He is better than Borat for pushing people out of their comfort zone!!!

I feel like when letterman asks if he can get him a mint you can ALMOST see Kaufman break character and laugh at the situation.

So funny that he ignores the interview, and then his act is essentially the anecdotes interviews create

😢

What a stiff! 😂

Wow, that was entertaining and beautiful at the same time.

I love this from the 80’s back we had amazing talent here is a comedian singing better than most singers today and he is sent a singer! There’s no talent anymore and I have been playing music with my guitar for years and I couldn’t tell you hardly any new “rockstars” more like pop stars! Ain’t nothing rnr about it

Andy looks so close to breaking character 😂

No one will see thos hot take, but Andy Kauffman strived in his era because he was a spectactle. You have to look ar him a while before you see where his intentions are in his sketch/role. Its evident hes always doing a bit- he likely lives his life that way, BUT Andy wouldnt br popualr if he had started in the internet era. His work would be too divisive and likely instantly defuse his mass appeall because you could see hik at any time . But back then it was like oh man i hope we spot andy kauffman or oh man we spotted andy kauffman. Either way youre like, "What is he gonna do?". Which is yhe perfect setup for sequence of any emtoion. Tension then laughter, tension then confusion, tension and anger. He was theater alive

Must of been some good stuff 😅

Wait a second, is he le jew?

Please, Kaufman was always a loser. He had a little bit of success as a comedian which is actually dumbfounding because he wasn't funny !!

03:08 uh oh

Amazing vocals

This was epic

I was a teenager during these appearances, and I’m ashamed to say I didn’t understand Andy’s humor. EG, when he was on Fridays and that whole sketch turned into a brawl with him walking off the set, I was horrified ! 😂 But I loved him, and I watched Letterman as much as I could. I’ll never forget the last time I saw Andy… he was on Letterman, and he came out and said he loved everyone in the audience, and wanted to hug them. He went out in the audience and hugged a lot of people. And then, not long afterwards-a couple of months?-he was gone. I was naive back then, and reflected back to the hugs he gave out, and thought that he must have known the end was near, and the affection he doled out was genuine. All these years later, I finally get Andy’s humor. I still think those hugs were for real ❤🥹

This is brilliant! You could never tell quite what Andy Kaufman was up to. Rest in peace Andy.

The cough was telling,perhaps he knew at this point he was dying or that something was wrong.

David is a chode

Andy > David

That woman's horn laugh is making me laugh too lmao

Considering how Andy died that bad cough could easily have been the beginning of the end

Hulu duck

Got fkred

"He's so Heavy"

Dave didn't exude vibes that he liked Andy Kaufman -- seems like his producers forced him to have Andy on.

Kaufman was such a loser!

Comedy was weak.

"id rather you don't laugh" was the funniest line of the whole bit. he almost breaks right before he says it

Kaufman just was not funny.

This is beyond comedy, it’s pure art in its truest form.

Dude is hardcore!

Oh yeah! Uhhh ummmm uhhh!

Andy took the ol' sword swallowing-Slim Whitman tribute act to new heights.

A maverick and a genius. Rip fella.

He was a great Elvis ❤

So that what dying of cancer actually looks like. Coughman.

andy innovating gofundme 40 years ahead of his time

Such a cool. Human guy. And funny. Special talent.

💓💓💓😽

FEAR-LESS

The coughing, even though it was part of the act, is sad considering how he passed away. Fuck cancer. This guy deserved to be on the planet as long as possible.

Fool me once. Fool me twice. RIP Andy.

Maybe the cough was legit ?

When men were real and not afraid to speak their minds and didn't give a damn what people thought about them!!!!

They were trying to cancel him even back then. AND--- Dave just Gaslights him all the way through

I wonder if he was ill at this point

Wild he did this coughing bit years b4 the announcement of his ill ess

And I didn’t know until recently that he was an amazing Elvis impersonator.

What's actually funny here, and why did Kaufman have to be funny at all? He always emphasized that he didn't want to be a comedian but an entertainer. What's funny when it's obvious that the man is completely miserable, even if he tells stories that are all untrue? That cough was barely faked. His suffering probably began in 1980. 😢😭