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Andy Kaufman...
« on: August 20, 2007, 05:23:07 am »
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2007, 05:20:39 pm »
yeah, and cocking that subsequently wasted an hour of my life.  but in a good way.

edit: CLICK!  hahaha
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2007, 08:26:12 pm »
the first time I ever remember thinking my parents were extremely foolish was when I said that I loved Andy Kaufman and they said he was an idiot who wasn't funny. I remember this moment very specifically.
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2007, 10:37:59 pm »
The first time I ever saw Andy Kaufman was on an SNL rerun, about to do the Mighty penis routine, and my father pointed to me and said:

"Always remember this, Mike. This is the funniest thing ever done."

...and goddamn it, he was right!

It was kind of like those commericals where the dude reminisces about watching Hank Aaron's 715 shot with his dad, except with awesome people instead.

...but Andy wasn't tough enough...
...big time wrestling can be so rough...
...no, Andy wasn't tough enough...
...so he had to wrestle women...
...Andy always dreamed of wrestling...
...oooooo... oooo... ooo... oooo....
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2007, 11:23:04 pm »
I sort of like Andy Kaufman, but it's always that ironic enjoyment. I don't like him as much as I like, say, Richard Pryor. It isn't that I like him in a different way, it's just I like that laugh out loud funny more than the absurdist, Dada humor. Maybe that's not the case, though. Maybe it's just because I've seen it so much by now. It's kind of meta to appreciate it now, though, because part of the enjoyment is thinking about how the people who were watching it originally must have just been blown out of their shoes. Of course, that's key to the enjoyment of his work - the appreciation of how many if not most of his audience became angry and felt cheated, to an extent.

Complicated guy. Not as easily dealt with as a fellow like Andrew Dice Clay.
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2007, 11:25:13 pm »
My two favourite stand-ups of all time... Bill Hicks and Andy Kaufman.

I think I'm a big fan of confrontational-meets-thought-provoking.
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2007, 12:31:38 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on September 04, 2007, 11:25:13 pm
My two favourite stand-ups of all time... Bill Hicks and Andy Kaufman.

I think I'm a big fan of confrontational-meets-thought-provoking.

Not to mention dead.
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2007, 12:36:40 am »
AK was thought provoking and confrontational? i guess i just kind of saw him as a jim carrey funnyman.
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2007, 01:45:04 am »
Quote from: A-CAP on September 05, 2007, 12:36:40 am
AK was thought provoking and confrontational? i guess i just kind of saw him as a jim carrey funnyman.

And by 'saw' you mean 'only saw him on Taxi'?
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2007, 01:53:01 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on September 05, 2007, 01:45:04 am
And by 'saw' you mean 'only saw him on Taxi'?

Im not saying i fucked the guy, im just saying thats my impression of him from what material ive been exposed to.
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2007, 01:54:38 am »
And I am saying Dumb and Dumber didn't seem much to me like a guy lip-syncing to Mighty penis. But what the fuck do I know?
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2007, 03:18:20 am »
arachnocapitalist, do a little research on the guy's stand-up work and you will not be disappointed.

Kaufman perfected the art of... comedy as the performer making himself laugh and then you're laughing by identifying with his amusement at you. It is kind of Comedy Perfected.
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2007, 04:33:09 am »
Andy Kaufman? Andy Kaufman good.
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2007, 01:33:16 pm »
The whole idea that he's still alive out there somewhere is really enjoyable to me.  I doubt it's true though.  But the milk and cookies kid in me believes just a little bit.
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Re: Andy Kaufman...
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2007, 09:44:21 pm »
I got really excited in 2004, since it was the twentieth anniversary of his death (AK having said that if he faked his death, he'd come back twenty years later).  When he didn't come back, I thought maybe he did actually fake his death, but then managed to accidentally die while waiting for the twenty years to be up.  That would suck.

But yeah, there's always that crazy glimmer of hope that somewhere, Andy Kaufman is still alive, and laughing at all the people who think he's dead.  It's a nice thought.
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