Now.......youdiejoe needs one more published viddy to get the big fiddy......This would make a great gold-bumper-

And no, Andy Kaufman was never hot with Kathy Sullivan, no more than he was an enemy of Lawler, a redneck-hater,...but Bob Zmauda, WAS Tony Clifton!!!

That was a bit of tag trickery on my part. If you notice the related videos below, I wanted my other Andy Kaufman sift to show with this one.

Why the snl tag? Was this on Saturday Night Live before? If so I wouldn't buy it for a moment Well... I wouldn't anyway. If someone had it, it wouldn't be Andy Kaufman

*save

Haven't watched all of this but it's interesting. I have often heard Andy Kaufman described as a dadaist comedian so this video got my interest.

"And now, last, but not to be the least, I would like to imitate for you the Elvis Presley."

This is the first I ever saw of Andy Kaufman

I think this was around the time that Cash was at the peak of drug abuse. Even so, he's better at this than Andy Kaufman! I think that in all likelihood SG you have a top 15 post here. Definitely made my day.

it all started here

http://www.videosift.com/video/Andy-Kaufman-Rosemarie

congratulations rickegee

oh no . . .

There is an Andy Kaufman version of Surrey out there somewhere. That'll make it through the sift.

Thanks. Stop designing your perfect charter profile page (never be as good as mlx or benjee) and move it up the list. This site is being overrun with its daily influx of cool and wondrous modifications.

I just intentionally kneecapped all of my Andy Kaufman, Bindi Irwin and Mr. Rogers links. I am truly saddened that you must now discard and restore them, James.

She's totally, like, the Andy Kaufman of the internets.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.
~Andy Kaufman~

I love Andy Kaufman, but it was finally revealed that the Lawler feud was entirely staged, which isn't surprising considering it is professional wrestling.

That's really sad. The poor guy is totally freaked out. He's either in the middle of some psychotic episode (read paranoid-schizophrenia), or he's trying to pull some kind of Andy Kaufman stunt. I think it's probably the former.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

when I think of razor thin satire, where you're not sure if it's a joke, I think of Andy Kaufman, but with him, eventually you see there is a mind behind the satire, and you are let in on the joke.

I don't think, at least in the late 70s, that the Shatman was performing this kind of razor-thin satire. I like him, but I think you give him to much credit.

daphne - "He was so brilliant at mass scale subversive humor."

in a nutshell.

i think many people do not "get" subversive humor. it is more extreme than irony, which eludes some. it also is self-referential. kaufman is mocking himself and whatever medium or institution that is his target. he breaks rules of a mutual agreement that i never had been aware of, until he came along and rocked the boat. suddenly, once i digested him a bit and "got" it (at first i did not know what to think), i realized he was playing a deconstruction game.

consider, young grasshopper, a broken hammer. you could say that a hammer is never MORE of a hammer than when it is broken. It is only then that you are drawn to notice the value and meaning of hammer, even if it is only because you lack it. its brokennes sharpens your concept of its un-brokennes, which is the normal, functional state of the hammer.

andy kaufman gives us broken hammers. he breaks the rules. he breaks the rules, and then goes one better. he keeps it secret. he doesn't give us a coherent concept or narrative of what he is doing, or even who he is. he lets us figure out (if we do) what he has done.

wow. i'm a little chatterbox. i'd intended to write two sentences.

coffee overload.