That was his act, to keep you wondering if you get it or not.. lol and then keep you coming back to see if you made the rt decision... MAN ON THE MOON! RIP
Genius , the whole special is trashing how fake and phoney t.v is. Absolutely brilliant, dismantles television norms one bit at a time. Was way ahead of his time kaufman. Class
and there is a slight difference : Kaufman really creates all his sketches in consideration of the medium, when Monty Python were more into surrealistic occurings that could sometimes have no consideration for the way it was broadcasted itself
I enjoyed this sooo much. As a fan of Andy though it makes you sad that he died so young. It is truly heartbreaking that a man so full of ideas and life couldnt shine just a little longer ....he is a freaking legend
This is pretty brilliant. There is the string of a theme running through, and it all comes together toward the end with the Howdy Doody segment. He deconstructs television- the Cindy Williams segment shows us what would've happened sometimes if Johnny Carson was more honest with some of the interviews he was forced to do. The segments with Bob Zumuda exposing the friendly host as a jerk- then Howdy comes on. It's the only sincere segment in the show. It's there that Kaufman tips his hand. He talks about going to see Howdy Doody in the Peanut Gallery when he was young but being "depressed because I could see what everyone was like when they weren't on camera, and I could see the man who was working your strings." But he still expresses love for Howdy as his first real friend. It's this contraction that creates an internal conflict in Andy as one of the first generation to become children of television. He loves the medium, but hates how phony and contrived it can be. That is what the special, and much of Andy's early comedy is about. Later in his career, I think we went a bit astray with the wrestlers and stuff, but this special is quite great.
Great points. He definitely liked to expose all the irony/hypocrisy of television. His satire was the first to really puts a mirror in front of all showbusiness. People didn't like that they did not know what was real/fake with Andy, but these same people were unaware that the same thing applied to the "real" people in entertainment. The only difference was that Andy let you know you were being bullshitted!
Andys appearances on Memphis wrestling were fantastic. Especially if you watch everything in chronological order, he had the perfect collaborators in Jerry Lawler, Lance Russell and Jimmy Hart.
@JM This comment of your's has to be one of the BEST I've ever read. As I noted above there is never a sneering or mean spirited aspect to the show or sketches. Kaufman was SO natural in his performance that the viewer forgets he's acting or playing. The 70s were the last decade before the magic of TV and film started to be stripped away both in how it was done and the even the magic of the stars. Even wrestling had become victim of the audience becoming smarter to the 'trick'. Those lucky enough to live in a time when the magic was still there had an experience that has sadly ruined things. Now? The internet has made it so we know everything so quickly that nothing has any real deep meaning.
One minute you're wondering why you can't stop watching Andy Kaufman, next thing you know he's drinking chocolate milk and eating a sandwich and you just start laughing.
Kaufman was pure genius,. I'm 30 minutes into it and I haven't stopped laughing a master at making people uncomfortable and in suspense anticipating laughter
I'm 45 so except for Taxi appearing as Latka I wouldn't have known about him. Over the past few days this guy growing on me. Especially the appearance on Letterman with Jerry Lawler. I love his outbursts when he got the slap and reading thru comments finding out he filmed his making fun of the Tennessee accent in Lawler's back yard. So funny
One of the most original things I've ever seen on television. Yet so few views. That Howdy Doody bit is brilliant. Astonishing show, should be more widely seen and promoted.
Two days ago I finally got to watch Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey, and Andy Kaufman's been haunting me ever since. So today I'm watching his special and it's mindblowing. What a genius! Now, I think I understand Eric André a little more too.
careys performance was subpar. idk know if the director told him to make kaufman look like a stark raving lunatic or what but def feel like ed norton couldve gained a few lbs and gave it a better air
This is a gem of genius WAY before it's time. Decontructing TV (as mentioned below) and satiring it. But there is never anything cynical or sneering. A homage and kind warped view of showbiz as well as what the audience expects and the reality behind the scenes.
