Well, we haven't offed ourselves, now have we. The pain came through.

Probably because he never really had to live in the real world, he was in show business his whole life. But he was so different that he created a career that was made out of thin air and created a character that was so unique and really an entertainer that was not truly appreciated until after he died.

@@A-FrameWedge I think he was appreciated during his time. Afterall, he was called the king of late night.

@@duradim1 He might of been appreciated, but his fame and the recognition of his talent wasn’t fully realized until after his death.

he didn't really spend his whole life in show business, his dad sold fake jewlery, come on@@A-FrameWedge

@adamesanti6713 doing a binge myself the couple of days and slowly warming and laughing he's funny strangely

Me too! I do it every yr around his b-day & then again in May. He was definitely 1 of a kind & gone way too soon.

@@Joe-hs7nd Yeah he never considered himself a comic, but you don't have to tell jokes to be funny.

I've been hiking on the Kaufman ridge for a fortnight and am so relieved to have reached the peak of mount Carson, will be spending the night here before moving on

same

It's hard to get a sense of the "real" Andy Kaufman. If you're interested, there are a handful of videos you can search for with Jerry Lawler and he talks about the time he and Andy was doing the women's wrestling thing, and how all of it was planned from the beginning and was performance. He also reveals what it was like actually working with Andy and what he was like when not performing.

@@gustafsone I've seen that interview, it's a good one. Andy was a complicated man in many ways but at the end of the day he just loved to make himself laugh most of all. Sometimes we are the punchline and those are some of the best jokes.

The dude commits 1000% to EVERYTHING

@@pmbbmp Exactly, that's just how Andy was.

Lol..WTF

Performance artist not comedian.

@@alweinhofer5453 He was so subtle most people dont realize he was acting. True genius

People calling this guy genius....... Give it up. Performance artists are weird. BY DESIGN, they have to be weird or there is no emotional impact. Doesn't make it enjoyable. And it certainly doesn't make it genius.

This wasn't a joke for Andy. It's pretty obvious that he was a very loyal Elvis fan.

Right on, that was SO sweet, and his drumming act was AMAZING!!!!!!! P.S.-Elvis said that NOBODY captured him better than Andy...SIMPLY THE BEST!!!!!

Shopmyst, did you consider sharing a little more so we can see what he was like in real life??!! What did he talk about to you? What did he talk about to his friends?

That's amazing. I would love to hear more.. what's your take on Jim and Andy reverse?

Jim Carrey played him so well in Man on the Moon. Great film, I saw it for the 1st time about a month ago.

i disagree, it's all feeling

It took so much BALLS to do that Schick. He could be living in Lithiuanka sipping a cocktail Knowing hen to walk off the stage is the height of genius

he passed away@@fladave99

@Bebtelovimab elaborate

Yeah, i love that one!

It's the constant being in character is odd and peculiar and tiresome.

Hi there, Dr.Dynamite here. I wouldn't sat it's too tiresome. It doesn't really effect me personally. If it began to be tiresome, I would simply divert my attention elsewhere.

Wait a sec… He drove a TAXI?! How cool! Definitely great that you can say you went to school with him. 😁

, huh?? He stepped out of character in the interview. Oh wait, I'll explain...this is not Jim Carrey.

@@JimmyBarnesTPA damn it. I thought it was jim Carrey. Damn, he's good.

She has no idea at the time that she was being had by the greatest troll that ever walked the face of the earth.

The way you state the obvious is just like Andy! I can tell you're a real fan!

He was Elvis’s favorite Elvis impersonator because he had fun with it.

No kidding , like I've never watched an Elvis concert before lol

This is actually important for those unaware.

I believe they each was the others favorite.

One of a kind for sure...but really, imo, he really wasn't THAT funny unless he was portraying the foreign man. That's all he had going for him..to me anyway. I never laughed at anything else he brought to the table. Yeah, I get it with the performance art aspect of it but it still needed to be amusing in some way, ya know?

I hate to break it to you, but this is 46 years old

@@ldbjr Yeah, I'm in denial about that, apparently. Changed!

1000%

His conga playing is also really good (13:52)

@@pmbbmp You calm down. You have obviously never been a professional musician and are laughably uninformed. Doc Severnson had to approve all musical guests in advance. You apparently think that you have more expertise than he did, LOL.

@@pmbbmp "calm down"????? Get over yourself.

