The real Andy Kaufman part 2

get out of here get out turn that camera off get out of here get out come on get out come on get out of here get out get out come on turn it off get out come on get out get out come on get out come on get out of here get out of here stop bothering me get out of [Music] here Andy was always like 15 years head of every other comic you you couldn't write a better script he scripted his whole life in fact that's I think that's what I saw in his eyes when he came in to Pips that first time when I first met him in 1974 you just knew he knew above and beyond everyone else where he was going ladies and gentlemen Andy [Music] [Applause] [Music] Kaufman [Music] oh Oak theom where the wind comes sweeping down the plain thank you and the waving wheat can sure smell sweet as the wind comes right behind the rain oh every night my honey lamb and I sit alone and talk and watch a hawk making lazy circles in the sky we know we belong to the land and the land we belong to is Grand so when we say y i i o EA we're only saying you're doing find Oklahom Oklahoma [Music] okay [Music] so when we say y i ho we're only saying you're doing fine Oklahoma Oklahoma k l a h o m a Oklahom yo and then something I'd never seen before him do he sang my way and when Andy calman sang my way I I've never heard so pigeons were dying in Central Park when he was hitting notes yes there were times I'm sure you knew when I bit off more than I could Cheo but through it all when there was doubt I ate it up and spit it out I faced it all and I stood tall and did [Music] [Laughter] it why do you think he did that because it was a way of it was his honest self-expression to play the talentless guy all the time so though we are in danger we never desp we know that where there's danger he is there there the the in the're not woring at all we're just here I come the that thaty m is on the [Music] [Applause] way we're not woring at all we're just listening here I come day that that M on [Applause] the the footage of his family on stage and that's also part of Andy's genius he brought his loving family up there but he also knew the audience would be going like this what is this Amateur hour where are they are they coming okay where are my okay here's my sister Carol let's have a big hand for Carol okay go on go on up to the stage now okay and who else is coming come on where's Michael my brother and my grandma Lily and Grandma Pearl okay here's grandma Pearl come on Grandma okay here she is okay very good okay very good okay there you go and who else now where's Michael okay here's Michael and Grandma Lily and Mommy and Daddy come on up to the stage now okay okay okay let's go [Music] okay okay very [Music] good okay very good okay here they are it's my family here okay hello okay now we you know we just had Thanksgiving dinner together a few nights ago and we all have a lot of there's a lot of talent that runs in my family and each person they have a special talent now my parents don't do you have anything special planned we no no we really don't have very much to say do we no no it's very very hard to compete with this young man okay we thank you all for coming okay well how about Michael now Michael do you want to do something all right okay Michael is my brother and here we go Michael what are you gonna do I don't you want to sing a song okay you want to sing that song that you you sing the only one I know La Bomba yeah okay okay Michael is a specialty he sang this at our you know every Thanksgiving when we have around the dinner table after we finish the turkey and everything everyone does a little song you know so Michael's going to do his song every year he does the same song so uh here he's going to do it called La Bamba they are they going to play or oh should I just start singing okay will the band will the band not to play oh okay okay oh [Music] B b b b b b okay big hand for Michael okay and they sit there as soon as the rabbi starts praying and by the time he's all through praying the dog had been praying with him all along everywh the rabbi said the dog said when the services were over the rabbi went over to this man he said you know he said this dog really should be a rabbi he said please tell it to him he wants to be a doctor okay let's see for Grandma pro thank you Grandma thank you okay thank you okay now Grandma lily last but not least Grandma Lily okay now Grandma Lily and I are going to do a duet together this is from the record our forthcoming record album that we're making it's called it's called Andy and his grandma Lily and it's going to be released soon on on it's a record album once we find a label that's going to buy it right and um what oh yes uh-huh we made that down in Florida together didn't we and we're going to try and recreate for you announce called Row Row Row Your Boat when you're in the room with him actually it was a uh a gift I I don't do Elvis anymore I why is everybody yelling at me did you like the thing with my family how many people liked it how many people didn't like it okay ladies and gentlemen I would like to say right now that um I am highly insulted by that I am trying my best I am trying my best to do my best up here and to give you a show I'm trying to give you a variety show I've never claimed to be a comedian I've never I've never claimed to be able to tell a joke I've never been able to tell a joke I have never what if you want to Heckle me you win because I have no comebacks I have nothing witty to say I never claim to be clever or Talent talented or witty I came up here to do this because my family is together for the first time in years and we're doing this show together and if you don't like it I'm sorry and I'm I'm sorry if I've brought all of you down came to see a good show I'm trying to do some singing some dancing some some songs with my family and you know it's a variety show so if I brought you down thank you very much for showing me where I'm at I guess I don't really have that much more to do and if you don't want me to continue then I guess I won't so thank you for showing me where I'm at look I don't know what you want me to do you want me to go well I my b to give you I every time I try it goes I try to do my you really show me I at [Music] T [Music] and I always said to friends