This classic video of Andy Kaufman going off script is probably best known to many young people today for the recreated version with Jim Carrey playing Kaufman. This, however, is the original version. Note that Michael Richards, who would later play Kramer on Seinfeld, is acting opposite Kaufman. Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld, will show up later in the clip.
What’s interesting about the clip is that it’s entirely fake. All the actors were in on the “bit,” and the only ones really fooled were the home audience as they were watching it. There’s really no modern day equivalent in comedy to Andy Kaufman or the other comics of the 1970s. There’s no willingness to lay themselves out there and not get a laugh, and take that as the joke. The world yearns for another Andy Kaufman.
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