The Andy Kaufman special

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  • Опубликовано: 24 янв 2025

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  • @Nomah1979
    @Nomah1979 4 года назад +83

    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

    • @HAM-TV
      @HAM-TV Год назад +2

      Riiiiiight, diiiieed.

    • @mattolive-h6e
      @mattolive-h6e Год назад

      what you dont believe he died i would like to know finally.@@HAM-TV

    • @GauravSingh-h4i
      @GauravSingh-h4i 4 месяца назад

      Absolutely brother 😢

  • @wysiwygdies
    @wysiwygdies 11 месяцев назад +43

    the show makes you feel like a kid again. kaufman was a gift to the world.

    • @grizzkid795
      @grizzkid795 9 месяцев назад +2

      It makes me feel like I'm on acid.

  • @paulmor2023
    @paulmor2023 3 года назад +26

    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!

  • @Halfshanks
    @Halfshanks 7 лет назад +201

    Damn you either get this guy or you don't, but if you do it's one hell of a ride

    • @aprilthomas1489
      @aprilthomas1489 6 лет назад +20

      This strikes me as the best thing to say to people that say he is not funny.

    • @hartburg356
      @hartburg356 6 лет назад +7

      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

    • @johnj2716
      @johnj2716 5 лет назад +2

      He was incredible, he doesnt want you to simply hear the jokes lol.

    • @glpm7180
      @glpm7180 4 года назад +1

      Perfect!

    • @paulmor2023
      @paulmor2023 3 года назад +4

      From the start, I always thought he was hilarious! I love unique people who dare to be different than anyone else!

  • @go-en_music
    @go-en_music Год назад +22

    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.

    • @Thymamai
      @Thymamai 6 месяцев назад +2

      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

    • @der-ScheF
      @der-ScheF 3 месяца назад

      ​@@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.

    • @August-dq1cj
      @August-dq1cj 20 дней назад

      Andy Kaufman’s the type of guy to have faked his death the whole time just for him to appear on the Eric ended show

  • @zovalentine7305
    @zovalentine7305 Год назад +27

    Rest in peace 🙏
    Andy Kaufman
    17 January 1949 ~
    16 May 1984⚘

    • @tipseyjesus8853
      @tipseyjesus8853 10 месяцев назад +2

      allegedly

    • @vivelajonny
      @vivelajonny 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@tipseyjesus8853 What do you mean?

    • @tipseyjesus8853
      @tipseyjesus8853 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@vivelajonnywatch man on the moon

    • @August-dq1cj
      @August-dq1cj 20 дней назад

      He died on my birthday. Thats sad

  • @regplasma7906
    @regplasma7906 Год назад +10

    Andy was a bloody genius.So influential and so original.Much missed.xx

  • @adamcunningham2511
    @adamcunningham2511 3 года назад +76

    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

    • @andreys7729
      @andreys7729 10 месяцев назад +5

      As if Monty Python didn't do the same at exactly the same time...

    • @somniansvulpes
      @somniansvulpes 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@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

    • @somniansvulpes
      @somniansvulpes 9 месяцев назад

      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

    • @adamcunningham2511
      @adamcunningham2511 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@andreys7729 which monty python sketch is where they do exactly the same ?

    • @rickacton7540
      @rickacton7540 Месяц назад

      i think the real point was to show how Bob was Andy's number 1 guy

  • @JohnnyOrgan
    @JohnnyOrgan 6 месяцев назад +11

    His transformation into Elvis never fails to amaze me. He even looks like him facially at certain angles. It's astonishing.

    • @August-dq1cj
      @August-dq1cj 20 дней назад +1

      What was so amazing about Jim Carrey’s performance in man on the moon is he could contort himself to look like Andy Kaufman doing an impression.

  • @AlanStevenson-Graham
    @AlanStevenson-Graham 6 месяцев назад +3

    I love when he does Treat.Me Nice, one of my favourite songs and I used to perform it

  • @brekedekdang39
    @brekedekdang39 2 года назад +10

    I am in tears from laughter. This is so timeless.

  • @SVRReelMaker
    @SVRReelMaker 7 лет назад +97

    OG Eric Andre Show

    • @WHDRWN
      @WHDRWN 7 лет назад +13

      Eric Andre is to Comedy what Monster Energy is to refreshing beverages.

