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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,768 posts) Mon Jan 17, 2022, 07:06 AM Jan 2022

Actor, singer, performance artist & comic Andy Kaufman was #BornOnThisDay, Jan. 17, 1949.

Actor, singer, performance artist & comic {Andy} Kaufman was #BornOnThisDay, Jan. 17, 1949.Remembered for his role on TV's Taxi (1973-'83) & segments on Saturday Night Live in the early #1980s. Passed in 1984 (age 35) from a rare form of #lungcancer. #RIP #GoneToosoon #bithday #BOTD

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Actor, singer, performance artist & comic Andy Kaufman was #BornOnThisDay, Jan. 17, 1949. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 OP

His name Is Andy ItsjustMe Jan 2022 #1

Missed that. Thanks. That was the performance I was going to post. mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 #3

I remember Andy as going through the standup horror in... TreasonousBastard Jan 2022 #2

Never found him to be the least bit funny nt doc03 Jan 2022 #4

He was sexist Demovictory9 Jan 2022 #5

I don't know anything about is political views I just couldn't stand doc03 Jan 2022 #6

I thought he was funny for a while... 2naSalit Jan 2022 #7

Andy was a brave man. Beastly Boy Jan 2022 #8

ItsjustMe

(11,642 posts)

1. His name Is Andy

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 07:14 AM

Jan 2022

Not Any.

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,768 posts)

3. Missed that. Thanks. That was the performance I was going to post.

Reply to ItsjustMe (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 07:28 AM

Jan 2022

Elvis himself said that Andy Kaufman was his favorite Elvis impersonator.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

2. I remember Andy as going through the standup horror in...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 07:18 AM

Jan 2022

The Day.
I saw him a few times at the Metro in Forest Hills, and the furst time he gave a drawn out excuse why he was leaving the business.

No one knew how he did it, but by the time he was through he had us rolling in the aisles.

doc03

(36,623 posts)

4. Never found him to be the least bit funny nt

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Mon Jan 17, 2022, 07:45 AM

Jan 2022

Demovictory9

(33,702 posts)

5. He was sexist

Reply to doc03 (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 07:59 AM

Jan 2022

doc03

(36,623 posts)

6. I don't know anything about is political views I just couldn't stand

Reply to Demovictory9 (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 08:02 AM

Jan 2022

him for some reason. Didn't think he was funny at all.

2naSalit

(92,480 posts)

7. I thought he was funny for a while...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 08:03 AM

Jan 2022

But his later stuff revealed some pretty sexist stuff and other over the line offensive themes to his acts that left me rethinking his value as entertainment.

Beastly Boy

(11,098 posts)

8. Andy was a brave man.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 10:34 AM

Jan 2022

He wasn't as much interested in making you laugh as he was in making himself laugh. He could have played the Latka Gravas and his schizophrenic alter ego Elvis Presley character for the rest of his short life, but he got tired of telling the same joke so many times. And, to hell with the audiences, he moved on to the more unconventional and absurdist subjects: televangelism, intergender professional wrestling, performance art, etc., erasing boundaries between staging and reality.

He kept pushing the envelope. The one thing he wasn't was mainstream. That's why he is most admired, so many years after his death, by professional comedians and people on the edge of society.

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