being uncomfortable, terrible, or terrified in front of an audience. Letting the audience stew in it, let them take it in, try to understand what he was displaying. So much more going on than I could comprehend, and still trying to
Yeah, I don't get it and I'm almost 50, so I've known about him for a long time. I really don't see anything even mildly entertaining about his schtick.
embe1 Yeah. I know what you mean. It's timing, fake emotions, facical expressions ... Hell I don't know why it's funny. It just is. People who don't think he was are the butts of his jokes.
just like the Audience. you just laughing beacuase you think your "suppost to" even tho he is not funny, becuase every body calls him a genious and stuff.
didn't know about him until Jim carrey portrayed him. after seeing this It's obvious Jim carrey did a great job. I like Andy, this is my type of comedy. just wish I was around in his time.
Jim Carrey over acted and that movie was hard to watch. The guy literally said he was possessed by Andy Kaufman and invited his daughter on set to “speak with her dad”. Fuck that guy.
Andy brought things to a whole different level. When you saw it, you may not of understood it, but you knew what you were watching was something you had never seen before. It was special, he was a true pioneer.
I love TAXI but the Latka character comes close to ruining it. All the other characters seem real and they are all great characters, the kind you just might find working for a cab company in New York, and Latka comes off like a comedian doing a shtick. It's not believable for a minute.
Its simple, he sets up the premise of the joke with an awkward foreigner, the broken English, accent and nervous ticks. The shyness at the start is like the hook that draws the audience into the reality he has created, as he progresses, he lets his "guard" down as he slowly leads the audience by the hand, where using his comedic timing, makes it look like he's totally losing control of the situation which leads into the punchline. With each inward breath acting as the first note of a melody he changes the vocal pattern from what seems like a random emotional breakdown, transitioning smoothly into the rhythmic crescendo which forms the final part of the punchline. He never looses control of the situation or loses his place in the joke, with each of the silly jokes and actions being meticulously placed to build the narrative along side the nervous ticks and stammering. He would have spent weeks fine tuning that bit so it flowed perfectly, not wasting any time that wasn't supposed to be wasted. Its a little goofy by today standards but if you take the concept, progression and made it more up to today's standard , it would still be a brilliant joke. Some comedians write jokes, some create fictitious narratives. I hope I explained it well, I haven't slept for 24 hours.
Andy Kaufman, a true comedic GENIUS, with more talent that ALL of those so called "comedians" today combined....the MIghty Mouse song, where Andy just stands there and mimes "here I come, to save the day" shows what only someone with the fantastic talent of Andy could make into a comedy LEGEND 🤣
He was a brilliant comedian, for the shirt life he had at his craft......most comedians know who Andy Kaufman was and what he brought....he's a legend in the world of comedy.
It was three people and they carried the biggest cannon in the world to Spain. Ha h ha ha ... I really love how he delivers this dreadful 'joke'. He makes it so funny.
Yeah, the joke is brilliant. Ironically, the lameness of the joke is the joke itself and how he wants to make sure people understand the extremely obvious conclusion of the story in the joke.
The beginning of the skit refers to the 1957 film "The Pride and the Passion'" about the Peninsular War against Napoleon in Spain. The main characters, played by Sophia Loren, Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant [together with many extras] drag a huge cannon cross-country to a walled city held by the French. Not a well-known film. Andy Kaufman was a genius, riffing like he was in a bad high school talent show.
Kay Muldoon Which is part of what Andy wanted. He didn't want to make people laugh; He just liked to screw with people in any.way he could to see how they would react.
@@yaboileeroy3038 not exactly true. You watch interviews with people he knew and they all say he wanted to entertain and that He didn't consider himself a comic. It didn't matter the reaction as long as you were entertained. Such a talented guy.
It's unbelievable that whenever I saw anyone talk about Andy they either hate him or love him.. But what no-one gets is that Andy didn't want people to love him. He wanted to annoy them.... and THAT is what is funny. The genius part in Andy lies in that he isn't funny when you look at him, he is funny when you look at peoples annoyed reactions on his performance. If you get offended or annoyed by this that just means you are unhappy with yourself or your life... Chill god damn it!
+Brian Griffin Now you're a philosopher as well?! Look at you! I'm impressed. Please share with us all that you have found in your discoveries on the purpose of life. You should write a book about your journeys of wisdom searching and publish it for all of the RUclips readers and subscribers you have following you.
