i think dinah was completely in on this

this tony clifton wasn't that early, i think he had performed it dozens of times i just read the zmuda claims in his book, which are refuted online. maybe

love the face dances LP, its great!!

It's fast, they're playing the song really fast. Uppers and downers either way blood flows.

81 ,The Cocaine tour , for real.. Brilliant..

Too fast.

Holy crap, John!!!!

John was not a bass player, he was a bass guitarist!

This and "Cry if You Want"are the last of the great songs by the lads.

I saw Tony perform at the Greasy Eagle in Reno back in the early 70s. In those earlier years he really put on an energetic show! I remember that smoke filled casino room...the stage was right by entrance, the room was full of slot machines and had a very small bar, maybe 3 foot wide. The stage wasn't much bigger.

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Kaufman was actual and only human joke in existence of the world useless as a human being maybe that's why GOD took him

He was mentally ill

If I didn't know any better, I'd swear that was Andy Kaufman.

I heard that the rat pack tried to put a hit on Clifton

Shows you how easy it is for charlatans to command a mass hysteria, such as Joan Osteen.

It goes to show that any horrendous voice that sings out of key can get applause with the right announcer and intro. 😂

I assume Andy added the sunglasses later to make it a better disguise, as it’s clearly him here. With the sunglasses, Bob Zmuda and Andy could switch “performing” the character. I think Andy’s brother played Clifton too on occasion.

I'm here for the OX 👍

Great.

Why this footage hasn’t been restored and released is a total mystery. Parts of it have been but whatever there is needs to be put out there!!

0:34. LOL. I love how when Dinah announces Tony, Charles Nelson Reilly earnestly applauds and says, "Wondah-ful," like Tony's going to come out sing some tender, lovely song. I think this is the show where "Tony" throws eggs at Dinah and gets barred from the show during a cooking demonstration.

Tempo is Way too fast

Not genius. Not funny. Not entertaining. kaufman proved you can make a living being a douche bag.

Man on the moon didn't do this justice at all

awesome version of a great over-looked song!

If there was anyone in the crowd that hadn’t heard that tune, I’m sure they loved it the first time they heard it! Top, top shelf all around!

Listen to John’s Alembic Twang only one bass sounds like that

Why the T-Bone?

It was probably written in his contract to play this without sunglasses so the audience can see it's the guy from the hit TV show Taxi (as in "recognize him yet?"), otherwise this largely elderly crowd -- and likely TV audience as well, would've been baffled and too uncomfortable. No way would've a producer of daytime TV have allowed this otherwise. Charles Nelson Reilly looks totally confused lol.

Listened to it thousends of times on MC. This song is so underrated.

The arrangement is too punchy but I'll take it.

I am Tony’s love child.

Let’s talk about the Ox in the room😂

Brilliant duet performance

JFK was so good at speeches he inspired me and now my speaking skills improved

Tony Clifton was so horrible he was funny.Sort of a counterpart to Albert Brooks with his bad ventriloquist act.

When he has the big mutton chops and moustache and glasses it’s hard to tell it’s him.

I love them so much!

He is right that everything is distorted & that this is the proper way to start looking at something to control for bias in yourself algorithmically consciously scientifically and all communications is formal & so in all formal & formalized contractual permissions consequence based communications 2:00 everything is out of whack & distorted like this but its ideal to know that observe that witness carefully recordss it with others in helpful ways and ways that do not make us sicker than we already are or mentally ill instead of pretending everything is 'balanced' that I LETHAL but now & because of him he's right we have proved him right & the ranking & scales are all there you have free will you pre-ordain yourself So it is free too It is free to be distorted too

I was hoping for the ENTIRE CLIP! where Andy smashes eggs on Dinah Shores Head and it was NOT STAGED, at least not that we know of.

This so much better than that rap crap the kids listen to nowaways.

I think that's the difference between Kaufman and Zmuda's Clifton. Zmuda's was clearly a character, while Kaufman is so close to the lounge singer vibe that it could have been a real person.

Tony was devastated when he heard Andy had died

Actually a damn good video. It's rare The best bass player ever gets close camera time. Clear video and audio catching a moment in rock history. My heroes.

I wish he would have lived longer. Imagine seeing him in the wedding singer

Jeffrey Tambor is most hilarious when he's explosively angry.😆

Last great 'Oo song, if ya ask me. Loved it then, love it now !!! 🚬😎👍

I can see why he usually wears glasses. There’s no mistaking those bright blue eyes for Andy.

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