    • @chandler1312
      @chandler1312 6 лет назад +2

      『W』『H』『0』 『D』『4』『R』『3』『5』 『W』『!』『N』『5』Ф you’re wrong

    • @djjoeray
      @djjoeray 11 дней назад

      and OG Mr Show

  • @paulnadratowski3942
    @paulnadratowski3942 6 лет назад +60

    The Howdy Doody interview was surprisingly touching

    • @Thymamai
      @Thymamai 6 месяцев назад

      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

  • @DIRKCHRISTIAN
    @DIRKCHRISTIAN 5 лет назад +10

    I love this brilliant performing gift...and such a brutal and lovely mirroring the TV culture.

  • @peterwierzbic7218
    @peterwierzbic7218 7 лет назад +33

    For the longest time, people thought his true voice was "the foriegn man."
    I remember him, he was cool.

  • @artokautiainen
    @artokautiainen 2 года назад +4

    20:00 She was In Finland too :) its my homeland. In -79 i was nine years old. Frisco with out hills :)

  • @edwardthetwentyfifth6462
    @edwardthetwentyfifth6462 7 лет назад +26

    I actually liked it. Funny, cute, and even touching at times. Very nice.

  • @jmd26
    @jmd26 5 лет назад +147

    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.

    • @BkZ1AnD0nLy
      @BkZ1AnD0nLy 4 года назад +17

      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.

    • @mommasboy34
      @mommasboy34 4 года назад +14

      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!

    • @kineticentertainment769
      @kineticentertainment769 3 года назад +5

      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.

    • @davidaston5773
      @davidaston5773 3 года назад +11

      @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.

    • @SpeccyHorace
      @SpeccyHorace 2 года назад +5

      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.

  • @channelgong
    @channelgong 6 лет назад +95

    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.

  • @churlskunk
    @churlskunk 6 лет назад +26

    Andy Kaufman was the original troll....and probably one of the best!

  • @pmacc3557
    @pmacc3557 Год назад +13

    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

  • @AngelaStone-js2kr
    @AngelaStone-js2kr 8 месяцев назад +3

    So sad that we lost this fantastic man so soon.

  • @jeyfreeman7045
    @jeyfreeman7045 7 лет назад +100

    Andy Kaufman's version of its a friendly world makes me both happy and sad...

    • @mikeytrains1
      @mikeytrains1 6 лет назад +4

      It makes me just hysterical.

    • @lego4271
      @lego4271 5 лет назад +4

      Your pfp makes your comment 10* funnier

    • @jamieriley155
      @jamieriley155 11 месяцев назад +4

      It was played at his funeral and everyone who was there sang along with him

  • @peterwierzbic7218
    @peterwierzbic7218 7 лет назад +38

    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

  • @nathanwanner..44
    @nathanwanner..44 10 месяцев назад +16

    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

  • @jooperino
    @jooperino 6 лет назад +107

    The brilliance lies in his guts to even do something like this at the time.

  • @rickmanning5574
    @rickmanning5574 7 лет назад +52

    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

  • @davidaston5773
    @davidaston5773 3 года назад +31

    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.

    • @davidaston5773
      @davidaston5773 Год назад +3

      @@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?

  • @Zeke4140
    @Zeke4140 6 месяцев назад +3

    His "late night" desk is 3 feet higher than the guest, what a genius!😅

  • @richardm6985
    @richardm6985 2 года назад +7

    genius... it took me a really long time to get his character... it's haunting... almost, post apocalyptic.. mind=blown

  • @ianmacdougall8812
    @ianmacdougall8812 6 лет назад +3

    All these years and I had never watched this! Thanks

  • @kavapetsch
    @kavapetsch 6 лет назад +22

    He has an uncanny ability to make me laugh just with his face

  • @AlexO-sx6ff
    @AlexO-sx6ff 7 лет назад +36

    He was so ahead of the time, we didn't even catch up yet.

    • @s1sters118
      @s1sters118 6 лет назад

      Spike Milligan was doing this off the wall stuff back in the 50's

    • @Terribleathletes
      @Terribleathletes Год назад

      And Burt Lahr was doing it in the 40s.

  • @joshjuanfifarek7382
    @joshjuanfifarek7382 2 года назад +31

    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.

  • @samsilence718
    @samsilence718 8 лет назад +20

    This was awesome!

  • @RichardKoenigsberg
    @RichardKoenigsberg 2 года назад +26

    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.

  • @slickrick5735
    @slickrick5735 Месяц назад +1

    Pure Legend

  • @mandas_wild_world
    @mandas_wild_world 8 лет назад +26

    That Luncheonette sketch transition. Wasn't prepared 😂

    • @papabird4425
      @papabird4425 11 месяцев назад

      I wish that happened when I drank coffee

  • @gmann6269
    @gmann6269 Год назад +4

    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.

