Tony Clifton
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Sep 19, 2026
Ryan MarrHOST
I love his tuxedo.
Ryan MarrHOST
It's kind of got like a Tony Clifton kind of a vibe to it right there.
Ryan MarrHOST
But with Boris, was he the guy that taught you early on that doing less could actually create more heat?
Bill EadieGUEST
Exactly.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
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Entertainment, Tony Clifton!
Dan MartellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Cool, today I'm...
Tony CliftonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The wings are on top.
Johnny MacHOST
That's an interesting pick.
Johnny MacHOST
They wrote, "Even if Andy Kaufman hadn't wrestled women for the Intergender Wrestling Championship, hadn't created abusive, overly hacky alter ego Tony Clifton, and hadn't took his entire audience at Carnegie Hall out for milk and cookies, he would still be a legend.
Johnny MacHOST
An audience-baiting bit of performance art, Kaufman's career was the country's first major introduction with what's sometimes called anti-comedy." 13, Bill Hicks.
Johnny MacHOST
I'm sure Dennis Leary would agree.
LavishHOST
He was a very strange guy who you could never tell if he was being serious or not.
LavishHOST
He even created this entire other person that would open for him or close for him or whatever named Tony Clifton.
LavishHOST
Are you familiar with the Tony Clifton thing? Oh, yeah.
Booberry MothmanHOST
He was like
LavishHOST
a
LavishHOST
In his contract, he'd be like...
LavishHOST
Go ahead, sorry.
Booberry MothmanHOST
I have a Tony Clifton sings I Will Survive in high quality.
Dave CollumGUEST
That's an interesting question.
MikeHOST
Yeah, because remember Andy Kaufman had Tony Clifton?
Dave CollumGUEST
Right.
Dave CollumGUEST
Do
Dave CollumGUEST
Right.
Dave CollumGUEST
Right.
MikeHOST
And that was in his contract that he had to Tony Clifton have to had to have a minimum amount of appearances.
Dave CollumGUEST
Do you remember this? I didn't know that, no.
Carrie YoungGUEST
And like, they would come.
Chris LindstromHOST
There's a, there's some Tony Clifton to the whole thing, for sure.
Carrie YoungGUEST
Oh.
Abby DeVuystGUEST
Yes.
Chris LindstromHOST
...
Chris LindstromHOST
the, you know, it's the Tony Clifton, Andy Kaufman version, right?
Cam PoterGUEST
Right.
Chris LindstromHOST
Where it is purely antagonistic and never ever breaking and being light.
Robert RodriguezHOST
Luckily got these great inside stories of, of old show business out of them.
Robert RodriguezHOST
And anyway, not until I started hearing some of these comedians who worked with and were in the same club circuit as Andy Kaufman, talking about what a genius he was and how virtually everything he did was a put-on of some sort or another, and that whole Tony Clifton character he came up with.
Robert RodriguezHOST
And, you know, I, I, my respect for Andy Kaufman grew immeasurably.
Robert RodriguezHOST
I didn't get at the time the whole wrestling women thing.
Mark DujsikHOST
Tell me more.
Mark DujsikHOST
There are times you could watch and Wahlberg looks like he's a biopic of a young Tony Clifton.
Mark DujsikHOST
It's very jarring.
Mark DujsikHOST
His presence alone in this movie.
Danny DeVitoGUEST
If you remember, uh, they physically threw him off the lot.
Danny DeVitoGUEST
He was doing a, one of our shows as Tony Clifton.
Danny DeVitoGUEST
That was his other character.
Stephen JacksonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Danny DeVitoGUEST
Watch this film." Now, we're all sitting around a little dressing room, Tony's dressing room, watching.
Danny DeVitoGUEST
He's got a projector.
Danny DeVitoGUEST
We're watching the film of Tony Clifton getting thrown off the set-
Stephen JacksonHOST
[laughs]
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