Thank you very much LOL… Greatest punchline

That he was.

Very well put sir

What a talent!!! He makes me laugh 😂 so much. RIP. 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Even a Mexican can be Elvis

all that running jumping around on stage.

Wow! Didn’t know! Thanks. Happy Elvis got to see Andy’s impersonation.🥰🥰

Yes that's true Andy was his favourite imitator.

Really?? Are you sure he actually said that??

​@@KingKenny. Yea there are many articles

yeah i had to go back and watch that part again lmao

I at reading this comment when he said it.

Well thank you, thank you very much. Uhuhuh.

And all the lines he used came from actual Elvis quotes during performances.

I heard "half of the show baby"

Such a brilliant long-con.

I don’t think anyone needs to be “in on the joke” to appreciate the absurdity and hilarity of it.

CLASSIC indeed!

Legend has it, andy is still making the heavenly crew cry with laughter up in the heavens! RIP kaufman!

It's what makes the bit so genuis.

Yes, this was the "punchline" - pure genius

Totally!

David DiMuzio yes I agree the best Elvis ever

Not even close. A man named Eddie Miles gets that distinction. Just look him up. Eddie is the best impersonator in history

totaly agree, no one can do it better than Andy

Elvis Presley himself said that Andy Kaufman was his favourite Elvis impersonator.

get real. isnt genius. its off the wall and unfunny. people feel like intellectuals if they act like they get it and call it genius, hilarious etc

@@MM-rr1kp 😂 stop crying, comedy is subjective

@@TC8787-yq7og you probly like bob dylan too

@@MM-rr1kp you probably think your opinion carries more weight than anybody else's. I feel sad for you that your first response to somebody enjoying a comedian is to immediately shoot it down, must be a miserable outlook on life.

​@@MM-rr1kpwhat he said ∆

It's a brilliant piece of book-ending, because it makes the Elvis part only a part of the Foreign Man act. Such a long-con, and the perfect killer ending to that act.

Tom Hasting Elvis met a impersonator by his house in Beverly Hills in 1972. Those pics are all over the net. And there where impersonators long before that to. But you meant those who did it on TV maybe?

Oh wow, was this before Taxi?

Tom Hasting Johnny Cash did some impressions.

That was his whole act with the 'foreign man'. Conditioning the audience.. and then suddenly - bam- surprise !

Best comment and what I thought too!!! :)

Not many can truly make me lol, but you did!

Omg, it sounded JUST like him! 😂

LoLoL

😂😂😂

He was the only one Elvis ever complimented on his impression.

Black Death 1347 True, None of the ones now days have any kind of voice. Have never seen them song the slow ballads with the vibrato Andy had.

+Aaron Price as Elvis ? Listen to Ben Portsmouth

+Aaron Price so right after andy imitates elvis he goes back to that voice again. no one does that anymore

@@lv2533 I don't think anyone else ever did that. Andy Kaufman was a genuine original.

@Daniel S this was mid 70s. johnny carson hated elvis impersonators. when jim carrey went on the tonight show and _pantomimed_ elvis, johnny didn't even invite him over to sit down and talk.

You have to truly love someone to do a valid impression. You can’t fake from a place of contempt, it always rings hollow.

I wanna do now in college , should I do!?

What a nice thought! Thank you 🤙

@@amangadpale9284 DO IT!!! 💪

he wasnt cringe

Reading about the sense of humor he had I think he would found his acts funny even without the impersonating

Andy said Elvis was his favourite Andy impersonator

Dude that IS the joke lol. Foreign man is a perfect Elvis impersonator

@Tyrel J. haha

Yes, but those weren't his word's, those were Elvis' words! Elvis only had to turn around and they'd go plain crazy. Elvis knew how to play an audience. He had the talent, the rest were just imitators and this guy is a joke. Freddy Star did a much better impersonation of Elvis than this guy and all those who came later and Elvis said Freddy Star was good.

@@JohnDeCarteretElvis you dont get it!

@@JohnDeCarteretElvis Elvis also said that Andy Kaufman's impersonation was his favorite. No one is ELVIS. I wish he was still around. But Andy did a really great job. Elvis could laugh at himself and surely enjoyed even the comments intended as humor.

After the show, baby.

John De Carteret You totally miss the point man. This was latka doing elvis. Not Andy doing elvis. The joke is … an Eastern European man who speaks broken English with a high pitch voice. That can do a near perfect elvis impression. Singing and talking. It’s all a build up the the punchline. Where he says “thank you very much” as Latka. That is the joke. The very end.

Don't get the genius in his performances . In today's world he would be kicked off the X faxtor or whatever those talent shows are called.

@@SomeOne-ji8ny are you a millennial?

@@SomeOne-ji8ny are you a millennial? Your answer seems to seal it.

@@SomeOne-ji8ny I agree. He's a talented guy... but no genius. Since when is being weird akin to genius?

