Or so some believe. Story here. Seems to be an Old Urban Legend revived recently, but one I’d never heard.
On the other hand … Damn! I thought my neighbor at the Citadel Apartments when I lived in that city looked familiar.
That’s proof enough for me, by gosh!
Looks more like Buddy Lester.
It’s a pretty grainy photo, but it does look like him. Faking his death sounds like something Kaufman would have done. Faking his death and NEVER 'fessing up to it definitely sounds like Kaufman.
False alarm-that’s Tony Clifton.
“If anybody could have faked his death by cancer, it would be Andy Kaufman.”
Really? Did Andy have some special medical knowledge or access to a cancer-ridden body or some other way to mislead doctors and pathologists?
Now if they had said “If anybody* would* have faked his death…”, they I would accept that statement. But “could” implies a capability that is not supported.
Three of the doctors and two of the pathologists were played by Andy Kaufman.
and the others by his roommate Elvis.
Well, there was a letter to Rolling Stone soon after his putative death which proclaimed that he was still alive and kicking: “I Remain: Andy Kaufmann” is how he finished it IIRC.
If anybody should have faked his death, it’s Andy Kaufman.
I don’t have any special Andy Kaufman knowledge but am I alone in thinking that if he was going to fake his death he’d have chosen something more along the lines of a freak ocelot incident rather than cancer?
Nah. Maybe something more spectacular than cancer, but something people would believe, so there’s be less immediate ‘ha ha, fess up, Andy’.
He loved absurdity, no doubt, but if he was doing something straight faced, he did it so people would believe it. (Sometimes, like his wrestling stuff, he could do both.)
Or maybe he really died, but just PRETENDED to fake it. That is surely something Andy Kaufmann would do. You see what I did there?
Very meta and high concept- definitely him.
The theory isn’t really funny or thought provoking, it’s just sad. Apparently these guys love Andy Kaufman so much they would rather believe he’s a lunatic who would cut off all contact with everyone who cared about him for no particular reason than believe he’s dead. Regardless, he’s dead, and it’s pretty easy to find his death certificate online.
That is one screwy video.
If there are people who won’t believe Obama’s birth certificate, then it’s not surprising there are people who won’t believe Andy Kaufman’s death certificate.
LatkaTruthers is what they call themselves…