  • @stinger51505
    @stinger51505 7 лет назад +6

    Absolutely awesome! Thank you so much for posting it.

  • @77news97
    @77news97 Год назад +11

    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!

  • @beverlyheard-warsop6584
    @beverlyheard-warsop6584 2 года назад +6

    Just so interesting to know that Cindy Williams worked with Andy Kaufman and Robin Williams.

  • @Fiveeightsix
    @Fiveeightsix Год назад +2

    Thank you for uploading this, simply wonderful.

  • @jwalkin5123
    @jwalkin5123 7 лет назад +11

    Andy Kaufman was a good kid at heart who wished instead he was Tony Clifton.

  • @stevenhines5550
    @stevenhines5550 Год назад +3

    This guy was completely tapped. Genius giant of comedy and entertainment.

  • @triplucid3563
    @triplucid3563 7 лет назад +8

    Many Thanks for Sharing...Sharing is caring ^_^

  • @Jacksonrr123
    @Jacksonrr123 8 лет назад +117

    This man was a genius...

    • @CornDogDG
      @CornDogDG 7 лет назад +10

      agreed.. he saw people being controlled before the internet was invented

    • @Orf
      @Orf 7 лет назад +1

      what do you mean?

  • @thetrustybutterknifean80sa19
    @thetrustybutterknifean80sa19 8 лет назад +17

    This is so radical!

  • @OhioGirl-bu2kv
    @OhioGirl-bu2kv 5 лет назад +3

    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!!

  • @tiffannycato5856
    @tiffannycato5856 3 года назад +6

    I love the salmon colored blazer

  • @nathanwanner..44
    @nathanwanner..44 10 месяцев назад +1

    Andy is a heck of a mind trip i miss this guy

  • @scrpld7111
    @scrpld7111 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for uploading this. Andy is always entertaining.

  • @michaelunis8808
    @michaelunis8808 10 месяцев назад

    Excellent show

  • @angelvenkov8782
    @angelvenkov8782 8 лет назад +32

    Cindy is so pretty here

    • @jeffbaker7209
      @jeffbaker7209 2 месяца назад +2

      And so funny! She plays along really well 😅

  • @lclemente2230
    @lclemente2230 6 лет назад +75

    "do you have any hobbies?"
    "no"
    "do you have any diseases?"

    • @wysiwygdies
      @wysiwygdies 11 месяцев назад +2

      yes. aggressive lung cancer.

    • @Mogwai-z9f
      @Mogwai-z9f 9 месяцев назад

      STD. 😄

  • @voodooshizzle
    @voodooshizzle 7 лет назад +33

    Oh my god. Bob Zmuda wearing the same shirt as he wears in Andy's Improv show. He must love that thiing.

  • @AuntieClimactic
    @AuntieClimactic 7 лет назад +4

    Thank you for posting this.

  • @mitchrawles
    @mitchrawles 7 лет назад +2

    thanks-he was one of the greats

  • @didascalion
    @didascalion 6 лет назад +8

    He is addictive.

  • @lubear260
    @lubear260 Год назад

    one of the best comedy specials ive ever seen

  • @ashash5186
    @ashash5186 5 лет назад +5

    Simply
    I like him
    God rest his soul

  • @1973modi
    @1973modi 6 лет назад +3

    taped July 15, 1977 aired August 28, 1979

  • @shadowthief2888
    @shadowthief2888 6 лет назад +14

    Nobody can be Andy not even Jim Carrey,but then again Andy is anyone he wants to be

    • @lego4271
      @lego4271 5 лет назад

      Jim disrespected Andy with his impersonation imo

    • @michyg.
      @michyg. Год назад +1

      ​@@lego4271 Jim did a great job in that movie and he was FULL of respect for Andy. He loved Andy. He truly did.

  • @Soundeagle3456
    @Soundeagle3456 4 года назад +12

    He's so good you forget that he's acting the whole way.

  • @BrandonRob206
    @BrandonRob206 6 лет назад +3

    What an Icon!

  • @goodiesguy
    @goodiesguy 7 лет назад +7

    His version of 'Treat Me Nice' is still probably the best version I've heard IMO.

  • @TheZealousNobleman
    @TheZealousNobleman Год назад

    This is so ahead of it time. 😅 good viewing; Great Job!

  • @M153r3r3
    @M153r3r3 11 месяцев назад

    I love this. Such an enigma.

