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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

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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.

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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.

BOTTOM OF THE FIFTHS AND THE BAGS ARE LOADED..... i guarantee that went over the heads of most people in that venue.... brilliant

That was really amazing.

I want to watch something funny on my break and all this shit did was make me SAD fuuck you

To change it up with the Tony Clifton character is next level 👌🏻 A truly talented guy.

I’ve never seen someone so comfortable in situations most would find excruciating 😂👌🏻

bros genuinely a fantastic bongo player wtf

He really was more of a performance artist. He had such a unique personality and that made him special. If you don’t “get him” it probably just means you don’t like his personality.

I guess there is a reason why this guy is only known in the US. If he is. Yawn. Thumbs down.

The king of comedy.

Amazing

I'm starting to think this entire thing was an ACT, and it was planned in ADVANCE. 🤔

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So full of trigger warnings! Love it! Always have. I'm on my 80th trip around the Sun.

Behold!!!!! The birth of improv

You can see the influence on Reggie Watts.

pure genius 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I certainly wouldn't go as far as to call him a genius. Barely funny. So overrated.

Not funny and most likely was mentally ill.

Kaufman was as funny as getting a parking ticket.

Magic. Lmfao