".....Its Easy To See Why Some People Prefer - "Everyone Loves Raymond" to Andy Kaufman -- Some People Need Canned Laughter To Tell Them... When TO Laugh"Anonymous
Watching Kaufman perform sometimes is like taking a ticket for a weird rocket ride to the dark side of the moon. His influences on what made him such a kook are in the millions. First of all when you dig deeper into him you will find a lot of really unique facts.
He used to skip school and hang out in Times Square when it was a war zone. There were hookers and killers and peep shows all over and there was even an underground freakshow. I had heard about this from many undesireable sources. You could pay a fee and go down in the dungeons of Times Square and see pickled fetuses and deformed monstrosities inside of giant pickle jars. Scary shit. I am talking about two headed babies etc.
Seriously.
Now days you will never hear about such things. Times Square has been revamped into Disney World.... which is a bit unfortunate in some aspects. The freakshows are all gone. And the particular one that Kaufman used to go to is gone too. It was responsible for being the place where weirdo singer Tiny Tim was discovered. He used to sing in a cellar.
These things fascinate me. Maybe they fascinate you too.
The one story I love the most involves the time that he claimed he found HIDDEN FOOTAGE of the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. Kaufman claimed that the government didn't want this footage to get into the hands of the public. He held the comedy club spellbound.
The footage was taken from D.W. Griffith's BIRTH OF A NATION. The footage shows Lincoln getting shot to peices and the audience started bawling and getting hysterical. Kaufman ended his show by getting into a cab and leaving. The only ones who thought this was funny was Kaufman and his agent Bob Zemuda. It truly is hillarious.
Movie film wasn't even invented when Lincoln was shot.
The slide guitar in this clip makes for one eerie peice. For a brief moment we are in Andy's world and it is a very unique and strange place.
I still find it interesting.
Cantu 2007
The footage was taken from D.W. Griffith's BIRTH OF A NATION. The footage shows Lincoln getting shot to peices and the audience started bawling and getting hysterical. Kaufman ended his show by getting into a cab and leaving. The only ones who thought this was funny was Kaufman and his agent Bob Zemuda. It truly is hillarious.
Movie film wasn't even invented when Lincoln was shot.
The slide guitar in this clip makes for one eerie peice. For a brief moment we are in Andy's world and it is a very unique and strange place.
I still find it interesting.
Cantu 2007
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