Andy Kaufman on HBO (1977) pt. 4 of 4
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- This is the genius Andy Kaufman as Tony Clifton on the 1977 HBO Young Comedians Special. Part 1 here: • Andy Kaufman on HBO (1...
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lonelysandwich....
And they call some of today’s comedians edgy and dangerous. He has that audience in the palm of his hand, right where he wants them, for every second of that. The total puppet master.
Bob Zmuda was a fucking good actor.
7:47 - "If I could make one person happy, it's all been worth it!" - I think this was the real Andy speaking. He could have easily gone mainstream and told "jokes", but instead chose a high risk route. We laugh at this performance in hindsight, but imagine actually being there at the event. He did this for them.
“You want my respect, you’re gonna have to earn it!”😂 he could play the best villain....R.I.P. 🙏❤️
..."Had enough?" LOL
“I check hats at the synagogue.”
if you guys did not know bob was his good buddy and he wrote his lines for him i was all a joke he was a very nice guy
now i understand why they call him a comedy genius
If I died, went to heaven (if it exists), found myself at a restaurant, and George Carlin and Bill Hicks were at my table (definately heaven), I would want Tony Clifton to be our waiter.
"If I could make one person happy..." Mission accomplished Andy.
that was Tony Clifton, not Andy
The one person was him.
A guy like andy almost never comes around he was such a talent we were blessed with the time we had with him
Trancendant performance from a master manipulater. Andy, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the scope and the breadth of your vision...
You can definitely see the pro wrestling influence.
So this could be the bit that inspired the particular Man on the Moon scene. Wow, that was an excellent flip she did there!
+Trilaanus What do you mean the bit that inspired it? That was that scene.
+MWcrazyhorse right!
Totally the fake fight with his real friend gag. Seems a little realer in real life, don't ya think?
Had enough? Hahaha! Priceless
Yeah this is my favorite Kaufman performance. It sucks that it's so incredibly rare but I am extremely fucking happy someone uploaded it.
Thank you rejectedburrito
Why do people say this is hard to understand... This is hilarious!
He allowed himself to be the fool. He planned it! And it was funny as hell.
Andy Kaufman: where insanity meets genius. I'd like to see a panel of psychologists try to explain what made this guy tick. It would be a fools errand.
watching this mad man fuck with people with surgical precision might have been the greatest thing I've ever seen. I had to spend at least 20 minutes with these videos paused just laughing. it got to the point where I felt like I was going to throw up. I now really understand what it means to kill and don't know if I'll see something as spectacular as this again
Either you get it, or you don't, simple as that! Brilliant from it's inception....
@jamsoup *;;;;;;;;
So this is where Sacha Baron Cohen derived his inspiration from.
definitely
Funny, he actually reminds me of DeNiro as the sociopathic comedian from The King of Comedy.
Fascinating. A significantly different version of Tony Clifton yet just as polished, just as sharp.
I wonder what it would have been like to be at a show like that. I woulda been dying
This is truly entertainment. Brilliant!! Everyone should see this once
Andy Kaufman, I love you. I want to be you.
Glerbin McFlerbin it would be a waste of who you are
This is top trolling! "Had enough?" lol
.absolute full on perfection.He is a master artist in playing with human emotion and empathy and anger.you want to hate him but you cant help but love hime.then when you see a jerk get his medicine .when that woman comes up there and wrestles him down,hes willing to get his face rubbed in it.then your like wow he takes you on a full journey.to include revenge,.then you feel bad, then he starts mouthing off again.then he with.If I can make one person happy predictably unpredictable.wow
when tony finally developed his outfit, you could'nt tell andy from bob.
That one guy in the back gets it
He is totally captivating, no one knows what's coming next!
Genius! I miss Andy.
By the end, I'd forgotten it was Andy.
When he sais at the end "if it made just one person happy it was all worth it" he may have been thinking of himself ;-).
He invented modern stand up. Fucking meta!
Spoo
Blah Blah Blah!!!
Listen, you can call it what you want but he is up there, on stage, performing just like all the other stand-up comics. He absolutely did usher in a whole new and modern style of stand-up comedy! He paved the way for a truly modern style of comedy that people were so ready for in that moment! He really knew how to read the time he was in and he knew people were ready for much edgier, in your face, intelligent humor. He was a truly great stand-up comic but he was so much more than that. First and foremost, he was a performer! Whether that day it happened to be: physical comedy, wrestling, or stand-up...he was a performer!
