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Tony Clifton is a character created by comedian and performance artist Andy Kaufman in the late 1970s. An absurdly foul-mouthed and domineering lounge singer claiming to hail from Las Vegas, the tuxedo-clad Clifton often led unsuspecting audiences through awkward yet elaborate lounge singer performances. Kaufman appeared as Clifton on stage and on television programs ranging from The Merv Griffin Show to The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show.
The character has also been performed on stage by longtime Kaufman friend Bob Zmuda. Clifton was portrayed by actor Jim Carrey (who also portrayed Kaufman) in the 1999 film Man on the Moon and in the documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond.[1]
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TonyClifton is a character created by comedian and performance artist Andy Kaufman in the late 1970s. An absurdly foul-mouthed and domineering lounge...
appearing as himself and sometimes as obnoxiously rude lounge singer TonyClifton. He was also a frequent guest on sketch comedy and late-night talk shows...
friendship with comedian Andy Kaufman. Zmuda occasionally portrayed Kaufman's TonyClifton character on stage and for television appearances. In a 2006 interview...
"pitched" the screenplay of Kaufman's The TonyClifton Story, a movie about the life and times of his alter-ego TonyClifton, to Universal Studios. The Universal...
1982. It guest stars John Ritter, George Hamilton and Andy Kaufman as TonyClifton. The special was taped in Toronto between August 9 and 24, 1982 and was...
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the action thriller The Negotiator. In 1999, he played Bob Zmuda and TonyClifton in Miloš Forman's Andy Kaufman biopic, Man on the Moon. Giamatti continued...
- "Tallahassee Lassie" Slim Whitman - "I Remember You" The Spinners TonyClifton "The Midnight Special - Aired Order - All Seasons - TheTVDB.com". thetvdb...
October 2016. Davis Jones, Kate (2 June 2015). "Shaye Saint John Is the TonyClifton of the Internet Era". Vice. Retrieved 28 October 2015. Eddy, Max (14...
Conduct Guard 1999 Black & White Chuck Me and Will Biker Man on the Moon TonyClifton / Biker 2000 Table One The Chef 2001 Street Justice The Host 2003 This...
Clifton Duncan Davis (born October 4, 1945) is an American actor, singer, songwriter, minister, and author. Davis wrote The Jackson 5's No. 2 hit "Never...
Beyond—Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of TonyClifton, premiered at The Venice Film Festival and was later picked up by Netflix...
Andy Kaufman created a character called TonyClifton. A parody of show biz entitlement and excess, Clifton is untalented, lazy (often not bothering to...
on a "live" airing of Shore's talk show. Comedian Andy Kaufman in his TonyClifton guise appeared on her show but did not, as rumored, throw eggs at Shore...
Category Results Ref 2018 Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of TonyClifton The Unforgetabbles Won...
ex-wife. The confrontational aspects of his act drew comparisons to TonyClifton. One of his gags is "Zipper Lips", in which he asks an audience member...
his use of racial and sexual stereotypes. Reviewing Australian author TonyClifton's God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut during the...
com. 9 June 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023. Reeves, Rachel; Dolphin, Tony; Clifton, Jonathan (15 July 2009). Building a Better Balanced UK Economy. Institute...
1977, the song was sung by Andy Kaufman, while playing his character TonyClifton, on HBO. The song had renewed popularity in 1979, in the wake of the...
Clifton Powell (born March 16, 1956) is an American actor who primarily plays supporting roles in films, such as in Ray (2004), for which he received...
other than as one of his shtick characters, such as "Foreign Man" or TonyClifton. When he did appear as himself, he still acted out some shtick routine...
and comedian Andy Kaufman often performed the song as his character TonyClifton, e.g. during The Midnight Special he hosted in 1981, and two years earlier...
Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of TonyClifton Distributed by Netflix Documentary film 2019 Fyre Produced with Jerry...
jokes. She was also influenced by the comedian Andy Kaufman's alter ego TonyClifton. Ade set the film in Bucharest in part because many German companies...
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