"Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:

He would've told you he wasn't a comedian.
I think he liked playing with perceptions, as
opposed to telling jokes or doing impressions.

Well, whatever he was, I didn't find him funny.

I don't want to argue with you and try to say he
was funny, but think "performance artist". Funny
wasn't always the goal.

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:42:52 -0500, Mike Smith
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"Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:

I'm sorry he died of cancer, but I thought he was a
terrible comedian :P

He would've told you he wasn't a comedian.
I think he liked playing with perceptions, as
opposed to telling jokes or doing impressions.

His whole wrestling stunt still amazes me.
A lot of people in Memphis hated him because of it.

He got booed off the stage when he did it at the University of Florida in
the O'Connell Center.

atheist@home.com wrote:

His whole wrestling stunt still amazes me.
A lot of people in Memphis hated him because
of it.

I remember him standing by a dorky little record
player, waiting through the Mighty Mouse theme
song for the line "Here I come to save the day!"
Bizarre. Usually I couldn't take my eyes off him,
except for maybe a few Taxi episodes. I think
playing Latka got to be a chore for him.

atheist@home.com wrote:

His whole wrestling stunt still amazes me.
A lot of people in Memphis hated him because
of it.

I remember him standing by a dorky little record
player, waiting through the Mighty Mouse theme
song for the line "Here I come to save the day!"
Bizarre. Usually I couldn't take my eyes off him,
except for maybe a few Taxi episodes.

I think playing Latka got to be a chore for him.

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:14:51 -0400, "Robibnikoff"
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:26:44 -0400, "Robibnikoff"
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First time I've seen this.
Kaufman was on the Dating Game before he got famous and everybody
bought into his act.
Typical Kaufman <If there was such a thing>
I nearly fell out of my chair.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ALZz3vlIZiU

An absolute classic. One of the most brilliant comics in history,
whose life was cut short in a brutally ironic fashion that Andy
himself would have applauded (a never-smoker and health food devotee
brought down at 35 by lung cancer).

I'm sorry he died of cancer, but I thought he was a terrible comedian :P

He could be terribly boring sometimes but it was his strange way of
doing things that made people wonder if he was serious or not that
many appreciate.
He could make an audience very uncomfortable and did it on purpose.
I honestly didn't know his rude and mean spirited character Tony
Clifton was actually Kaufman at first and neither did many of the
people who knew him.
Clifton made people angry and apparently that was a part of the fun
for Kaufman.

I guess. I never found him funny and thought he was a bit of an *****.

Though I did like Latka on Taxi.

When the producers decided that his Tony Clifton character had to be
cut from the cast he was in costume as Clifton and refused to leave
the set.
In other words he stayed in character confusing everybody there who
didn't know what to do.
They felt they weren't dealing with Kaufman but rather the "real"
Clifton.
And he could play the jerk and then in the next breath the simple
decent guy who was confused about why people reacted in the way that
they did.
He's difficult to explain :-)