our first guest is a fine actor who delivers a remarkable performance portraying Andy Kaufman
in the New Motion Picture Man on the Moon it opens December 22nd here he is Jim Carrey Jim
thank you wow how are you New York City
down there you haven't been here in a while thank you very much
especially that Port Authority you go over there it's colorful people there
that's right I love this place yeah great place at
Christmas nice to have you here yeah it's a lot of fun unbelievable place
haha I've been shopping you go shopping I've been out there shopping I've been doing the whole thing
man it's so great it's I actually picked you something up no you didn't yeah I did I picked
you up no no no no seriously is this just a gag is this like a show no no no is this you really
do no no I picked you something that's right I know you're kind of shy about this kind of thing
you don't really like oh you got it wrapped gifts on the show and stuff yeah it's nicely done huh
gifts on the show but this is this just a little little something a little a little tchotchke I
didn't really get no it's okay it's okay it's beautiful yeah it's a Faberge Egg oh my God
those are yeah that's beautiful yeah isn't that nice no it's just a little something you know
yeah be careful with it oh did I oh my God I left a price on there oh wow that's embarrassing
oh God I'm so sorry do you have one of those already because I could not no not in that bracket
no I haven't so hard to buy for I got a couple other knockoffs from eBay listen uh you but you
raise an interesting question when you when you go out shopping you can't just you honestly you can't
you get people that do that but do you ever do you ever go out I mean because people would be on
you I would think you just found the bowl in the Plastic Bubble yeah that's right um but no disease
ever touches me uh no actually you know I used to be freaked out about that sort of thing it used to
be you know when I first started getting famous I I you know I I bought into it the paranoia
the whole thing and I and I started thinking so you know my friend said just go out have a good
time I want to go to Cirque du Soleil I want to take my daughter there you know and they said
just go it'll be all right just get a mustache or something get a little disguise or something like
that so I know Hollywood people you know I got a mustache I got a little spirit gum and uh what
does your daughter make all of this you're looking at you like what's this oh she's Daddy's a freak
you're being a freak again hi Dad and uh no no honey close the window hurry close the shades dear
um but uh you know so I got this mustache and I applied it and I had thick glasses I
had you know I had a baseball cap and I kind of thought I was getting away with it okay
you know I got inside did you did you look to your eyes I mean oh you're different of
course but did you look okay when you saw this yeah yeah it's a little freaky it's a little
freaky like one of those you know talk show guests that did something real bad you know
any one of those recorders with my voice and stuff but but uh you know
so I got inside there and I was doing pretty good and I was hey I'm pulling
this off maybe this is the way I can live for the rest of my life
and so I got up to the vendor who's selling all the stuff right at Cirque
du Soleil and I and uh and I kind of had my head down I I went uh oh let me see
um uh I'll have a large t-shirt and a small one for my daughter please and I waited and
he didn't seem to be doing anything so I looked up and he was staring at me like this
being Jim Carrey in a fake mustache then I started you know walking my
daughter to the seats and people were yelling out nice mustache Jim
Carrey a big birthday the acrobats were stopping in the middle of routines Jim Kennedy mustache
picky yeah yeah I think you feel like a boob you don't need that but now I go you know now I just
said they're better at it I went I go out now I go everywhere you know depending on you know my
self-esteem level that day yeah you know you don't want to go out on one of those self-loathing days
you know I love you but I just I go out I meet people and it's always cool you know most the time
you know there's every once in a while there's there's somebody who asks for a little too much
you know like what do you mean like more than an autograph yeah well they'll they'll say something
like you know uh you know uh hey wait here I'm gonna go have some kids then bring them back to
me yeah you're not doing nothing right but um or or else you know some something like Oh Mr Gary
if my friends would kill me if I ever told them that I met you and I didn't get your underwear
how about some skin skin how about a nose hair God you got hundreds of them
jerk yeah uh you know we got a lot to talk about a man on the moon uh yes Andy Kaufman your portrayal
of Andy Kaufman you were a huge support sure oh yeah yeah yeah I gotta kick out I love him yeah
Danny DeVito was here last night yeah I know it quit bragging and and the guy who uh who knew uh
Andy Kaufman did you know Andy Kaufman I didn't know Andy personally but uh you know everything
about him now though oh sure sure and uh well does anybody know everything about him though no
I wanted to put a little thing at the beginning of the film this is a true story we think yeah
you know I mean the film by the way is very entertaining you don't think a great job and and
like I was telling Danny and I don't know if this is important uh for an actor or not but within a
matter of seconds you really believe you're not watching an actor and you're actually watching
the guy and that's great and I get to your credit I guess that's all part of it well it was so much
fun you know this this film I really sunk myself into the characters like a lot of people talking
about that but uh but uh I you know I wanted it to be like Andy came back to do his own movie
and create that reality and it was very strange because Milos Foreman after the first couple
weeks call me on the weekend and said Gee I don't know how to talk to these people I have never been
intimidated by another man and I am intimidated by Tony Clifton and I said well should we fire
him you know should I just come in and do an impression or something Tony Clifton for a while
uh it was either Andy doing Tony Clinton right or Andy's uh buddy Bob's a movie yeah he was on
here he was on here doing it a few times yeah they didn't even know it no never knew totally sucked
yeah you just didn't know when Andy was on you just didn't know how far into the woods you were
going no no but that was that was the magic of the whole thing you know and you were in the movie and
I appreciate that that was that was a great thing for you today yeah that's right and that's the
weird thing too you know that's the weird thing too is that people thought that I committed to my
character you and your Dave from the moment you got here until the moment you left I mean when
they said cut he didn't just stop being named you know what I mean it was uncanny that's right it
must have been exhausting far all the way oh whoa it is it's tiring it's wearying uh let's let's
take a look at a clip uh you know it was fun for for me and for everybody who who knew him to kind
of just see this thing again because it really is like looking at old movies except that it's
you know it's a brand new but he really deserves a tribute you know and he never got it while he was
here and I think it's it's time he never missed an opportunity to be peculiar yeah it was absolutely
absolutely I think he could help himself no that's the thing I did all this research I talked to the
family of friends everything and there were a lot of misconceptions about how Andy really was
but after I really delved into the information I realized that he was a nut job is totally insane
pretty much so and it was it was yeah it was felt good let's take a look at the uh a clip
this thing opens December 22nd second yeah 20 seconds and uh I hope this is a huge film
I mean I guess it's going to be as well whatever I mean I think it would be nice
here is uh uh I I really have no idea come on you know what
Celluloid you made the damn movie what the hell's the clip it's Celluloid no
I think there was some kind of mix-up so it could be my home movies I have no idea
well the staff is usually pretty observant let me see what they have to say
it's the clip of Andy on Saturday Night Live oh wow yeah let me set
this up okay this is Andy on Saturday Night Live
Terry and the whole movie is like that and it's a great story you know yeah and it's a nice job
well that's the thing even the people that didn't know thank you even the people that didn't know
Andy it's a story of a very interesting person that's right that's right I mean if you knew
nothing about him it's still a very interesting thing absolutely absolutely uh if I could don't
get a chance to see him before the end of the year happy happy new year thank you very much and we
have plenty of plans are you going to celebrate yourself I'm not gonna you know play it by ear
yeah I'll give you an idea can I get a countdown ten nine eight seven six five four three two one
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Happy New Year
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