Its simple, he had full command of the audience. Strange how some people have trouble with his material or cannot get past the silliness to see the genius of it. He just wanted people to genuinely laugh and be entertained.
This may very well be the best thing to ever exist. I don't know why. I've never watched Andy Kaufman until now. But yet I felt like I could understand him so well. He just gets comedy. He's just THAT good.
I love how he uses the crying sound with the bongos to let us know that he's not actually breaking down and it's okay to laugh now. It's like edging, and the bongos are the climax
Some say that Andy Kaufman was mostly entertaining himself while on stage and simply used the audience as a medium to do so. He would go to any length to make the audience uncomfortable.
My favorite bit of him when he was on Letterman and started asking the audience for money, it was the first time for me seeing him I thought it was for real, but now I see how he does it!
I love how he loved wrestling... and adapted the art of living the lifestyle constantly ... even if it wasn't wrestling he was always working people. Lol it's great. No matter when or where.. he just enjoyed messing with everybody. Genius.
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people online: wow, people back then just did not understand the GENIUS of Andy Kaufman like we do now
People back then: *uproarious laughter and standing ovations for Andy Kaufman*
I think it was his later wrestling stuff that people were talking about. But i don’t really know
He got voted off SNL so that’s probably why they say that
@@elliotthenry8951 He got voted off because people got tired of it. They "got" it at first when it was novel and then just was sick of it.
I was watching him then and I thought he was hysterical. I loved his wrestling the women-I just thought it was funny I didn’t find it offensive. Course, I always hoped she’d win, though.
I really didn't get him back then either just thought he was insane now I get it.
If he stuck around for the internet this guy would be huge. He is like an original troll, parodying things without any indications of parody so people get upset, sometimes just messing with people's heads with senseless stuff.
"This guy" WAS huge. But if the internet had been a thing, it's quite possible he would have been huger.
Also he might still be alive. Usually I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but if anyone were going to fake their death for shits and giggles, it would be Kaufman.
Nah dude, he's just laying down some mad build up for the greatest punchline anyone's ever seen.
My bet? He's secretly been Barack Obama. The entire time. Best. Prank. Ever.
+Trisador9 any indications lol its clearly a joke, nobody's walking away from his set thinking he's serious, and if you think he has anything in common with trolls you failed to understand what he and many other past and present alternative comedians do.
I agree. Andy is like five different comedians in one.
Gotta disagree with your 3 year old comment. What Kaufman did ironically would mix in perfectly with what trolls do today. You'd be damned surprised how many people can't distinguish silly from serious these days. Millions of people can't fathom irony. Millions.
His awkward and nervous delivery is extremely natural. He is missed very much. Pure genius!
He died 40yrs ago, I doubt he was extremely missed lol
@@jaywp2343what? Why?
You are a retarded sheep
I know its subjective but I like to enjoy any pointlessness that comes my way. I suspect all the people gushing at his genius enjoy not enjoying themselves. I enjoy The Office cringe humour, but Kaufman to me is strangely mean spirited
@@katehamilton7240 I think people think it makes themselves look like a genius when they call Andy a genius. Like only really brilliant and special people get his humor when in fact a lot of his act was just kind of dumb. If Andy went up on stage and brushed his teeth they would call THAT " genius". If he opened a box of Corn Flakes and ate a bowl of cereal on stage they would call THAT genius too. The whole thing reminds of The Emperor's New Clothes.
I love his childlike eyes, there’s so much innocence in them. It actually touched me. He would have been a great dramatic actor.
He exudes something that most of humanity would never touch, let alone master.
Imagine that
I don't know... notheeng
I never cease to be impressed by his ability to cry without actually crying.
That ending pivot from crying into drumming was flawless. Great talent.
Ashler ss
he is lunatic, not funny
@@tesz-vesz1985 then you don't get the humor that's fine though people can have there own opinions
@@tesz-vesz1985 I'm not sure that I fully grasp the 'genius' either. I think Kaufman's whole shtick was to leave the audience wondering if he was fully connected or not.
@@kenmoelhoff3122 he was the first troll of the comic scene he wanted to confuse and amuse the audience and he did that perfectly so i do believe genius is right
Andy was so good playing this character. He genuinely makes me feel sad and sorry for the fella his portraying. The childlike naiveté, innocence and oblivious sincerity are captured so genuinely.