@@jamess.9361 Andy was such a genius he convinced you he was weird 🤣🤣🤣

+badcoach2000 I saw him from the very beginning and just loved his totally unique and off the wall comedy, and then he did Elvis, and that just totally blew me away!!!!!

I hope your bladder's doing fine.

So he would act like an ass for an hour then be half competant for 15 minutes? Hilarious.

It's an absolutely brilliant premise for a joke, and incredibly ballsy because it requires A) making the audience incredibly uncomfortable while intentionally bombing as "Foreign Man," but not losing them too much, and B) following up those intentionally horrible impressions with an absolutely showstopping impression. In fact, an impression wouldn't have cut it--it had to be a full-on song and dance number from an icon like Elvis, and it had to be played straight and damn near perfectly to work. Look at some of the Elvis impersonators of today--they still don't have it down quite as well as Andy did, and Elvis was still alive at this point!

Dash Nude

I think that's hilarious. Check out the Great Gatsby bit to see just what a genius troll he was.

He does look like him but the Elvis voice is one of those thing nearly everyone can do and people will know who you are imitating and Elvis suit is so iconic you could wear it with a beard and a blond wig and people would still think Elvis

"You remember that? I got news for ya baby I did 29 pictures like that"

Died? When did Elvis die?

seattwa when did Elvis comment on this so called impersonation?

@@Lot_2023 Elvis did not die he just went home

@David Get well, soon. Moron.

@David Smith He was making a joke originally, buddy; from my estimation, likely hinging on the popular theory that Elvis's death was in fact staged and that he went on to live outside of the public eye for a number of years afterward. And then he's just being a jerk because you seemed not to realize that.

we need a 70's comedian? why lol

Well, we sure need his hygiene tips!

@Desiree Hall, or did he?

Goctagon Andy was good but a true Elvis fan would never saw spot on. We have listened to Elvis all our lives and can hear the difference. Andy did a great job though

Both still here and a good thing too👍

MaskedMarvyl False.

Andy Kaufman said that Elvis said that Andy Kaufman was his favorite impersonator.

@@randythompson5154 , True. Research.

He said he loved the impersonation! Not that it was his favorite! But that's only because, people weren't really impersonating him at that time! It wasnt til after he died,that Elvis impersonating became a thing!

and lisa wasn't a fan of any of them

+Nicole Right on!!!!!

Daniel Appleton are u dumb? It's all apart of the act. The first two he made it seem like his impressions were litterally the same voice as his characters voice and than Elvis came to actually do a real impression when they figured it was gonna be the same voice. And than he finishes it with that voice

Gods Child I think Daniel got it. That's why he said it was his way of setting up the audience. I'd let Daniel answer for himself but he died three months ago.

as under appreciated in his own time as Norm Macdonald,.. Andy was the first Troll, his comedy was for him, it didn't matter if you didn't get it, he did, and that was god enough,.. lol. watch his audition for Saturday Night Live if you don't think so :P...

Loved the guy. Genius, or daredevil. Way ahead of his time. I forgot how well he did Elvis. Funny

Glad you liked it. Unfortunately, this classic clip of Andy doing Elvis is woefully diminished by those who post this clip with Andy ONLY doing Elvis and not the entire clip of which precedes the Elvis act that is key to the entire genius of this clip. *Most clips on You Tube of Andy Kaufman doing Elvis Presley to near perfect impersonation, just don't get it.* _They'll only show him doing Elvis._ But in reality, you must watch the entire clip, the full act to really appreciate the genius of his Elvis act. The full act includes two purposefully terrible impersonations that precede the Elvis act. First of which is of Carol O'Connor of "All in the Family" getting into his 'Meathead diatribe' against his son-in-law, Michael, and doing an embarrassingly terrible job of it in his high-pitched accented voice. He then tells the audience his next impersonation would be of Ed McMahon, which he again does in his high-pitched accented embarrassingly terrible approach. So, now Andy has the audience all primed up, expectation nil, not to at all expect anything worth seeing upon announcing his next act to be an impersonation of Elvis. The audience, after watching two wilted impersonations is by now inured to any claim of a genuine, right-on impersonation. He then continues to play with he audience by turning around and donning his Elvis costume. By then he turns around and does a tour-de-force, knocked out of the ballpark of Elvis like no one has ever seen before. The first two impersonations are necessary to see in order to lower any expectations by the audience and thus raise the audience's shock and delight when he does do his Elvis so right-on perfectly. But most clips won't show the drama of the entire clip that makes this the classic it is.

Dog Brindle Thank you very much.

+Michael Safrin Right you are, sir.

Yup

Joe Cap in

Yup. Genius.

He was right on time

He was too smart for his audience many times..

Joe Cap Ahead of his time? He was a moron

Roger Allen what does that even mean?

Oh yes

@Craig O'Neill, seriously? You can't figure out what that means?

It means that no one understood Andy Kaufman because..he didn't want them to.

well then maybe someone in the future will find him funny