Guys like Jim Carey would have never existed without someone like him paving the way! That is why, in my opinion, Jim Carey was THE perfect choice for the role in "Man On the Moon"!
His wig was on backwards after the beating. LOL
Genius and beyond.
Chappelle couldn't hold this guy's underwear
Thanks pal :) This is great part of comedy history.
this is what a performance is like when you live and work 3 feet OVER the edge..........
I clicked the "like" button only because I couldn't find the "love" button anywhere.
what a bad ass
I think it's really sad that this has only gotten a thousand odd views. My parents never cared for him but I liked him a lot as a kid. Starting to be interested again. Great vid thanks!
tony cliffton and wrestling women were a young act at this point of his career
Fuckin legend!
i wish this were longer
thanks for sharing these
So far ahead of his time.
how do these videos only have maybe 2000 views between the 4 of them?
If you want to see Andy Kaufman, look into Tony Cliftons eyes.
I was bored with part 1 and by the time I got here I couldn't stop laughing. Not knowing who was a plant and not knowing who was really an audience is great.
The Tony Clifton routine seems to have developed somewhat over the years... this 1977 version seems quite different than the later version.
that slap is unbelievable
Bobby D and the Blue Notes It’s nothing compared to the slap he got from Jerry Lawler on Dave Letterman’s show.
Andy is the best ever!
How do you clap in Polish??? Ha ha... I hope his comedy is always revisited
He was a master of manipulation
after he got his ass kicked he should've just said as foreign man "thank you veddy much"
simply amazing.
The disrespect from many in this audience. Tony Clifton was class personified. He had more talent in one pinky than any of these idiots. The Polish guy deserved what he got.
Haha!
bob zmuda and andy are good friends lol
Hahaha! Woah, I actually got fooled there pretty badly. Great stuff :D
"Had enough?" :)
If you are happy and y..*clap* GET OFF THE STAGE!!!!!
Bob Zmuda (guy with water poured on his head) was Andy’s buddy and collaborator. But he looks like an innocent audience member getting abused. I’m sure that the woman he fought was part of his act too.
that lady power slammed him LOL
The arm drag take down from a stand still is a hell of a bump.
It would have been better if he kept "Tony Clifton" like this...Later years the older Tony was too animated.
Most of the later Clifton stuff was actually Bob Zmuda.
Raw!
Such a Gentleman
kaufman is too smart to be same species as rest of us. fucking genius.
The way he builds up the Tony character to be such a hated and despised asshole, all so he gets his comeuppance in the most satisfying way ever is just *chef's kiss.*
You're supposed to hate him...
I haven't seen this video in 20 years - amazing you have it! is it possible you have the robin williams part as well and if so, could you make my millenium and post it?
So many comics only exist to mine for laughs. Andy taught me; The first rule of comedy is to amuse yourself.
Pure Genius
Tony Clifton was necessary and perfect. Audiences love to hate performers and point out faults in an act. Therefore, having a character like Tony Clifton, Andy Kaufman is then protected. Somewhat of a boooo-dy guard for Andy.
Love it.
Brilliance.
and he is an absolute genius in make believe.
if i didnt see the other vid with bob explaining about that science thing, i wouldve thought this whole thing was real...but its still funny as hell
okay, i love this guy Andy Kaufman, just found out about him though unfortunately (yea i know, im really late who cares) and i understand its only at 3 likes right now but are you guys seriously going to always thumb up that whole "like button love button" shit that people always say on TH-cam? its one of the goddamn top comments right now! its not as obvious as the whole "THUMBS UP IF..." nonsense but its still terribly corny and unoriginal like all the other youtube comment tricks.
Tony should have sued her. She wasn’t worth it though.
Andy reminds me of robert de niro in Mean Streets in this lol
One of a kind. Unique Andy.
Fucking ace.
The ending lol
now that's entertainment
That's why they call it 'Improv".
i know there are earlier ones then this but may not have been record or even recognized as kaufman/zamuda yet
big fan, big fan
this was the onset to his wrestling women act.
He knew how to put on a show.
Later, Bob Zmuda also played the later version of Tony Clifton just to confuse people. :-)
Oh man what a set up!!!!!
Laurie Anderson, right?
Fucking brilliant!
Blown away!
Zmuda and Andy fooled the world.
And Mel Sherer, who likely wrote the script for this act.
holy fuck i'm blown away
LLOOOLL
Incredibly funny
Genius