I remember feeling sorry for this pathetic soul. And finally realizing that the joke was on me.
Andy entertains only himself, like a pristine child of innocence.
Quite priceless!
Like any comedic genius
No. He entertained a lot of people. He was amazing and hilarious.
@@frostelliethat's why he is entertaining because he's doing it for himself.
@@BillieChristine-d5c Any really good artist does it for themselves.
I know its subjective but I like to enjoy any pointlessness that comes my way. I suspect all the people gushing at his genius enjoy not enjoying themselves. I enjoy The Office cringe humour, but Kaufman to me is strangely mean spirited
His comedy was definitely ahead of its time. He had that type of dry, awkward comedy that has become extremely popular these days
he was already extremely popular...saying he's ahead of its time doesn't make sense here.
@@RowBlanka someone always has to say ahead of his time.
@@indridcold3762 ahead of his time is how Andy kaufman was. He was so ahead of his time that time was unable to catch up to his time which was ahead of everyone else's time. He only ever set his clock forward on daylight saving time and never back. That's how far ahead of his time he was. Indeed, many people in time were ahead of their time and time was of little importance to them, but andy kaufman was indeed the most ahead of his time of all the ahead of their timers.
@@regularfather4708 reading this @ 4am 🥴🥴goodnight yall
If he was so ahead of his time, he wouldn't have been appreciated in his own time.
I saw this live when I was 10, did not know of Andy. To see it in 1975 the routine drew you in and I felt exactly how he wanted me to feel....then he let me out of the box. It was wonderful an emotional serpentine. Genius.
Exactly. He was all of our insecurities shown on stage. That was what was so brilliant.
Andy was a great performance artist. Feeding on our reactions to his limitless talents !
Kaufman was unique. There will only ever be one Andy Kaufman but he's influenced probably thousands of performers.
dahalofreeek just norm McDonald apparently which is awesome. Cause he is King
Jim Carrey outside of actually playing him in man on the moon basically became him in personality for most of his career. They even made a documentary about it.
Probably billions
TheChap1234 billions what ?? Yeah he was unique he was a complete idiot that people laughed at how much of a goofball he was and he profited off of it y'all actually think that was genius comedy??!! That literally makes me cringe when u associate genius with this idiot. I could get up on stage and do that type of shit . That's the easiest type of comedy cause basically your just acting like a child and saying random stuff and fake crying wow sooooooooooooooo genius dude!!! Bahahahaha gtfoh
@ a real 1: I dare you to try it. You will quickly find out that what looks stupid simple is actually hard to pull off. Even Elvis hisownself thought that Kaufman was the best Elvis imitator ever. I'm kinda sad that you never got the joke, but there you are. True, the cast of 'Taxi' was annoyed with him rarely showing up for rehearsal, but then Andy not only knew all of his lines, he also knew everyone else's. Had something very close to an eidetic memory (I've read that Jackie Gleason was like this also). Also, not breaking character is more difficult than you'd think and Andy was perfect at that. He could be a sweet naif and then turn into a monster in a microsecond. He truly was brilliant so, tell ya what. Give him a rest and come back to his stuff in a year or so. You might just change your mind.
The technique with which he merges the crying sound into a tune is just so original and awesome!
Hats off to Andy Kaufman & also Jim Carrey who portrayed him in a great way! :)
+I'm unsubscribing. he's got a Hollywood star & you watch Ben Shapiro videos ~.~ soooo
there is a light and it never goes out lot of nasty people have hollywood stars.
That technique is what they call segue, I suppose
@I'm unsubscribing. something tells me you're a little bit right wing
@@2000andhate quit lying to yourself. His impression of jim carrey was of jim carrey, not kaufman.
Nobody understands a comedy pause like Andy did
he is the only one that understands it..thats why he is so cool
I know its subjective but I like to enjoy any pointlessness that comes my way. I suspect all the people gushing at his genius enjoy not enjoying themselves. I enjoy The Office cringe humour, but Kaufman to me is strangely mean spirited
I was 6 years old when I saw this live (broadcast) in 75. Andy was amazing. Absolutely fearless yet completely fragile. He was truly one of a kind.
This is so far off the scale...I love it
David Eire I’m like wtf 😂
Perfect, so original...
Hypnotised to the eyes of this guy. I'm not even laughing, just amazed.
The fear in his eyes is palpable. Brilliant!
It's real.
He kind of has a lost look expression, probably knows what he is doing though.