@@abcd-ug8tj And the people who are the real deal are also the ones who usually don't get the credit they deserve. Now, being a comic, is almost impossible. Maybe Andy saw how fake and self deceiving society was? And simply gave them a dose of themselves?
Why would they ban this. Yeah it's kind of cutting edge for tv and a bit arty farty but this is hilarious and better than 90% of anything on network tv. Tv execs aren't known for their foresight.
No matter what watching Andy always makes me too emotional. He was there when I was a little kid, introduced by his might mouse on snl, and I loved him. I remember parents didn't like him. But all us kids in the lare 70s early 80s,...we all loved him. There's no one who ever took his place. He was %100 pure heart.
the opening scene in man on the moon is jim carrey doing the bit on the intro of this special. "this movie ends here... now that everyone's gone i would like to show you my special"
@@tomaspalmariello7911 yeah... it's a fraction of it. I just think it's sad that all we got to represent it was that and the Howdy doody part as audio. also the broken tv gimmick.
An enigma wrapped inside of an enigma, wrapped inside of an enigma, wrapped inside of an enigma, wrapped inside of an enigma, wrapped inside of an enigma,
The bit where the picture goes funny (the vertical hold gets messed with) is at 36:56, not during the Howdy Doody segment like the film Man on the Moon shows.
OG. Precursor to Zach's between 2 ferns, tom green, trigger happy TV, Eric Andre, jackass, etc. He is the Atari to today's PS5, sometimes it's nice to play asteroids, but if you didn't grow up with it, it may seem remedial.
The more I watch Andy the more I realize the comic genius he was. I think it will take decades for the general populace to catch up with what he was. Andy was a master at the awkward moment and the pregnant pause. And, Cindy Williams killed in this show!
I paused it at 46:42- Unbelievable how much he looks like Elvis from the side! I was in awe! Andy Kaufman was a brilliant and funny man, but oh Lordy, I find him so attractive! There's another video of Andy Kaufman on YT that I love. He's on the Carson show and wearing a tight black outfit with a cool looking black jacket and he's singing an Elvis song. Not sure of the title of the song, but Nicolas Cage sang the same song in the movie Wild At Heart. Also, Andy's black jacket reminded me of Nicolas Cage's Snakeskin Jacket in Wild At Heart (the back of the jacket). Anyway, Andy Kaufman has a beautiful singing voice and so does Nicolas Cage. Andy sort of looks like Nicolas. They're both gorgeous and good-looking!!
Astrological insights: AK, Jim C, Elvis: all Capricorns---key words: Ambition & Achievement! [also Jimmy Page, Howard Stern, Bowie, Limbaugh, Van Dyke Parks! Yow...sumpthin there it seems...thanks Dane Rudhyar.
Worst "comedian" ever. Andy Kaufman was a pitiful excuse for an artist. Banal, uninspired and childish. He only found success because the 70s were so drugged out they mistook drivel for talent.
The more Andy material that I find the more that I doubt his death. This guy was playing the audiences, playing tv, playing pop culture, playing everybody.
He’s amusing in places but I can’t he,p but think it was a bit of an emperors new clothes type thing in some ways - I mean the audience maniacally laugh at every turn whe a lot of it is more mildly amusing - he’s obviously got a talent as a kind of surrealist comic but I think a ,out of people quite reasonably don’t totally buy into it
This guy is funny. Shame it looks like he is stealing material from Gringo Papi special. I don't believe they have a cheaper background than the cutout in the Gringo Papi special. But this Kaufman guy has potential. Maybe if he watches the You'll Be Surprised special a few time he can get some inspiration to do something original
The greatest, Andy Kaufman (a German name-Kaufmann- meaning businessman) who got the job done of being funny without all the filth and profanity... A truly fascinating character.
Damn you either get this guy or you don't, but if you do it's one hell of a ride
This strikes me as the best thing to say to people that say he is not funny.
That was his act, to keep you wondering if you get it or not.. lol and then keep you coming back to see if you made the rt decision... MAN ON THE MOON! RIP
He was incredible, he doesnt want you to simply hear the jokes lol.
