1 00:00:05,964 --> 00:00:07,340 [chattering] 2 00:00:18,893 --> 00:00:20,895 -[man] I can't tell. -[producer] Will you wear this? 3 00:00:20,979 --> 00:00:21,980 [man] There, you're good. 4 00:00:23,106 --> 00:00:24,482 [producer] All right, uh... 5 00:00:25,191 --> 00:00:26,776 -So, Jim. -Yes? 6 00:00:27,193 --> 00:00:29,320 [producer] How would you start this movie? 7 00:00:30,530 --> 00:00:31,364 Hmm... 8 00:00:35,785 --> 00:00:37,829 Well, if I had my choice, 9 00:00:38,329 --> 00:00:39,664 it wouldn't start at all. 10 00:00:40,457 --> 00:00:41,958 It would already have been. 11 00:00:43,043 --> 00:00:44,669 And it wouldn't end either. 12 00:00:45,754 --> 00:00:49,591 You know? I guess that's probably a good way to look at it. 13 00:00:49,674 --> 00:00:51,301 You know, when did this movie start? 14 00:00:51,384 --> 00:00:53,011 [mid-tempo music plays] 15 00:00:59,017 --> 00:00:59,851 Hi, there. 16 00:01:04,773 --> 00:01:07,984 [Carrey] The first inkling that the family was interested 17 00:01:08,068 --> 00:01:10,153 in me doing the story of Andy 18 00:01:10,236 --> 00:01:12,864 was that I got his congas. 19 00:01:12,947 --> 00:01:15,617 And there's even blood on one of them. 20 00:01:15,867 --> 00:01:19,954 Uh, and a little bit of DNA left behind by the master. 21 00:01:20,038 --> 00:01:22,665 Welcome. He's the best. This guy's the best. 22 00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:24,375 You're just so positive, man. 23 00:01:24,459 --> 00:01:26,669 [Carrey] Then I heard that Milos Forman 24 00:01:26,753 --> 00:01:29,547 wasn't interested in me for the part. 25 00:01:29,631 --> 00:01:34,552 And it would have been a long time since I auditioned for anything. 26 00:01:34,636 --> 00:01:37,347 And I kind of had to put the ego in the backseat 27 00:01:37,430 --> 00:01:39,682 and say I'm driving for a minute here. 28 00:01:39,766 --> 00:01:43,269 And so, I put a little audition tape together of my own. 29 00:01:47,273 --> 00:01:49,109 [ Mighty Mouse theme song plays] 30 00:01:49,609 --> 00:01:53,571 You don't know you can do it until you do it, so it was absolutely... 31 00:01:54,030 --> 00:01:56,074 me auditioning for myself as well. 32 00:01:56,157 --> 00:01:58,660 ♪ ...when he hears this mighty sound ♪ 33 00:01:59,202 --> 00:02:02,038 [lip-syncing] ♪ Here I come to save the day! ♪ 34 00:02:02,122 --> 00:02:03,748 [Carrey] When I got it done, 35 00:02:03,832 --> 00:02:07,919 and altogether I went, "Yeah, I can do this thing. I can do this thing." 36 00:02:08,002 --> 00:02:09,420 [bongos playing] 37 00:02:10,922 --> 00:02:12,382 [crowd cheering] 38 00:02:12,465 --> 00:02:14,092 ["This Friendly World" plays] 39 00:02:16,302 --> 00:02:19,264 [reporter 1] The part of Andy Kaufman went to comic actor Jim Carrey. 40 00:02:19,347 --> 00:02:22,225 [reporter 2] Breaking news. Jim Carrey, one of the most popular actors-- 41 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,769 [reporter 3] ...most watched and well-paid actors... 42 00:02:24,853 --> 00:02:27,147 [Carrey] Initially when I heard I had the part, 43 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,817 I was sitting in Malibu, looking at the ocean, and thinking, 44 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:33,611 "Where would Andy be? What would he be doing?" 45 00:02:33,903 --> 00:02:36,656 Andy Kaufman cared less about making his audience laugh 46 00:02:36,739 --> 00:02:38,199 than keeping them confused. 47 00:02:38,283 --> 00:02:39,242 Wrestle me! 48 00:02:39,325 --> 00:02:40,160 [cheering] 49 00:02:40,243 --> 00:02:43,496 [Carrey] I bet he would be doing something like 50 00:02:43,580 --> 00:02:46,666 trying to communicate telepathically. 51 00:02:49,752 --> 00:02:51,880 [Kaufman] And maybe I went too far, I don't know. 52 00:02:51,963 --> 00:02:53,673 That's what most people are telling me. 53 00:02:53,756 --> 00:02:57,844 Immediately, like, 30 dolphins came to the surface. 54 00:02:57,927 --> 00:02:59,304 [man] Andy Kaufman! 55 00:03:00,430 --> 00:03:01,890 [speaking indistinctly] 56 00:03:01,973 --> 00:03:04,267 [Carrey] So, I thought, "Maybe I'm on the right track." 57 00:03:04,350 --> 00:03:06,102 So, I decided from then, 58 00:03:06,186 --> 00:03:07,937 for the next few days, 59 00:03:08,021 --> 00:03:10,106 to speak telepathically to people. 60 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:12,859 ♪ With the skies so full of stars ♪ 61 00:03:14,152 --> 00:03:16,237 [Carrey] It was absurd. It was completely absurd. 62 00:03:16,321 --> 00:03:17,614 But somehow, it worked. 63 00:03:17,697 --> 00:03:19,449 But you, you're a-- [bleep] 64 00:03:19,532 --> 00:03:23,119 [Carrey] That's the moment when Andy Kaufman showed up, 65 00:03:23,203 --> 00:03:25,705 tapped me on the shoulder, and said , 66 00:03:25,788 --> 00:03:28,208 "Sit down. I'll be doing my movie." 67 00:03:30,835 --> 00:03:34,839 What happened afterwards was out of my control. 68 00:03:34,964 --> 00:03:39,802 [Kaufman] I will pay $1,000 to any woman that will beat me in this ring! 69 00:03:42,013 --> 00:03:43,348 [chattering] 70 00:03:46,476 --> 00:03:50,230 You start now when Andy steps in, you know. 71 00:03:50,313 --> 00:03:51,689 You mean me. I step in. 72 00:03:53,233 --> 00:03:54,734 -Yeah. -Okay. 73 00:03:54,817 --> 00:03:56,611 You are being Andy in this movie. 74 00:03:56,694 --> 00:03:59,113 I know, but you talk like I'm not standing here. 75 00:03:59,197 --> 00:04:00,782 -No. -Like I'm a different person. 76 00:04:00,865 --> 00:04:02,700 Know what you are playing though? 77 00:04:03,618 --> 00:04:06,037 That is really weird. It's totally surreal. 78 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,413 It's really bizarre. 79 00:04:07,497 --> 00:04:08,748 Thank you very much. 80 00:04:11,334 --> 00:04:12,168 [Forman] Cut! 81 00:04:12,627 --> 00:04:13,544 It's perfect. 82 00:04:14,420 --> 00:04:16,297 -[bell ringing] -I don't like it . 83 00:04:16,381 --> 00:04:17,799 [Forman] Okay. Huh? 84 00:04:17,882 --> 00:04:20,343 I want to do one more. 85 00:04:20,426 --> 00:04:23,054 -[Forman] Okay, let's do one more. -So bizarre. 86 00:04:24,097 --> 00:04:28,434 It's really great. He's exactly the way Andy was. Exactly. 87 00:04:28,518 --> 00:04:31,896 We left the show, I said, "George, this guy's the worst comic I've seen." 88 00:04:31,980 --> 00:04:33,147 He says, "Isn't it great? 89 00:04:33,231 --> 00:04:35,566 I said, "No, he's the worst comic I've ever seen!" 90 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:37,277 It was really something. 91 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,738 I tried to explain, "He's trying to bomb. He's doing the bombing routine." 92 00:04:40,822 --> 00:04:44,284 -How do you explain Kaufman before-- -If you've never seen him. 93 00:04:44,367 --> 00:04:46,244 -Abuday! -Abuday! 94 00:04:46,327 --> 00:04:49,163 [Hirsch] Let's say he's here right now, looking down, 95 00:04:49,247 --> 00:04:51,958 and he sees this guy playing him that well. 96 00:04:53,126 --> 00:04:53,960 Creepy. 97 00:04:54,752 --> 00:04:57,505 Imagine you came back and you saw somebody playing you. 98 00:04:58,464 --> 00:05:01,718 But on the other hand, it might be nice to have been... 99 00:05:02,427 --> 00:05:03,720 uh, remembered. 100 00:05:05,847 --> 00:05:10,059 Yeah, but I didn't know him. I was practically like all other people. 101 00:05:11,394 --> 00:05:15,356 I remember watching Andy on the Dick Van Dyke... 102 00:05:15,648 --> 00:05:17,400 uh, specials, 103 00:05:17,734 --> 00:05:21,571 uh, and the Carson Show doing the Foreign Man. 104 00:05:21,654 --> 00:05:24,532 ♪ I do you, do me like this, this, this ♪ 105 00:05:24,615 --> 00:05:28,244 ♪ 'Cause I love you Give me a kiss, kiss, kiss ♪ 106 00:05:29,370 --> 00:05:30,330 [kissing] 107 00:05:30,413 --> 00:05:31,873 [laughter] 108 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:39,297 -[producer] Where were you then? -[Carrey] Oh, I was in Canada. 109 00:05:39,714 --> 00:05:43,217 I wasn't even a comedian yet. I was a comedian in my house. 110 00:05:43,634 --> 00:05:45,345 But... yeah. 111 00:05:45,428 --> 00:05:47,221 It was before I had even started. 112 00:05:48,181 --> 00:05:49,223 And it blew my mind. 113 00:05:49,307 --> 00:05:50,141 Andy Kaufman! 114 00:05:50,224 --> 00:05:52,852 [Carrey] I went, "Wow, this is different." 115 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:56,022 This doesn't care what everything else is. 116 00:05:57,065 --> 00:05:59,400 [lip-syncing] ♪ Old MacDonald had a farm ♪ 117 00:05:59,484 --> 00:06:02,570 ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ 118 00:06:02,653 --> 00:06:03,780 Whoa! 119 00:06:03,863 --> 00:06:05,073 Whoa! 120 00:06:05,948 --> 00:06:09,369 [Tex] Oh, I like that song, Mr. Billy! Let's all sing it, shall we? 121 00:06:09,452 --> 00:06:11,996 [Mr. Billy] All right, little Tex. Are you ready, boys? 122 00:06:12,246 --> 00:06:14,665 ♪ Old MacDonald had a farm ♪ 123 00:06:14,749 --> 00:06:16,626 ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ 124 00:06:17,126 --> 00:06:21,547 [Carrey] Andy broke through the so-called importance of the medium of television. 125 00:06:22,173 --> 00:06:24,759 Everybody was on their best behavior, had their best stuff. 126 00:06:24,842 --> 00:06:28,179 Man, Ed Sullivan, there were people spinning plates and stuff like that. 127 00:06:28,262 --> 00:06:30,139 [humming] 128 00:06:30,223 --> 00:06:32,850 And they had, you know, routines they had come up with 129 00:06:32,934 --> 00:06:35,103 and perfected over a thousand years. 130 00:06:35,186 --> 00:06:38,064 And here comes Andy lip-syncing to a record. 131 00:06:38,147 --> 00:06:41,025 ♪ ...when he hears this mighty sound ♪ 132 00:06:41,776 --> 00:06:44,862 [lip-syncing] ♪ Here I come to save the day! ♪ 133 00:06:44,946 --> 00:06:47,824 ♪ That means that Mighty Mouse Is on the way ♪ 134 00:06:47,907 --> 00:06:50,451 [Carrey] You know, Mighty Mouse is wonderful. 135 00:06:50,535 --> 00:06:52,870 Reading the whole of Great Gatsby, 136 00:06:52,954 --> 00:06:54,622 unbelievable idea. 137 00:06:54,705 --> 00:06:55,623 Chapter one. 138 00:06:55,706 --> 00:06:56,541 [laughter] 139 00:06:56,624 --> 00:06:57,458 [clears throat] 140 00:06:58,084 --> 00:07:00,211 "In my younger and more vulnerable years..." 141 00:07:00,294 --> 00:07:03,464 [Carrey] Basically, the Foreign Man was his plea to his father 142 00:07:03,548 --> 00:07:05,883 to love me, accept me. 143 00:07:05,967 --> 00:07:08,636 And he even wore his father's sports jacket. 144 00:07:08,719 --> 00:07:11,806 I would like to do for you some imitations. 145 00:07:12,390 --> 00:07:13,224 So first... 146 00:07:13,307 --> 00:07:16,519 [Carrey] You know, because his dad obviously loved him, 147 00:07:16,602 --> 00:07:18,938 but he was an insurance guy, 148 00:07:19,021 --> 00:07:21,816 and he kind of expected the all-American kid. 149 00:07:21,899 --> 00:07:24,694 And what he got was some kind of effeminate, 150 00:07:24,777 --> 00:07:27,405 kooky, creative, insane person 151 00:07:27,488 --> 00:07:30,950 who liked to spend all his time in his room   doing shows to the wall. 152 00:07:31,325 --> 00:07:33,786 I thought Doodyville was inside of the television. 153 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:36,873 Like if television was this box, and if I went inside the box... 154 00:07:36,956 --> 00:07:38,541 [Carrey] His genuine sweetness, 155 00:07:38,624 --> 00:07:39,959 child-like quality, 156 00:07:40,042 --> 00:07:42,628 his love for songs like "Rose Marie," 157 00:07:42,712 --> 00:07:45,715 and Slim Whitman being his favorite singer. 158 00:07:45,798 --> 00:07:47,216 [lip-synching] ♪ Rose Marie ♪ 159 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:50,470 ♪ I love you ♪ 160 00:07:50,928 --> 00:07:52,930 ♪ I love you ♪ 161 00:07:53,055 --> 00:07:55,725 [woman] Let's hear your best ending for this sentence: 162 00:07:55,808 --> 00:07:58,603 "I'll do anything for you except..." 163 00:07:59,979 --> 00:08:01,147 Except what? 164 00:08:01,230 --> 00:08:02,356 [laughter] 165 00:08:03,983 --> 00:08:05,902 [Carrey] He didn't belong to the club. 166 00:08:06,277 --> 00:08:07,403 Any club. 167 00:08:07,862 --> 00:08:11,115 And he was the one, while everybody else was playing sports, 168 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:12,658 he was talking to the trees. 169 00:08:13,284 --> 00:08:16,078 But it was about pulling those people over. 170 00:08:16,621 --> 00:08:20,583 But it was about, "I've got something in my hands and it's really magical." 171 00:08:20,666 --> 00:08:22,084 But you can't see it, 172 00:08:22,168 --> 00:08:24,003 'cause I have special powers." 173 00:08:24,086 --> 00:08:27,632 You know, it was that need to be special. 174 00:08:27,715 --> 00:08:30,426 Latka, no, this is a very important phone call. 175 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:34,263 [Carrey] I don't think there was anybody better to do it than me. 176 00:08:34,972 --> 00:08:37,058 -Yes. -I know what it's like to... 177 00:08:37,433 --> 00:08:41,229 do shows in my room to the wall and rehearse for the company. 178 00:08:41,854 --> 00:08:44,607 And every time somebody comes over, to be putting on a show. 179 00:08:45,316 --> 00:08:47,276 And the one that's a little different. 180 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,987 [speaking gibberish] 181 00:08:50,071 --> 00:08:54,242 [producer] Do you feel like talking to the people closest to him helped? 182 00:08:54,325 --> 00:08:55,743 Absolutely, it helped, 183 00:08:55,826 --> 00:08:57,578 but that's their version of him. 184 00:08:57,662 --> 00:08:59,956 That's the way they want him to be seen. 185 00:09:01,082 --> 00:09:02,917 [Forman] Nobody knows. Action. 186 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,378 [Carrey] And you have to kind of take all of that in, 187 00:09:05,461 --> 00:09:09,674 and then make your own assumptions, and your own calls, 188 00:09:09,757 --> 00:09:11,842 and your own-- go with your own instinct. 189 00:09:12,385 --> 00:09:15,638 ♪ Rose Marie ♪ 190 00:09:15,721 --> 00:09:18,891 [Carrey] I know that guy. I know him as well as I can know him. 191 00:09:21,227 --> 00:09:22,270 But... 192 00:09:22,353 --> 00:09:23,354 who do you know? 193 00:09:25,898 --> 00:09:27,817 Even when they're right in front of you. 194 00:09:29,193 --> 00:09:31,654 [Oprah] Jim Carrey! 195 00:09:31,737 --> 00:09:33,197 [cheering] 196 00:09:39,996 --> 00:09:43,541 [Carrey] I mean, I'm the guy who wrote the ten-million-dollar check to himself 197 00:09:43,624 --> 00:09:46,294 and had it to come to fruition, and... 198 00:09:46,377 --> 00:09:49,839 I'm the guy who had the substitute teacher in grade two 199 00:09:49,922 --> 00:09:53,593 who said that, "You know, whenever I want something, I pray to the Virgin Mary, 200 00:09:53,676 --> 00:09:57,138 I ask her for it, I promise something in return, and I get whatever I want." 201 00:09:57,221 --> 00:09:59,932 So didn't you write yourself a check? I heard you did. Is that true? 202 00:10:00,016 --> 00:10:02,685 Yeah. I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars, 203 00:10:02,768 --> 00:10:04,437 for acting services rendered, 204 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,607 and I gave myself five years. 205 00:10:07,690 --> 00:10:10,276 My dad could never afford a bicycle, so I went,"Okay." 206 00:10:10,359 --> 00:10:13,195 And I went home and I prayed for a bicycle and... 207 00:10:13,821 --> 00:10:16,532 promised I'd say the rosary in return and... 208 00:10:16,616 --> 00:10:18,701 then I got a bicycle. 209 00:10:18,784 --> 00:10:20,620 It showed up in my living room. 210 00:10:20,995 --> 00:10:22,330 A brand-new Mustang bike. 211 00:10:22,413 --> 00:10:24,915 I put it in one of the scenes in Eternal Sunshine, 212 00:10:25,207 --> 00:10:27,209 a Mustang bike with a banana seat. 213 00:10:27,627 --> 00:10:30,379 Just before Thanksgiving 1995, 214 00:10:30,463 --> 00:10:33,049 I found out that I was gonna make ten million dollars. 215 00:10:33,132 --> 00:10:34,258 So you visualized... 216 00:10:34,342 --> 00:10:39,096 From then on, it was whenever I wanted something to happen, I manifested it. 217 00:10:39,847 --> 00:10:43,017 I stood there in an open field like this with my arms out 218 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:44,935 going, "I'm ready. Come on. 219 00:10:45,019 --> 00:10:46,395 -[singing] -[thundering] 220 00:10:47,938 --> 00:10:48,773 Cut. 221 00:10:49,732 --> 00:10:51,150 That's enough. Perfect! 222 00:10:52,902 --> 00:10:54,111 Thank you very much! 223 00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:56,238 [Andy] Thank you very much! 224 00:10:56,322 --> 00:10:58,783 -[Forman] Thank you very much! -[Andy] Thank you very much! 225 00:10:58,866 --> 00:11:02,495 [Carrey] Finding out you have something special that you know how to do, 226 00:11:02,995 --> 00:11:04,664 and it gets a reaction. 227 00:11:05,206 --> 00:11:06,624 And it was like my dad. 228 00:11:06,707 --> 00:11:10,127 My dad was really funny, so I tried to be funny, and I was funny too. 229 00:11:10,211 --> 00:11:12,088 Holy moley, this is great. 230 00:11:12,463 --> 00:11:15,383 And that's how I got... 231 00:11:15,966 --> 00:11:19,595 attention, and love, and made people think I was special. 232 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,223 'Cause I'm a wild and crazy guy! 233 00:11:22,306 --> 00:11:23,307 [applause] 234 00:11:23,391 --> 00:11:25,142 Jim Carrey from Aldershot High School... 