For those who didn't get to experience the 70s first hand, yes, it was amazing.
💯 it was!!! I miss it🙁
Naman Arora from Samay's Latent show was Doing this form of Comedy
yeah
Hanji bhai
Absolutely love this, the cannonball joke is too good, and from crying to music is just wonderful, what a one of a kind talent Kaufman was
He doesn't break character! What a genius, this guy!
Jhully Amilly Marangoni uhhh yeah?
What character?
5:08 he cannot resist checking if the drum is still there to be reached
Scorpio He’s not stereotyping all foreign people he’s doing one foreign character that is stupid because it’s funny, I bet you’re SUPER fun at parties
Scorpio one thing is to laugh at the racism and another to have a sense of humor and this was funny
naman arora imitate him so amazining in ( the latent show )
Fr😭
brilliant and TALANTED
Yeah I realised it latter
I think it is just inspired by this but not really imitation na
I have not laughed so sincerely in a long time. This guy was truly one of a kind.
Don’t you just want to grab him & give him a hug? He’s adorable 😍
yeah baby face
@helenchristie6530 (3 years later) Yes, every video I see Andy in makes me have the same desire.
Tenk you veddy much
A man after my own heart. Just on the wind-up his whole life. A gift to humanity.
I think Sasha Baron Cohen's Borat owes a lot to this character
All comedians borrow off each other-see Peter Cook and Dudley Moore-. It's a homage not plagiarism
Gyan Sporn Yes , I can see it .
High FIVE!🖑
This in particular...
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Jim carry did it well
He's a genius, always playing with ego, it's masks and the hurt. He was a very spiritual man.
He had a very lovely and warm smile.
I'm not into comedy, but that part where he cries and transforms to rhythm... Fahk. That was just pure gold.
Couldn't tell whether meticulously scripted or improvised.
Not... into comedy...? Anything that makes you laugh is a kind of comedy... you don't like laughing?
valdez87
Comedy as a genre, stand up or shows.
AgentOrange
Oh I see. That makes sense.
scripted, i saw just one other performance by him and he did the exact same thing.
Andy was the vanguard of absurdist comedy...true genius. The only performing artist who could give his audience flop sweat. RIP Andy. I still miss you
This man is indeed a genius, not a troll, and he makes your mind smile. A true song and dance man.
when he called himself a song and dance man he was trolling :0
just kidding idk
Why not both?
Andy was beyond the genius category,bloody brilliant, loved all his work
This was no standup. It was a psychological experiment.
Even the transition from happy to worrying that the audience was mocking is incredible.
He was a jew.
@@lightupthedarkness6762 So was your father, but your mother never told you. What difference does it make?
@@lightupthedarkness6762 Great observation there fella. Thank you for sharing.
@@MetaDecker My father was not a Jew. In fact, neither are Jews.
i love the symbolism of the bongos, its the constant elephant in the room, and the longer he doesn't acknowledge it the funnier it is
daaarrell15 what does the conga drum symbolize?
Why y'all so mean.. must be miserable or something I'm really curious.. like does the drum mean that he was gonna play it the whole time? Like it was the punchline sitting there and still no-one guessed it? Idk but this whole video is very fascinating
@@disherofpain i understand what hes saying. The longer the act went on the more curious you got about what the drums were for. Or if they were for anything at all. Andy was famous for reaching a punchline but not only that just completely pulling the rug from under you. Wish he was still alive.
Conga, but yeah.
@@disherofpain How are they being mean? He used the drums at the end, so they really didn't symbolize anything. OP is probably going to pull something from stretching that much.
Wow. That was incredible. I have just been completely blown away by this man's talent.
Barry Barry
You've never heard the word "talent" before??!
Barry, since you never seem to get it, maybe you should watch his Elvis impersonation. Maybe then the light bulb will go on.
Joe Bobb
There's no getting it later, Barry has zero hope of getting it ever.
Andy wasn't a comedian, he was a performer. Sometimes he was funny, sometimes he wasn't. His goal wasn't to get laughs, it was to get a reaction.
His timing was impeccable.
Watching this as it aired in 1975 as a young teen and seeing Andy's "foreign man" various times, I thought it was a real "foreign guy, right off the boat"....when he switched gears back to Andy, I was blown away!..Such a genius talent level, gone way, way too soon,..oh, what we may have seen over the years!
