The Road Not Taken
Can you believe Andy Kaufman would be turning 62 today if he were still alive? I often wonder where his career would have gone next. He sometimes seemed to have gone as far as he could get away with.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:13 AM
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Lets see- he jumped in the world of professional wrestling (the smaller southern circuit not the Vince MacMahon machine)so i'm guessing, he would have been heavily into early reality TV, revelling in creating awkward uncomfortableness (pre- Ali G) or maybe a Tony Clifton talk show- something between Morton Downey and Stephen Colbert or maybe he would have run for office in character and won and beat Jesse Ventura to the punch.
Of course he probably would have done something more unthinkable which what made him great or maybe he just would have been arrested for drugs and make people think "why did we ever like him?"
PS I remember an old short National lampoon bit to the effect that comedy scientists had finally determined that Ernie Kovacs was exactly three years and five months ahead of his time. I think Andy Kaufman was about 11 1/2 years ahead of his time.
Kaufman had gained his original audience with small, clever bits, but by the end he was losing whatever mainstream appeal he had with his long-running conceptual pieces. I guess the biggest question is would have have "sold out" to continue making money. (And would anyone buy what he was selling?)
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