of mine I think Andy could have played with Santana he was that much of a percussionist [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] fore fore definitely [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh AB be ab [Music] ab [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh thank you [Music] thank you very much ladies and gentlemen H uh so far everything I have done for you tonight really I am only fooling this is really me and everything else was a character but I just want to say I'm very happy to be here tonight and I would like to tell you the story of the two penguins were on a piece of ice two penguins were on the piece of ice and they love each other very much but one day the icy break in in half so the two penguins have to go away from each other and they are very sad by the time they got to the wrestling the crowd was just furious and you could hear the booze and they I mean here he is he's dragging this young Jewish Girl by the ankles and he's screaming at the same time to the audience shut shut up and he's pile driving and of course you know nobody was ever hurt okay here's one here we have another one over here she looks a little upset and what's your name Kathleen Kathleen and you can beat him no doubt I think this is ridiculous okay ladies and Gent genten it's up to you one more one more and your name is Carol is what is it Carol Carol and let everybody see you here huh you think it's a joke think it's a joke it's going to be a pretty fast match okay I'll put my hand over the head now applaud applaud for the person that you think could actually beat him in the wrestling match let's start down over here vote for your favorite first of all get rid of all the [Applause] [Applause] [Music] hey [Applause] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] get him get him hands down [Music] he's let's hear it for Fran thank you very much I'm sorry but a good [Applause] try ladies and gentlemen she was wonderful we're going to give her $50 $50 there you are a minute yeah uh if he'll double this I'll give this to the dicks Hills chapter of hadassa that's what this is [Applause] for why don't you give that to [Applause] them want very cheap serious you should have tried harder you could have made $500 baby but you don't have the brains okay you don't have the brains don't come crying to me don't come crying to me get up the stage you should be ashamed of yourself go on hang your head in shame come on get off the stage come on come on come on let's take on the next one come on okay let's hear it for Fran thank you very much let's hear she's wonderful it's really obnoxious toight night ladies and gentlemen he's Kathleen right right the next is Kathleen another thre minute round let's hear the [Music] symbol that one took about a minute or a minute and a half this one's going I'm leaving about 30 seconds for this one liar [Music] okay [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] go whether there were Elvis fans or not when he came on stage as Elvis the whole room just [Music] [Applause] [Music] went [Applause] [Music] some for the Money Two For the Show three to get go don't St my blue shoes you can do anything but for my blue s you can knock me down step on my face SL my name all over the place I do anything that you want to do buty don't my BL can do anything [Music] BL BL blue a blue s shoes blue blue the blue s shoes yeah blue blue the blue s shes baby blue blue blue shoes you can do anything but off [Music] [Music] blueo to a party in the county jail prison B was there they began to well down the to swing you should have heard a knocked out ja but sing a rock everybody let a rock everybody in oldale Block dance the jail for heaven sake looking down just to make a break Sam turn to shift in he said Nick Nick I want a sticker out while I get my kicks lck everybody let Rock everybody inale block dance jail how rock rock rock rock [Music] rock s was sitting on a block of stone over in the corner weing all alone I old said bu don't you be no Square you can't find a upon use a wooden chair l a rock everybody l a rock everybody in Block danc to the jail has a rock ho ho danc to the jail has a rock Dan to the jail house Dan to the jail [Music] house oh to the jail house W all [Music] right [Music] oh [Music] thank you very much ladies and gentlemen right now may please have my clothes back okay thank you ladies gentlemen that's the first half of my act and now for the second half I'd like to read The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald chapter 1 no I'm only fooling no actually ladies and gentlemen that's my show for tonight and I like to just say you've been a wonderful audience and I'd like to sing this song Especially For [Music] You in This friendly friendly world with each day so full of joy why should any heart be lonely in this friendly friendly world with each night so full of Dreams why should any heart be afraid the world is such a wonderful place to WAND through when you've got someone you love to wander along with [Music] you with the sky so full of stars and the river so full of song every heart should be so [Music] thankful thankful for this friendly friendly [Music] world yeah yep it's a friendly world you know after the show we ran right backstage we grabbed the camera we ran right around to the back and there was hardly any delay and I saw Andy just so tired and drained and I was almost going to go like do do you still want to and and he just yeah come on he guided us and we set up quickly and he starts off just as himself he was caught off guard because it was a friend that he' known for five and a half years already just rolling film so he didn't have any of the calculated postures he did it times in the interview but a lot of the interview was just pure Andy nothing rehearsed that was Andy calman

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Keywords: Andy Kaufman, Andy Kaufman live, Andy Kaufman in concert, Seth, Schultz-, Pips-, Man in the Moon, Catskills, comics, The real Andy Kaufman, Comedy (Theater Genre), Taxi, Performance Art (Film Genre), Jim Carrey, Kutchers, Catskill Mountains (Mountain Range)

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Length: 30min 25sec (1825 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 21 2012