235 00:11:25,226 --> 00:11:27,395 I started out imitating people. 236 00:11:27,478 --> 00:11:29,021 My name is Jimmy Carter... 237 00:11:29,105 --> 00:11:31,482 And I was gonna be the man of a thousand faces, 238 00:11:31,565 --> 00:11:34,568 because the only person I had ever seen that had made it from Canada 239 00:11:34,652 --> 00:11:37,446 was Rich Little, so I thought that was the way you did it. 240 00:11:37,530 --> 00:11:40,032 Lay down and pick the berries! 241 00:11:40,116 --> 00:11:42,576 Henry Fonda and, you know, people like that. 242 00:11:42,660 --> 00:11:45,204 I could do anybody physically really well. 243 00:11:45,663 --> 00:11:46,622 James Dean. 244 00:11:46,956 --> 00:11:51,627 And then at a certain point, I decided I would be training with weights on. 245 00:11:51,711 --> 00:11:53,170 I'm not gonna have jokes. 246 00:11:53,254 --> 00:11:55,881 I'm just gonna get up onstage and sweat in front of the audience 247 00:11:55,965 --> 00:11:57,174 until something happens. 248 00:11:57,258 --> 00:12:00,594 I feel really good tonight . Really good. Excellent . 249 00:12:00,678 --> 00:12:02,221 -[laughter] -I just want to go. 250 00:12:02,304 --> 00:12:04,265 So I was just making sound. 251 00:12:04,348 --> 00:12:06,600 I was just doing things that were weird. 252 00:12:06,684 --> 00:12:08,519 And then I'd go home, and I'd lay on my bed, 253 00:12:08,602 --> 00:12:11,772 and I'd think, "What do they want? What do they want?" 254 00:12:11,856 --> 00:12:13,733 Okay, so let's practice. Okay. 255 00:12:13,816 --> 00:12:15,234 It wasn't what I wanted. 256 00:12:15,609 --> 00:12:16,902 I knew what I wanted. 257 00:12:16,986 --> 00:12:20,823 I wanted to be successful,  I wanted to be a famous actor. 258 00:12:20,906 --> 00:12:24,535 But, "What do they want? What do they want?" 259 00:12:24,618 --> 00:12:28,914 Then one day, in the middle of the night, I woke up out of a sound sleep, 260 00:12:28,998 --> 00:12:33,127 like sat up in bed and went, "They want to be free from concern." 261 00:12:33,210 --> 00:12:34,754 [laughter] 262 00:12:35,796 --> 00:12:38,132 And the light bulb went off. 263 00:12:38,924 --> 00:12:41,343 The very next night, I went to The Comedy Store, 264 00:12:41,844 --> 00:12:45,306 and the first thing I did was say... 265 00:12:45,389 --> 00:12:46,348 Good evening... 266 00:12:46,432 --> 00:12:50,269 "Good evening, ladies and gentleman. How are you this evening? Alrighty then." 267 00:12:50,352 --> 00:12:51,437 Like that. 268 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,148 And it killed. Slaughtered. 269 00:12:54,231 --> 00:12:56,108 Suddenly they just roared, 270 00:12:56,192 --> 00:12:57,860 because they knew I didn't care. 271 00:12:57,943 --> 00:12:58,819 [applause] 272 00:12:58,903 --> 00:13:00,404 What I had decided, 273 00:13:01,113 --> 00:13:05,201 in that moment in my bed, was, "They need to be free from concern, 274 00:13:05,284 --> 00:13:08,454 so I'm gonna be the guy that's free from concern." 275 00:13:09,038 --> 00:13:12,374 I'm gonna appear to be the guy that's free from concern. 276 00:13:16,504 --> 00:13:18,214 Alrighty then! 277 00:13:18,297 --> 00:13:20,508 It's as if I went into a fugue state, 278 00:13:21,634 --> 00:13:23,177 and Hyde showed up. 279 00:13:23,761 --> 00:13:25,179 When I put that mask on, 280 00:13:25,763 --> 00:13:27,097 I can do anything. 281 00:13:28,182 --> 00:13:30,309 Be anything. 282 00:13:32,895 --> 00:13:34,647 I have a Hyde inside me 283 00:13:34,730 --> 00:13:39,235 that shows up when there are people watching. 284 00:13:39,735 --> 00:13:42,947 You know. When there's a thousand people with their eyes on me, 285 00:13:43,030 --> 00:13:44,824 and they hand me a microphone, 286 00:13:45,157 --> 00:13:47,243 Jim goes away and Hyde comes out. 287 00:13:48,118 --> 00:13:49,745 You know. But it's a good Hyde. 288 00:13:49,829 --> 00:13:51,247 It's not a hateful Hyde. 289 00:13:51,622 --> 00:13:52,915 It's a loving Hyde 290 00:13:52,998 --> 00:13:56,544 that just wants everybody to party and have a good time, you know. 291 00:13:56,794 --> 00:14:00,756 Uh... but it's a Hyde nonetheless, and I feel like sometimes... 292 00:14:01,340 --> 00:14:04,718 afterwards, like, "Damn, I lost control again... 293 00:14:05,886 --> 00:14:06,762 to him." 294 00:14:08,222 --> 00:14:09,431 [man 1] Good night, Andy. 295 00:14:09,515 --> 00:14:11,892 -Thanks a lot. -[man 2] Jim, it's been a pleasure... 296 00:14:11,976 --> 00:14:13,644 -Hey, you mean Andy. -Andy? 297 00:14:13,727 --> 00:14:14,812 -That's right. -Okay. 298 00:14:14,895 --> 00:14:15,729 -Okay. -Okay. 299 00:14:15,813 --> 00:14:18,816 -Okay, I'll tell Jim you like him, though. -Okay, you do that. 300 00:14:18,899 --> 00:14:20,150 -All right, thanks. -All right. 301 00:14:20,234 --> 00:14:23,529 Which means I got to get up at five-twenty-fucking-five. 302 00:14:24,446 --> 00:14:25,906 Fucking shit. 303 00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:29,827 Fuck, fuck, fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. 304 00:14:30,411 --> 00:14:34,290 So that I can come here and go, "Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello!" 305 00:14:34,665 --> 00:14:37,001 Oh, wait, I'm not coming here tomorrow, it's Tony. 306 00:14:37,668 --> 00:14:39,545 -I get some rest. -[woman] You have the day off. 307 00:14:39,628 --> 00:14:42,256 I got some rest coming. I'll get some RandR. 308 00:14:44,008 --> 00:14:45,718 It's okay, just leave it open. 309 00:14:45,801 --> 00:14:48,679 Don't worry about it, I don't give a damn. Understand? 310 00:14:48,762 --> 00:14:49,680 No problem. 311 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:52,850 [host] Is Tony gonna show up tonight? 312 00:14:52,933 --> 00:14:54,018 -[Kaufman] Tony? -Clifton. 313 00:14:54,435 --> 00:14:55,436 [woman laughing] 314 00:14:55,519 --> 00:14:56,437 I don't ... 315 00:14:56,729 --> 00:14:57,605 [host] Sheesh. 316 00:14:57,688 --> 00:14:58,898 [laughter] 317 00:14:58,981 --> 00:15:02,192 -Why, that must be one of Tony's fans. -[Kaufman] How do you know him? 318 00:15:02,943 --> 00:15:06,864 Well, I know that Tony Clifton shows up once in a while where you're performing. 319 00:15:06,947 --> 00:15:11,118 Yes, well, uh, he's only on two occasions, really. 320 00:15:11,201 --> 00:15:12,703 -You know. -[laughter] 321 00:15:12,786 --> 00:15:15,080 This is true! I mean, you can have him on your show, 322 00:15:15,164 --> 00:15:17,291 you'll see for yourself if you think it's me. 323 00:15:17,374 --> 00:15:20,461 -I can assure you, you will... -I would love to have him on my show. 324 00:15:20,544 --> 00:15:21,587 Can you arrange it? 325 00:15:21,670 --> 00:15:23,797 I can't, but you can find out his agent... 326 00:15:23,881 --> 00:15:26,675 Kaufman's been using my name to get places. 327 00:15:27,301 --> 00:15:28,218 And, uh... 328 00:15:28,594 --> 00:15:32,431 So there is no truth to the rumor that you're actually Andy Kaufman? 329 00:15:32,514 --> 00:15:34,099 There's no truth to that whatsoever. 330 00:15:34,975 --> 00:15:37,353 That's total fabrication on your part. 331 00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:38,354 [laughing] 332 00:15:38,437 --> 00:15:40,564 I didn't-- a lot of other people have said that. 333 00:15:40,648 --> 00:15:43,317 Yeah, I know, but many people say a lot of things. 334 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:44,234 [Tony] Okay! 335 00:15:50,407 --> 00:15:51,867 Okay, I got it, I got it! 336 00:15:55,162 --> 00:15:56,038 [banging] 337 00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:58,040 I got it! I got it! 338 00:16:01,293 --> 00:16:02,127 [banging] 339 00:16:03,754 --> 00:16:05,381 [mid-tempo music playing] 340 00:16:07,257 --> 00:16:09,134 -Good morning. -[woman] Good morning. 341 00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:12,721 I have some roses for all the beautiful girls in the world. 342 00:16:12,805 --> 00:16:13,889 [razor buzzing] 343 00:16:23,065 --> 00:16:24,024 [increases volume] 344 00:16:24,108 --> 00:16:26,151 [mid-tempo music playing loudly] 345 00:16:46,296 --> 00:16:47,965 [DeVito] You'll see after a while how he... 346 00:16:48,048 --> 00:16:50,801 I heard Milos had to force him to go into makeup and hair. 347 00:16:51,593 --> 00:16:53,178 He was passed out on the couch. 348 00:16:54,388 --> 00:16:56,348 [Carrey] The attitude was already there. 349 00:16:56,432 --> 00:16:59,768 And when you put that Tony Clifton makeup on, there's no choice. 350 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:01,228 You're that guy. 351 00:17:01,311 --> 00:17:02,438 He's here! 352 00:17:02,855 --> 00:17:04,398 He has arrived! 353 00:17:04,481 --> 00:17:05,315 [clapping] 354 00:17:05,399 --> 00:17:06,442 [Carrey] That nose. 355 00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:08,652 The jowls . 356 00:17:08,736 --> 00:17:11,989 And it's scary at first, and then after a while you just go, 357 00:17:12,531 --> 00:17:15,200 "Oh, my God, this is incredibly liberating." 358 00:17:15,284 --> 00:17:16,577 -[man] Tony, Tony. -Huh? 359 00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:19,371 I want to introduce the head of the studio, Ron Meyer. 360 00:17:19,455 --> 00:17:22,332 -It's nice meeting you. -Nice to meet you. Thanks for the gift. 361 00:17:24,585 --> 00:17:26,712 [Tony] Do not mention Andy Kaufman to me. 362 00:17:26,795 --> 00:17:29,840 I am not an Andy Kaufman fan. I do not like Andy Kaufman. 363 00:17:29,923 --> 00:17:33,093 [Carrey] The great Academy Award-winning director 364 00:17:33,177 --> 00:17:35,471 of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 365 00:17:35,554 --> 00:17:38,140 had to come to Tony and prostrate himself 366 00:17:38,557 --> 00:17:40,476 uh, to the great Tony Clifton. 367 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:44,521 Uh, he had to come with his head down and-- and say, 368 00:17:44,605 --> 00:17:45,814 [imitates accent] "Tony, 369 00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:51,361 I know that you know much better than I do what is right for this scene. 370 00:17:52,112 --> 00:17:56,658 But if you could just do one-- one take 371 00:17:56,742 --> 00:17:59,119 where we try it this way, 372 00:17:59,203 --> 00:18:02,539 I would be so indebted to you for the rest of time!" 373 00:18:02,623 --> 00:18:05,334 -Then you start. Say whatever you want. -Yeah. Okay. 374 00:18:05,417 --> 00:18:07,419 It's... you know, you can overlap. 375 00:18:07,878 --> 00:18:11,548 -All right already! Okay! Okay! -You can overlap with his first line. 376 00:18:11,632 --> 00:18:13,092 -Okay, fine, fine. -Christ. 377 00:18:13,175 --> 00:18:16,386 [woman] As a director, Jim Carrey's nowhere in sight. 378 00:18:16,887 --> 00:18:18,847 -You're dealing with Tony Clifton. -Yeah. 379 00:18:18,931 --> 00:18:20,891 -[woman] Is that frustrating? -It is. 380 00:18:22,434 --> 00:18:24,520 I need a director with backbone. 381 00:18:24,603 --> 00:18:26,230 [chattering] 382 00:18:27,147 --> 00:18:29,733 I'm starting a little production company of my own. 383 00:18:29,817 --> 00:18:30,943 -Oh, yeah? -Yeah. 384 00:18:31,026 --> 00:18:32,194 Action! 385 00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:34,822 Taxi, waxi! 386 00:18:34,905 --> 00:18:36,615 Just the faxi, Maxi! 387 00:18:37,157 --> 00:18:39,243 Them's all the words that rhyme with taxi. 388 00:18:39,326 --> 00:18:40,285 Cut! 389 00:18:40,369 --> 00:18:41,662 Perfect, okay! 390 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:44,206 [man] Quiet, please! 391 00:18:44,289 --> 00:18:48,127 You take care of yourself, and make sure you come back in, you know, one piece. 392 00:18:48,210 --> 00:18:50,712 -Absolutely. -Or two pieces would be nice too. 393 00:18:51,380 --> 00:18:52,965 -[whispering] Two pieces too. -Huh? 394 00:18:53,048 --> 00:18:55,050 What do you mean? What's going on? 395 00:18:56,051 --> 00:18:58,554 What-- what, are they doing some kind of technical thing? 396 00:18:59,221 --> 00:19:00,055 Huh? 397 00:19:00,764 --> 00:19:01,723 What's going on? 398 00:19:03,058 --> 00:19:04,476 -[man] Sound check. -A what? 399 00:19:05,185 --> 00:19:06,895 [man] It's called a sound check, Tony. 400 00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:08,772 -[Tony] A sound check? -[man] Yes. 401 00:19:08,856 --> 00:19:09,940 I'll check the sound. 402 00:19:10,023 --> 00:19:13,485 [yelling] 403 00:19:14,486 --> 00:19:15,362 It's working. 404 00:19:19,283 --> 00:19:20,909 We're gonna have to deal with him. 405 00:19:24,788 --> 00:19:26,748 He mellowed after lunch. 406 00:19:26,832 --> 00:19:30,586 He was just kind of a pain body who needed to point it at something. 407 00:19:31,128 --> 00:19:33,422 And uh-- and he did. And he did. 408 00:19:33,505 --> 00:19:38,510 And generally, he pointed at the people that he felt were the loftiest, 409 00:19:38,594 --> 00:19:40,512 who thought they were better than him. 410 00:19:41,346 --> 00:19:42,764 [man] No filming, no filming. 411 00:19:42,848 --> 00:19:44,516 -What's that? -[man] Can't film here. 412 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:45,434 Okay. 413 00:19:45,517 --> 00:19:49,062 [Carrey] On the Universal lot, he stumbled into Amblin, 414 00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:51,106 and busted through the doors, 415 00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:54,109 and, uh, and wanted to see Steven Spielberg. 416 00:19:54,193 --> 00:19:56,153 [woman] I have this, uh, gentleman in the lobby 417 00:19:56,236 --> 00:19:58,363 that is looking for Steven Spielberg. 418 00:19:58,447 --> 00:20:00,324 [Tony] I would like to see the real shark. 419 00:20:00,407 --> 00:20:02,659 -This shark is a phony shark. -[man] Excuse me. 420 00:20:02,743 --> 00:20:04,494 [Carrey] And wanted to assure him 421 00:20:04,578 --> 00:20:07,748 that his movies didn't have to be so crowd-pleasing. 422 00:20:07,831 --> 00:20:09,917 -[Tony] I do creatures. -[woman] Steven's not here. 423 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,460 -Yes, I do. -What do you do? 424 00:20:11,543 --> 00:20:13,337 -I do a yak. -A yak? 425 00:20:13,420 --> 00:20:15,047 That's right. Yak! 426 00:20:15,756 --> 00:20:19,885 [Carrey] Steven wasn't there, but he made quite a show of himself in courtyard, 427 00:20:19,968 --> 00:20:23,847 and had everybody out of their offices looking at what the hell was going on. 428 00:20:24,348 --> 00:20:26,266 Trying to buy his way into heaven. 429 00:20:26,350 --> 00:20:27,893 [laughter] 430 00:20:27,976 --> 00:20:30,187 -[man] No filming! -[Tony] Yeah, yeah, yeah. 431 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,522 ["I've Gotta Be Me" plays] 432 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:36,777 ♪ Oh, whether I'm right ♪ 433 00:20:36,860 --> 00:20:38,278 [applause and laughter] 434 00:20:38,362 --> 00:20:40,739 ♪ Or whether I'm wrong ♪ 435 00:20:41,990 --> 00:20:45,244 ♪ Oh, if I find a place in this world ♪ 436 00:20:45,327 --> 00:20:48,622 ♪ Or never belong ♪ 437 00:20:48,705 --> 00:20:51,708 ♪ I've gotta be me ♪ 438 00:20:52,167 --> 00:20:55,170 ♪ I've gotta be me ♪ 439 00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:56,088 [mumbling] 440 00:20:56,171 --> 00:21:01,510 ♪ Well, I've got to be me! ♪ 441 00:21:01,885 --> 00:21:03,762 Ya! Ha! 442 00:21:04,429 --> 00:21:06,890 I guess it's like a freakin' evolution poster! 443 00:21:06,974 --> 00:21:07,975 [laughing] 444 00:21:08,058 --> 00:21:11,186 Zmuda's a good man. I don't care what he wants to put in his mouth. 445 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:12,104 [laughs] 446 00:21:12,187 --> 00:21:14,773 I want something, goddamn it! That's what I want! 447 00:21:14,856 --> 00:21:16,316 [laughter] 448 00:21:16,692 --> 00:21:17,693 It's freaking me out! 449 00:21:17,776 --> 00:21:19,695 [producer] Can we talk a little bit about 450 00:21:19,778 --> 00:21:22,406 why someone would make a character that people hate? 451 00:21:22,739 --> 00:21:26,785 That a lot of people didn't even find funny, or like what the reason-- 452 00:21:26,868 --> 00:21:28,287 It's funny on a certain level. 453 00:21:28,829 --> 00:21:30,998 On an anarchist level, it's funny. 454 00:21:31,415 --> 00:21:33,542 Hey, look, there's Corey Feldman! 455 00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:35,460 It's Corey Feldman! 456 00:21:37,045 --> 00:21:41,341 [Carrey] I think so much of this came from feeling disenfranchised . 457 00:21:42,217 --> 00:21:45,679 And it depends on how much you kind of resent 458 00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:48,181 that feeling of being an outsider. 459 00:21:48,265 --> 00:21:49,933 -I'll sit over here. -Okay. 460 00:21:50,017 --> 00:21:52,311 [Carrey] And feeling like you're not accepted. 461 00:21:52,394 --> 00:21:53,437 [man] Yes, yes, yes. 462 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,939 Not only, like, in society, 463 00:21:56,023 --> 00:21:58,734 but in some parts of your own family, 464 00:21:59,192 --> 00:22:02,446 and, uh, how you just want to... 465 00:22:02,946 --> 00:22:04,573 you want to get someone's attention. 466 00:22:04,656 --> 00:22:07,075 And I think that that's that. 467 00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:09,494 Like, "How am I gonna get your attention?" 