Dr Thinkle

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Andy Kaufman walked onto Johnny Carson’s show pretending he was terrible at impressions then pulled off one of the wildest transformations late-night TV had seen.

He starts as Foreign Man, nervously doing deliberately awful impressions of Archie Bunker and Ed McMahon. Carson and the audience are basically watching a guy who looks completely out of his depth.

Then he says he’s going to do Elvis.

He turns around, changes his clothes, fixes his hair, turns back around and suddenly he’s Elvis.

The voice, the movements, the lip curl, the confidence everything changes. The audience goes from laughing at him to screaming for him.

And just when you think the Elvis impression is the entire joke, Kaufman snaps right back into the awkward Foreign Man character.

That ending is what makes the whole thing work. He made the audience underestimate him before showing them exactly what he could do.

Was Andy Kaufman a genius at controlling an audience, or did the shock of that Elvis transformation make the performance seem better than it actually was ?

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Masterpiece

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What really happened to Francine's EYES

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Can they find the white person? 😂🤣

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@emiru Nice tits bruh

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Yep

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@JUSTcatmeme Been saying this back in 2014

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@JUSTcatmeme Bruh

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@Joyce_Marie_1 @JOKAQARMY1 Same here

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@hayasaka_aryan Y'all forget there's a whole ass world outside the us bubble

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This is terrifying

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@fishtankislive 🗑️🚮

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@ReputableDude That's sam's job only he has the power

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@skeetersfunhous That's a FACT Without Sam shit is stale

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SCP-173, the very first SCP entry posted on 4chan's /x/ board in June 2007, originally used a photograph of the sculpture Untitled 2004 by Japanese artist Izumi Katō

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@mints_____ Fuck no this show without Sam ain't going nowhere

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@mask_bastard Life

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@GlassEyeguy Bring SAM BACK show ain't shit without him

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@0xKitten_ Way better I don't give a fuck about bam

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@Espi_777 @fishtankislive This would be perfect