Thought this guy was just plain stupid when I was younger. Now at 57 I realize he's a comedy genius. His stuff with Lawler, and wrestling women, and stuff like this on lettermen puts him in a different league with most comedians. He was special.

@ssskillzzz3513

4 ай бұрын

He was really sick at this point, it wasn't a joke. He later died to what caused his persistent coughs.

@ihavec-ptsd

4 ай бұрын

Yes totally!

@francoishuard8396

4 ай бұрын

This is humour of dignity or dignity of humour. Priceless genius

@eatpoop696969

4 ай бұрын

@@ssskillzzz3513 this was several years before he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he was not sick in this clip, it was absolutely a joke

@ssskillzzz3513

4 ай бұрын

@@eatpoop696969 I am his nephew

Andy Kaufman was fearless. Even today there aren't many who would dare to push the boundaries like Andy.

@sbFreakinxRican

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Andre perhaps but kaufman definitely inspired him

@nahtesalinas1917

5 жыл бұрын

I love the build-up to the "punch-line" what a payoff. What timing and skills. What a genius who was stolen from the world too soon. 😞😞😞

@UpstairsPancake

5 жыл бұрын

@@sbFreakinxRican Tom Green was the inspiration for Eric Andre.

@terracetalk7741

4 жыл бұрын

So inspiring.

I love that this was on in the morning.

@7beers

2 жыл бұрын

I love that you love that.

Andy was the original troll,he was so ahead of his time with his comedy that not many people understood it at the time,absolute genius.

@francoishuard8396

4 ай бұрын

That s the Word absolute..quest

I wanted to make a troll comment before remembering Andy is the greatest troll of all time.

I can imagine early morning viewers not getting this at all, Dave belonged to the night audience where viewers were younger and edgier.

A comedian asking the audience not to laugh- and then they get deadly silent. Pretty brilliant, in its way.

@dollydagger4306

4 жыл бұрын

I don't consider him a comedian. He's kind of like Lenny Bruce, but not really. He's more of a performance artist---doing things to get a reaction, positive and negative. One other "comedian,"--and I use the term lightly--that's like Kaufman, is Eric Andre. He does things to get a reaction/response, from what I've seen is usually negative...

@maxborisenko8272

3 жыл бұрын

@@dollydagger4306 andre is not even close in terms of talent idsay

@cajonbru

Жыл бұрын

@@dollydagger4306 Andre came after Tim and Eric

@TheSingularitarian

Ай бұрын

Exactly. At that time, comedy was TV variety shows and lounge comics like Jay Leno. "You know these guys? Lemme tell you about these guys!" Kaufman was the avant garde.

This guy was well before my time and he is a hilarious man

Andy was the OG troll before the internet...breaking the 4th wall before Reality TV existed. Even if you found him "not funny," you must admit he was ahead of his time in many ways. Not to mention an absolute master of staying in character when any mere mortal would've busted up laughing.

@slugcult-10_years_and

3 жыл бұрын

Not only the fourth wall. He dreamt up walls that nobody else could see or even knew about. And then break them all. I'll always remember during one of his appearances doing stand up, he went up onstage and did his laundry. He had a machine with him. Who the hell does that? And not only get away with it, but to get actual roaring laughter. Way ahead of his time.

Andy's reaction to getting cut off by Dave was great.

@Blorcus

5 жыл бұрын

I felt bad

@ngc6603

5 жыл бұрын

@@Blorcus It's planned, don't you know Kaufman? That news report DID happen though www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/13/A-powerful-explosion-blew-out-part-of-a-daycare/9663340257600/

@sb-di3of

2 жыл бұрын

😦

@joeytrimble1558

2 жыл бұрын

it's funny he was doing this way back then ..it was a running gag between matt daemon and jimmy kimmel

10:40 Andy almost breaks lol

That look he gives Letterman after wiping his face was classic

Andy had such a cute, handsome baby face. He had beautiful eyes. If you just sit and watch his facial expressions, he says so much without saying a word. That cough though makes me feel sad.

A fearless, great performer. He was Mr. Expect Anything.

PURE GENIUS!!!!! Does Anyone See This???... First off, he tells the Audience Not to Laugh knowing they won't Be Able to Help it cause it's Fucking Funny!!! And he goes On and On without Breaking... He was The GREATEST!!!!!

@gregdennis5107

3 жыл бұрын

the fact that you knew he was joking, but you were never 100% sure. The guy was on a different plane. Probably an alien or something.

The one & only Andy Kaufman.

I have the strangest urge to suddenly invest in a new pair of pants...

@MammaApa

5 жыл бұрын

How wide?

@BlueMHart

4 жыл бұрын

Same here!

GENIUS

awesome

man those blood sweat & tears concerts are somethin else

i love Andy

God Andy Kaufman... what an amazing -performer- genius. I'm still waiting for Trump to pull his mask off and it's Andy Kaufman. Great uploads you have. Great channel. I had to sub. Thanks.

7 stabbed at a B,S & T concert? this is like twilight zone. i've lived through this news before.-dadaist act aside..what a neat beautiful honest man. no wonder few folks seemed to 'get' him. -Don..thank you

Everything is a bit.... so good

The mental chip that allows us to feel "embarrassed" was missing in Andy. He was just fearless. He mocked women and the South, but he also puts his own head on the chopping block.

The credits of the first episode mention a clip from Ordinary People. Was Mary Tyler Moore the guest? I wouldn't mind seeing that.

@dongiller

5 жыл бұрын

You got it -- kzread.info/dash/bejne/h6mO2qaBqbLMZqw.html

This is fair play for all the years he spent ripping off Tony Clifton!