468 00:22:09,578 --> 00:22:10,620 I am Andy. 469 00:22:12,247 --> 00:22:13,248 Get out of here. 470 00:22:14,166 --> 00:22:15,625 I've seen enough. 471 00:22:16,710 --> 00:22:17,836 You take care of him. 472 00:22:18,462 --> 00:22:19,504 Pushes. 473 00:22:21,089 --> 00:22:22,424 [chattering] 474 00:22:24,468 --> 00:22:25,969 -He's pushing. -[man] He's pushing? 475 00:22:26,053 --> 00:22:27,804 -Less is more. -[man] Absolutely right. Yeah. 476 00:22:27,888 --> 00:22:29,389 I think he's blowing it. 477 00:22:29,765 --> 00:22:30,682 I can tell. 478 00:22:30,766 --> 00:22:32,434 The eyes got a little buggy. 479 00:22:32,517 --> 00:22:35,103 -[Tony] They were buggy. -[man] Yeah, you're absolutely right. 480 00:22:35,187 --> 00:22:38,482 [Tony] He wants to be liked. Jim Carrey, he wants to be liked. 481 00:22:39,191 --> 00:22:41,985 He wants to be liked by everybody. He's his worst enemy. 482 00:22:42,402 --> 00:22:46,406 [producer] There's a scene where Tony is talking about Jim. 483 00:22:46,490 --> 00:22:47,491 He's a coward. 484 00:22:47,574 --> 00:22:50,786 [producer] And he's saying stuff like he wants to be liked by everyone. 485 00:22:50,869 --> 00:22:52,204 -He's a coward. -Yeah. 486 00:22:52,746 --> 00:22:54,206 [producer] Do you... 487 00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:59,044 Yeah, I think at that time he was pretty-- he was pretty accurate, actually. 488 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,672 You know, but there's, you know, there's truth, 489 00:23:02,756 --> 00:23:04,591 and then there's truth with charity. 490 00:23:05,008 --> 00:23:07,761 I just wanted to tell him how much I enjoyed the shark. 491 00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:11,014 -The shark movie, Jaws. -That's right. That's right. 492 00:23:11,098 --> 00:23:13,016 -Yeah. -He never did better than that! 493 00:23:14,309 --> 00:23:17,646 Tell Jim we are doing Friday dinner. 494 00:23:17,729 --> 00:23:18,647 Who and who? 495 00:23:19,147 --> 00:23:20,357 You and me. 496 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,360 -Who's you and me? I'm not going. -I know, but... 497 00:23:23,443 --> 00:23:28,698 [Carrey] Milos called me about two weeks into shooting, 498 00:23:28,782 --> 00:23:30,117 and he said, 499 00:23:30,909 --> 00:23:33,620 [imitates accent] "I don't know what to do. 500 00:23:34,621 --> 00:23:39,209 I have never dealt with anyone like Andy." 501 00:23:39,709 --> 00:23:41,753 -I'll check with him. -Check and let me know. 502 00:23:41,837 --> 00:23:43,338 -I'll let you know. -Okay, good. 503 00:23:43,422 --> 00:23:45,841 -I'll get him to call you. Okay. -Very good. 504 00:23:45,924 --> 00:23:47,592 -Very good, very good. -It's a deal. 505 00:23:47,676 --> 00:23:49,678 I'm so exhausted, you know. 506 00:23:49,761 --> 00:23:51,763 -I am so exhausted. -I know. I understand. 507 00:23:51,847 --> 00:23:53,348 [Carrey] " And Tony Clifton, 508 00:23:54,182 --> 00:23:58,603 I have never been intimidated 509 00:23:58,687 --> 00:24:00,230 by another man. 510 00:24:00,814 --> 00:24:04,443 And I am intimidated by Tony Clifton!" 511 00:24:05,318 --> 00:24:06,278 And, uh... 512 00:24:06,695 --> 00:24:08,864 And I said, "Well... 513 00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:11,783 we could fire them 514 00:24:11,867 --> 00:24:14,578 and I could do an impression. 515 00:24:14,661 --> 00:24:16,872 I'm a really good impressionist. 516 00:24:16,955 --> 00:24:20,208 And I could do a pretty good imitation of both of them, I think." 517 00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:22,919 And then there was silence on the phone. 518 00:24:23,628 --> 00:24:24,504 And... 519 00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:27,340 Then Milos said, 520 00:24:28,216 --> 00:24:29,050 "No. 521 00:24:30,886 --> 00:24:32,471 I don't want to stop it. 522 00:24:33,930 --> 00:24:35,807 I just wanted to talk to Jim." 523 00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:41,980 [man] Jerry. 524 00:24:43,690 --> 00:24:45,066 [Tony] I'm Batman. 525 00:24:46,610 --> 00:24:47,527 [chuckling] 526 00:24:48,987 --> 00:24:50,155 I'm Batman. 527 00:24:52,824 --> 00:24:54,034 [chuckling] 528 00:24:56,536 --> 00:24:57,871 [piano playing] 529 00:25:00,624 --> 00:25:02,375 [singing gibberish] 530 00:25:16,473 --> 00:25:18,683 [Michael] Standing over there, I first came in, 531 00:25:18,767 --> 00:25:22,562 I really had this feeling that someone else might be walking in also. 532 00:25:23,104 --> 00:25:25,690 -Oh, it's always a possibility. -Yeah, right. 533 00:25:25,774 --> 00:25:27,901 [woman] How's it feel to be around your brother again? 534 00:25:27,984 --> 00:25:30,028 [Michael] It's an amazing thing. 535 00:25:31,238 --> 00:25:33,532 He has embodied Andy so much, 536 00:25:33,615 --> 00:25:36,117 and-- and all the different parts of Andy. 537 00:25:36,618 --> 00:25:38,411 And he's put him somehow... 538 00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:41,039 He knows him, he understands him. 539 00:25:41,122 --> 00:25:42,290 [Andy] Abi-dabu-way. 540 00:25:42,666 --> 00:25:44,668 -Abu-day! -Abu-day! 541 00:25:44,751 --> 00:25:46,920 -Aki-chay-wa! -Aki-chay-wa! 542 00:25:47,003 --> 00:25:47,921 Hak-in-bo-day! 543 00:25:48,046 --> 00:25:50,215 [producer] Had you played a real person before? 544 00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:52,968 [laughing] 545 00:25:53,051 --> 00:25:54,219 That's an odd question. 546 00:25:54,594 --> 00:25:55,428 Uh... 547 00:25:55,512 --> 00:25:57,889 -Like a living person? -[producer] Yeah. 548 00:25:57,973 --> 00:26:01,101 Um, I don't think I had before that, no. 549 00:26:01,184 --> 00:26:02,769 Hello. Good to see you. 550 00:26:02,852 --> 00:26:04,646 -Good to see you too, Daddy. -Yeah. 551 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,065 And, you know... 552 00:26:09,651 --> 00:26:10,986 I'm very proud of you. 553 00:26:11,069 --> 00:26:12,153 -You are? -I am. 554 00:26:14,990 --> 00:26:15,824 Whoa. 555 00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:18,368 Okay. 556 00:26:20,662 --> 00:26:21,496 Bye, Andy. 557 00:26:22,289 --> 00:26:23,123 Okay. 558 00:26:26,418 --> 00:26:27,252 [man] Yes. 559 00:26:29,546 --> 00:26:30,839 [Carrey] And the family, 560 00:26:30,922 --> 00:26:33,383 they embraced me as Andy, 561 00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:35,051 as if I was family . 562 00:26:35,885 --> 00:26:37,053 As if I was back. 563 00:26:38,138 --> 00:26:41,766 I think that this movie's gonna be a celebration 564 00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:45,395 and also healing for everybody. 565 00:26:45,478 --> 00:26:46,396 Yeah. 566 00:26:47,063 --> 00:26:48,648 You too, for you too. 567 00:26:50,358 --> 00:26:51,318 For us. 568 00:26:53,695 --> 00:26:57,032 [Carrey] And no one really knew what was real and not real half the time. 569 00:26:57,115 --> 00:26:58,867 I didn't know what was real and not. 570 00:26:59,284 --> 00:27:02,287 You just went with Andy and Tony 571 00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:04,748 and wherever their whim took you. 572 00:27:05,206 --> 00:27:09,502 And the emotions oftentimes were very real. 573 00:27:11,171 --> 00:27:13,590 You want me not to tell you what I really feel? 574 00:27:13,673 --> 00:27:14,507 [Andy] Yes. 575 00:27:14,591 --> 00:27:17,969 Oh, so you want-- okay, all right, that's what I need to know then. 576 00:27:18,595 --> 00:27:20,889 All right, then I won't tell you my concern. 577 00:27:20,972 --> 00:27:22,265 I just want to be supported. 578 00:27:22,349 --> 00:27:25,310 If I want to choose to do something, you should support me. 579 00:27:25,393 --> 00:27:29,564 I mean, I don't understand why you're always negative, and you don't... 580 00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:32,776 Gerry Becker, who was playing my father at one point, 581 00:27:33,234 --> 00:27:36,237 went crazy suddenly in the makeup trailer, 582 00:27:36,321 --> 00:27:38,823 started screaming at Andy as his father. 583 00:27:38,907 --> 00:27:40,241 I'm angry because I love you. 584 00:27:40,325 --> 00:27:43,244 I'm not angry 'cause I want to try to not give you support. 585 00:27:43,328 --> 00:27:45,455 Too late! Too late! 586 00:27:45,538 --> 00:27:46,581 ["Starman" plays] 587 00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:48,249 [Becker] All right, fine. Okay. 588 00:27:48,333 --> 00:27:50,502 ♪ But he thinks he'd blow our minds ♪ 589 00:27:50,585 --> 00:27:55,256 ♪ There's a starman waiting in the sky ♪ 590 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:57,634 ♪ He's told us not to blow it ♪ 591 00:27:57,717 --> 00:27:59,469 ♪ 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile ♪ 592 00:27:59,552 --> 00:28:00,387 It's okay. 593 00:28:02,263 --> 00:28:03,807 That reminds me of my dad. 594 00:28:03,890 --> 00:28:05,141 [crying] 595 00:28:05,225 --> 00:28:06,476 I can't believe that. 596 00:28:08,353 --> 00:28:10,355 ♪ Starman ♪ 597 00:28:10,730 --> 00:28:11,564 Sorry. 598 00:28:12,399 --> 00:28:14,401 ♪ He'd like to come and meet us ♪ 599 00:28:14,484 --> 00:28:16,945 ♪ But he thinks he'd blow our minds ♪ 600 00:28:18,363 --> 00:28:20,824 I'm terrible. I'm terrible. 601 00:28:22,117 --> 00:28:23,159 I'm terrible. 602 00:28:24,994 --> 00:28:26,788 -I want you to be here. -I'm here. 603 00:28:26,871 --> 00:28:28,206 I want you to be here. 604 00:28:28,289 --> 00:28:30,625 It's just bizarre. It's so bizarre. It's so... 605 00:28:31,334 --> 00:28:33,378 This is what started happening all over, 606 00:28:33,461 --> 00:28:36,756 this kind of crazy melodrama happening everywhere. 607 00:28:38,007 --> 00:28:39,759 [Kaufman] Don't try that again! 608 00:28:39,843 --> 00:28:41,010 I am a star, 609 00:28:41,094 --> 00:28:45,056 and next time I come here, I want you all to get down on your knees 610 00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:46,641 and bow down to me! 611 00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:50,103 And if I pass you by, kiss my feet! 612 00:28:50,478 --> 00:28:54,274 You bunch of slimy hicks from Memphis, Tennessee! 613 00:28:54,357 --> 00:28:57,068 -You hicks! Go and clear them out! -[man] Okay. 614 00:28:57,152 --> 00:28:59,738 Clear the fields and the farms, you little hicks! 615 00:28:59,821 --> 00:29:02,615 I'll tell you something, you are not welcome here, okay? 616 00:29:02,699 --> 00:29:04,993 You are not welcome here. All right, Lawler? 617 00:29:05,452 --> 00:29:06,578 I'm not afraid of you. 618 00:29:06,661 --> 00:29:07,495 [chirping] 619 00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:09,038 [Forman] Whoa, whoa, whoa! 620 00:29:09,122 --> 00:29:10,874 -Wait. -He's trying to scare me. 621 00:29:10,957 --> 00:29:13,293 -No, he doesn't scare me. -You have to work now. 622 00:29:13,376 --> 00:29:14,669 Andy, you are here to work. 623 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:15,587 [screaming] 624 00:29:16,629 --> 00:29:18,256 Andy! Andy! 625 00:29:18,339 --> 00:29:19,883 -[mumbling] -Andy! Andy! 626 00:29:19,966 --> 00:29:22,886 Is that how you talk from Memphis, Tennessee, Mr. Lawler, huh? 627 00:29:22,969 --> 00:29:24,554 -Huh? Is that how you talk? -Andy! 628 00:29:24,637 --> 00:29:27,932 You have to give me a chance to make a movie! 629 00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:31,686 I don't need to make a movie. I want a shot at him, that's what I want. 630 00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:32,604 [Forman] Okay. 631 00:29:33,271 --> 00:29:35,523 -What are we gonna do? -I don't know. 632 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:38,651 -I don't know. -[Andy] Lawler! 633 00:29:38,735 --> 00:29:39,861 [chirping] 634 00:29:39,944 --> 00:29:42,947 Andy Kaufman, who, in his comedy routine in various nightclubs, 635 00:29:43,031 --> 00:29:46,117 would invite women up from the audience and would then wrestle them. 636 00:29:46,201 --> 00:29:50,038 He, uh, then began to name himself as the inter-gender champion. 637 00:29:50,121 --> 00:29:54,000 He took it one step too far when he went up against Jerry "The King" Lawler. 638 00:29:54,083 --> 00:29:55,710 -Remember that night? -Absolutely. 639 00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:59,422 Jerry "The King" Lawler found out that Andy Kaufman is a comedian 640 00:29:59,506 --> 00:30:01,132 and not a professional wrestler. 641 00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:04,177 [announcer] Whoa! And as Lawler slips out of the way, 642 00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:05,762 he nails The Colossus. 643 00:30:06,095 --> 00:30:07,096 Lawler's got him! 644 00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:08,264 [cheering] 645 00:30:09,098 --> 00:30:11,976 Hart trying to get the big guy loose from the ropes, 646 00:30:12,352 --> 00:30:14,562 and look at Lawler go to work on him! 647 00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:15,563 [cheering] 648 00:30:18,316 --> 00:30:20,068 He picks Andy up. 649 00:30:20,151 --> 00:30:21,736 He's gonna suplex him. 650 00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:22,779 [cheering] 651 00:30:22,862 --> 00:30:24,030 [man] Ooh! 652 00:30:24,572 --> 00:30:26,908 [Andy] Like that's all he's known for now. .. 653 00:30:27,742 --> 00:30:28,827 is fighting me. 654 00:30:29,536 --> 00:30:31,955 I'm the reason wrestling even exists now. 655 00:30:32,956 --> 00:30:34,749 I'm the reason for Hulk Hogan. 656 00:30:37,710 --> 00:30:40,171 [Forman] In this movie, you'll have to... 657 00:30:40,255 --> 00:30:42,924 At the end, you have to be friends with him. 658 00:30:43,007 --> 00:30:44,551 [Andy] That sounds really Hollywood. 659 00:30:44,634 --> 00:30:47,345 [Forman] I know it sounds Hollywood, but that's, uh... 660 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,473 You know, that's what really happened, but... 661 00:30:50,557 --> 00:30:51,933 Well, I don't believe that. 662 00:30:52,016 --> 00:30:53,852 I'll do anything you want me to do. 663 00:30:55,353 --> 00:30:57,814 [Carrey] The relationship with Jerry Lawler, 664 00:30:57,897 --> 00:31:01,401 I think that was a function also of coming from a different world, 665 00:31:01,484 --> 00:31:02,944 and he was wonderful. 666 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:04,863 Uh... but, um... 667 00:31:05,363 --> 00:31:07,448 And I really liked him, uh... 668 00:31:07,532 --> 00:31:11,494 But, you know, Andy felt that it was necessary 669 00:31:11,578 --> 00:31:13,705 for him to stay in the character, 670 00:31:13,788 --> 00:31:16,708 so Andy stayed in the character. 671 00:31:16,791 --> 00:31:18,376 So, I don't care what you say. 672 00:31:18,459 --> 00:31:22,088 You can take your, you know, your fancy, like, wrestling moves. 673 00:31:22,171 --> 00:31:25,216 Want to take a poke at me? Come on. I know all the pressure points. 674 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:27,135 -Go find a girl to wrestle, okay? -Yeah? 675 00:31:27,719 --> 00:31:28,553 All right. 676 00:31:28,636 --> 00:31:31,180 [Lawler] No, I've not said anything to Jim Carrey. 677 00:31:31,264 --> 00:31:35,643 It was my understanding that you don't talk to Jim Carrey. 678 00:31:35,727 --> 00:31:38,521 -He's either Andy or nothing, you know. -Right. 679 00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:39,939 [grunting] 680 00:31:41,190 --> 00:31:43,151 You're screwing everything up in there. 681 00:31:44,694 --> 00:31:47,739 [Lawler] I understand-- I guess I understand what he's doing , 682 00:31:47,822 --> 00:31:51,326 and the fact that, like you say, he is wanting to be so in character. 683 00:31:51,409 --> 00:31:53,536 He is wanting to be Andy Kaufman. 684 00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:54,746 He's a real goof. 685 00:31:54,829 --> 00:31:56,748 [honking] 686 00:31:56,831 --> 00:31:59,542 [Carrey] And he was also going, "Hey, where's the edge of this? " 687 00:31:59,626 --> 00:32:02,253 You know, in real life, Andy and I were actually friends, 688 00:32:02,337 --> 00:32:04,589 and we, you know, planned things together. 689 00:32:04,672 --> 00:32:07,258 I didn't come here to be insulted. I'll walk right out. 690 00:32:07,342 --> 00:32:11,888 I'm used to being on big shows nationwide, not on a little rinky-dink local show. 691 00:32:11,971 --> 00:32:14,557 [Carrey] And it didn't work out that way... 692 00:32:15,183 --> 00:32:16,100 this time . 693 00:32:18,853 --> 00:32:22,482 Can't stand to watch it anymore. Jerry, there's a little surprise. 694 00:32:22,565 --> 00:32:24,108 And it's right behind you. 695 00:32:29,864 --> 00:32:31,950 [clucking] 696 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:37,413 When we're backstage, in front of just the people working on the movie, 697 00:32:37,497 --> 00:32:40,124 to stick a sign on somebody's back and to... 698 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:44,170 uh, throw water on you, you know, and stuff at my girlfriend, 699 00:32:44,253 --> 00:32:45,630 and that kind of stuff. 700 00:32:45,713 --> 00:32:47,966 Once again proving Darwin's theory. 