Posted on 03/20/2023 3:02:06 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
“Here I’ve come to Save the Day!”
“Now, Andy, did you hear about this one?
Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Andy, are you goofing on Elvis?
Hey baby, are we losing touch?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLxpNiF0YKs
Another time, he had 20 buses lined up outside one of his shows and afterwards, much of the audience were taken to some sort of cafeteria where they were served milk and cookies.
Andy's humor always appealed to me. He was really out there. I think another time, he brought his ex-girlfriend up on stage to interview her and all kinds of personal stuff came out like when he stole all her pantyhose and gave it to a girl that was living in his apartment building at the time.
Love that movie. Kurt Vonnegut’s cameo never fails to make me honk with laughter :-D
“Hey, Kurt, can you read lips?”
The humor of Kaufman, Python, and Mel Brooks is an acquired taste, a taste that changes with age. Those were my comedic icons through my twenties. Fast forward 40 plus years, aside from a handful of skits, I cannot understand what my attraction was.
Andy hated being referred to as a comedian. He was a performer and often the audience themselves would be the target of his “jokes”, like when he started reading something by F Scott Fitzgerald on stage. Those who didn’t get it found it bizarre and left. Those who did sat there and laughed.
I wonder about McAfee, if he could have, he would have.
For the most part, I was not entertained, except for the wrestling, and that surpassed every other comedian of his era, for a long, long time. He knew how to get his hooks into the Lawler crowd and get them to hate him. While in the ring, he introduced the people of Tennessee to toilet paper and soap, like they never heard of it before. He also wrestled a large woman by a swimming pool, took her down, then grabbed her by the back of the head and started smashing her head into the ground. One of his famous quotes was “I’m from Hollywood, I’m smarter than you”
I've sometimes fantasized about going on stage and reading aa book from start to end. Only in my case, I would have chosen "Call Of The Wild" by Jack London.
I would have imitated all the voices, including Mercedes, the ditzy woman who insisted on Buck and his team pulling the sled with all the pots and pans across the rapidly melting ice.
“Here I’ve come to Save the Day!”
Sing this always, esp. if someone is giving me a hard time. For example “Here I come to eat my supper!” “Here I come to take out the trash!”
The first girl I ever dated has a circular to this.
I called her after she left her number in my yearbook.
I asked what she was up to and she said “Watching Mighty Mouse!”.
OK then.
Cue Andy and that SNL skit. Back when SNL was entertaining.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xi2h1n
I saw him and a woman at the California State Fair less than a year before he died. There was a band playing and he looked like he was having a great time.
Thanks. He did good didn’t he?
One of the greatest trolls ever. Wish Andy were still around today.
Yes he was the best for that song.
Loved Tony Clifton but Vic Ferrari was better.
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