In August 1977 comedian and performance artist Andy Kaufman made an appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
After doing impressions in his Foreign Man accent, a masterful Elvis Presley impersonation, and playing a wild song from the Islands of the Caspian Sea on the bongo drums, Kaufman sat for an interview with Carson.
In the interview, he explains the origin of his Elvis character and tells a story of how his Foreign Man character got an autograph from a woman in a massage parlor on 42nd Street in New York.
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Excellent, more like this.
ReplyDeleteAndy was in my wifes class in Great Neck, L.I., N.Y., he was the class cut-up.