701 00:32:49,133 --> 00:32:50,259 Oh, man. 702 00:32:50,843 --> 00:32:52,762 [woman] Oh, oh, oh! 703 00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:54,847 [shouting] 704 00:32:58,393 --> 00:33:02,021 [Lawler] Anytime I want to, understand? Anytime I want to! 705 00:33:02,105 --> 00:33:04,023 [man] He's joking around! He's joking, man! 706 00:33:04,107 --> 00:33:06,109 -[Lawler] Well, a joke goes too far! -[man] Okay. 707 00:33:06,192 --> 00:33:08,695 -Anytime I want to, I can do this to you! -[man] Okay. 708 00:33:08,778 --> 00:33:10,613 [Lawler] You understand that? Anytime! 709 00:33:10,697 --> 00:33:12,323 -[Andy] Okay. -[Lawler] Anytime. 710 00:33:13,157 --> 00:33:14,617 [Carrey] He's a wrestler. 711 00:33:14,701 --> 00:33:16,786 He gets caught up in the part, man. 712 00:33:16,869 --> 00:33:20,790 And some of it becomes a little bit real, and some doesn't, you know, 713 00:33:20,873 --> 00:33:23,918 so if it escalates till somebody gets a broken nose, 714 00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:26,337 it escalates till somebody gets a broken nose. 715 00:33:28,589 --> 00:33:32,593 I think that Andy had trouble early on, which is very, very hard. 716 00:33:32,969 --> 00:33:35,638 Jim had trouble later on, 717 00:33:36,305 --> 00:33:37,807 and it... 718 00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:41,894 and it kind of threw him for a loop, 719 00:33:41,978 --> 00:33:42,979 and he got angry. 720 00:33:43,312 --> 00:33:44,147 And... 721 00:33:44,647 --> 00:33:48,317 And he used that to express himself, you know? 722 00:33:48,901 --> 00:33:50,111 In many ways. 723 00:33:50,194 --> 00:33:52,864 There was a lot of anger in everything he did, but... 724 00:33:52,947 --> 00:33:53,823 [clears throat] 725 00:33:54,574 --> 00:33:56,826 He's afraid if he gets healthy, 726 00:33:56,909 --> 00:34:00,580 he won't have creativity, sometimes. 727 00:34:00,663 --> 00:34:01,789 -[man] Jim? -Yep. 728 00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:05,334 And I think sometimes he makes a conscious decision 729 00:34:05,418 --> 00:34:08,087 not to be completely together. 730 00:34:08,671 --> 00:34:11,924 When I watch the footage of the stuff we took behind the scenes, 731 00:34:12,008 --> 00:34:14,552 I often wish that that was part of the movie, 732 00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:18,306 you know, that it had been married in the movie, 733 00:34:18,389 --> 00:34:23,686 because most people felt that the movie was happening behind the camera. 734 00:34:23,770 --> 00:34:26,189 Okay, now, let's do one more rehearsal. 735 00:34:27,148 --> 00:34:28,941 Uh... Andy? 736 00:34:29,025 --> 00:34:33,696 [producer] So, what was the trajectory of this footage from when you shot it ? 737 00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:38,076 What was the original intent with it, and how did it end up where we are today? 738 00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:42,413 One of the things that I've always really been kind of annoyed by 739 00:34:42,497 --> 00:34:47,001 and I certainly-- I don't like things that look like actors are stiff, 740 00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:49,837 and they're standing in front of cameras and performing, 741 00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:53,466 and they do these things called electronic press kits. 742 00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:57,053 I always allow it, but it's never a comfortable thing for me 743 00:34:57,136 --> 00:35:00,014 to have someone lurking around with a camera. 744 00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:01,516 It's always bothered me. 745 00:35:01,933 --> 00:35:04,852 So when they said they wanted to have an EPK, 746 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:08,272 I said, "I got Lynne Margulies here. She's a documentarian. 747 00:35:08,356 --> 00:35:10,608 She was Andy Kaufman's girlfriend. 748 00:35:10,691 --> 00:35:12,944 She knows Andy really well, you know. 749 00:35:13,027 --> 00:35:14,529 Bob Zmuda's here. 750 00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:17,824 He's a creative, you know, genius dude, 751 00:35:17,907 --> 00:35:20,118 who did all of Andy's stuff with him. 752 00:35:20,618 --> 00:35:21,619 What's your name? 753 00:35:22,328 --> 00:35:23,913 -Bob Zmuda. -Bob what? 754 00:35:23,996 --> 00:35:25,540 -Bob Zmuda. -Zmuda? 755 00:35:25,998 --> 00:35:27,416 Bob what, Zmuda? 756 00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:29,085 Bob Zmuda? 757 00:35:29,168 --> 00:35:31,254 [Carrey] I said they can do the EPK footage. 758 00:35:31,337 --> 00:35:33,131 We'll get footage every day, 759 00:35:33,214 --> 00:35:34,841 and I was comfortable with them. 760 00:35:36,467 --> 00:35:38,469 I get a call last night from Jimmy 761 00:35:38,553 --> 00:35:42,723 who said that they are maneuvering, and they are gonna find a way, basically, 762 00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:45,434 to sequester the material. 763 00:35:47,353 --> 00:35:49,397 -Jimmy said they came down hard. -[Zmuda] Who's they? 764 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:50,356 Universal. 765 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,360 Universal, Meyer, everybody. 766 00:35:54,443 --> 00:35:58,823 They just were like, "Look, this is-- this is our project. 767 00:35:58,906 --> 00:36:02,910 I don't care if, you know, Jim Carrey wants to jack off all day long 768 00:36:03,369 --> 00:36:05,246 you know, he can fucking do whatever he wants, 769 00:36:05,329 --> 00:36:08,249 it's our movie, it's our set, it's our concept, 770 00:36:08,332 --> 00:36:10,001 and you're giving the stuff over." 771 00:36:10,084 --> 00:36:14,088 [Carrey] Universal decided at that time that they didn't want me to 772 00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:16,465 allow any of that to surface... 773 00:36:17,049 --> 00:36:19,427 so that people wouldn't think I was an asshole. 774 00:36:19,844 --> 00:36:23,973 And, uh, those were the words exactly that came back to me, 775 00:36:24,098 --> 00:36:26,601 that, "We don't want people to think Jim's an asshole." 776 00:36:26,684 --> 00:36:28,436 [laughs] 777 00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:29,729 [Tony] Quick impression. 778 00:36:30,479 --> 00:36:31,772 Jackie Kennedy. 779 00:36:32,064 --> 00:36:33,316 Oh. Ah, Christ! 780 00:36:33,733 --> 00:36:35,276 Fuck, fuck, fuck! 781 00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:36,694 Ah! 782 00:36:38,237 --> 00:36:39,530 Oh, Christ. 783 00:36:41,866 --> 00:36:43,451 [piano music plays] 784 00:36:45,745 --> 00:36:48,581 My name is Jim Carrey,  this is my Saturday Night Live audition. 785 00:36:51,459 --> 00:36:54,420 The day I was auditioning for Saturday Night Live, 786 00:36:54,629 --> 00:36:57,173 I got out of my car, and I heard a voice say, 787 00:36:57,256 --> 00:36:58,174 "Don't jump." 788 00:36:59,050 --> 00:37:02,803 I looked up at the top of the building, and there was an NBC page 789 00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:04,430 standing on the logo, 790 00:37:04,889 --> 00:37:07,725 trying to get the nerve up to jump off and kill himself. 791 00:37:08,392 --> 00:37:10,353 And I went, "This is not gonna happen." 792 00:37:11,270 --> 00:37:12,355 "This is not gonna happen." 793 00:37:12,438 --> 00:37:13,814 ♪ Oh, you can do anything ♪ 794 00:37:13,898 --> 00:37:15,816 ♪ But lay off of them blue suede shoes ♪ 795 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:17,401 [singing] 796 00:37:17,485 --> 00:37:20,863 But I'd worked in factories. I had a ninth-grade education. 797 00:37:21,364 --> 00:37:24,408 And it's a series of, like, crushing disappointments, 798 00:37:24,492 --> 00:37:26,160 and I just go into a different gear. 799 00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:30,498 I go into "Don't know how it's gonna right itself, but it will," you know? 800 00:37:30,581 --> 00:37:31,582 I don't know how. 801 00:37:32,708 --> 00:37:36,504 He's been in Hollywood about ten months and created quite a bit of excitement. 802 00:37:36,587 --> 00:37:39,882 This is his first appearance on American television. Welcome Jim Carrey. 803 00:37:39,966 --> 00:37:40,800 Jim. 804 00:37:41,175 --> 00:37:45,179 [Carrey] My father said, "That's great. Maybe we can turn it into something." 805 00:37:45,972 --> 00:37:48,766 And I said, "No, it is something actually. 806 00:37:49,016 --> 00:37:51,894 It's making it. I've made it. I'm on The Tonight Show." 807 00:37:51,978 --> 00:37:54,438 ♪ Warden threw a party In the county jail ♪ 808 00:37:55,189 --> 00:37:58,985 And they're all like, "All right, okay. Hope it, uh, pans out." 809 00:38:00,361 --> 00:38:01,612 ♪ Imposter ♪ 810 00:38:01,696 --> 00:38:03,698 ♪ I'm just a middle-class white kid From Toronto ♪ 811 00:38:03,781 --> 00:38:05,116 ♪ In spite of how I sound ♪ 812 00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:08,369 ♪ Single went platinum, bigger than Marley Jimmy, Yellowman, but I'm not mulatto ♪ 813 00:38:08,452 --> 00:38:11,998 Just before everything started cooking for me, 814 00:38:12,415 --> 00:38:14,959 I think I might have been doing In Living Color already, 815 00:38:15,042 --> 00:38:17,837 I was driving down Melrose Boulevard by The Improv ... 816 00:38:18,796 --> 00:38:21,882 I saw this psychic palm reader sign. 817 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:23,843 And , uh ... 818 00:38:23,926 --> 00:38:25,469 she gave me a reading. 819 00:38:26,220 --> 00:38:28,055 And she said... 820 00:38:31,183 --> 00:38:33,311 "You're about to do three things, 821 00:38:33,394 --> 00:38:34,520 three movies, 822 00:38:35,396 --> 00:38:38,649 that will be very, very, very big, 823 00:38:39,317 --> 00:38:41,527 and very important. 824 00:38:42,028 --> 00:38:42,862 And... 825 00:38:43,904 --> 00:38:44,905 after that... 826 00:38:46,032 --> 00:38:50,286 it will be impossible for anyone to knock you down from that place." 827 00:38:52,371 --> 00:38:56,709 Shortly after that, I did Ace Ventura, The Mask,  and Dumb and Dumber. 828 00:38:56,792 --> 00:38:58,461 La, la, la, la, la, la. 829 00:39:11,390 --> 00:39:13,225 Ooh! That was perfect. 830 00:39:13,642 --> 00:39:16,562 -[woman] Courtney comes today, you know. -Oh, yeah? Cool. 831 00:39:16,896 --> 00:39:17,980 Excellent. 832 00:39:18,064 --> 00:39:20,691 It's very funny because this is my old neighborhood. 833 00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:22,526 Welcome! 834 00:39:22,610 --> 00:39:24,236 -Hello! -Welcome! Welcome! 835 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,197 [Mariachi band playing] 836 00:39:39,251 --> 00:39:41,754 [laughter, screaming] 837 00:39:48,677 --> 00:39:50,805 [cheering] 838 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,268 [Love] We have that on hard copy. 839 00:39:56,352 --> 00:39:57,937 -Stop it! -Just kidding. 840 00:39:58,020 --> 00:40:01,982 -I'm only kidding, you know? That'll pass. -You're a sweet daisy. 841 00:40:02,066 --> 00:40:05,403 We didn't talk much, the minute she started playing me, I felt it was me. 842 00:40:05,486 --> 00:40:07,738 She had little mannerisms. Didn't you think so? 843 00:40:07,822 --> 00:40:10,032 -Little mannerisms and... -[Stipe] Oh, she's great. 844 00:40:10,116 --> 00:40:12,868 Yeah, she's great! I really felt like it was me. 845 00:40:13,369 --> 00:40:15,413 She's really gonna kick my ass in wrestling. 846 00:40:15,496 --> 00:40:17,456 -[Margulies] Ha! -[Stipe] She's strong. 847 00:40:18,082 --> 00:40:18,916 She's strong. 848 00:40:18,999 --> 00:40:20,000 [laughs] 849 00:40:20,084 --> 00:40:23,254 Taking the laundry in and stuff like that, all that stretching. 850 00:40:23,963 --> 00:40:27,925 You're not gonna back out of this thing that you're gonna do today? 851 00:40:28,008 --> 00:40:31,512 -You're actually going to wrestle a woman? -[Kaufman] Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. 852 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:34,515 -Why don't you ever wrestle a man? -I'd rather wrestle a woman. 853 00:40:34,598 --> 00:40:36,183 [laughter] 854 00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:39,061 [Carrey] The public just did not understand the wrestling, 855 00:40:39,728 --> 00:40:41,188 and the taunting, and the whatever, 856 00:40:41,272 --> 00:40:44,859 and touching the emotional and sociological buttons. 857 00:40:45,276 --> 00:40:48,571 Now, I'm not saying women are mentally inferior to men 858 00:40:48,654 --> 00:40:52,199 because when it comes to things like cooking and cleaning, 859 00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:54,869 washing the potatoes, carrots, raising the babies... 860 00:40:55,286 --> 00:40:57,413 ...making the babies, mopping the floors. 861 00:40:57,496 --> 00:40:58,414 [booing] 862 00:40:58,497 --> 00:41:00,541 They have it all over men. I believe that. 863 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,585 But when it comes to wrestling... 864 00:41:02,668 --> 00:41:04,378 -[booing] -[Andy] Shut up! 865 00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:07,631 Be quiet when the man is talking! 866 00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:10,718 The whole women's movement was exploding at that time, 867 00:41:10,801 --> 00:41:12,219 and he went the other way 868 00:41:12,303 --> 00:41:14,847 and said they should be in the kitchen, and all this stuff. 869 00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:17,850 He just was on his own wavelength, 870 00:41:17,933 --> 00:41:19,852 and you were either gonna join or you weren't. 871 00:41:19,935 --> 00:41:24,148 And he seemed to thrive off those who didn't. 872 00:41:24,732 --> 00:41:28,068 God, men, women, dog. 873 00:41:28,152 --> 00:41:29,987 [laughter, booing] 874 00:41:30,070 --> 00:41:34,492 It was like when Jesus said, you know, "Eat my body and drink my blood." 875 00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:36,952 It's a way to, like, weed out the crowd. 876 00:41:37,453 --> 00:41:39,914 Those people who don't see anything past the literal... 877 00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:41,332 Please do Foreign Man. 878 00:41:41,624 --> 00:41:43,584 -Please. Please. -No, I hate that. 879 00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:48,756 [Carrey] They don't bother to look for the absurd truth behind it. 880 00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:50,049 He's not interested in them. 881 00:41:50,132 --> 00:41:52,801 Do Latka! Do Latka! 882 00:41:52,885 --> 00:41:54,512 Do Latka! 883 00:41:54,595 --> 00:41:56,555 [all] Do Latka! 884 00:41:56,639 --> 00:41:58,015 Here's Latka's ass. 885 00:41:58,098 --> 00:41:59,141 [laughter] 886 00:41:59,225 --> 00:42:03,187 [Carrey] We're coming out of Vietnam, out of Nixon, out of the Beat Generation. 887 00:42:03,270 --> 00:42:05,439 Andy was a big Beat Generation guy. 888 00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:07,149 [speaking gibberish] 889 00:42:07,233 --> 00:42:11,320 [Carrey] I don't think he liked structures that were expected to be. 890 00:42:11,403 --> 00:42:13,447 Thank you very much. Thank you very much. 891 00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:16,825 And I think also I'm glad, you know, I expressed that thing 892 00:42:16,909 --> 00:42:19,662 about the, "Thank you very much, thank you very much," 893 00:42:19,745 --> 00:42:23,165 'cause every comic that gets a catchphrase like that goes crazy with it. 894 00:42:23,249 --> 00:42:24,792 [man] That's right, their signature. 895 00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:27,670 Ultimately, that kind of stuff chews you up, 896 00:42:28,420 --> 00:42:30,714 and it might've chewed him up a little bit. 897 00:42:30,798 --> 00:42:34,426 Drives them crazy, the very thing that makes them famous. 898 00:42:34,510 --> 00:42:35,678 [man] Yeah. 899 00:42:35,761 --> 00:42:38,764 [Carrey] You're the crowd's man after a while. 900 00:42:39,348 --> 00:42:44,812 You know, it's not-- it's not Jim Carrey who can walk down the street just, uh... 901 00:42:45,145 --> 00:42:48,190 you know, doing anything he wants to and get away with it, 902 00:42:48,274 --> 00:42:49,858 because nobody knows you. 903 00:42:49,942 --> 00:42:52,695 You know, after a while, hopefully, it'll be to the point 904 00:42:52,778 --> 00:42:55,614 where I can't walk out on the street. Won't that be fun? 905 00:42:56,073 --> 00:42:58,075 [laughs] 906 00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:02,955 Where it'll be impossible to walk anywhere without being recognized. 907 00:43:05,124 --> 00:43:06,375 At some point, 908 00:43:06,834 --> 00:43:09,044 when you create yourself to make it, 909 00:43:10,004 --> 00:43:15,759 uh, you're going to have to either let that creation go, 910 00:43:16,594 --> 00:43:17,469 and... 911 00:43:18,053 --> 00:43:24,476 and take a chance on being loved or hated for who you really are, 912 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,396 or you're gonna have to kill who you really are... 913 00:43:28,856 --> 00:43:31,025 and fall into your grave 914 00:43:31,108 --> 00:43:34,737 grasping onto a character that you never were. 915 00:43:40,743 --> 00:43:42,578 Sure you're not gonna miss this guy? 916 00:43:43,078 --> 00:43:44,997 When he's gone, all that's left is me. 917 00:43:51,962 --> 00:43:54,340 Everything speaks to me. It's the weirdest thing. 