@@pmbbmp Jeff Conway didn't like him at all and actually punched him. The others were upset because Andy wasn't required to be at rehearsals as they were yet he showed up, and not did he know his own lines but also knew everyone else's lines. That fact, and the way Andy was able to get his arch nemesis Tony Clifton on the show, really teed them.

@@treywest268 I don't think they hated him as much as we were led to believe. I mean why would they all agree to be in a movie based on his life (w/ the exception of Tony Danza who was in a play at the time & couldn't do it) if that were true? I just read this today on Wikipedia (you can find the interview here on YT by searching for WTF with Marc Maron - Sam Simon Interview). "Sam Simon, who early in his career was a writer and later showrunner for Taxi, stated in a 2013 interview on Marc Maron's WTF podcast that the story of Kaufman having been generally disruptive on the show was "a complete fiction" largely created by Zmuda. Simon maintained that Zmuda has a vested interest in promoting an out-of-control image of Kaufman. In the interview Simon stated that Kaufman was "completely professional" and that he "told you Tony Clifton was him", but he also conceded that Kaufman would have "loved" Zmuda's version of events."

He was cute too, ya know- Like a Mama's boy

@@ashleelarsen5002 girls these days don’t go for that, they prefer tough guys who have tattoos on their face and drives a roaring loud $5000 shitbox for a car lol

@@mclaren720 they don't take those boys seriously, sweety, girls like nice and comfortable- unless you are shopping for girlfriends at the strip club, or she was neglected by her daddy- but you don't want that, HEP C is forever (currently) Mahalo 🤙🏻

he is dead btw

It’s probably the one show where he couldn’t pull off any Hijinx, like he did on Letterman….others. Johnny would go along with a good joke but he’s not going to be made to look like a fool.

​@@pmbbmpNo, he's really dead.

The dad getting mad part was part of the enjoyment of the memory. Different culture.

That's awesome

It wasn't that hard to comprehend , if you were of a certain mind.

@@loupasternak sorry we aren’t all self proclaimed genius’ champ. Oh how hard it must be looking down on us less fortunate. Us poor peons are not worthy of the magnificent light that shines so brightly from your arse!

@@nicfisher8266 tasty?

Nah, even "sincere real, fragile Andy" was a role he played, he toyed with everyone and that's what was funny to him.

U would never know cuz he’s such a mixed bag of tricks

Much like Elvis, in fact.

I remember that

@@texasgina Yeah. He was pulling off all kinds of practical jokes. Even on his friends and family! I can appreciate that. 😁 Within reason of course. He was a funny, crazy man!

@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn learn about ppl thinking his death was a hoax?

@@joebiggs4387 yeah you made the statement like it was breaking news. You sound ridiculous tbh

Incredible performance!!!!!!!

I can see the similarities between Andy Kaufmann's act here and Jim Carrey's debut on the Carson show.

@@fyiaustralia9686 YEAH! That’s right, I had forgotten! Carrey did Elvis on his first appearance, if I’m not mistaken. 🤙🏼

also an influence on Sacha Baron Cohen.....

@@fyiaustralia9686 No, Jim Carrey's biggest inspiration was Jerry Lewis!!

I don't remember him playing Him in a movie.

And less than 7 years after this Andy himself was gone.

@@AFMMarcelD Rest in Peace.

Yes, I was expecting the AMAZING," Love Me" performance, but that was in March, I noticed that the date looked like it was from August or April, but it is August, so, I SURE hope that Elvis saw this, I'm SURE that he did!!!!!!!!

And that's what probably killed him.

@@elvicare35 It has been told that Andy was Elvis's favorite impersonator.

Who didn't have a crush on Marilu?

HUGE balls! Yes!

Everything these days is "underrated." Who is actually doing it if everyone is using that word?

genius

Check him out on the show Taxi. That's where I 1st saw him. Been in love w/ him ever since I was 14 & I'm nearly 44 now.

Long Island, like Howard Stern, and they Both had the same dad, at least in their movies

Elvis actually said that they one of his performance, back in the early days on the Ed Sullivan show

Yup. There's a movie of the same name that starred Jim Carrey as Andy. If you haven't seen it, definitely check it out! It's uncanny how Jim was able to channel Andy's spirit!

It was Jerry Lawler who did. They had plains of them doing something else, but Andy & Jerry did their own thing on the fly. It was also the first fight on a talk show.

… in the islands of the Caspian Sea, drumming ballads of harvestime tragedy.