"Tank you very much" as he always said in that accent on 'Taxi'

So all it takes to be a Dadaist comedy genius is to not be funny at all? Turns out the office "funny-guy" has been doing Dadaist genius comedy at the watercooler for the past 20 years.

You love Art but you forgot Carl Barks working for $12.50 a page instead of 12500. That could have been an episode in Art.

Hope these poor people disnt have to pay for this rubbish

Goes on a bit, doesn't it?

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06:27 Fucking brillant

A true god of comedy. Nobody else since Jim Carey remotely compares. Modern culture is dead, dead as dead...

No wonder Jim played Andy. You can definitely tell Andy was a HUGE influence on him.

Yes driver bump this shit

Tom Green tries this in NYC, he probably gets hospitalized, but on the streets of Kingston, Ontario everyone politely plays along with the loon holding a microphone..

Andy was several decades ahead of his time…some of the shit he does and says, pay attention…

Andy gave Sports Illustrated ideas that they made tens, maybe hundreds of millions off of… Then he starts talking about ‘The Furries’… wow… you sure this wasn’t like 2017? 1977?

1:36 my favorite part

I never found Andy to be funny or genius of any kind. He seemed to be misguided to thinking that he was funny. Actually he was boring as hell. Specially in taxi.

MAD GENIUS!!!

Genuine question: was there anyone back then who "got" him the way we mostly seem to these days?

I check hats in a Synagogue LOL

A young Tony Clifton before he became old and jaded.?? pure gold!

This is what it looks like to not have a shy bone in your body 😂

You can hear the handful of people who get it and everyone else is an unaware participant in the joke.

pure genious

Andy makes any comedian today look like a photocopier

Kaufman was/is overrated

I had a friend who copied Kaufman but in angry mode. He was u iversally hated. He lost friends made enemies and pretth much got hollowed out. Yet he persisted because he wasa middle class rich kid. He lost so much inertia into performance that he bombed for most of his adult acting career. He never made in anything. But i knew his reasoning and was basically devasted for him. He on the other hand went on spending his parents money and growing fatter.

I want to say if it's not exactly wrong, this is the era with him and Steve Martin- kind of seems like they fed off each somewhat. Steve with his banjo, was more accessible Andy equally killing on th congas not AS accessible, but if you watch closely, you'll end up on another comical level - hyper cosmic psycho comic level, where we all want to get ha ha

4:08 frfr

No one booed,dumber people..and then its mimmicary... racist balls

Somebody wrote that maybe an actor would have been better, he said: 🔸 " I find that the secondary interpretation can be wonderful at times because a good writer isn't always a good orator." 🔸 I was thinking the same time as I listened to this. Or maybe it's just dated? Like repressed 50s angst and teenage angst set free at last ❗⁉️❗ A beautiful moment come by. ❓ Yet I'm biased, I can't seem to get that bitter taste out of my mouth knowing that the racist San Francisco right-wing talk show host Michael Savage was once an enamored fanboy of Ginsburg, & used to run around naked with him, sending him barely-veiled quasi pornographic love notes. Yet seemingly Ginsburg did not return the affection and thought of Savage (Michael Alan Weiner) as a twit and mere wanna-bee hanger on. I sometimes wonder if that's what turned Weiner so violently anti-hippy.

My take on Kaufman: I never saw any 'genius'. I never thought anything he did was funny or entertaining or talented. I just saw him as an asshole.

14:58 -- Followed by the traditional pushing of faces, representing the honor gawking received well in hand.

Things seen, 6 years prior

I didn't get Andy Kaufman but a thought his tony Clifton character was genius! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I never honestly understood why everyone thought Andy Kaufman was so funny?🤔

it probably worked back then

Andy Kaufman is perhaps the greatest actor of all time. He could portray a paranoid schizophrenia and the next portray an a**hole that has total control of the mood.

He used to be my favorite writer until I found out he wanted to have sex with his nephew, a child, and he was a founding member of NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) Disgusting. I'll never read his work again.

My take on this person was and is, that you could call it dadaist or whatever, to rationalize it's utter lack of content or humor, and it was witless nonsense and a con from a very untalented exhibitionist looking for a payday. He was like a person, onstage, who's never played some musical instrument before, now asked to peform on it, and spewing random screeches and squawks, hoping someone will call it "art." In his case, someone called it "Dadaist", so this Yoko Ono got his 15 minutes in the sun. Sometimes people just wondering what the hell you're about is enough to get checks generated.

Bob zamuda was his real life collaborator in all his acts.

He came back to Reed in, I think, 1984, and read several of his poems, and jammed with a student band named Gregor Samsa (probably not the one officially formed in 2000? I dunno). He wore a tweed suit, white button-down shirt, and a gold lame tie.

fkn brilliant. the dude was off his rocker and most entertaining

He's a genius because he intentionally does was 99% of wannabe comedians unintentionally do; suck.

I Challenge anyone to keep up with this! Norm McDonald is his equal but different format!

Annoying

Am I the only one who finds this kinda sad for some reason... Imagine having everyone always laughing at you, Even when you are being sincere, they wouldn't kniw that and always think it is just part of the act. It's like the boy who always cries wolf. Must be a rather lonely and sad life not having anyone in it who ever knows if or when you are really being you, or not?

*A misunderstood man for sure. Although about as Dada as a slug*

This guy was incredibly ahead of his time.

Absolutely shite

To intentionally bomb.. wow. Why do I see this as so brilliant?

Childish mediocre stuff. Which explains why he became a celebrity.