918 00:43:54,423 --> 00:43:58,052 Every movie I've gotten in my life, I could trace any movie, 919 00:43:58,469 --> 00:44:01,305 and I could tell you somehow 920 00:44:01,388 --> 00:44:06,268 how that was the absolute manifestation  of my consciousness at that time. 921 00:44:07,394 --> 00:44:10,648 I was Truman, I was in the bubble at that time. 922 00:44:11,273 --> 00:44:14,151 Peter Weir knew that. He cast me because of it. 923 00:44:14,610 --> 00:44:16,779 Hello? Come in, Major Burbank. 924 00:44:17,738 --> 00:44:19,031 [whistling] 925 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,123 [laughing] 926 00:44:29,249 --> 00:44:31,627 Eternal Sunshine was so much... 927 00:44:32,461 --> 00:44:34,254 I was very heartbroken. 928 00:44:35,381 --> 00:44:38,676 And she looks at me like she doesn't even know who I am. 929 00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:40,260 Excuse me? 930 00:44:41,637 --> 00:44:43,055 Can I help you find something, sir? 931 00:44:43,138 --> 00:44:45,974 [Carrey] And that was really just about that feeling of, 932 00:44:46,058 --> 00:44:49,311 "My God, I have to erase this from my mind." 933 00:44:49,395 --> 00:44:50,688 Patrick! 934 00:44:50,771 --> 00:44:52,314 Baby boy! 935 00:44:52,981 --> 00:44:56,235 [Carrey] And also the feeling that that person had erased you. 936 00:44:56,318 --> 00:44:58,195 I felt like I had been erased. 937 00:44:58,779 --> 00:45:00,739 Let me know if you need something, sir. 938 00:45:01,824 --> 00:45:03,575 My name is Joel Barish, 939 00:45:03,659 --> 00:45:07,287 and I'm here to erase Clementine Kruczynski. 940 00:45:07,371 --> 00:45:09,456 When I met Michel Gondry, 941 00:45:10,833 --> 00:45:15,504 he looked at me over lunch, and he said, "Oh, my God, you're so beautiful. 942 00:45:16,296 --> 00:45:18,173 You're so beautiful right now. 943 00:45:18,674 --> 00:45:19,883 You're so broken. 944 00:45:20,592 --> 00:45:21,552 I love this. 945 00:45:21,927 --> 00:45:23,303 Please don't get well." 946 00:45:23,846 --> 00:45:27,099 You know, because the movie wasn't shooting for another year, 947 00:45:27,808 --> 00:45:29,852 so he asked me not to get well. 948 00:45:30,269 --> 00:45:31,228 [laughs] 949 00:45:31,311 --> 00:45:33,856 That's how fucked up this business is. 950 00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:35,649 Degenerate. 951 00:45:36,859 --> 00:45:38,152 You guys don't smoke. 952 00:45:38,569 --> 00:45:41,613 -What the hell are you doing smoking? -Smoking, choking, joking. 953 00:45:41,697 --> 00:45:42,531 Boking. 954 00:45:42,614 --> 00:45:44,366 And this fucking is ridiculous. 955 00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:46,535 It's ridiculous. I don't smoke. 956 00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:51,540 In your dream, is it you in the dream, is it Andy, or is it Tony? 957 00:45:51,623 --> 00:45:55,335 It's everybody. Everybody's in the dream, and they're all pulling, you know. 958 00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:58,213 I had a wrestling match with Andy and Tony last night. 959 00:45:58,297 --> 00:45:59,173 [Zmuda] Jesus. 960 00:45:59,256 --> 00:46:02,426 Every actor goes through it when they take on a role for a long time. 961 00:46:02,509 --> 00:46:04,261 You've heard the stories, you know. 962 00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:13,729 [as Tony] Somebody give me a fucking drink. Can you get me a drink? 963 00:46:13,812 --> 00:46:15,230 -[woman] No. Go away! -What? 964 00:46:15,314 --> 00:46:16,774 -[woman] Go away! -Why not?! 965 00:46:16,857 --> 00:46:18,233 [laughing] 966 00:46:18,317 --> 00:46:20,652 [woman] We don't want Tony to come back! 967 00:46:20,736 --> 00:46:22,279 You stink! 968 00:46:29,286 --> 00:46:31,288 [low-tempo music plays] 969 00:46:32,498 --> 00:46:33,332 [yelling] 970 00:46:37,461 --> 00:46:38,504 Where's my chair? 971 00:46:39,505 --> 00:46:42,549 -This is the, uh... production trailer. -Huh? 972 00:46:42,633 --> 00:46:44,218 This is the production trailer. 973 00:46:44,551 --> 00:46:46,929 -Production trailer? -What are you looking for? 974 00:46:47,262 --> 00:46:49,598 -I thought it was the makeup trailer. -Oh, no. 975 00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:52,976 -Making all the trailers look the same! -[man] I know. 976 00:46:55,312 --> 00:46:58,023 [man 2] Should we try walking him first or just carry him? 977 00:46:58,106 --> 00:47:00,484 -[man 3] Let's try to walk him first. -[man 2] Okay. 978 00:47:11,078 --> 00:47:12,162 [woman] Strap him in! 979 00:47:13,121 --> 00:47:14,915 [groaning] 980 00:47:15,999 --> 00:47:18,710 [producer] I guess one thing, was Tony actually drinking? 981 00:47:19,002 --> 00:47:21,255 I don't know, but he stunk to high heaven. 982 00:47:21,338 --> 00:47:23,382 -[producer] Yeah. -So, yeah. 983 00:47:24,341 --> 00:47:25,175 I don't know. 984 00:47:25,384 --> 00:47:27,469 [woman] Does he ever stay like Tony all the way home? 985 00:47:27,553 --> 00:47:28,595 -Yeah. -[woman] Yeah? 986 00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:30,305 Yeah. Especially Tony. 987 00:47:31,014 --> 00:47:33,559 -Does he ever get out of bed as Tony? -Uh, yes. 988 00:47:34,351 --> 00:47:35,185 [laughs] 989 00:47:35,269 --> 00:47:37,771 -Whose trailer is that we're paying for? -That's Jim Carrey. 990 00:47:37,855 --> 00:47:38,689 Oh. 991 00:47:38,981 --> 00:47:41,275 He's not been to work. Jim never comes to work. 992 00:47:41,358 --> 00:47:43,569 He's done very, very little work on this project, 993 00:47:43,652 --> 00:47:45,654 and yet, he will get a lot of the glory. 994 00:47:46,613 --> 00:47:48,740 That's right. [laughing] 995 00:47:48,824 --> 00:47:52,995 Jim can act like me all he wants, he never will be me, no matter how much he tries. 996 00:47:57,916 --> 00:48:00,669 Tried to have a bottle of wine with him the other night. 997 00:48:01,044 --> 00:48:02,462 Got all freakin' negative. 998 00:48:03,005 --> 00:48:06,466 That's right. Jim was upset, and I told him that's just fear. 999 00:48:07,175 --> 00:48:08,385 That's fear talking. 1000 00:48:08,468 --> 00:48:09,720 -[man] Fear? -Yeah. 1001 00:48:15,517 --> 00:48:18,478 He's afraid he might not be recognized for the almighty powerful 1002 00:48:18,562 --> 00:48:20,439 creativity force that he is! 1003 00:48:24,359 --> 00:48:27,237 [Carrey] Every time you open your mouth, you learn about yourself. 1004 00:48:27,362 --> 00:48:30,574 Especially when you play characters, because when you improvise, 1005 00:48:30,657 --> 00:48:34,494 the choices you make are always very revealing of who you are. 1006 00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:36,872 He came from alcoholic grandparents. 1007 00:48:36,955 --> 00:48:39,541 Because there's really nothing in there but the truth. 1008 00:48:39,625 --> 00:48:40,751 He knows fair talk. 1009 00:48:42,753 --> 00:48:44,421 Where did this character come from? 1010 00:48:44,504 --> 00:48:46,632 What is the dirt... 1011 00:48:47,466 --> 00:48:50,218 that the pearl is built around? 1012 00:48:50,302 --> 00:48:53,347 And the pearl is the personality you build around yourself 1013 00:48:53,430 --> 00:48:55,724 as a protection against that thought, 1014 00:48:56,391 --> 00:48:58,894 "If they ever find out that I'm worthless, 1015 00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:02,272 if they ever find out that I'm not enough, 1016 00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:04,566 I'll be destroyed." 1017 00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:08,320 [woman] Hey, Tony, what do you think about that comedian Jim Carrey? 1018 00:49:08,403 --> 00:49:09,655 Yeah, he's all right. 1019 00:49:09,738 --> 00:49:11,198 laughter] 1020 00:49:11,281 --> 00:49:14,451 Always smiling all the time. You can tell it's not real. 1021 00:49:14,534 --> 00:49:15,494 [man] There we go. 1022 00:49:15,577 --> 00:49:17,663 [laughter] 1023 00:49:17,746 --> 00:49:21,333 [Carrey] All that pain was so valuable. Suffering is so valuable. 1024 00:49:21,416 --> 00:49:23,794 I was a seven-year-old kid who would, 1025 00:49:23,877 --> 00:49:26,254 when my father's face was beet red, 1026 00:49:26,338 --> 00:49:30,634 and my grandfather had cornered him for like three hours 1027 00:49:30,717 --> 00:49:33,011 and told him what a loser he is, 1028 00:49:33,470 --> 00:49:34,471 um... 1029 00:49:34,554 --> 00:49:37,307 when they left, I was Grandpa Jack. 1030 00:49:37,849 --> 00:49:39,893 "Goddammit, Percy! 1031 00:49:39,977 --> 00:49:41,645 You're a loser, Percy. 1032 00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:45,565 You're a loser, but you're a hell of a guy!" 1033 00:49:46,483 --> 00:49:47,442 You know. 1034 00:49:47,526 --> 00:49:50,737 And I eventually turned that into the Dysfunctional Family Home Show 1035 00:49:50,821 --> 00:49:51,947 on In Living Color. 1036 00:49:52,030 --> 00:49:53,448 [laughter] 1037 00:49:53,532 --> 00:49:58,537 Listen, son, I just want you to know that I love you. 1038 00:49:58,620 --> 00:50:01,540 I think you're a hell of a guy. 1039 00:50:01,873 --> 00:50:03,834 [producer] Can you tell me about your dad? 1040 00:50:07,921 --> 00:50:12,467 My father was not only the funniest man in the room, 1041 00:50:12,843 --> 00:50:15,262 but he was a fantastic saxophone player. 1042 00:50:15,595 --> 00:50:18,974 And before I was born, he had an orchestra in Toronto. 1043 00:50:19,516 --> 00:50:21,935 But, you know, in order to be something special, 1044 00:50:22,019 --> 00:50:25,313 you had to leave Canada and come down to the States 1045 00:50:25,397 --> 00:50:27,065 and prove yourself in the States. 1046 00:50:27,149 --> 00:50:29,317 He was a little bit afraid of that transition, 1047 00:50:29,401 --> 00:50:31,194 and also he had a family to take care of, 1048 00:50:31,278 --> 00:50:33,363 so he became an accountant. 1049 00:50:33,989 --> 00:50:36,324 And as time wore on, 1050 00:50:36,908 --> 00:50:38,744 it wore him down, you know. 1051 00:50:38,827 --> 00:50:41,747 It wore him down, and he got a little bit bitter, 1052 00:50:41,830 --> 00:50:44,666 especially when he lost his job when he was 51. 1053 00:50:45,333 --> 00:50:46,918 Uh, that really broke him. 1054 00:50:47,002 --> 00:50:51,214 Not only was he compromising to raise a family, 1055 00:50:51,298 --> 00:50:54,760 but when you compromise and you fail, 1056 00:50:55,177 --> 00:50:56,261 it really hurts. 1057 00:50:56,636 --> 00:50:59,473 It hurts even more than failing at what you love. 1058 00:50:59,556 --> 00:51:01,767 So that was an example for me. 1059 00:51:01,850 --> 00:51:04,352 A lot of people don't know this, but, uh... 1060 00:51:04,436 --> 00:51:07,230 but when I was about 14 or 15, my father lost his job, 1061 00:51:07,314 --> 00:51:09,900 and I actually became homeless for quite some time. 1062 00:51:09,983 --> 00:51:11,359 Of course, I grew up in Canada, 1063 00:51:11,443 --> 00:51:14,029 so I thought we'd just gone camping, you know. 1064 00:51:14,112 --> 00:51:14,946 But... 1065 00:51:15,030 --> 00:51:18,617 I learned that you can fail at what you don't love, 1066 00:51:18,992 --> 00:51:20,911 so you might as well do what you love. 1067 00:51:21,620 --> 00:51:23,747 There's really no choice to be made. 1068 00:51:26,833 --> 00:51:28,126 [sighs] 1069 00:51:38,470 --> 00:51:41,473 What you want to be, you know? 1070 00:51:42,974 --> 00:51:46,311 It's like my old man didn't get to see everything, 1071 00:51:46,394 --> 00:51:47,479 but he saw it happen, 1072 00:51:47,562 --> 00:51:50,148 and it's happened for him as much as it did for me. 1073 00:51:50,607 --> 00:51:52,609 You know, so, that's why I get emotional. 1074 00:51:52,692 --> 00:51:55,403 Everybody gets emotional when they talk about their dad, but... 1075 00:51:55,487 --> 00:51:56,446 But, uh... 1076 00:51:56,530 --> 00:51:59,991 But he truly was a friggin' amazing human being. 1077 00:52:13,964 --> 00:52:15,966 [up-tempo music plays] 1078 00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:35,527 Yeah, breakfast burrito. 1079 00:52:36,069 --> 00:52:37,946 [Tony] That's the Hells Angels, okay? 1080 00:52:38,488 --> 00:52:40,115 Don't-- don't mess around. 1081 00:52:40,198 --> 00:52:41,408 -[DeVito] No. -Huh? 1082 00:52:41,491 --> 00:52:43,160 No, no, we don't mess around. 1083 00:52:43,243 --> 00:52:45,120 [Tony] Feel free to do whatever you want. 1084 00:52:48,623 --> 00:52:50,041 [man] I think when this film wraps, 1085 00:52:50,125 --> 00:52:52,419 at least eight or nine people in this production 1086 00:52:52,502 --> 00:52:55,297 are gonna sue this production for mental stress. 1087 00:52:55,380 --> 00:52:57,674 That would be different than a regular production? 1088 00:52:58,508 --> 00:53:01,845 Eight dollars for a fucking bottle of water. That's a rip off! 1089 00:53:01,928 --> 00:53:03,930 You know, that's Andy Kaufman's right-hand man. 1090 00:53:04,014 --> 00:53:05,807 -Oh, yeah? -I swear. 1091 00:53:06,933 --> 00:53:09,686 You ever see the wrestling stuff? He's always the ref. 1092 00:53:10,562 --> 00:53:13,899 There were two Tony Cliftons, there was Andy Kaufman and Bob Zmuda. 1093 00:53:14,316 --> 00:53:18,486 [Carrey] Bob was a troublemaker right out of the gate. 1094 00:53:18,778 --> 00:53:21,364 You know, they used to do things like go to the zoo 1095 00:53:21,448 --> 00:53:23,909 and run through the zoo screaming, 1096 00:53:23,992 --> 00:53:27,162 "The lion's out! "The lion's out!"  and stuff like that. 1097 00:53:27,245 --> 00:53:30,332 Here, I'll show you humor. That's humor! That's humor, man! 1098 00:53:30,415 --> 00:53:33,418 And he was responsible for a lot of the Tony Clifton stuff 1099 00:53:34,169 --> 00:53:35,045 as much as Andy was. 1100 00:53:35,128 --> 00:53:37,672 Those two together were in cahoots. 1101 00:53:38,048 --> 00:53:40,342 [Andy] See, that there is great, two getting the kiss. 1102 00:53:40,425 --> 00:53:41,885 [Forman] Is this Andy or you? 1103 00:53:42,344 --> 00:53:44,554 -[Andy] That's Andy. -[Woman] No, that's Bob. 1104 00:53:44,638 --> 00:53:46,640 -This is a test. -Okay, that's Bob. 1105 00:53:47,057 --> 00:53:48,975 [woman] Is it Bob? Is this? 1106 00:53:49,059 --> 00:53:53,396 And so Andy would book Lake Tahoe and never show up there. 1107 00:53:53,772 --> 00:53:57,692 And it would be Bob Zmuda as Tony Clifton who would show up 1108 00:53:57,776 --> 00:54:00,987 and cause all this insanity to happen. 1109 00:54:01,071 --> 00:54:04,908 And the people who hired him think it's Andy Kaufman. 1110 00:54:05,450 --> 00:54:09,412 I need this gig like I need a gunshot blast to the face! 1111 00:54:10,247 --> 00:54:11,957 Jesus, what a fucking nut. 1112 00:54:13,458 --> 00:54:16,044 That's what I'm talking about right there! 1113 00:54:16,753 --> 00:54:19,297 You want to see some humor, huh? You want to see some humor? 1114 00:54:19,381 --> 00:54:21,049 There's humor right there, huh. 1115 00:54:21,132 --> 00:54:23,927 [Giamatti] A lot of these people don't know that it's Jim, 1116 00:54:24,427 --> 00:54:26,846 and a lot of people thought he was abusing me before. 1117 00:54:26,930 --> 00:54:30,267 -[woman] So are they completely left out? -Being very sympathetic towards me. 1118 00:54:30,350 --> 00:54:32,686 They're like,  "What, is he serious with you? 1119 00:54:32,769 --> 00:54:34,145 You're a day player, right?" 1120 00:54:34,229 --> 00:54:36,898 I'm like, "I don't know what the fuck-- what did I do?" 1121 00:54:36,982 --> 00:54:39,901 That's some humor to me! Now you just sit down and enjoy that! 1122 00:54:39,985 --> 00:54:41,945 Okay? Ha, ha, ha, ha! Real funny! 1123 00:54:42,028 --> 00:54:44,155 -I'd like to do one more. -[Forman] One more, okay! 1124 00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:47,826 [Carrey] And he was just as much trouble with me. I mean, he was just... 1125 00:54:47,909 --> 00:54:51,162 As soon as he saw how far I was going into the character, 1126 00:54:51,246 --> 00:54:52,956 he became the old Bob, 1127 00:54:53,373 --> 00:54:55,250 and it brought him to life, 1128 00:54:55,333 --> 00:54:58,128 and he was back in business. 1129 00:54:59,838 --> 00:55:02,632 -[man] Who are you with, Mr. Clifton? -Who am I with? 1130 00:55:02,716 --> 00:55:04,384 -[man] Yes, sir. -I'm with Lynne. 1131 00:55:05,468 --> 00:55:08,847 [Carrey] Jim Carrey got an invitation to the Playboy Mansion. 1132 00:55:09,764 --> 00:55:12,517 My guys called the mansion, 1133 00:55:13,059 --> 00:55:13,935 and said, 1134 00:55:14,936 --> 00:55:17,814 "Look, Jim's not really on the planet right now. 1135 00:55:18,315 --> 00:55:19,858 He's Andy, he's Tony. 1136 00:55:20,317 --> 00:55:22,819 And Tony would like to come to the mansion." 1137 00:55:22,902 --> 00:55:24,946 [man] I need 25 at the front door. 1138 00:55:25,030 --> 00:55:26,364 You better check with Hef, 1139 00:55:26,906 --> 00:55:28,742 or you will never see me here again! 1140 00:55:28,825 --> 00:55:32,287 -I got some asshole at the gate here. -Okay, that's it. Who said that? 1141 00:55:32,746 --> 00:55:34,372 Which one of you said that? 1142 00:55:34,956 --> 00:55:37,667 [Carrey] Hugh started playing around with him at the mansion, 1143 00:55:37,751 --> 00:55:40,086 doing a bit outside and stuff like that, 1144 00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:42,172 thinking he was doing a bit with Jim Carrey, 1145 00:55:42,255 --> 00:55:43,757 while I was at In-N-Out Burger 1146 00:55:44,382 --> 00:55:47,594 having burgers and chocolate milkshakes. 1147 00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:50,430 -Hello. -How you doing? 1148 00:55:51,473 --> 00:55:53,183 Where are you gonna be later? 