Ok, I’ll bite.
Part of me has always hoped for it to be true. Perfect end to an amazing career. The rest of me says it’s just as awesome if his family is keeping the gag going. That really seems in keeping with the walking performance art that he was in life.
I tend to feel that Andy is not alive…but that Andy will never die.
But…I still want to believe he pulled it off.
Thoughts?
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I know he is dead…but I hope I am wrong. Alan Abel couldn’t have done it better.
That would be the greatest prank ever!
And the DNA testing will be refused because of … I dunno, respect or something.
The problem with all these faking your death stories is that it presumes that people who are crazed narcissists can turn around on a dime and be content to be invisible forever. Who can believe that? Someone who could do that isn’t the type of person to become that kind of famous in the first place.
It would be exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from him, but it’s a pretty sure thing that he’s dead. People faking their own deaths don’t usually do it in the cancer ward at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. For him to be alive the hospital staff, funeral home, county coroner, his parents, and everybody who went to the funeral (in part to make sure he was actually dead and that it wasn’t just another prank) would have to be in on it. It’s kind of a testament to him that you actually have to think about it, though.
Alive or dead; funny stunt.
Did anyone walk up to the body and jab it with a big needle, just to be sure? :dubious:
Andy was a master musician, and the audience was his instrument.
Best Coda ever!
I don’t know about a needle, but supposedly quite a few people poked him when nobody was looking.
Lots of people think Jim Morrison and Elvis Presley faked their deaths too. I disagree. All of them were way too well known to get away with it.
I don’t think that Andy Kaufman faked his own death.
However, I would not be surprised to learn that he faked his own fake death.
Andy: Listen, bro, there’s something I want you to do for me after I’m gone. Wait about twenty years, and then…
The article says that Andy is best known for playing Latka on “Taxi”. At one point, I’m sure that was true. But today, wouldn’t he be best known for being Andy Kaufman?
ETA: Welcome back, andros.
I know he’s dead
…because I killed him! :eek::eek::eek:
This was my thought as well, that it was Andy who set up a huge prank “from beyond the grave.” Something that would be excellent to plan when one is in one’s dying days. If you’re Andy Kaufman, I mean.
I love that idea, but am only surprised Zmuda’s not in on it. Maybe he’s blown all his capital.
Rumors of Andy’s faked death have been circulated since his funeral. Even when he was emaciated and bald people claimed it was a hoax. Andy was the ultimate performance artist.
I haven’t paid much attention to the rumors. Andy has been dead for over thirty years. No hoax. He’s dead.
But now his brother believes he may be alive? :dubious:
If the smoking gun is correct that the woman posing as Andy’s daughter is an actress. Then who would pull such a horrific lie on Andy’s surviving family?
I’m not sure what to think. Is Michael Kaufman a comic or performance artist too?
There’s already a thread: Andy, did you hear about this one?
Threads merged.
Speaking for myself… Come on. He’s dead, and on a certain level it’s kind of great that his family is now in on the game, they are fucking with people.
Wasn’t Zmuda the “other Tony Clifton” - who had the misfortune of appearing somewhere (with Taxi cast members in attendance, IIRC) as Clifton after Kaufman’s death, which was universally branded as tasteless (mainly because nobody knew at the time that it was Zmuda, and thought it was just somebody trying to cash in on the death)? If Zmuda is involved now, that probably made him think better than to be out in the open this time.
My wife was working at Cedar Sinai in 1984. She attended to Kaufman. She confirms that he was intubated. She also couldn’t keep a secret to save her own life—she’s worse than Sheldon Cooper. I think he’s dead, Jim.