Perfect!
From the start, I always thought he was hilarious! I love unique people who dare to be different than anyone else!
Genius , the whole special is trashing how fake and phoney t.v is. Absolutely brilliant, dismantles television norms one bit at a time. Was way ahead of his time kaufman. Class
As if Monty Python didn't do the same at exactly the same time...
@@andreys7729 that doesn't deminish what Kaufman made, it just makes more amzing stuff to explore, and it's not as if they were so many
and there is a slight difference : Kaufman really creates all his sketches in consideration of the medium, when Monty Python were more into surrealistic occurings that could sometimes have no consideration for the way it was broadcasted itself
@@andreys7729 which monty python sketch is where they do exactly the same ?
I enjoyed this sooo much. As a fan of Andy though it makes you sad that he died so young. It is truly heartbreaking that a man so full of ideas and life couldnt shine just a little longer ....he is a freaking legend
Riiiiiight, diiiieed.
what you dont believe he died i would like to know finally.@@HAM-TV
Absolutely brother 😢
The brilliance lies in his guts to even do something like this at the time.
Not
This is pretty brilliant. There is the string of a theme running through, and it all comes together toward the end with the Howdy Doody segment. He deconstructs television- the Cindy Williams segment shows us what would've happened sometimes if Johnny Carson was more honest with some of the interviews he was forced to do. The segments with Bob Zumuda exposing the friendly host as a jerk- then Howdy comes on. It's the only sincere segment in the show. It's there that Kaufman tips his hand. He talks about going to see Howdy Doody in the Peanut Gallery when he was young but being "depressed because I could see what everyone was like when they weren't on camera, and I could see the man who was working your strings." But he still expresses love for Howdy as his first real friend. It's this contraction that creates an internal conflict in Andy as one of the first generation to become children of television. He loves the medium, but hates how phony and contrived it can be. That is what the special, and much of Andy's early comedy is about. Later in his career, I think we went a bit astray with the wrestlers and stuff, but this special is quite great.
in his search for real he found what most people find in wrestling. Its what he loved as a little kid.The wrestling is tied into it all.
Great points. He definitely liked to expose all the irony/hypocrisy of television. His satire was the first to really puts a mirror in front of all showbusiness.
People didn't like that they did not know what was real/fake with Andy, but these same people were unaware that the same thing applied to the "real" people in entertainment. The only difference was that Andy let you know you were being bullshitted!
Andys appearances on Memphis wrestling were fantastic. Especially if you watch everything in chronological order, he had the perfect collaborators in Jerry Lawler, Lance Russell and Jimmy Hart.
@JM This comment of your's has to be one of the BEST I've ever read. As I noted above there is never a sneering or mean spirited aspect to the show or sketches. Kaufman was SO natural in his performance that the viewer forgets he's acting or playing. The 70s were the last decade before the magic of TV and film started to be stripped away both in how it was done and the even the magic of the stars.
Even wrestling had become victim of the audience becoming smarter to the 'trick'.
Those lucky enough to live in a time when the magic was still there had an experience that has sadly ruined things.
Now? The internet has made it so we know everything so quickly that nothing has any real deep meaning.
You were doing well there until the wrestling bit at the end, which is so much linked to everything that went before I can't believe you missed it.
The Howdy Doody interview was surprisingly touching
it was simply ridiculous.
i thought it was another disply of voice acting but no. just a flex - that he got that ventriloquist on set
One minute you're wondering why you can't stop watching Andy Kaufman, next thing you know he's drinking chocolate milk and eating a sandwich and you just start laughing.
Note how much taller his seat is compared to his guests.
I recall a show where he sat like, 6' taller than the guests.
funny
"do you have any hobbies?"
"no"
"do you have any diseases?"
yes. aggressive lung cancer.
STD. 😄
soo basically this guy invented all modern shows ideas they have been recycling for ever
Between 2 ferns... lol
💥💥💥 *YESSSSS!!!!!!* 💥💥💥
Yeah the laverne interview wow! He invented literally everything!