1149 00:55:54,434 --> 00:55:56,686 -That cannot be Jim Carrey. -There's no way. 1150 00:55:56,770 --> 00:55:59,189 If that is him, he is fucking amazing. 1151 00:55:59,272 --> 00:56:00,774 I hate him now! 1152 00:56:00,857 --> 00:56:02,108 I hate him! 1153 00:56:03,318 --> 00:56:06,363 [Carrey] Two hours later, after he had worked the whole room, 1154 00:56:06,446 --> 00:56:08,490 and, you know, Hugh had invited him in, 1155 00:56:08,573 --> 00:56:11,618 and posed with the Playboy girls, and all this stuff, 1156 00:56:11,701 --> 00:56:13,078 I showed up . 1157 00:56:13,495 --> 00:56:14,996 Hi, how you doing? 1158 00:56:15,538 --> 00:56:18,124 Hugh was standing with Bob Zmuda, 1159 00:56:18,208 --> 00:56:20,377 and he turned and looked at me, 1160 00:56:20,460 --> 00:56:22,754 and he just went ashen. [laughs] 1161 00:56:22,837 --> 00:56:24,464 He went white as a ghost. 1162 00:56:24,547 --> 00:56:28,176 He says somebody called the freakin' office. Somebody called his office. 1163 00:56:28,676 --> 00:56:30,095 How do I get out of here? 1164 00:56:31,012 --> 00:56:32,972 Get that fucking camera off, too. 1165 00:56:33,598 --> 00:56:37,811 [Carrey] And they escorted Bob off the property through the back way. 1166 00:56:37,894 --> 00:56:39,521 [man] Mr. Clifton, you need to leave. 1167 00:56:40,980 --> 00:56:44,359 -This is fine, I'm being kicked out. -[man] We need the tape from your camera. 1168 00:56:44,442 --> 00:56:45,777 I am being kicked out. 1169 00:56:46,319 --> 00:56:47,320 [man] We need the tape. 1170 00:56:48,154 --> 00:56:51,324 -No choice. This is per Mr. Hefner. -[Tony] Okay. 1171 00:56:51,408 --> 00:56:53,660 [Zmuda] He told me I was gonna be his writer. 1172 00:56:54,494 --> 00:56:57,414 Then for two-and-a-half years he wouldn't use anything I wrote 1173 00:56:57,497 --> 00:57:00,083 because he's now going on Saturday Night Live, 1174 00:57:00,166 --> 00:57:02,419 and he has the whole laundry list 1175 00:57:02,502 --> 00:57:06,673 of Cow Goes Moo, Mighty Mouse,  you know, of all that stuff. 1176 00:57:06,756 --> 00:57:08,591 -He doesn't have to... -Doesn't have it. 1177 00:57:08,675 --> 00:57:11,636 As soon as he goes through all that and there's nothing left, 1178 00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,013 'cause he has no more of the trial bag left, 1179 00:57:14,097 --> 00:57:16,766 he gets on the phone and calls Zmuda to come up from San Diego, 1180 00:57:16,850 --> 00:57:19,936 'cause he's definitely creatively bankrupt. 1181 00:57:21,521 --> 00:57:22,689 [laughs] 1182 00:57:22,772 --> 00:57:25,859 And then I take over Kaufman's job. 1183 00:57:25,942 --> 00:57:26,943 [laughter] 1184 00:57:27,026 --> 00:57:29,654 And then the film becomes Zmuda! 1185 00:57:31,156 --> 00:57:32,740 [Andy] Everybody in this movie, 1186 00:57:33,366 --> 00:57:37,036 every role in this movie is someone who came in contact with Andy 1187 00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:38,788 in this special life, 1188 00:57:39,205 --> 00:57:40,415 and they all want... 1189 00:57:41,624 --> 00:57:44,961 everybody wants to be the most important person to Andy, 1190 00:57:45,044 --> 00:57:45,879 [man] Right. 1191 00:57:45,962 --> 00:57:50,675 Or the most important person in that mix, whatever happened, you know. And... 1192 00:57:52,010 --> 00:57:54,012 It's all about identity. Identity. 1193 00:57:54,304 --> 00:57:55,763 And God... 1194 00:57:56,139 --> 00:57:59,225 this movie has turned out to be so much about that, you know? 1195 00:57:59,767 --> 00:58:02,604 About all of our identities. What we need. 1196 00:58:06,357 --> 00:58:07,775 [man] Okay, Andy, we're recording, 1197 00:58:07,859 --> 00:58:10,445 and if you'd like to say a few things, we're ready. 1198 00:58:15,492 --> 00:58:16,618 And you're on. 1199 00:58:23,041 --> 00:58:23,875 S... 1200 00:58:24,667 --> 00:58:25,502 S... 1201 00:58:26,085 --> 00:58:28,671 Spring was never waiting for us, girl. 1202 00:58:29,631 --> 00:58:31,424 It ran one step ahead 1203 00:58:31,508 --> 00:58:35,470 as we followed in the dance between the parted pages, 1204 00:58:35,553 --> 00:58:38,681 and were pressed in love's hot, fevered iron like a striped... 1205 00:58:38,973 --> 00:58:40,558 [cheering and applause] 1206 00:58:40,642 --> 00:58:43,102 [mid-tempo music plays] 1207 00:58:49,859 --> 00:58:51,861 [cheering and applause] 1208 00:58:54,656 --> 00:58:56,658 Is that my dad? Huh? Huh? 1209 00:58:56,741 --> 00:58:58,284 It is! Oh, jeez. 1210 00:58:58,743 --> 00:59:00,745 Holy moly. I'm tripping. 1211 00:59:06,459 --> 00:59:09,337 And I know they know I'm not their son, obviously, 1212 00:59:09,420 --> 00:59:13,967 but it's been like almost like role-playing therapy. 1213 00:59:14,050 --> 00:59:15,343 -[man] Yeah. -You know? 1214 00:59:15,426 --> 00:59:18,680 A bit, where, you know, they get to talk to him. 1215 00:59:18,763 --> 00:59:20,515 You guys are here. This is great. 1216 00:59:20,598 --> 00:59:21,599 [Carrey] That day... 1217 00:59:22,725 --> 00:59:26,646 Andy heard that his daughter wanted to come down to the theatre 1218 00:59:27,397 --> 00:59:30,024 and, uh, speak to him. 1219 00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:31,276 [laughs] 1220 00:59:31,818 --> 00:59:33,486 And so, she came down, 1221 00:59:33,570 --> 00:59:34,946 and she, uh... 1222 00:59:35,572 --> 00:59:39,075 You know, Andy had had her out of wedlock 1223 00:59:39,158 --> 00:59:42,078 when he was a teenager, and, uh... 1224 00:59:42,161 --> 00:59:44,831 she was, uh, put up for adoption, 1225 00:59:44,914 --> 00:59:48,376 and she didn't know who her dad was until he was on Taxi. 1226 00:59:48,876 --> 00:59:53,339 And then someone somehow got to her and, uh... 1227 00:59:53,423 --> 00:59:54,924 and told her that... 1228 00:59:55,300 --> 00:59:57,051 uh, that that was her dad, 1229 00:59:57,468 --> 00:59:59,345 uh, who was Latka on Taxi. 1230 00:59:59,929 --> 01:00:00,888 And, uh... 1231 01:00:01,472 --> 01:00:04,183 And she never got to meet him before he passed away. 1232 01:00:04,726 --> 01:00:06,269 So that day, 1233 01:00:06,894 --> 01:00:10,189 she came into Andy's trailer, 1234 01:00:11,107 --> 01:00:12,066 and... 1235 01:00:13,401 --> 01:00:14,777 talked to her father... 1236 01:00:15,737 --> 01:00:18,448 alone for an hour or more. 1237 01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:20,074 And... 1238 01:00:21,826 --> 01:00:24,495 telling each other that they love each other and... 1239 01:00:25,163 --> 01:00:29,751 and exploring the reasons why it happened like it happened, 1240 01:00:30,251 --> 01:00:32,920 and where he is now. 1241 01:00:36,799 --> 01:00:38,509 That's kind of touching, that one. 1242 01:00:41,220 --> 01:00:44,432 'Cause, you know, Lynne and I talked about it a lot, 1243 01:00:44,515 --> 01:00:45,850 where would Andy be now? 1244 01:00:46,267 --> 01:00:49,228 And she always believed that he would be in heaven 1245 01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:51,230 uh, taking care of the kids. 1246 01:00:52,065 --> 01:00:53,024 You know. 1247 01:00:53,107 --> 01:00:54,734 Playing games with the kids. 1248 01:01:01,282 --> 01:01:03,993 Hi, I'm Andy Kaufman, and last year I was in a... 1249 01:01:04,535 --> 01:01:08,373 wrestling match with a professional wrestler by the name of Jerry Lawler. 1250 01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:13,002 Uh, I would say the match was unfair, being Jerry Lawler was twice my size, 1251 01:01:13,336 --> 01:01:15,797 and I wasn't prepared for what had happened. 1252 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,508 What happened was he used an illegal hold called a pile driver, 1253 01:01:18,591 --> 01:01:21,803 where he banged my head into the mat... 1254 01:01:25,014 --> 01:01:25,848 Hi, guys! 1255 01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:27,475 How are you? 1256 01:01:31,020 --> 01:01:32,271 Seem very nice to me. 1257 01:01:34,107 --> 01:01:35,525 [chattering] 1258 01:01:36,526 --> 01:01:38,277 [cheering] 1259 01:01:39,404 --> 01:01:41,531 Don't start any trouble and there won't be any. 1260 01:01:42,740 --> 01:01:44,325 I think it's Dracula! 1261 01:01:46,577 --> 01:01:48,788 Elvis called, he wants his shit back! 1262 01:01:48,871 --> 01:01:50,206 [laughing] 1263 01:01:53,501 --> 01:01:54,919 At that point, it was... 1264 01:01:55,378 --> 01:01:57,588 It was not me, you know? It was not me. 1265 01:01:57,672 --> 01:02:00,550 I was not making choices based on what Jim does. 1266 01:02:01,134 --> 01:02:03,219 I was making choices based on what Andy does. 1267 01:02:03,302 --> 01:02:07,306 And Andy does the choice that makes you want to leap over the barrier 1268 01:02:07,390 --> 01:02:08,558 and throttle him. 1269 01:02:08,641 --> 01:02:09,684 Shut up! 1270 01:02:09,767 --> 01:02:10,727 [booing] 1271 01:02:11,185 --> 01:02:14,021 [Lawler] I guess I'm thinking about what Andy was really like, 1272 01:02:14,105 --> 01:02:18,109 and as far as I can remember, it was like he was very well-mannered. 1273 01:02:18,192 --> 01:02:21,612 I mean, he always referred to me as Mr. Lawler, that sort of stuff. He-- 1274 01:02:21,696 --> 01:02:22,655 I mean, uh... 1275 01:02:22,739 --> 01:02:25,283 Jim Carrey's coming up behind me, 1276 01:02:25,366 --> 01:02:27,452 doing all this kind of stuff, shoving me. 1277 01:02:27,535 --> 01:02:28,369 [shouting] 1278 01:02:28,453 --> 01:02:29,454 Oh! Oh! 1279 01:02:29,537 --> 01:02:30,663 You all right? 1280 01:02:31,247 --> 01:02:32,248 He pushed me off. 1281 01:02:34,208 --> 01:02:37,044 -Until you are lift for the pile driver. -Okay. 1282 01:02:37,128 --> 01:02:39,964 After the side suplex, he will gently put you down. 1283 01:02:40,047 --> 01:02:41,174 -Uh-huh. -Okay? 1284 01:02:41,257 --> 01:02:43,134 [cheering] 1285 01:02:47,430 --> 01:02:49,849 [Carrey] He got me upside down, got Andy upside down, 1286 01:02:49,932 --> 01:02:51,225 and then he put him down. 1287 01:02:51,726 --> 01:02:56,022 They'll know it when they see the cut. It's like, "Stuntman, enter now." 1288 01:02:56,105 --> 01:02:59,275 -They're pretty savvy, audiences today. -They are savvy. 1289 01:02:59,358 --> 01:03:01,110 They can spot a stuntman a mile away. 1290 01:03:01,194 --> 01:03:04,071 He came down and said the insurance companies weren't gonna have it, 1291 01:03:04,155 --> 01:03:07,116 and they were gonna shut down production and do all these things. 1292 01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,952 I'm not really okay. I feel like I'm being duped. 1293 01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:11,621 Oh, come on! 1294 01:03:11,704 --> 01:03:12,538 I do. 1295 01:03:13,623 --> 01:03:16,083 You think I'm kidding, you think it's a bit. It's not. 1296 01:03:16,167 --> 01:03:20,004 I'm gonna do it whether the cameras are rolling or set up for it or not. 1297 01:03:20,087 --> 01:03:24,425 And that's when all hell broke loose, when Andy started accusing him 1298 01:03:24,509 --> 01:03:27,053 of being an establishment player, 1299 01:03:27,136 --> 01:03:30,807 and a guy who's afraid of the insurance companies, 1300 01:03:30,890 --> 01:03:34,477 and afraid to do something outrageous, and afraid to be an artist. 1301 01:03:35,937 --> 01:03:38,147 I think, you know, he'll be primed and ready, 1302 01:03:38,231 --> 01:03:40,483 'cause I know how to ring his buttons, push him. 1303 01:03:40,566 --> 01:03:43,444 He was supposed to come to Jim Carrey's house for dinner! 1304 01:03:43,528 --> 01:03:45,112 [crowd yelling] 1305 01:03:45,196 --> 01:03:46,823 Shut up! Shut up! 1306 01:03:47,657 --> 01:03:49,283 He was supposed to come to Jim-- 1307 01:03:49,367 --> 01:03:50,910 [crowd yelling] 1308 01:04:14,684 --> 01:04:16,435 Turn that off. Turn that off. 1309 01:04:16,519 --> 01:04:18,479 Everybody back. Everybody back. 1310 01:04:18,563 --> 01:04:20,064 [crowd chattering] 1311 01:04:21,858 --> 01:04:25,444 [Carrey] And then, I was thinking as an actor in my head... 1312 01:04:27,321 --> 01:04:29,323 how far should I take this? 1313 01:04:30,658 --> 01:04:32,535 You know, how far would Andy take it? 1314 01:04:33,286 --> 01:04:35,830 ["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" plays] 1315 01:04:36,539 --> 01:04:38,541 [man] It's not okay. I'm doing my job. 1316 01:04:40,293 --> 01:04:42,753 Ow, ow, ow, ow. 1317 01:04:42,837 --> 01:04:43,921 [Carrey] No one knew. 1318 01:04:44,255 --> 01:04:47,091 My people didn't know if I was hurt. 1319 01:04:48,134 --> 01:04:50,386 My managers didn't know if I was hurt. 1320 01:04:51,387 --> 01:04:52,471 No one knew. 1321 01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:53,973 We're very disappointed. 1322 01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:57,351 Uh, Mr. Lawler, who is a professional wrestler, 1323 01:04:57,768 --> 01:05:00,062 we felt acted unprofessionally. 1324 01:05:00,479 --> 01:05:04,942 There's a small swelling in his left sternocleidomastoid muscle. 1325 01:05:05,026 --> 01:05:09,614 We have reports that Jim Carrey had somehow egged on Lawler, 1326 01:05:09,697 --> 01:05:11,574 perhaps had spit in his face. 1327 01:05:11,657 --> 01:05:13,784 Well, he did spit in his face 1328 01:05:13,868 --> 01:05:16,037 as Andy had done years ago in Memphis. 1329 01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:18,623 So, Jim playing Andy 1330 01:05:19,248 --> 01:05:21,834 performed as Andy in what happened years ago. 1331 01:05:21,918 --> 01:05:23,878 Jim Carrey was shooting a scene... 1332 01:05:23,961 --> 01:05:25,713 [reporter] Carrey was playing Andy Kaufman. 1333 01:05:25,796 --> 01:05:29,050 This was a wrestling match with a crowd of extras in the audience. 1334 01:05:29,133 --> 01:05:30,718 Jerry turned around real angry... 1335 01:05:31,385 --> 01:05:32,720 That's amazing. 1336 01:05:32,803 --> 01:05:34,347 [man ] Another station, look. 1337 01:05:36,307 --> 01:05:40,102 Jim Carrey is refusing to ever work with Jerry Lawler again. 1338 01:05:40,186 --> 01:05:42,271 It just all has tumbled into each other. 1339 01:05:42,355 --> 01:05:43,856 It became a piece. 1340 01:05:43,940 --> 01:05:45,274 [man] Click, click, click. 1341 01:05:45,358 --> 01:05:49,278 And it's, like, on the news, the real news. 1342 01:05:49,362 --> 01:05:52,990 For those of us that remember him, it is a little Kaufman-esque, isn't it? 1343 01:05:53,074 --> 01:05:55,117 It really is, we'll see. People in... 1344 01:05:55,493 --> 01:05:57,411 [radio chattering] 1345 01:05:58,496 --> 01:06:02,124 [Stern] You know there are movie cameras present. You're just doing in and out. 1346 01:06:02,208 --> 01:06:03,209 [Andy] Look at this shit. 1347 01:06:03,292 --> 01:06:05,294 [Stern] Was Carrey spitting on him off-camera? 1348 01:06:05,378 --> 01:06:06,253 Oh, my God. 1349 01:06:06,337 --> 01:06:09,757 They're up on fences, they're up on balconies in the apartments. 1350 01:06:10,257 --> 01:06:13,928 [producer] Was there ever a moment in there where Jim sneaks back in, 1351 01:06:14,011 --> 01:06:18,975 and there's like a feeling of like of responsibility, or like guilt, or... 1352 01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:21,811 Yeah, there's feelings of guilt, 1353 01:06:21,894 --> 01:06:24,897 feelings of, like, "Did I go too far, did I...? 1354 01:06:25,773 --> 01:06:27,900 Ooh, boy, that, uh... 1355 01:06:28,526 --> 01:06:31,278 that was a lot. I hope I don't get in trouble. I... 1356 01:06:31,362 --> 01:06:34,699 Should I tell them? Should I tell people? Should I not tell people?" 1357 01:06:34,782 --> 01:06:38,494 And I probably should never have told people, but I don't know. 1358 01:06:39,412 --> 01:06:42,623 I'm not the same personality as Andy. Andy would never tell you. 1359 01:06:43,290 --> 01:06:44,959 [man] Get him on the stretcher... 1360 01:06:45,793 --> 01:06:48,004 to be transported to a hospital. 1361 01:06:48,087 --> 01:06:51,132 [Carrey] He was about breaking that wall and not... 1362 01:06:51,716 --> 01:06:54,051 not stopping when the cameras stopped. 1363 01:06:54,135 --> 01:06:57,013 [man] So Kaufman, laid out on a stretcher, we can only... 1364 01:06:57,096 --> 01:07:01,017 He wasn't about there's a section of time here 1365 01:07:01,100 --> 01:07:03,185 where we act like the character, then it's over. 1366 01:07:03,269 --> 01:07:07,940 You know, he came in to turn reality on its head. 1367 01:07:08,024 --> 01:07:10,818 He's in the intensive care unit at St. Francis Hospital. 1368 01:07:10,901 --> 01:07:14,155 To completely blur the lines. 1369 01:07:15,406 --> 01:07:16,282 Are you ready? 1370 01:07:16,699 --> 01:07:18,409 Jim Carrey! 1371 01:07:18,826 --> 01:07:20,202 [crowd cheering] 1372 01:07:20,786 --> 01:07:23,330 [Carrey] He really inspired me to do some crazy stuff too. 1373 01:07:23,414 --> 01:07:26,917 I mean, I remember going on Arsenio Hall... 1374 01:07:27,251 --> 01:07:29,837 uh, during the riots, you know, 1375 01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:31,088 and, uh... 1376 01:07:31,505 --> 01:07:33,758 with a bottle of wine in my hand, 1377 01:07:33,841 --> 01:07:36,635 and acting like I'm shit-faced drunk. 1378 01:07:37,511 --> 01:07:39,055 Hey, you're not Jay. 1379 01:07:39,930 --> 01:07:41,682 [laughter] 1380 01:07:42,475 --> 01:07:46,312 And I thought I was really over the top, but people really were concerned. 1381 01:07:46,395 --> 01:07:48,272 I mean, they were completely concerned. 