@MeeEee-ge1zg

5 ай бұрын

Lol

Wow That’s the only time I’ve heard Dave pronounce his name Cough-man not Cowf -man

Brillant🖤

Kaufman amazing as always. He looks sickly in this interview.

Weird genius stuff. One of the more perplexing things I've seen.

His skit on Fridays where he has a "fight" with guy from Seinfeld, classic. I thought that was real for so many years, same with getting slapped by Lawler. No one, and I mean no one commits to a bit like Kaufman.

Genius

i had those shoes in the 80s, we called them Nomads, that was the brand

It was weird when the news said erie pa cuz I live there.lol

@eerievibes6854

4 жыл бұрын

@@theduke3919 Nice! I was just there the other day.lol

8:20 Andy survived lung cancer for 4 years.

Is the guy escorting him actually planned?

@dongiller

3 ай бұрын

Yes.

Coming out with snot running down his nose was hilarious. Playing the dimwit .He died in 84 ,so maybe his looking sick and coughing wasn't fake. He died at age 35.

@dongiller

5 жыл бұрын

Seeing his subsequent Late Night appearances in 1982 and 1983 showed no sign of sickness, yes, it was fake.

@CrashFix

5 жыл бұрын

Joseph T. It’s possible, he died of lung cancer & -> Patients typically present with a non-productive cough and weight loss.

@MsNooneinparticular

4 жыл бұрын

All through 1983 he was carrying Kleenex boxes onstage on various talk shows (Tom Cottle, Letterman). One journalist thinks he knew he was sick as early as April 1983 & was "fasting" to try & beat what he thought was the flu. themorningnews.org/article/wrestling-with-andy-kaufman?fbclid=IwAR3dCzheDLOkrG_sCoAf1uo1pfOEfOs8T2yPc7bmTss7E4K0sxpfHQ87yOc I don't think lung cancer works that way though. I think it was either HIV slowly degrading his immune system, eventually leading to pneumocystis pneumonia & the cough OR a faked death with the weight loss brought about by starvation/fasting. He seemed to know too early that something was awry, so it was either a "bit" he was doing or he was truly growing unwell over time. Because he was such a health nut he wouldn't have neglected his health by ignoring persistent symptoms. There was no HIV test in those days & he wasn't an (out) gay man so nobody would've thought to check for that.

@unsilent_bob420

Жыл бұрын

@@CrashFix The coughing is eerie when you know what was coming. So sad, such a great talent who was years ahead of his time.

Was David pissed when he cut him off? That was strange

@handevore9778

Жыл бұрын

It was planned.....

Is this the news or part of the show🤔

@dongiller

5 жыл бұрын

Both.

"mind fuck" andy kauffman

Seem to remember that the reason Kaufmann was removed from the show was because there was some FCC regulation about blatantly asking for money for yourself on TV. I think it stemmed from Bozo The Clown (or some popular TV clown) going on air a little tipsy and told children that they should go to their parents' wallets and purses and "send the pretty green pieces of paper to ". Then again it was probably all a big prank by Andy & Dave.

das sum goo shi right darez

Wow that was all consuming.

Was his coughing real? beginnings of his lung cancer?

@dongiller

5 жыл бұрын

Not real and no.

@MsNooneinparticular

4 жыл бұрын

Nah. He was just playing a homeless bum. The real coughing began in early '83 (January) on the Tom Cottle show, where he took a box of Kleenexes & again on Letterman in Feb of that year. Lung cancer doesn't take 4 years to kill.

@sofiasaezbugmann9103

4 жыл бұрын

tomaf I believe so! He didn’t look well, he even cough many times on the show. Obviously he was ill, because he started feeling bad. And few years later he died by a lung cancer. That was real.

I dont think many people recognized how ill he must have been at this time, 1983 he was diagnosed with Bronchitus Carcinome ... he was send to doctors 1983 by his Family, mentioning his coughing attacs. He died May 1984..

@dongiller

3 жыл бұрын

1980 is a long ways away from the fall of 1983. He wasn’t at all ill during these two appearances.

So was it ALL an act??

such a bizarre audience

This is SAD

Andy was brilliant. My idol is Ric Flair. I hold two PhDs and I am liberal as fuck, but Flair is my idol. Flair dedicated his life to kayfabe... and you know, Andy was there too.

@rancidcrawfish

Жыл бұрын

Nobody cares about your political views or how many overpriced pieces of paper you have

@michaeltorres5331

11 ай бұрын

Liberals are what's wrong with this country and world hypocrite commie POS 😊

The coughing fits were not fake! They were brought on by the lung cancer that would eventually and his life.

@dongiller

Жыл бұрын

They were fake. His first coughing symptoms occurred three years later.

This was kind of disturbing. People looked at him like a joke. I really think he was being serious and they made it seem like he was joking. He definitely was sincerely in a bad place in life it seems.

@senkl

5 жыл бұрын

You're joking here, right?

@bubba1988john

5 жыл бұрын

Nope. I'm serious.

@senkl

5 жыл бұрын

@@bubba1988john Well don''t worry, than. This was an act he planned earlier with Letterman. Just like Letterman interrupting him on the first appearance. That was Andy's thing the whole time.. You never knew what to expect with his shows, other than something outrageous and ballsy. That's why he's held in such a high regard even today.

@bubba1988john

5 жыл бұрын

Whew ok good at first my heart was broken at how awful he was treated

@Chynna020

5 жыл бұрын

@@bubba1988john wth lol you can't be serious

Just can't believe Smith and Rock stole his staged slap bit.. it's sickening.

I love andy but he always looks like hes about to burst into tears