  • @tracezachdaniels4264
    @tracezachdaniels4264 Год назад

    GREAT JOB ALL...THANX 4 MAKING Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO the music worldwide.
    LOVE YOU ALL...!!!....MUCH LOVE.!!

  • @halaassi4431
    @halaassi4431 5 лет назад +4

    He was a grown up kid I wonder what his childhood was like❤️

  • @Hister303
    @Hister303 7 лет назад +3

    the best thing ive ever seen

    • @-Twotonepony-
      @-Twotonepony- 6 лет назад +1

      Plastic Tree
      Please watch more things. There's funny bits in this. But it shouldn't top anyone's list of best things they've ever seen.

  • @robertsiebenrock3997
    @robertsiebenrock3997 Год назад +1

    There's only one like him. He's the greatest , no one can come close to entertaing like him.

  • @Forschreiter
    @Forschreiter Месяц назад

    thx for upload

  • @rebeccafriel6455
    @rebeccafriel6455 10 месяцев назад +2

    RIP Andy ❤

  • @velvetraptor8540
    @velvetraptor8540 7 лет назад +2

    Fabulous. And what's cool is to watch the Carnegie Hall performance of Elvis, then watch this one. Shows how he tweaked it.

  • @tequiness061
    @tequiness061 6 лет назад +2

    He was the master of performances.

  • @Robbie28202
    @Robbie28202 Год назад

    Amazing

  • @veritasetlibertas7889
    @veritasetlibertas7889 3 года назад +2

    He was insane!

  • @yungjoemighty879
    @yungjoemighty879 6 лет назад +3

    so pure

  • @theendarkenedilluminatus4342
    @theendarkenedilluminatus4342 Год назад

    WOW. Amazing!

  • @ColbyRichardson-MediaArtist
    @ColbyRichardson-MediaArtist 11 месяцев назад

    thank you

  • @lamort85
    @lamort85 9 месяцев назад

    this geniuosity is far beyond our square perceptions, trends, machinery...

  • @Vanpotheosis
    @Vanpotheosis 6 лет назад +7

    Thanks for sharing. Despite the included FBI and Interpol warnings advising you not to.
    ... Should probably get going on that Kickstarter campaign.

  • @harleygordon7846
    @harleygordon7846 6 лет назад +18

    When Andy was born they broke the mold because Andy was one of the most original Comics ever. Surreal, yet hilarious.

  • @jerrydavidlarryseinfeld
    @jerrydavidlarryseinfeld 3 месяца назад

    love you andy if youre out there

  • @keithpennington8259
    @keithpennington8259 2 года назад +3

    Cindy Williams is as delightful as you would think

  • @Shshshshshhshhs
    @Shshshshshhshhs 8 месяцев назад

    watching this while stoned is amazing

  • @chrisherzig4148
    @chrisherzig4148 11 месяцев назад

    Thankyou god for this man

  • @gawhownd
    @gawhownd 6 лет назад +2

    I can't work out why this is so funny, but it just is.

  • @walesdad
    @walesdad 6 лет назад +1

    Brilliant.

  • @davidlow862
    @davidlow862 3 года назад

    thank you so much :)

  • @CharlotteD-sh1co
    @CharlotteD-sh1co 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you very much Andy ❤😊😂

  • @jlaf8000
    @jlaf8000 10 месяцев назад +1

    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.

  • @alexdelarge7971
    @alexdelarge7971 7 лет назад +2

    Pure quality

  • @JohannesNeuhuber
    @JohannesNeuhuber 10 месяцев назад

    LOVE FROM AUSTRIA

  • @jnadle1
    @jnadle1 6 лет назад +3

    Heck, I wonder if Norman Lear realized he was going to do a special at his regular workplace at Metromedia Square.

  • @patricio1841
    @patricio1841 5 лет назад +1

    ANDY... YOU ALWAYS BE GREAT.

  • @Maharani1991
    @Maharani1991 6 лет назад

    Thanks for the upload :)

  • @andyjwild5219
    @andyjwild5219 Год назад +3

    Did anyone else's computer completely shut down at the 31 minute mark??? How did he do that???

  • @der-ScheF
    @der-ScheF 3 месяца назад

    Ich kenne ihn nur durch den Film und er war mir komplett unbekannt.
    Aber das ist echt heftig, dass ich selbst bei vielen deutschen Komikern schon nach diesem einen Video extrem viele Parallelen entdecke.
    Dieser Typ hat metaebenen verwendet, bevor es dafür ein Wort gab.
    Der war seiner Zeit wirklich voraus und jetzt ist der Film für mich noch verwirrender, aber irgendwie auch verständlicher