1382 01:07:48,355 --> 01:07:50,357 And then I called him a black bastard, 1383 01:07:50,441 --> 01:07:53,819 and took a feeble swing at him, and fell on the ground. 1384 01:07:53,903 --> 01:07:56,864 You black bastard! 1385 01:07:56,947 --> 01:07:58,949 [crowd screaming] 1386 01:08:02,036 --> 01:08:05,664 -We'll take a commercial-- be right back. -That's for Reginald Denny! 1387 01:08:07,875 --> 01:08:11,712 -[Carrey] After that show, my manager... -We'll be right back. I apologize. 1388 01:08:11,796 --> 01:08:15,091 I went backstage, he was leaning his head against the wall like this, 1389 01:08:15,174 --> 01:08:16,383 and he had just this... 1390 01:08:17,259 --> 01:08:19,428 the blood had drained out of him. 1391 01:08:20,137 --> 01:08:23,557 And he was like, "I don't know, man. I don't know, man. 1392 01:08:24,517 --> 01:08:27,228 You might have done some bad stuff out there, man. 1393 01:08:27,978 --> 01:08:29,772 You might've...  you might've... 1394 01:08:29,855 --> 01:08:31,273 you might've blown it, man." 1395 01:08:31,899 --> 01:08:34,693 You know, it was one of those moments where I went, 1396 01:08:34,777 --> 01:08:36,987 "This is what Andy felt all the time. 1397 01:08:37,780 --> 01:08:39,615 This is what he faced all the time." 1398 01:08:40,491 --> 01:08:41,909 [cheering and applause] 1399 01:08:43,119 --> 01:08:46,622 Tonight, for the first time on network television, they meet face-to-face. 1400 01:08:46,705 --> 01:08:49,041 Here are Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler. 1401 01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:50,751 [cheering and applause] 1402 01:08:53,712 --> 01:08:56,799 [Lawler] What took place just evolved. It wasn't that we were in cahoots. 1403 01:08:56,882 --> 01:08:58,217 It was just sort of a-- 1404 01:08:58,300 --> 01:09:00,761 sort of a thinking on the same level type thing. 1405 01:09:01,137 --> 01:09:03,848 It was just something that kind of happened, 1406 01:09:03,931 --> 01:09:07,226 and afterwards, you know, it turned out good for everybody. 1407 01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:08,853 [applause] 1408 01:09:11,147 --> 01:09:12,314 [laughing] 1409 01:09:12,398 --> 01:09:15,234 Look at Dave's face! He won't even look over there! 1410 01:09:15,985 --> 01:09:17,862 He will not even look over there. 1411 01:09:19,321 --> 01:09:21,657 [man] You have to be prepared 1412 01:09:21,740 --> 01:09:24,493 for any kind of eventuality in this situation. 1413 01:09:24,577 --> 01:09:26,036 We're hoping it goes smoothly. 1414 01:09:26,453 --> 01:09:28,497 -[Andy] Hey, Jerry. How are you? -Hey, how are you? 1415 01:09:28,581 --> 01:09:29,915 -Just fine. -Good to see you. 1416 01:09:29,999 --> 01:09:30,833 All right. 1417 01:09:30,916 --> 01:09:32,835 -A lot of shit went down, huh? -Yes, it did. 1418 01:09:32,918 --> 01:09:34,628 -A lot of shit went down. -Yes, it did. 1419 01:09:34,712 --> 01:09:36,672 I just wanted to say that today-- 1420 01:09:36,755 --> 01:09:38,424 -Eggs just went down a while ago. -Huh? 1421 01:09:38,507 --> 01:09:40,801 -Some eggs went down a while ago. -What do you mean? 1422 01:09:41,552 --> 01:09:43,345 [Lawler] Somebody threw an egg at me. 1423 01:09:47,808 --> 01:09:49,310 That's only a little bit of that. 1424 01:09:49,393 --> 01:09:51,562 [Carrey] The stuntman came in 1425 01:09:51,645 --> 01:09:54,398 and discussed how he was supposed to miss me, and... 1426 01:09:55,191 --> 01:09:56,025 and... 1427 01:09:56,859 --> 01:09:57,693 uh... 1428 01:09:58,569 --> 01:10:01,655 Andy, me, whoever, 1429 01:10:02,281 --> 01:10:04,909 leaned over just before it began and said, 1430 01:10:05,534 --> 01:10:06,493 "Hit me. 1431 01:10:07,119 --> 01:10:08,329 I mean, really hit me." 1432 01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:11,540 [Lawler] What kind of guy are you? 1433 01:10:11,624 --> 01:10:12,958 [laughter] 1434 01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,047 I think-- I think maybe I'll get a lawyer. 1435 01:10:18,130 --> 01:10:19,673 [laughter] 1436 01:10:19,757 --> 01:10:20,758 Take a break. 1437 01:10:21,425 --> 01:10:22,885 [Andy] Apologize to me right now. 1438 01:10:22,968 --> 01:10:25,179 You're just poor white trash. So, I guess... 1439 01:10:25,638 --> 01:10:27,640 [crowd gasping] 1440 01:10:27,765 --> 01:10:29,308 I mean, what are you gonna do? 1441 01:10:29,558 --> 01:10:30,768 [crowd screaming] 1442 01:10:32,895 --> 01:10:34,897 [shocked laughing] 1443 01:10:35,564 --> 01:10:36,523 Oh, fuck. 1444 01:10:36,607 --> 01:10:38,275 [panting] 1445 01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:43,739 [muttering] 1446 01:10:43,822 --> 01:10:48,118 I'm sick of this shit, okay? I am sick of this fucking shit, okay?! 1447 01:10:48,661 --> 01:10:51,872 You are full of shit, Lawler. I'm gonna sue you for everything... 1448 01:10:51,956 --> 01:10:54,708 [Carrey] I don't think he was really trying to kill me. 1449 01:10:54,792 --> 01:10:55,626 Fuck you! 1450 01:10:55,709 --> 01:10:57,503 You know, it's just creativity. 1451 01:10:57,586 --> 01:10:58,587 Fuck you! 1452 01:10:58,671 --> 01:11:00,673 This stuff doesn't matter. 1453 01:11:02,049 --> 01:11:05,344 I come out of Mr. Chow's or something like that, or The Ivy, 1454 01:11:05,427 --> 01:11:06,845 on Robertson there, 1455 01:11:07,471 --> 01:11:10,349 which is like the paparazzi... 1456 01:11:11,225 --> 01:11:12,935 you know, mecca. 1457 01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:14,520 And, uh... 1458 01:11:15,354 --> 01:11:18,274 one time I came out of there, and I-- and I decided, 1459 01:11:18,357 --> 01:11:19,817 "Okay, I'm gonna... 1460 01:11:20,818 --> 01:11:22,111 I'm gonna stand here. 1461 01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:25,948 I'm not gonna say anything, and I'm gonna wait." 1462 01:11:26,865 --> 01:11:28,784 And it suddenly got quiet. 1463 01:11:29,576 --> 01:11:32,705 And I'm just standing in front of The Ivy restaurant. 1464 01:11:33,539 --> 01:11:36,875 And they said, "What are you doing?" 1465 01:11:39,003 --> 01:11:40,421 I said, "Nothing." 1466 01:11:46,635 --> 01:11:48,512 -[Forman] Cut! -[woman] That's a cut! 1467 01:11:48,595 --> 01:11:51,140 That was great. That's it, that's perfect! 1468 01:11:51,765 --> 01:11:55,185 Andy, put some of this on it for now. We'll get it in a rag. 1469 01:11:56,937 --> 01:11:57,896 Cue the sun. 1470 01:12:01,525 --> 01:12:03,444 [crowd wincing] 1471 01:12:04,528 --> 01:12:05,738 -Jeez! -What time is it? 1472 01:12:07,114 --> 01:12:08,615 Christof, what's going on? 1473 01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:11,744 You know there's a rumour circulating that he's dead? 1474 01:12:11,827 --> 01:12:14,830 [Andy] It's about looking at life as a film, as a movie, 1475 01:12:14,913 --> 01:12:17,458 and it's nothing more than that, it's an illusion, 1476 01:12:17,541 --> 01:12:20,210 and that you should be up here watching it 1477 01:12:20,294 --> 01:12:22,212 -That's it. -rather than being caught up... 1478 01:12:29,678 --> 01:12:31,513 [Carrey] I've stepped through the door. 1479 01:12:31,597 --> 01:12:33,474 The door is the realization 1480 01:12:33,557 --> 01:12:35,934 that this, us... 1481 01:12:36,602 --> 01:12:37,436 is... 1482 01:12:38,729 --> 01:12:40,606 seaside. It's-- 1483 01:12:40,689 --> 01:12:42,691 It's the dome. This is the dome. 1484 01:12:43,192 --> 01:12:46,570 This isn't real, you know? This is a story. 1485 01:12:50,199 --> 01:12:52,117 There's the avatar you create 1486 01:12:52,201 --> 01:12:55,662 and the cadence you come up with that is pleasing to people, 1487 01:12:55,746 --> 01:12:59,583 and takes them away from their issues, and it makes you popular, 1488 01:12:59,666 --> 01:13:03,087 and then at some point, you have to peel it away . 1489 01:13:03,170 --> 01:13:05,297 And, you know, it's not who you are. 1490 01:13:06,090 --> 01:13:09,218 He has the world's most recognizable face. He can't disappear. 1491 01:13:10,677 --> 01:13:13,764 At some point, you have to live, you know, your true man. 1492 01:13:13,847 --> 01:13:16,100 I mean, Truman Show really became a... 1493 01:13:16,642 --> 01:13:19,103 -Again. Hit him again. -a prophecy for me. 1494 01:13:22,106 --> 01:13:26,527 It is constantly reaffirming itself 1495 01:13:26,610 --> 01:13:30,447 as a-- as a teaching almost, 1496 01:13:30,531 --> 01:13:34,743 as a-- as a real representation of what I've gone through in my career, 1497 01:13:34,827 --> 01:13:38,580 and what everybody goes through when they create themselves, 1498 01:13:38,664 --> 01:13:41,542 you know, to be popular or to be successful. 1499 01:13:41,625 --> 01:13:45,337 And it's not just show business. It's Wall Street, it's anywhere. 1500 01:13:45,421 --> 01:13:47,423 You go to the office, put a monkey suit on, 1501 01:13:47,506 --> 01:13:51,135 act a certain way, say a certain thing, and lie through your teeth at times, 1502 01:13:51,218 --> 01:13:55,347 and you do whatever you need to do to look like a winner, you know. 1503 01:13:55,431 --> 01:13:58,058 And then at some point of your life, you have to-- 1504 01:13:58,142 --> 01:14:01,186 you have to go, "I don't care what it looks like. You know. 1505 01:14:01,270 --> 01:14:04,773 I found the hole in the psyche and I'm going through. 1506 01:14:05,315 --> 01:14:10,487 And-- and I'm gonna face the abyss of not knowing 1507 01:14:10,571 --> 01:14:14,158 whether that's gonna be okay with everybody or not, you know." 1508 01:14:14,241 --> 01:14:15,200 Um... 1509 01:14:15,284 --> 01:14:17,578 And at times, you know, just like the movie, 1510 01:14:17,661 --> 01:14:20,164 they try to drown you in the middle of that abyss. 1511 01:14:20,706 --> 01:14:24,084 They go, "No, be the other guy. You told us you were this guy. 1512 01:14:24,835 --> 01:14:26,211 You told us you were Andy. 1513 01:14:26,628 --> 01:14:28,380 You told us you were Tony Clifton." 1514 01:14:28,839 --> 01:14:31,049 You know, no one can live with that forever. 1515 01:14:37,764 --> 01:14:39,308 [chattering] 1516 01:14:41,685 --> 01:14:43,312 [man] I love you, man! 1517 01:14:45,022 --> 01:14:46,231 Thank you very much. 1518 01:14:46,315 --> 01:14:47,733 [laughter and cheering] 1519 01:14:49,985 --> 01:14:51,445 [man] I love you! 1520 01:14:51,528 --> 01:14:54,281 I like you a lot, but... 1521 01:14:54,364 --> 01:14:55,324 [laughter] 1522 01:14:55,407 --> 01:14:57,117 I don't love you. 1523 01:14:57,201 --> 01:14:58,076 [laughter] 1524 01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:02,998 [producer] Can you talk about what it felt like in the Carnegie Hall performance? 1525 01:15:03,081 --> 01:15:06,668 That was haunting. Yeah, I felt that that was haunting... 1526 01:15:07,294 --> 01:15:09,087 to just go and recreate that. 1527 01:15:09,171 --> 01:15:10,339 [singing gibberish] 1528 01:15:10,422 --> 01:15:13,759 You know, where he just made one thing after another, after another, 1529 01:15:13,842 --> 01:15:18,514 and he didn't stop until they were completely blown away 1530 01:15:18,597 --> 01:15:20,849 and had the most incredible night of their lives. 1531 01:15:20,933 --> 01:15:23,018 They knew they were part of something special. 1532 01:15:23,101 --> 01:15:25,145 ["Hallelujah Chorus" plays] 1533 01:15:25,229 --> 01:15:28,106 ♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ 1534 01:15:28,899 --> 01:15:31,527 It's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir! 1535 01:15:32,110 --> 01:15:33,904 ♪ Dashing through the snow ♪ 1536 01:15:33,987 --> 01:15:35,781 ♪ In a one-horse open sleigh ♪ 1537 01:15:36,281 --> 01:15:37,699 ♪ O'er the fields we go... ♪ 1538 01:15:37,783 --> 01:15:39,201 It's the Rockettes! 1539 01:15:40,285 --> 01:15:41,620 I can't believe it! 1540 01:15:41,954 --> 01:15:43,789 [crowd cheering] 1541 01:15:43,872 --> 01:15:45,457 ♪ What fun it is to ride and sing ♪ 1542 01:15:45,874 --> 01:15:47,501 It's Santa Claus! 1543 01:15:47,584 --> 01:15:49,419 ♪ Jingle bells, jingle bells ♪ 1544 01:15:49,503 --> 01:15:51,505 ♪ Jingle all the way ♪ 1545 01:15:51,588 --> 01:15:53,006 ♪ Oh, what fun it is to ride ♪ 1546 01:15:53,090 --> 01:15:54,550 ♪ In a one-horse open sleigh ♪ 1547 01:15:54,633 --> 01:15:57,761 [Carrey] And at the very same time, he was facing the abyss. 1548 01:15:57,844 --> 01:16:01,056 For him to take everyone to that place... 1549 01:16:01,807 --> 01:16:05,769 while at the same time he knows there's something going on 1550 01:16:05,852 --> 01:16:07,854 that he's got to face that is, uh... 1551 01:16:08,730 --> 01:16:10,065 absolutely terrifying. 1552 01:16:14,736 --> 01:16:17,864 So do you think Andy could tell us why you got us here? 1553 01:16:21,201 --> 01:16:22,035 I.... 1554 01:16:23,161 --> 01:16:24,371 I have cancer. 1555 01:16:26,415 --> 01:16:28,000 Forget it! 1556 01:16:28,333 --> 01:16:29,459 Forget it! 1557 01:16:29,543 --> 01:16:33,463 No, this is in such poor taste. I don't want anything to do with this! 1558 01:16:33,547 --> 01:16:36,800 We can make that play. I can push him around in a wheelchair. 1559 01:16:36,883 --> 01:16:37,718 Guys... 1560 01:16:37,801 --> 01:16:38,635 That's funny... 1561 01:16:39,678 --> 01:16:42,139 but it's not a gag, Bob. 1562 01:16:42,222 --> 01:16:44,474 I got cancer. I got lung cancer. 1563 01:16:52,566 --> 01:16:53,567 Andy... 1564 01:16:53,984 --> 01:16:57,362 look in my eye and tell me this is true. 1565 01:16:59,239 --> 01:17:00,282 [Lynne] I'm sorry. 1566 01:17:01,658 --> 01:17:03,910 -I'm sorry. I'm sorry. -Hey. 1567 01:17:03,994 --> 01:17:04,911 I'm sorry. 1568 01:17:04,995 --> 01:17:06,079 [sobbing] 1569 01:17:06,163 --> 01:17:06,997 Lynne? 1570 01:17:07,497 --> 01:17:08,749 Come on, hey. 1571 01:17:08,832 --> 01:17:09,791 Hey, hey. 1572 01:17:09,875 --> 01:17:11,209 ["End of the Line" plays] 1573 01:17:11,293 --> 01:17:13,629 ♪ Well, it's all right ♪ 1574 01:17:14,630 --> 01:17:16,882 ♪ Even when push comes to shove ♪ 1575 01:17:16,965 --> 01:17:18,175 ♪ Well, it's all right ♪ 1576 01:17:18,258 --> 01:17:20,052 This is a good song for today. 1577 01:17:20,302 --> 01:17:22,429 ♪ If you got someone to love ♪ 1578 01:17:22,804 --> 01:17:25,140 ♪ Well, it's all right ♪ 1579 01:17:25,849 --> 01:17:28,226 ♪ Everything will work out fine ♪ 1580 01:17:29,061 --> 01:17:31,897 [Carrey] I think sometimes people that... 1581 01:17:32,606 --> 01:17:35,609 exist so completely in their character, 1582 01:17:36,568 --> 01:17:39,279 and maybe not know how to get out of it, 1583 01:17:39,363 --> 01:17:43,408 or how to take another road might take the ultimate road, 1584 01:17:43,492 --> 01:17:44,368 you know? 1585 01:17:44,451 --> 01:17:47,287 Where they, uh... they have to actually leave the, uh... 1586 01:17:48,038 --> 01:17:48,997 the planet. 1587 01:17:49,873 --> 01:17:51,124 You know, to get out. 1588 01:17:56,588 --> 01:17:59,341 All we really yearn for is our own absence. 1589 01:18:01,385 --> 01:18:03,428 After all, you know? 1590 01:18:04,054 --> 01:18:06,223 We yearn for what happens at death. 1591 01:18:07,224 --> 01:18:08,141 [exhales] 1592 01:18:09,059 --> 01:18:11,061 "I don't have to worry about that anymore?" 1593 01:18:13,647 --> 01:18:17,859 ♪ This is Major Tom to Ground Control ♪ 1594 01:18:18,443 --> 01:18:21,029 ♪ I'm stepping through the door ♪ 1595 01:18:21,113 --> 01:18:23,240 I truly, uh, feel like, uh.. . 1596 01:18:23,323 --> 01:18:25,826 like if you ask me where I live right now, 1597 01:18:25,909 --> 01:18:27,744 where the real me is, 1598 01:18:27,828 --> 01:18:32,833 I would say that there's a quiet, gentle seat 1599 01:18:33,583 --> 01:18:34,751 in the universe 1600 01:18:35,377 --> 01:18:37,713 that seems to... 1601 01:18:39,548 --> 01:18:40,841 contain everything, 1602 01:18:41,466 --> 01:18:42,592 and that's where I am. 1603 01:18:44,386 --> 01:18:46,805 I don't want anything. That's the craziest thing, 1604 01:18:46,888 --> 01:18:50,434 and it's the weirdest thing to say in a place like America, 1605 01:18:50,851 --> 01:18:52,227 where I have no ambition. 1606 01:18:53,270 --> 01:18:54,938 I really, truly don't. 1607 01:18:55,397 --> 01:18:56,606 How are you feeling? 1608 01:18:57,190 --> 01:18:59,609 I'm doing fine, Andy. 1609 01:19:00,402 --> 01:19:02,529 [producer] Where do you think that'll take you? 1610 01:19:03,113 --> 01:19:03,989 [Carrey] Nowhere . 1611 01:19:05,657 --> 01:19:07,075 I don't have to go anywhere. 1612 01:19:09,369 --> 01:19:10,829 That's fascinating to me now, 1613 01:19:12,122 --> 01:19:13,165 the disappearing. 1614 01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:17,085 You opened my eyes to so many things... 1615 01:19:18,211 --> 01:19:20,172 I never believed I'd ever see. 1616 01:19:21,465 --> 01:19:24,509 [producer] 'Cause the younger you 1617 01:19:24,593 --> 01:19:27,471 starting out and trying to make it definitely had... 1618 01:19:27,554 --> 01:19:29,222 -Yeah. -...had a different thing. 1619 01:19:29,306 --> 01:19:31,308 So where did that transition take place? 1620 01:19:32,350 --> 01:19:33,185 Uh... 1621 01:19:34,436 --> 01:19:37,439 Somewhere in the middle of... 1622 01:19:38,398 --> 01:19:40,233 absolute confusion, 1623 01:19:41,151 --> 01:19:43,779 absolute disappointment, 1624 01:19:44,529 --> 01:19:46,573 absolute, uh... 1625 01:19:47,824 --> 01:19:48,658 uh... 1626 01:19:50,285 --> 01:19:53,371 the fruition of all of my dreams, 1627 01:19:54,414 --> 01:19:56,500 uh, standing there with everything 1628 01:19:56,583 --> 01:19:59,127 anybody else had ever dreamed about having, 1629 01:19:59,669 --> 01:20:00,921 and being unhappy. 