Final Judgement -- Andy Kaufman -- Funny, or Not?

[petro]

Never cared for him.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

 

[NoNukes]

Back in the late 70s I played music with a friend of his and met him. He was a bit crazy, but very funny.

 

[NoNukes]

This above is from the fourth show of the first season of Saturday Night Live (1975)I liter, Kaufman's first appearance on SNL. I literally fell out of my chair when I saw this ... drugs may have been to blame.

I saw it too when if first aired, it was brilliant and hysterical

His was a type of humour that some people just do not get.

 

[Canon Shooter]

I'd rather watch hair grow...

 

[deannalw]

That skit still gives me crazy giggles.

He was hilarious in a wtf kind of way.

 

[Papageorgio]

I thought he was funny, but then he went over the top with the wrestling thing and didn't have the sense to drop it. I go for choices one and two. I liked him on Taxi, too.

Of course, his wrestling schtick kind of predicts and spoofs the current idiocy of letting trannies compete in womens sports. doesn't it? Of course he never won those matches, as far as I know. I think a lot of people thought he was serious and misunderstood the joke there, but a lot of PC Nazis are too stupid to understand comedy anyway.

He was a regular on Van Dyke and Company and was funny on there. The wrestling bit was when he jumped the shark.

 

[deannalw]

LOL! That Elvis he did was a blast.

 

[Fueri]

Humor is obviously highly subjective.

I think the guy was often hilarious.

 

[DudleySmith]

Oh Noes!!! 'Mountain people'!!!

 

[Mr Natural]

Latka Gravas becoming Vic Ferrari was hilarious.