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Andy Kaufman
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Andy Kaufman is probably best known as Latka, the naive, endearing mechanic on Taxi. There is no question that his primetime performances on the series represented his most accessible work. Beyond the small screen, Kaufman was often hilarious and unfathomable, sometimes disgusting and never, ever, predictable. When he died at age 35, he left behind a legacy of offbeat performances, baffling forays into wrestling and little sense of who he really was. BIOGRAPHY® attempts to reveal the man behind the many roles through probing interviews with those who knew him best, including his father, girlfriend, and best friend and comedic co-conspirator, Bob Zmuda. Extraordinary clips show the many faces of this incendiary talent, and Jim Carrey, who plays Kaufman in the film Man on the Moon, talks about what it was like to play one of his idols.
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The late, great Andy Kaufman disdained traditional humor for bizarre and off-the-wall stunts. A perfect example is his first Saturday Night Live appearance where he lip syncs to a recording of the 'Mighty Mouse' theme.
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Until Andy's Fun House is re-released on VHS and issued on DVD, Andy Kaufman: The Midnight Special stands as the best available document of Kaufman's warped brilliance. Originally broadcast on January ...Read full review
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Andy Kaufman employed “over-conformism.” He was an over-orthodox artist. Think The Colbert Report where Stephen Colbert apes ultra-conservates like Bill O’Reilly. Keller argues that over-conformism is a perfected form of subversion, unlike transgressing, because the artist slyly reveals imperfections in the ideology that is being aped (all under the guise of buying into it). Think Borat as the super jew-hating Kazakhstanian. His hyper-conformism reveals the ridiculousness of his anti-semitism.
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Even though he has technically returned, Andy says that he plans to maintain his low key lifestyle that he has led for the past twenty years. He has resumed contact with friends and family. Fearing the possibility of this scenario and the potential for another hoax, Kaufman's family has contracted with independent auditors Ernst & Young to determine if this in fact the real Andy Kaufman. He has subjected himself to medical examination and submitted DNA, hair, blood and fingerprint samples to the auditors. Ernst & Young and the Kaufman family report that with a 99% probability, this is indeed the real Andy Kaufman. His mother says, "It's good to have Andy back."
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The other comedians were embarrassed by the position that Kaufman had put them in on a live television show. In response, cast member Michael Richards walked off camera and returned with a set of cue cards and dumped them on the table in front of Kaufman. Andy responded by splashing Richards with water. Co-producer Jack Burns stormed onto the stage, leading to a brawl on camera before the show abruptly cut away to commercial.[13] It was later revealed that this incident was a practical joke, though most of the actors were kept unaware.
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