The Carnegie Hall show took place at the beginning of April 1979. In the bio-pic Man on the Moon, this event was shown to be planned and performed after Kaufman was diagnosed with cancer, when in fact it took place almost 4 years before. In this first part, Tony Clifton (Played by Kaufman of course) opens the show singing American National Anthem,"Carolina In The Morning" and reciting the poem "What is a wife".