Andy changes into a costume and combs his hair like Elvis, turns around to the audience, and he looks like Elvis. The Elvis Presley.” He turns his back to the audience. It’s quite the psycho drama.įinally, Andy says, “I would like to do the one last impression. Then he realizes that you are not laughing with him but at him. But the audience is howling because this guy is such an idiot. Andy just lights up, and each impression gets worse and worse. ‘Hello, I’m Ronald Reagan.’” The audience starts laughing because it’s so bad. He starts doing these impressions in that foreign voice. Andy Kaufman.”Īndy comes up onstage, and everybody in the place believes that this guy is from God knows what country and just arrived in New York. We normally don’t do this, but I’m gonna let him up tonight. Budd Friedman comes out and says, “Ladies and gentlemen, we usually end the show at this point, but I don’t know if you saw the man who came in earlier asking to be onstage. Then the crowd would move in from the bar to the main room and see the show. Come back then.” Kaufman would beg, “Please, this is my dream to be performer in New York City.” Budd said, “I can’t.
I’m sorry we have auditions on the 3rd of every month. He was asking Budd Friedman, the owner, if he could go onstage in that broken foreign accent - just loud enough that people in the bar could overhear what was happening. He was playing the “Foreign Man” character, carrying a suitcase, pretending he had just stepped off a Greyhound bus at 42nd Street.
Nobody knew who he was or that he going on stage. He performs with the El Vetts ladies who are his back up singers.Ĭheck out El Vez doing “Suspicious Minds” as “Immigration Time”‘: “Ready Steady Go” and “Kids of America.A: Andy showed up in the club about an hour and half before the show and hung around the bar outside the main room. He’s still alive and has about 12 albums worth of satire Elvis songs. In honor of Orion, please enjoy his gorgeous version of “Honey,” from his CD “Reborn.”Įl Vez is a kitschy Mexican American artist. Both Orion and his ex-wife who were working together ended up dead. He was gunned down in his pawn shop in December 1998. If Bobby Goldsboro’s version of “Honey” didn’t make you cry, Orion’s definitely will! Some who believed that Elvis was still alive thought Orion just might be Elvis! Jimmy Ellis, best known as Orion sounded just like Elvis. It’s legendary and Kaufman never fails to make me laugh and smile. The real Elvis Presley saw Kaufman’s act and said he was the best Elvis impersonator at the time. The late Andy Kaufman adored Elvis and was impersonating Elvis when he was still alive. In honor of Elvis impersonators, I’d like to bring attention to three who are real characters, but characters with a lot of substance. When it comes to Elvis impersonators, the King will live on forever! Other times we’ll actually splurge and see an Elvis impersonator at a dinner show, a concert hall, or even an local dive bar. Each year we always seem to catch an Elvis impersonator at these outdoor shows and they are always great. We’re having a snowstorm here in New Jersey, a cold and snuggly day and still a long way from the outdoor summer concerts my husband and I love to go to so much.
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