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26 July 2012

Andy Kaufman



Hello Everyone, wanna laugh? Well I've got just the right person for you today, and that will be Andy Kaufman. Don't you know about this guy? Well to be honest, I didn't know about him till recently. In general I wouldn't say that I'm not acquainted with the vast majority of comedians out there, but for some reason I didn't know anything about Andy.

My first contact with Andy (whom I now consider a real genius!!!) was when I watched the video shown below. And to say the truth from the very beginning of this performance, I was about to switch it off, but thanks God, I didn't. Just have a look isn't this amazing?


It's really cool, huh? I mean it's a really rare thing to see someone who is that much in character. If you know anyone who does an impersonation job of that caliber, please do give me feedback on this person. Then I went into a detailed research, on who really is Andy, but as usual, I wouldn't bore you with the complete biography of Andy Kaufman. I guess you can all see it on the following link:


As you probably saw in the biography of Andy, there was even a film adaptation of his life called “ Man on the moon” starring Jim Carrey (another great performer about whom we gonna talk later). If you are interested in this movie just go to this link: 


So back to Andy, as I said he is really a unique talent. The kind of talent you don't easily get this days (well at least not on the mainstream media). I think it really takes a high profile performer to pull out a stunt such as this one:


Unfortunately, just like most talents Andy Kaufman is one of those about whom we can easily say, “The good die young”. Just aged 35 Andy died after a long battle with lung cancer. Despite being deeply ill, Andy still had the strength and will power to pull out a descent performance and never let his fans and audience down. All this can be easily seen in the Letterman show interview he had in his last days. Take a look:


Real shame that all these are things from the past, hoping to see such performances in the future an waiting feedback from you.

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