Andy Kaufman

Yeah, I have seen that movie before.
This is the guy that played lapka(sp?) in Taxi. Also the REM theme song is about him.

I think he came across (in the movie) as a crazy comedian but I believe he was more of an artist.
He challenged the traditional way comedy and entertainment were being presented in the states at that time.
Didn't he also led 'other' lives as a lounge lizzard bar singer and also a wrestler??
Perhaps he WAS crazy after all!

Good movie though, quite sad, as he died young.







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^LoL forgot how he looked

This Tony Clifton was quite obnoxious as well wasn't he.

He was a comedian on a tv show that calls 'saturday night live'. very good show, a lot of funny and sarcasm.

Some of what he was doing was different, challenging and pushing the boundaries. A lot of what he did was summed up in the movie when Danny De Vito said "you're doing stuff which is funny to two people in the whole universe". What I remember, people considered him funny but weird while he was alive. Once he died he was suddenly hailed as a genius "but nobody got him but me" as if you either thought he was a great or you weren't cool enough to understand.

Sorry but I think he is, for the most part, overrated.

Then again, I used to think Supertramp was the greatest band in the world, so what do I know? 

 

Cygnus X-1 wrote: found this video of his famous Mighty Mouse routine http://www.youtube.com/w/Andy-Kaufman?v=2oc2bTHf3uM&sear ch=kaufman "Here I come to save the day!!!" NB: theres some weird stuff at the end, dunno why

Wow!

I really liked the movie Man On The Moon, but I had never seen the actual Andy Kaufman before. Quite intriguing! I also have even more respect for Jim Carrey now, since he does this same scene in the movie, very convincing!

a lot of the critics didn't like his performance of Kaufman, but he seems to have put a lot of effort into playing a very odd person which must have been incridibly difficult.
well done Jim