Yep. He also basically co created hip hop with Muhammad Ali. Ali was the first to spit poetry that way and kaufman was a human sound sampler
Oh no Ali started self promotion by annoying opponents. My mistake
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Eric Andre is to Comedy what Monster Energy is to refreshing beverages.
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Andy Kaufman's version of its a friendly world makes me both happy and sad...
It makes me just hysterical.
Your pfp makes your comment 10* funnier
It was played at his funeral and everyone who was there sang along with him
Andy Kaufman was the original troll....and probably one of the best!
Kaufman was pure genius,. I'm 30 minutes into it and I haven't stopped laughing a master at making people uncomfortable and in suspense anticipating laughter
For the longest time, people thought his true voice was "the foriegn man."
I remember him, he was cool.
The ending is very touching, he made a video of this and had them play it at his own funeral for his send off, it's a Friendly World!
Rest in peace 🙏
Andy Kaufman
17 January 1949 ~
16 May 1984⚘
allegedly
@@tipseyjesus8853 What do you mean?
@@vivelajonnywatch man on the moon
the show makes you feel like a kid again. kaufman was a gift to the world.
It makes me feel like I'm on acid.
I'm 45 so except for Taxi appearing as Latka I wouldn't have known about him. Over the past few days this guy growing on me. Especially the appearance on Letterman with Jerry Lawler. I love his outbursts when he got the slap and reading thru comments finding out he filmed his making fun of the Tennessee accent in Lawler's back yard.
So funny
You need to have an absolutely thorough understanding of what humor is in order to pull this off.
Or no sense of humour at all. I mean he's hardly Peter cook and Dada was 1914! Of course he's the latter.
Debatable.
He's a unique form of comedy... You just have to have respect for the unique to enjoy his comedy
He has an uncanny ability to make me laugh just with his face
One of the most original things I've ever seen on television. Yet so few views. That Howdy Doody bit is brilliant. Astonishing show, should be more widely seen and promoted.
Two days ago I finally got to watch Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey, and Andy Kaufman's been haunting me ever since. So today I'm watching his special and it's mindblowing. What a genius! Now, I think I understand Eric André a little more too.
careys performance was subpar. idk know if the director told him to make kaufman look like a stark raving lunatic or what but def feel like ed norton couldve gained a few lbs and gave it a better air
@@Thymamaii dont know how He was in real, But in the film it was Not so Clear that everything was completly planned, every Joke, every handwish.
The godfather of cringe humor.
As If nahhh...nothing but genius...no cringe factor
He was saying FU to “normal” TV
I actually liked it. Funny, cute, and even touching at times. Very nice.
This man was a genius...
agreed.. he saw people being controlled before the internet was invented
what do you mean?
This is a gem of genius WAY before it's time. Decontructing TV (as mentioned below) and satiring it. But there is never anything cynical or sneering. A homage and kind warped view of showbiz as well as what the audience expects and the reality behind the scenes.
@@abcd-ug8tj And the people who are the real deal are also the ones who usually don't get the credit they deserve.
Now, being a comic, is almost impossible.
Maybe Andy saw how fake and self deceiving society was? And simply gave them a dose of themselves?
Cindy is so pretty here
His transformation into Elvis never fails to amaze me. He even looks like him facially at certain angles. It's astonishing.
Why would they ban this. Yeah it's kind of cutting edge for tv and a bit arty farty but this is hilarious and better than 90% of anything on network tv. Tv execs aren't known for their foresight.
They were to dumb to get it.
That Luncheonette sketch transition. Wasn't prepared 😂
I wish that happened when I drank coffee
i just love this man, he is the most amazing artist I've ever seen in my whole life
Nobody can be Andy not even Jim Carrey,but then again Andy is anyone he wants to be
Jim disrespected Andy with his impersonation imo
@@lego4271 Jim did a great job in that movie and he was FULL of respect for Andy. He loved Andy. He truly did.