1630 01:20:06,218 --> 01:20:07,928 ["Space Oddity" plays] 1631 01:20:11,223 --> 01:20:12,098 [Forman] Cut! 1632 01:20:12,182 --> 01:20:14,267 -Yes! -[man] Good, okay. 1633 01:20:14,351 --> 01:20:15,936 [chattering] 1634 01:20:24,486 --> 01:20:26,446 [Carrey] The crew, and the cast, 1635 01:20:26,530 --> 01:20:29,157 and everybody was so in love with Andy at that point 1636 01:20:29,241 --> 01:20:32,452 that they were truly saddened, you know, 1637 01:20:32,536 --> 01:20:38,667 and he was reduced to this little glow. 1638 01:20:39,209 --> 01:20:42,587 In my mind, he was this little glow, 1639 01:20:42,671 --> 01:20:45,215 this divine spark 1640 01:20:45,298 --> 01:20:47,259 who's slowly going out. 1641 01:20:49,719 --> 01:20:50,595 ♪ Six ♪ 1642 01:20:50,679 --> 01:20:54,307 ♪ Commencing countdown, engines on ♪ 1643 01:20:55,100 --> 01:20:56,142 ♪ Three ♪ 1644 01:20:57,060 --> 01:20:57,894 ♪ Two ♪ 1645 01:20:57,978 --> 01:20:59,813 ♪ Check ignition ♪ 1646 01:20:59,896 --> 01:21:03,775 -♪ And may God's love be with you ♪ -♪ Lift off ♪ 1647 01:21:15,245 --> 01:21:19,457 ♪ This is Ground Control to Major Tom ♪ 1648 01:21:20,166 --> 01:21:23,837 ♪ You've really made the grade ♪ 1649 01:21:25,046 --> 01:21:28,049 ♪ And the papers want to know ♪ 1650 01:21:28,133 --> 01:21:30,510 ♪ Whose shirts you wear ♪ 1651 01:21:31,970 --> 01:21:35,557 ♪ Now it's time to leave the capsule ♪ 1652 01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:37,726 ♪ If you dare ♪ 1653 01:21:40,020 --> 01:21:44,065 ♪ This is Major Tom to Ground Control ♪ 1654 01:21:44,858 --> 01:21:48,153 ♪ I'm stepping through the door ♪ 1655 01:21:50,071 --> 01:21:55,785 ♪ And I'm floating In a most peculiar way ♪ 1656 01:21:56,912 --> 01:22:03,293 ♪ And the stars look Very different today ♪ 1657 01:22:04,294 --> 01:22:07,130 ♪ For here ♪ 1658 01:22:07,213 --> 01:22:11,176 ♪ Am I sitting in a tin can ♪ 1659 01:22:11,259 --> 01:22:14,429 [producer] Do you feel like you'd be in the same place in your life 1660 01:22:14,512 --> 01:22:16,514 if you hadn't played Andy? 1661 01:22:17,891 --> 01:22:21,394 Uh, well, no. Butterfly effect, man, you know. 1662 01:22:21,937 --> 01:22:24,147 Would've been somewhere completely different. 1663 01:22:25,106 --> 01:22:25,982 Uh... 1664 01:22:27,359 --> 01:22:29,361 But the choices make you, you know. 1665 01:22:29,444 --> 01:22:32,364 I'm not a big believer in free will either, so... 1666 01:22:32,906 --> 01:22:33,740 um... 1667 01:22:34,449 --> 01:22:36,868 You know, I pick up the tea because I'm thirsty. 1668 01:22:37,786 --> 01:22:39,955 Is that free will, you know? 1669 01:22:41,957 --> 01:22:42,999 Or am I thirsty? 1670 01:22:43,500 --> 01:22:45,835 You know, what told me to pick up the tea? 1671 01:22:54,552 --> 01:22:55,428 Okay. 1672 01:22:56,388 --> 01:22:58,598 [woman] I think the wrong cigarettes are in there. 1673 01:23:03,269 --> 01:23:05,063 [man] Background, action! 1674 01:23:05,647 --> 01:23:07,774 [Carrey] Andy came back to make his movie, 1675 01:23:08,191 --> 01:23:10,235 and Andy did what Andy does. 1676 01:23:10,735 --> 01:23:12,737 And Andy turned it upside down, 1677 01:23:13,446 --> 01:23:14,781 and it still got made. 1678 01:23:19,035 --> 01:23:22,914 It was-- it was a joyful, loving experience for everybody, 1679 01:23:23,248 --> 01:23:25,959 and the evidence was right there on the last day. 1680 01:23:26,042 --> 01:23:29,546 Everybody with a bag on their head, and everybody crying, 1681 01:23:29,629 --> 01:23:30,880 people crying. 1682 01:23:30,964 --> 01:23:32,340 [cheering] 1683 01:23:32,799 --> 01:23:34,759 This horrible person. [laughs] 1684 01:23:34,843 --> 01:23:36,553 [cheering] 1685 01:23:39,514 --> 01:23:41,182 [Tony] I want to thank everybody. 1686 01:23:42,183 --> 01:23:44,269 I want to thank everybody for this. 1687 01:23:44,352 --> 01:23:45,270 [woman] Thank you! 1688 01:23:45,353 --> 01:23:46,521 [man] Thank you, Tony! 1689 01:23:46,604 --> 01:23:47,772 [cheering] 1690 01:23:50,483 --> 01:23:52,485 I just want to say that... 1691 01:23:53,862 --> 01:23:55,280 although I never liked him, 1692 01:23:56,114 --> 01:23:58,116 Andy Kaufman was a brilliant man. 1693 01:24:00,035 --> 01:24:00,869 And... 1694 01:24:01,619 --> 01:24:03,455 And he changed a lot of things, 1695 01:24:03,955 --> 01:24:07,667 and opened a lot of doors for a lot of people in their lives. 1696 01:24:08,084 --> 01:24:09,210 And I'm honored... 1697 01:24:11,296 --> 01:24:12,589 to be part of this. 1698 01:24:15,133 --> 01:24:18,928 And we should all thank our lucky stars that Andy Kaufman walked this earth. 1699 01:24:20,055 --> 01:24:21,973 [applause] 1700 01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,200 [cheering] 1701 01:24:40,700 --> 01:24:41,951 Cheers! 1702 01:24:46,206 --> 01:24:48,875 -[producer] Do you miss Tony now or-- -No. 1703 01:24:48,958 --> 01:24:51,086 -After spending time with him? -No. 1704 01:24:51,169 --> 01:24:52,420 -In that period? -No. 1705 01:24:53,338 --> 01:24:54,672 I don't miss anything. 1706 01:24:54,756 --> 01:24:56,674 ["The Great Beyond" plays] 1707 01:24:58,885 --> 01:25:02,430 ♪ I've watched the stars fall silent ♪ 1708 01:25:03,056 --> 01:25:04,557 ♪ From your eyes ♪ 1709 01:25:04,641 --> 01:25:07,852 [Carrey] I would like to say I feel bad 1710 01:25:08,228 --> 01:25:11,523 that I wasn't in the REM video . 1711 01:25:14,859 --> 01:25:16,236 At that time, 1712 01:25:16,653 --> 01:25:19,531 I just didn't want to be Andy anymore. 1713 01:25:20,406 --> 01:25:22,450 And they wanted me to be Andy in the video, 1714 01:25:22,534 --> 01:25:26,788 and I just didn't want to go back once I left Andy. 1715 01:25:27,455 --> 01:25:31,459 And I tried to figure out what the hell I am again. 1716 01:25:31,918 --> 01:25:34,671 I just didn't want to go back and be Andy anymore. 1717 01:25:34,754 --> 01:25:37,632 ♪ I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs ♪ 1718 01:25:37,715 --> 01:25:39,634 Jim Carrey, Man on the Moon. 1719 01:25:39,717 --> 01:25:43,263 ♪ I'm tossing up punchlines That were never there ♪ 1720 01:25:43,346 --> 01:25:44,347 Hello! 1721 01:25:46,516 --> 01:25:48,643 [producer] Know where the title of that song came from? 1722 01:25:50,395 --> 01:25:52,063 [Carrey] The great beyond to me. 1723 01:25:52,147 --> 01:25:54,440 It probably means different things to Michael Stipe, 1724 01:25:54,524 --> 01:25:58,695 but to me, Andy was the great beyond. 1725 01:25:58,778 --> 01:26:00,530 [cheering] 1726 01:26:00,613 --> 01:26:04,075 ♪ I don't want to stay around ♪ 1727 01:26:04,159 --> 01:26:07,120 I didn't know who I was anymore when the movie was over. 1728 01:26:07,704 --> 01:26:13,751 I didn't know what my politics were. I couldn't remember what I was about. 1729 01:26:14,335 --> 01:26:15,795 [cheering] 1730 01:26:17,338 --> 01:26:18,840 Suddenly I was so unhappy, 1731 01:26:18,923 --> 01:26:23,344 and I realized that I was back in my problems. 1732 01:26:23,887 --> 01:26:26,806 I was back in my heartbreak. 1733 01:26:28,641 --> 01:26:30,476 And suddenly I thought to myself, 1734 01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:32,770 "You felt so good when you were being Andy." 1735 01:26:34,314 --> 01:26:36,399 'Cause you were free from yourself. 1736 01:26:36,482 --> 01:26:38,484 You were on vacation from Jim Carrey." 1737 01:26:39,152 --> 01:26:42,363 You stepped through the door not knowing what's on the other side, 1738 01:26:42,447 --> 01:26:44,574 and what's on the other side is everything. 1739 01:26:45,074 --> 01:26:46,367 You know, everything. 1740 01:26:48,161 --> 01:26:51,706 There's a feeling of relief 1741 01:26:51,789 --> 01:26:53,583 from this vehicle 1742 01:26:53,666 --> 01:26:56,336 that's traveling through space, 1743 01:26:57,003 --> 01:26:58,796 trying to, like, grasp onto stuff, 1744 01:26:59,339 --> 01:27:04,636 like fucking countries, and religions, and... 1745 01:27:05,178 --> 01:27:06,179 uh... 1746 01:27:06,554 --> 01:27:09,182 And I find it all so abstract. 1747 01:27:09,599 --> 01:27:11,017 Why am I an American? 1748 01:27:11,392 --> 01:27:12,727 Why am I a Canadian? 1749 01:27:12,810 --> 01:27:14,604 What is that? What does that mean? 1750 01:27:14,687 --> 01:27:19,108 Somebody put a line down and said, "This is that." You know, uh... 1751 01:27:20,151 --> 01:27:21,736 You know, we're so much more. 1752 01:27:22,362 --> 01:27:28,076 Then we, like, are born into a family, so we're told what our family name is. 1753 01:27:28,159 --> 01:27:32,664 And then your parents choose a name, and they say, "Your name will be Joel. 1754 01:27:32,747 --> 01:27:34,707 It means the... 1755 01:27:35,792 --> 01:27:39,003 awesomeness of Yahweh," you know. 1756 01:27:39,087 --> 01:27:41,339 "And you have to live up to that, dude, 1757 01:27:42,006 --> 01:27:45,718 and, uh, we're counting on you not to make us look bad. 1758 01:27:46,094 --> 01:27:47,720 And you're gonna go to Harvard, 1759 01:27:47,804 --> 01:27:50,306 and you're gonna be a doctor, and you're gonna be-- 1760 01:27:50,390 --> 01:27:52,976 And by the way, you're a Catholic, or you're a Jew, 1761 01:27:53,059 --> 01:27:55,144 or you're, you know, whatever you are." 1762 01:27:55,228 --> 01:27:58,147 It's like everything is so... 1763 01:27:58,898 --> 01:28:03,027 are these abstract structures that you're given, 1764 01:28:03,111 --> 01:28:06,656 and it's supposed to hold you together somehow, you know. 1765 01:28:06,739 --> 01:28:08,783 And I've just given 'em up, you know. 1766 01:28:08,866 --> 01:28:10,868 I don't need to be held together. 1767 01:28:10,952 --> 01:28:15,665 I'm fine just floating through space like Andy. 1768 01:28:16,374 --> 01:28:17,625 You know, just... 1769 01:28:20,086 --> 01:28:23,589 flying 6,000 miles an hour around the sun. 1770 01:28:24,173 --> 01:28:25,008 You know. 1771 01:28:25,550 --> 01:28:29,512 Balancing on tectonic plates that are floating on lava. 1772 01:28:30,054 --> 01:28:33,433 You know, ready for the end times to occur 1773 01:28:33,516 --> 01:28:36,686 and whatever the hell is gonna happen. 1774 01:28:37,228 --> 01:28:38,354 I'm just great. 1775 01:28:38,438 --> 01:28:40,940 That's all great. That's all great. 1776 01:28:45,403 --> 01:28:48,156 You're on a spiritual journey, period, 1777 01:28:48,239 --> 01:28:50,491 and we're all gonna end up in the same place, 1778 01:28:51,242 --> 01:28:52,493 if there is such a thing. 1779 01:28:52,994 --> 01:28:56,080 And maybe there isn't. Maybe there's just this and that's it. 1780 01:28:56,164 --> 01:28:58,207 There's me and the teacup, that's it. 1781 01:28:58,291 --> 01:29:00,668 There's us. We're the universe, man. 1782 01:29:02,295 --> 01:29:03,796 I like that, that's fine. 1783 01:29:04,464 --> 01:29:05,298 Yeah. 1784 01:29:06,174 --> 01:29:07,008 So... 1785 01:29:07,592 --> 01:29:08,426 uh... 1786 01:29:09,886 --> 01:29:12,472 Yeah. I don't know what else to say about all this. 1787 01:29:12,847 --> 01:29:15,141 Yeah, I think I'm tapped out. 1788 01:29:15,224 --> 01:29:17,352 -[producer] Okay. -You know, unless, uh... 1789 01:29:19,687 --> 01:29:20,521 I wonder... 1790 01:29:20,897 --> 01:29:23,274 I wonder if I could do that with other people? 1791 01:29:23,358 --> 01:29:28,112 I wonder what would happen if I decided to just be Jesus? 1792 01:29:28,821 --> 01:29:30,198 [cheering] 1793 01:29:34,786 --> 01:29:36,996 Wow, we got into some crazy shit down there. 1794 01:29:41,751 --> 01:29:42,835 [producer] That's it. 1795 01:29:46,005 --> 01:29:49,801 ♪ Mott the Hoople and the game of life ♪ 1796 01:29:50,635 --> 01:29:53,012 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1797 01:29:54,222 --> 01:29:57,850 ♪ Andy Kaufman in a wrestling match ♪ 1798 01:29:57,934 --> 01:29:58,768 [cheering] 1799 01:29:58,851 --> 01:30:01,145 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1800 01:30:02,355 --> 01:30:06,109 ♪ Monopoly, 21, checkers, and chess ♪ 1801 01:30:07,026 --> 01:30:09,320 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1802 01:30:10,238 --> 01:30:14,200 ♪ Mr. Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess ♪ 1803 01:30:14,992 --> 01:30:17,245 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1804 01:30:18,287 --> 01:30:22,041 ♪ Let's play Twister, let's play Risk ♪ 1805 01:30:22,834 --> 01:30:25,294 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1806 01:30:26,254 --> 01:30:30,007 ♪ See you up in heaven If you make the list ♪ 1807 01:30:30,091 --> 01:30:30,967 [Andy] Fuck yeah. 1808 01:30:31,050 --> 01:30:33,136 -♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ -I'll hold the camera. 1809 01:30:33,219 --> 01:30:36,305 I don't care if Jim Carrey wants to jack off all day long. 1810 01:30:37,306 --> 01:30:39,225 He can fucking do whatever he wants. 1811 01:30:39,308 --> 01:30:42,186 It's our movie, it's our set, it's our concept, 1812 01:30:42,270 --> 01:30:44,272 and you're giving this stuff over. 1813 01:30:44,564 --> 01:30:48,109 But you would then say you would not give your release to the use of yourself. 1814 01:30:48,776 --> 01:30:51,154 Just if--  I mean, unless you're putting me on. 1815 01:30:52,321 --> 01:30:53,739 Oh, you're so full of shit. 1816 01:30:53,823 --> 01:30:56,159 [-laughing] -[woman] What the hell's going on? 1817 01:30:56,784 --> 01:30:58,119 -You're sick! -[laughing] 1818 01:30:58,202 --> 01:31:00,872 How does it feel? How does it feel? 1819 01:31:01,914 --> 01:31:03,708 The shoe is on the other foot! 1820 01:31:04,333 --> 01:31:05,877 Fuck you! Fuck you too! 1821 01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:07,587 ["Man on the Moon" plays] 1822 01:31:11,841 --> 01:31:13,301 [Tony] ♪ If you believed ♪ 1823 01:31:14,093 --> 01:31:15,928 ♪ They put a man on the moon ♪ 1824 01:31:16,679 --> 01:31:17,847 ♪ Man on the moon ♪ 1825 01:31:17,930 --> 01:31:19,265 ♪ Man on the moon ♪ 1826 01:31:19,932 --> 01:31:21,476 ♪ If you believed ♪ 1827 01:31:22,185 --> 01:31:24,687 ♪ There's nothing up my sleeve ♪ 1828 01:31:24,770 --> 01:31:26,522 ♪ Then nothing is cool ♪ 1829 01:31:27,940 --> 01:31:29,484 ♪ If you believed ♪ 1830 01:31:30,193 --> 01:31:32,278 ♪ They put a man on the moon ♪ 1831 01:31:32,987 --> 01:31:33,988 ♪ Man on the moon ♪ 1832 01:31:34,071 --> 01:31:37,325 Thank you very much, you've been a fantastic audience! 1833 01:31:37,408 --> 01:31:39,035 [cheering] 1834 01:31:49,128 --> 01:31:51,047 ♪ You can criticize me All the way to the bank ♪ 1835 01:31:51,130 --> 01:31:53,424 ♪ My single's number one And shabba don't rank ♪ 1836 01:31:53,508 --> 01:31:56,969 ♪ Time Warner kicked Ice-T Off of the label for dissing the cops ♪ 1837 01:31:57,053 --> 01:31:58,471 ♪ They said it just ain't right ♪ 1838 01:31:58,554 --> 01:32:00,681 ♪ But when a Caucasian man Records a cop-hating song ♪ 1839 01:32:00,765 --> 01:32:02,016 ♪ They don't have a problem ♪ 1840 01:32:02,099 --> 01:32:03,643 ♪ Must be an oversight ♪ 1841 01:32:03,726 --> 01:32:05,895 ♪ All the Jamaicans think I gave them a bum steere ♪ 1842 01:32:05,978 --> 01:32:08,356 ♪ But everything I know I learned from an auctioneer ♪ 1843 01:32:08,439 --> 01:32:10,775 ♪ The bidding will start at seven For this here Gauguin ♪ 1844 01:32:10,858 --> 01:32:13,402 ♪ Eight, do I hear eight, nine Who'll give me ten? ♪ 1845 01:32:13,486 --> 01:32:15,947 ♪ I got ten Ten going once, going twice, sold ♪ 1846 01:32:16,030 --> 01:32:18,157 ♪ I can spout gibberish And it'll go gold ♪ 1847 01:32:18,241 --> 01:32:20,576 ♪ I am what I am And that's all that I am ♪ 1848 01:32:20,660 --> 01:32:23,162 [scatting] 1849 01:32:23,246 --> 01:32:25,540 ♪ I rap in your songs With the best of my ability ♪ 1850 01:32:25,623 --> 01:32:27,959 ♪ You need a black man To increase your credibility ♪ 1851 01:32:28,042 --> 01:32:30,294 ♪ When put on the spot I side with the rasta ♪ 1852 01:32:30,378 --> 01:32:32,713 ♪ 'Cause Sean ain't down With no imposter ♪ 1853 01:32:32,797 --> 01:32:34,131 ♪ Imposter ♪ 1854 01:32:34,215 --> 01:32:36,259 ♪ Like Vanilla Ice The people are sick of me ♪ 1855 01:32:36,342 --> 01:32:37,718 ♪ They put my boom-boom down ♪ 1856 01:32:37,802 --> 01:32:39,053 ♪ In four months ♪ 1857 01:32:39,136 --> 01:32:41,347 ♪ My butt'll be back in Canada Working a day job ♪ 1858 01:32:41,430 --> 01:32:43,099 ♪ With a burger crown ♪ 1859 01:32:43,182 --> 01:32:45,184 [scatting] 1860 01:32:47,853 --> 01:32:49,647 ♪ Would you, would you ♪ 1861 01:32:49,730 --> 01:32:51,274 ♪ Would you like fries with that? ♪ 1862 01:32:52,024 --> 01:32:53,734 ♪ A hot apple pie with that? ♪ 1863 01:32:53,818 --> 01:32:55,820 ["I've Gotta Be Me" plays] 1864 01:32:57,446 --> 01:32:59,115 [Tony] ♪ Oh, whether I'm right ♪ 1865 01:32:59,198 --> 01:33:00,783 [cheering and applause] 1866 01:33:00,866 --> 01:33:02,994 ♪ Or whether I'm wrong ♪ 1867 01:33:04,203 --> 01:33:07,623 ♪ Or whether I find a place In this world ♪ 1868 01:33:07,707 --> 01:33:10,751 ♪ Or never belong ♪ 1869 01:33:10,835 --> 01:33:13,671 ♪ I've got to be me ♪ 1870 01:33:14,422 --> 01:33:17,425 ♪ I've gotta be me ♪ 1871 01:33:18,092 --> 01:33:20,553 ♪ Willing to try to do it ♪ 1872 01:33:20,636 --> 01:33:23,556 ♪ Or die ♪ 1873 01:33:24,515 --> 01:33:25,933 [yelling] 1874 01:33:26,892 --> 01:33:29,061 [cheering and applause] 1875 01:33:35,192 --> 01:33:36,402 Thank you very much! 1876 01:33:37,778 --> 01:33:40,114 Thank you. I do all my own stunts.