Joaquin Phoenix channels Andy Kaufman

[shereads]

But without the key comedic element of Andy Kaufman.

http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/video_player/index/php/978097.phtml

Poor Dave.

 

[AllardChardon]

I saw this clip a couple of mornings ago and laughed my ass off. I figure the movie company that produced his lastest film made him promote it against his will, sort of. So he decides to do a really bad job and makes himself look like a total idiot and they cancel the rest of the talk show tour. Voila, Joaquin can get back to making music, his latest love.

 

[Stella_Omega]

"Joaquim, I''m sorry you couldn't be here tonight."

 

[Leto Degeneres]

"Joaquim, I''m sorry you couldn't be here tonight."

"Yer doin' all right"

 

[shereads]

"Yer doin' all right"

"Coming from you, that means a lot."

 

[CharleyH]

It's all sad really. I hate actors because sometimes they put on a show for ratings (they hate paparazzi, though, go figure). What better thing to do than appear fucked up, for new promo?

 

[Leto Degeneres]

It's all sad really. I hate actors because sometimes they put on a show for ratings (they hate paparazzi, though, go figure). What better thing to do than appear fucked up, for new promo?

I don't know WHAT he's doing. Ol' Letterman did all right, though. He managed to make it hilareous in spite of Phoenix. Joaquin was like a "don't do drugs" commercial. Letterman's comeback to Phoenix at one point was perfect (as shereads points out):

"Coming from you, that means a lot."

It's like he's got no self-discipline or sense of duty, or self-respect for that matter.

 

[CharleyH]

I don't know WHAT he's doing. Ol' Letterman did all right, though. He managed to make it hilareous in spite of Phoenix. Joaquin was like a "don't do drugs" commercial. Letterman's comeback to Phoenix at one point was perfect (as shereads points out):


It's like he's got no self-discipline or sense of duty, or self-respect for that matter.

Actor - don't forget the meaning of the word. The best promo in the world for actors has always been no sense of discipline, duty or self-respect.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Actor

Exactly.

At one point, he half-smiles at something Dave says, and you can tell. It's totally an act. He was surprised out of character for a minute there.

 

[shereads]

Exactly.

At one point, he half-smiles at something Dave says, and you can tell. It's totally an act. He was surprised out of character for a minute there.

It's possible that it was a gag that they were both in on. Word is, Phoenix's hip-hop career is satire, along the lines of Spinal Tap - or Andy Kaufman's wrestling career. If it was an act, it was as brilliant as it would otherwise be pathetic.

Any Kaufman fans out there? (I adored him.)

 

[shereads]

Kaufman did it first:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p0sr2BejUk&feature=related

 

[Stella_Omega]

I was a fan of Ladka Gravis-- not of Andy himself, however. I'd watch him and half of my mind would always be distracted; "THANK GAWD he isn't my neighbor!'

 

[shereads]

I was a fan of Ladka Gravis-- not of Andy himself, however. I'd watch him and half of my mind would always be distracted; "THANK GAWD he isn't my neighbor!'

His lip-sync of Mighty Mouse was arguably the best in the business. "Here I come to save the day!

 

[Leto Degeneres]

His lip-sync of Mighty Mouse was arguably the best in the business. "Here I come to save the day!

I had forgotten that! Damn, talk about a blast from the past! I'm grinnin' now...

 

[shereads]

I had forgotten that! Damn, talk about a blast from the past! I'm grinnin' now...

Since you're a fan, I'll bump this clip just for you: It's Kaufman, as a guest on Letterman's 1980's daytime show, creating the "inexcusably awful talk-show guest" persona that Joaquim Phoenix revived 30 years later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p0sr2BejUk&feature=related

 

[shereads]

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[Leto Degeneres]

Since you're a fan, I'll bump this clip just for you: It's Kaufman, as a guest on Letterman's 1980's daytime show, creating the "inexcusably awful talk-show guest" Joaquim Phoenix revived 30 years later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p0sr2BejUk&feature=related

That was 1980!!! 1980? That was only yesterday!
Kaufman's a hoot! How'd you remember that to compare to Joaquim?

 

[Lady_Guenivere]

But without the key comedic element of Andy Kaufman.

http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/video_player/index/php/978097.phtml

Poor Dave.

I think Joaquin is a fantastic actor...I watched that interview and thought that he was inexcusably disrespectful. I get the whole tortured actor thing...but WTF?

 

[AllardChardon]

I just spent the last hour watching one of my all time favorites, Andy Kaufman, who I had forgotten as well. Thank you so much for the lovely trip down Memory Lane. Mighty Mouse still makes me laugh, hard.

 

[shereads]

I just spent the last hour watching one of my all time favorites, Andy Kaufman, who I had forgotten as well. Thank you so much for the lovely trip down Memory Lane. Mighty Mouse still makes me laugh, hard.

Kaufman had that sweet, childlike expression and could look so bewildered, it was as if he was the only person in the room who wasn't in on his jokes. He could always make me laugh. The good die young, right?

 

[shereads]

That was 1980!!! 1980? That was only yesterday!

Dave's hair tells a different story.

 

[AllardChardon]

Yes, Andy was gone too soon. I often think he simply was not aware of how much hate he could stir up, in women especially, over that wrestling prank. It was just an elaborate prank that women took way too seriously. The same people who adored him, turned on him, viciously. I think he was so innocent he did not understand the fickleness of an audience. And it ultimately depressed his spirit even though he rallied as many times as he could, without ever achieving that kind of success, again. Sad. I learned alot from watching people turn on him and hate him. An audience can become adobt a mob mentality and the poor unsuspecting star is shredded in the process, like piranhas. Brittany Spears was able to resurrect herself and for good reason. Her manager was drugging her, or so the story goes.

 

[shereads]

I love this one: it's an early incarnation of Kaufman's "Latka" standup routine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQvsG-4CcQ&feature=related

 

[AllardChardon]

Thank you for that lovely clip. Latka, the Elvis Impersonator, was wonderful. They still have Elvis Impersonators around somewhere, I am sure. There was a silly movie with Nicholas Cage about Elvis Impersonators in Las Vegas that made me laugh. It isn't until you see someone try to 'do' Elvis, that you see how odd he was. Kinda like when Nathan Lane imitated John Wayne's walk in The Bird Cage.

 

[Leto Degeneres]

I love this one: it's an early incarnation of Kaufman's "Latka" standup routine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQvsG-4CcQ&feature=related

His Elvis isn't bad is it? That's not a bad voice at all. I've never seen an Elvis impersonator show, thinking I wouldn't be interested. Maybe I made a mistake.

...They still have Elvis Impersonators around somewhere, I am sure. There was a silly movie with Nicholas Cage about Elvis Impersonators in Las Vegas that made me laugh. It isn't until you see someone try to 'do' Elvis, that you see how odd he was...

I can't think that there's been one in Reno for a while, but I'm almost sure they're still a fixture in Vegas. Next time I'm there I hope I think to see one. I'm like you, though, I like the characatures. If I like the subject I laugh and say "see..." If I don't like the subject I laugh and say "see..." What a brilliant art, to be able to do that.