No matter what watching Andy always makes me too emotional. He was there when I was a little kid, introduced by his might mouse on snl, and I loved him. I remember parents didn't like him. But all us kids in the lare 70s early 80s,...we all loved him. There's no one who ever took his place. He was %100 pure heart.
He was so ahead of the time, we didn't even catch up yet.
Spike Milligan was doing this off the wall stuff back in the 50's
And Burt Lahr was doing it in the 40s.
Oh my god. Bob Zmuda wearing the same shirt as he wears in Andy's Improv show. He must love that thiing.
He's so good you forget that he's acting the whole way.
I love this brilliant performing gift...and such a brutal and lovely mirroring the TV culture.
Andy Kaufman was a good kid at heart who wished instead he was Tony Clifton.
genius... it took me a really long time to get his character... it's haunting... almost, post apocalyptic.. mind=blown
How could they skip all of this in “Man on the Moon”? Not even a clip montage like they did with Taxi?
The movie was trash unfortunately
Apparently they changed a lot of things. I read that Andy's father wasn't very happy with the film.
the opening scene in man on the moon is jim carrey doing the bit on the intro of this special. "this movie ends here... now that everyone's gone i would like to show you my special"
@@tomaspalmariello7911 yeah... it's a fraction of it. I just think it's sad that all we got to represent it was that and the Howdy doody part as audio. also the broken tv gimmick.
He brought so much to the table i think most people were overwhelmed by his intellect those of us that got him are better people because of that
Oh yeah, you-the select few that got him.
When Andy was born they broke the mold because Andy was one of the most original Comics ever. Surreal, yet hilarious.
This was awesome!
Andy was a bloody genius.So influential and so original.Much missed.xx
Very Dorky humour......and his studio audience is only about a dozen.....
You'd have to be really high on medication to laugh- maybe(?)
He was the biggest mind-f#%k ever 😆
This guy is what all the modern comedians try to be but can never match his genius
Kate McKinnon, Sacha Baron Cohen all just Andy rip offs
Most overrated comedian ever.
I actually lost it at 40:52
merm m why what did u loose?
Me too 😂
Thanks for sharing. Despite the included FBI and Interpol warnings advising you not to.
... Should probably get going on that Kickstarter campaign.
They don't mean shiite
20:00 She was In Finland too :) its my homeland. In -79 i was nine years old. Frisco with out hills :)
This is so radical!
Just so interesting to know that Cindy Williams worked with Andy Kaufman and Robin Williams.
Wow how have times have changed…
An enigma wrapped inside of an enigma, wrapped inside of an enigma, wrapped inside of an enigma, wrapped inside of an enigma, wrapped inside of an enigma,
wrapped inside an enigma,wrapped inside an enigma,wrapped inside an enigma, wrapped inside an enigma,wrapped inside an enigma,
...wrapped inside a wrapping of an enigma !!???
This was soo racist!
I can’t help but think you are missing something.
I am in tears from laughter. This is so timeless.
Did anyone else's computer completely shut down at the 31 minute mark??? How did he do that???
He is addictive.
The bit where the picture goes funny (the vertical hold gets messed with) is at 36:56, not during the Howdy Doody segment like the film Man on the Moon shows.
They've managed to insert "Between Two Ferns" there, but with Kaufman.
His version of 'Treat Me Nice' is still probably the best version I've heard IMO.
I have remastered the audio & video of this special & cut it with love to fit modern devices ruclips.net/p/PLxTIDernmMHsUsQXpwjUjg0TJqUcNRNmT
Andy's interview with Cindy reminds me of alot of conversations and relationships Ive had with women down through the years hahaha
The network exec who passed on this should feel like the guy who refused The Beatles. AK's estate should sell this on BluRay or something.
@issy_b_onair Agreed!
OG. Precursor to Zach's between 2 ferns, tom green, trigger happy TV, Eric Andre, jackass, etc. He is the Atari to today's PS5, sometimes it's nice to play asteroids, but if you didn't grow up with it, it may seem remedial.