The movie Man on the Moon got me here Jim Carrey imitated him exactly the same amazing character indeed 👏👌🙌
Same. First I heard Martin Freeman ripping on Carrey's performance which lead me to the film which lead me here lol
He has such a cute innocent looking face and eyes. Oh my goodness he is missed
You almost cannot explain him to people who don't get it. Brilliant man I still miss him
One has to see & hear it.
This is the stuff NBC really needs to broadcast as “SNL Vintage”.
They used to do just that after regular SNL.
“Back when we was fab…..”
That was just ... surreal. I knew I had to expect something of him. Towards the end he kind of got to me with the crying, it was really dramatic. This guy really put up a show. And then ... boom, dancing and rhythm.
*you want to see me dance*
Dylan Collett ...🎶 La la la la la...La la la la la 🎶
no
The thing is that it's so on point that you are immediately inspired to try something similar, yet you know at the same time that there is just nothing left to do for anybody down that road because the bit is just perfect.
I watched this when it aired, sitting on my couch in my pj's with a big bowl of popcorn...I was 15 and I'd never seen anyone like him. I thought he was fabulous...
The great thing about Andy is that you never knew what you were going to get.
So you are around 50 something years old?
Miss him, I always loved the wide eyed crazy look and the innocence of this character 😎😂❤️
I love how everyone's comments are basically explanations no one who watches this needs
+roybenari Apparently and unfortunately many people do...
+Cosmonauteable The hell do you mean "by today standards" lol? What's this extremely sophisticated comedy that you see today? The transition from Andy Kaufman to internet memes and other mainstream sources of comedy wasn't incredibly drastic...Tbh I find him to be a hilarious genius, but to each their own.
Eric Huang but he isnt funny
I enjoyed it, but also the "you don't find it funny because you don't understand" crowd need to get over them selfs. Lol
Not everyone likes family guy.
You aren't no elites that sets the standards towards comedy.
You'd be surprised. Remember a lot of these people voted for a tanned orange man. Things tend to go over their heads.
Yo, that Archie bunker was spot on!
He's freaking trying so hard to not laugh and he's 100 percent in control
Paradox spotted.
Whoelse is here after watching Naman arora (India's got latent)😂
Proxy lga do
yeah I'm analysing the character of naman
"..... Could we stop the tape?" I damn near choked laughing
“I tink we should turn off de tv”
“I don’t know if yew er laughing at meh or with me...?” *proceeds to look like when you forget your monologue on stage and you stand there with primal fear in your eyes*
Just click the middle of the video and it will pause. You can tap it a couple times to fast forward or rewind
This guy was a class of his own. Very brave to perform such a number, which could fail any moment...
5:34 is my ringtone
Tom Bagiotas I want it as mine now
"I am not a comic, I have never told a joke. I don't even watch comedians. The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him. I've never done that in my life. My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can. I can manipulate people's reactions. There are different kinds of laughter. Gut laughter is where you don't have a choice, you've got to laugh. Gut laughter doesn't come from the intellect. And it's much harder for me to evoke now, because I'm known. They say, "Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a really funny guy." But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads."
- Andy Kaufman
I don’t know if you are laughing at me or with me
Crowd: 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣
Awesome for 75. There's be no Tim and Eric or Eric Andre without this man
Karl trembath eric andre doesnt amount to one of tony clifton's moldy toenail clippings. Kaufman was a genius and a pioneer, eric andre is some guy at a frat party pretending to smoke weed so that he has a reason to be acting nervous and drinking their ranch dressing.
bird up
Or Borat!!
Or Joe Pera
frank grimes
Didn’t Homer kill you.
He absolutely owns the crowd, and does so mostly with facial expressions that cannot be described or imitated. They're in the palms of his hands, unknowingly mesmerized, hesitantly paralyzed, yet thoroughly enchanted by a persona of his own brilliant creation.
Ryan Smith you’re stupid
Dude wtf this shit is stupid
Great description true!
Indeed...?
love it. he truly was pushing the limits of comedy.
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I remember trying to understand this guy back in the day. He totally had me fooled. Thought he sucked, found him uncomfortable to watch, didn't see what was funny, or genius.
Looking at it nowadays, it was genius.
Seeing him do these characters, being uncomfortable, terrible, or terrified in front of an audience. Letting the audience stew in it, let them take it in, try to understand what he was displaying.