Was that him actually singing Elvis song❓
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He made a Satire on Comedy like noone did before. Jim Carrey portrayed him in "Man on the Moon"
He did a bad job though :(
MACK THE KNIFE FINALLY GOT BUTCHERED HIMSELF
Absolutely awesome! Thank you so much for posting it.
The more I watch Andy the more I realize the comic genius he was. I think it will take decades for the general populace to catch up with what he was. Andy was a master at the awkward moment and the pregnant pause. And, Cindy Williams killed in this show!
I love the salmon colored blazer
I love when he does Treat.Me Nice, one of my favourite songs and I used to perform it
He’s a better Elvis than Elvis. 😄
Heck, I wonder if Norman Lear realized he was going to do a special at his regular workplace at Metromedia Square.
taped July 15, 1977 aired August 28, 1979
I paused it at 46:42-
Unbelievable how much he looks like Elvis from the side!
I was in awe!
Andy Kaufman was a brilliant and funny man, but oh Lordy, I find him so attractive!
There's another video of Andy Kaufman on YT that I love.
He's on the Carson show and wearing a tight black outfit with a cool looking black jacket and he's singing an Elvis song.
Not sure of the title of the song, but Nicolas Cage sang the same song in the movie Wild At Heart.
Also, Andy's black jacket reminded me of Nicolas Cage's Snakeskin Jacket in Wild At Heart (the back of the jacket).
Anyway, Andy Kaufman has a beautiful singing voice and so does Nicolas Cage.
Andy sort of looks like Nicolas.
They're both gorgeous and good-looking!!
He was a grown up kid I wonder what his childhood was like❤️
Simply
I like him
God rest his soul
Cindy Williams is as delightful as you would think
I don't know this guy, but suddenly Tim and Eric make a lot more sense.
What a shame that ABC didn't air this when it was made. Brilliant absurdist theater!
When you think it's all a act , you wonder if it's all real. Love the howdy d part.
Jim Carey did a very good job at playing this guy
I don’t get it. A talented man but not funny
he got those grown people to make animal sounds and THEY WENT ALONG WITH it ;)))))
Astrological insights: AK, Jim C, Elvis: all Capricorns---key words: Ambition & Achievement! [also Jimmy Page, Howard Stern, Bowie, Limbaugh, Van Dyke Parks! Yow...sumpthin there it seems...thanks Dane Rudhyar.
Is it safe to say Eric Andre knows who Andy Kaufman is? Hahahahahahaha
Cindy Williams = super cute
Holy crap, I just realized how much she looks like Zooey Deschanel! Or vice-versa.
I just wish she'd worn see-thru negligee here.
My childhood crush. Still love her.
Worst "comedian" ever. Andy Kaufman was a pitiful excuse for an artist. Banal, uninspired and childish. He only found success because the 70s were so drugged out they mistook drivel for talent.
The more Andy material that I find the more that I doubt his death. This guy was playing the audiences, playing tv, playing pop culture, playing everybody.
Thank you for posting this.
It feels like watching Rafael Nadal doing stand up
He’s amusing in places but I can’t he,p but think it was a bit of an emperors new clothes type thing in some ways - I mean the audience maniacally laugh at every turn whe a lot of it is more mildly amusing - he’s obviously got a talent as a kind of surrealist comic but I think a ,out of people quite reasonably don’t totally buy into it
He’s got the Nicholas cage eyes.
This guy is funny. Shame it looks like he is stealing material from Gringo Papi special. I don't believe they have a cheaper background than the cutout in the Gringo Papi special. But this Kaufman guy has potential. Maybe if he watches the You'll Be Surprised special a few time he can get some inspiration to do something original
The greatest, Andy Kaufman (a German name-Kaufmann- meaning businessman) who got the job done of being funny without all the filth and profanity... A truly fascinating character.
I think he took profanity to a whole other level !!!
i didnt know that about his name translation, thank you :)
Just racist
Fabulous. And what's cool is to watch the Carnegie Hall performance of Elvis, then watch this one. Shows how he tweaked it.
It’s a small world after all. 🌍