So much more going on than I could comprehend, and still trying to
Try Norm Macdonald his opener is a shaggy dig tale, that's the same as Norm
Same. I'm 46 and just now enjoying him. He makes you see through illusions somehow.
This humor is at least 40 years ahead of its time
no
I think it came 6000 years too late.
Andy's humor. Either you got it or you didn't. He was definitely one of a kind.
In the "Don't get it camp" I didn't even crack a smirk, this is comedy? Seems more like avant garde theater
Yeah, I don't get it and I'm almost 50, so I've known about him for a long time. I really don't see anything even mildly entertaining about his schtick.
@@MC-tl7oj Same
i have no clue why I'm laughing.
embe1 Yeah. I know what you mean. It's timing, fake emotions, facical expressions ... Hell I don't know why it's funny. It just is. People who don't think he was are the butts of his jokes.
A legend.. a genius..
Andy Kaufman forever!
If you don't laugh at the unfunny man you don't understand his humour apparently.
just like the Audience. you just laughing beacuase you think your "suppost to" even tho he is not funny, becuase every body calls him a genious and stuff.
@@dbog5214
He was for his time, people like you are just pissed because you don't get the humour.
didn't know about him until Jim carrey portrayed him. after seeing this It's obvious Jim carrey did a great job.
I like Andy, this is my type of comedy. just wish I was around in his time.
In the universe I came from, Nicholas Cage portrayed Kaufman. But not to fear...I can adjust to this timeline...
Jim carrey did a terrible job
I like Jim, but he made Andy look Cartoonish
Jim Carrey over acted and that movie was hard to watch. The guy literally said he was possessed by Andy Kaufman and invited his daughter on set to “speak with her dad”. Fuck that guy.
You would have been confused like the rest of us.
Rest in powerful peace 🙏
Andy Kaufman
17 January 1949 ~
16 May 1984 ⚘
Andy brought things to a whole different level. When you saw it, you may not of understood it, but you knew what you were watching was something you had never seen before. It was special, he was a true pioneer.
Latka was born.
I love TAXI but the Latka character comes close to ruining it. All the other characters seem real and they are all great characters, the kind you just might find working for a cab company in New York, and Latka comes off like a comedian doing a shtick. It's not believable for a minute.
@@gargantuaism And I also think Andy Kaufman hated playing Latka
This is the first time I've seen Andy Kaufman and i actually started crying at the end instead of laughing. What an incredibly sensitive soul
He is so brilliant, I literally tear up at his genius. He was a rare talent.
Brilliancy at it's best!
Even today there is no one like him!!
I'll never forget this episode. Him with the conga. Good lord that was a long time ago! We miss you, Andy. ❤️
Who would've known that red curtain in the background and Andy's outfit would have become such a historical image in the comedy world and Hollywood.
This is one of the most incredible performances i've ever seen
Damn Barry you really don't like Andy's work do you?
+Deezus can you explain it then
Its simple, he sets up the premise of the joke with an awkward foreigner, the broken English, accent and nervous ticks. The shyness at the start is like the hook that draws the audience into the reality he has created, as he progresses, he lets his "guard" down as he slowly leads the audience by the hand, where using his comedic timing, makes it look like he's totally losing control of the situation which leads into the punchline.
With each inward breath acting as the first note of a melody he changes the vocal pattern from what seems like a random emotional breakdown, transitioning smoothly into the rhythmic crescendo which forms the final part of the punchline. He never looses control of the situation or loses his place in the joke, with each of the silly jokes and actions being meticulously placed to build the narrative along side the nervous ticks and stammering.
He would have spent weeks fine tuning that bit so it flowed perfectly, not wasting any time that wasn't supposed to be wasted. Its a little goofy by today standards but if you take the concept, progression and made it more up to today's standard , it would still be a brilliant joke.
Some comedians write jokes, some create fictitious narratives.
I hope I explained it well, I haven't slept for 24 hours.
I love that people don't get this, and get angry at those that do. :D
auto2112 I agree. I got this when I first saw him on SNL back in ‘75/‘76. And I was only 14.
Andy Kaufman, a true comedic GENIUS, with more talent that ALL of those so called "comedians" today combined....the MIghty Mouse song, where Andy just stands there and mimes "here I come, to save the day" shows what only someone with the fantastic talent of Andy could make into a comedy LEGEND 🤣
He was a brilliant comedian, for the shirt life he had at his craft......most comedians know who Andy Kaufman was and what he brought....he's a legend in the world of comedy.
Fearless and very much in control of his audience. A style that took the art into a new direction.
It was three people and they carried the biggest cannon in the world to Spain. Ha h ha ha ... I really love how he delivers this dreadful 'joke'. He makes it so funny.
Yeah, the joke is brilliant. Ironically, the lameness of the joke is the joke itself and how he wants to make sure people understand the extremely obvious conclusion of the story in the joke.
What is the original joke?
It's not a dreadful joke. I plan on telling it to kids.
Crazy how Jim and Andy have the same birthday.
Jim Carrey really channeled Andy.
My entire life my nana and I said to each other “tenk yew berry much” and I had no clue where it was from until I was an adult lol.
One of the best stand up performances ever.
He was incredible.
The beginning of the skit refers to the 1957 film "The Pride and the Passion'" about the Peninsular War against Napoleon in Spain. The main characters, played by Sophia Loren, Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant [together with many extras] drag a huge cannon cross-country to a walled city held by the French. Not a well-known film. Andy Kaufman was a genius, riffing like he was in a bad high school talent show.
LEGEND! I don't know why people are hating... He changed the game completely with his approach to humor.
Teo Grehan they’re hating because they know they don’t get it and it pisses them off.
Kay Muldoon Which is part of what Andy wanted. He didn't want to make people laugh; He just liked to screw with people in any.way he could to see how they would react.
@@yaboileeroy3038 not exactly true. You watch interviews with people he knew and they all say he wanted to entertain and that He didn't consider himself a comic. It didn't matter the reaction as long as you were entertained. Such a talented guy.
It's unbelievable that whenever I saw anyone talk about Andy they either hate him or love him.. But what no-one gets is that Andy didn't want people to love him. He wanted to annoy them.... and THAT is what is funny. The genius part in Andy lies in that he isn't funny when you look at him, he is funny when you look at peoples annoyed reactions on his performance. If you get offended or annoyed by this that just means you are unhappy with yourself or your life...
Chill god damn it!
So deliberately irritating people is comical? I get it now! Thank you intellectual guy!
+Brian Griffin Now you're a philosopher as well?! Look at you! I'm impressed. Please share with us all that you have found in your discoveries on the purpose of life. You should write a book about your journeys of wisdom searching and publish it for all of the RUclips readers and subscribers you have following you.
gotmilk4ya Hahah you're a funny guy... who still didn't say anything important...
+Brian Griffin the feeling is mutual small fry
gotmilk4ya Thank you, salty tomato!
Just brilliant absolutely true honest talent whether it was part of his gig or not they laughed RIP Mr Kaufman
Its simple, he had full command of the audience. Strange how some people have trouble with his material or cannot get past the silliness to see the genius of it. He just wanted people to genuinely laugh and be entertained.
no thats not it. if u actually read more on it, then u would know that he sexually harassed them.
If I'm feeling down this video cheers me up all the time.
I watched this now for perhaps 5 times over the last week.. I still find it absolutely hilarious.
It's like he is trying be the the exact opposite of what a comedian should be and its fucking incredible.
Genius. Master of his craft.
As announced by the WWE, Andy Kaufman is officially inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2023
This one doesn't make me laugh, it makes me feel happy and relaxed - unique.
Just amazing, how many emotions through one sketch! Genius 🤩
He still got me at "I don't know if you're laughing at me or with me," and I've been onto the act for like 50 years now.
This may very well be the best thing to ever exist. I don't know why. I've never watched Andy Kaufman until now. But yet I felt like I could understand him so well. He just gets comedy. He's just THAT good.
The man was such a pioneer. He's timeless.
I love how he uses the crying sound with the bongos to let us know that he's not actually breaking down and it's okay to laugh now. It's like edging, and the bongos are the climax
Exactly
Some say that Andy Kaufman was mostly entertaining himself while on stage and simply used the audience as a medium to do so. He would go to any length to make the audience uncomfortable.
My favorite bit of him when he was on Letterman and started asking the audience for money, it was the first time for me seeing him I thought it was for real, but now I see how he does it!
yeah I found that on here..so great that bit
I loved Andy!!!!
I love how he loved wrestling... and adapted the art of living the lifestyle constantly ... even if it wasn't wrestling he was always working people. Lol it's great. No matter when or where.. he just enjoyed messing with everybody. Genius.