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the_original_Retro t1_j6kdxrb wrote

I personally think he never died but just morphed into Nicolas Cage.

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Littleshuswap t1_j6lngtg wrote

Krist Novocelic.

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Ri8ley t1_j6me6kw wrote

Jip. Was thinking the same thing. IMO more of a lookalike than any of the others.

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Ya-Dikobraz t1_j6kkv2x wrote

He was an expert troll, so I would not be surprised.

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cyrixlord t1_j6l1nlv wrote

nicholas cage also has an incredibly furry chest... you might be on to something

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thishenryjames t1_j6mbhwu wrote

God, Man on the Moon with Nic Cage would have been incredible.

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Atlas03 t1_j6llt7j wrote

I thought that was Nick Cage, until I read it.

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Balsac_is_Daddy t1_j6mge61 wrote

He talked about faking his death a lot. In the book his friend wrote, he even had a plan. Some think he is still alive.

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Routine-Ratio3551 t1_j6kpr69 wrote

As Letterman once said, “When you look in Andy’s eyes, you get the idea someone else is doing the driving”

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Hairy_Web_2366 t1_j6pbjxx wrote

And therein lied his genius. He knew exactly what he was doing and a big part of that was to make you think he didn’t know what in the world he was doing.

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mskogly t1_j6k9gkg wrote

Had anyone asked Krist Novoselics mom about this?

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urabewe t1_j6kfiro wrote

Wow. Now that you point it out they do look similar. Andy Kaufman went on to be the bass player for frikkin Nirvana!

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pozicioner t1_j6kactl wrote

HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAAAAAYYY!!!!

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JetScreamerBaby t1_j6ltils wrote

That’s still one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen in my life.

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james_randolph t1_j6l4rog wrote

Man on the Moon was a great look into how funny and controversial he was. Jim Carrey did an awesome job portraying Andy.

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feraljohn t1_j6kf19e wrote

Tank you veddy much.

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1000Hells1GiftShop t1_j6l5np4 wrote

Did you hear about this one?

Tell me, are you locked in the punch?

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squishedgoomba t1_j6lmp4z wrote

Are you goofin' on Elvis?

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LineChef t1_j6ltl95 wrote

Hey Baby

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RedJudas t1_j6ldcz8 wrote

That's not Andy Kaufman. That's Tony Clifton.

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moxie-maniac t1_j6mgfs6 wrote

Long-story short, an IT-ish job, I made a fake user (to test things) "Tony Clifton." A co-worker reported resulting problems two or three times with "Clifton," not getting the reference at all.

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Maduro25 t1_j6p0hdx wrote

So... ya wanna see Andy? Anybody gotta flashlight and a couple of shovels?

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MSeanF t1_j6keqdx wrote

Cocaine is one hell of a drug.

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AvuncularPederast t1_j6ld514 wrote

He was pretty adamant that he didn’t do drugs. Maybe I shouldn’t believe him but I do.

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Mehzenta t1_j6kqxxg wrote

Was gonna write this exact thing and thought...I ain't original, someone else as probably written it already. Sure enough. Evrytime I think I'm clever SOMEONE on redit beats me to the punch.

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David_Haas_Patel t1_j6le9rv wrote

Honestly, I believe Andy didn't partake. He was just naturally wired.

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MSeanF t1_j6lfwkl wrote

I could be wrong, really just making an assumption based on pupil dilation + the 1970s.

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leeuwerik t1_j6lrgxa wrote

Yeah, you were just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.

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LineChef t1_j6lu6no wrote

Well that’s just rude innit? I mean if it’s your house and your wall, go nuts, right? But I’ll be damned if your gonna go into someone else’s home and start throwing things at they’re beautiful walls looking for something to stick! I won’t abide it. I won’t abide it one god damn bit…

HAS BASIC DECORUM BECOME BUT A DISTANT MEMORY TO YOU PEOPLE?!

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Specific-Turnover-75 t1_j6nt949 wrote

I believe he was low key plowing down dank LSD. He didn’t think it was a drug because it’s medicine.

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1zzie t1_j6kna51 wrote

Kristen Schaal has also credited him as an inspiration, she makes those eyes too.

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ghostface176 t1_j6lb816 wrote

I never got it. People say he’s a genius and I cannot for one second see why. He just seemed like a whacked out actor who did some random shit that people thought was groundbreaking. Feel like I’m on the twilight zone where I’m the only one that doesn’t see the thing.

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gortlank t1_j6lo7t6 wrote

He was a troll. Either you were in on the joke or you were the joke. Most people were not in on the joke even at the time. Often, he was the only one in on the joke. Sometimes there was no joke, which was the joke.

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LookMaNoPride t1_j6mwvxx wrote

> sometimes there was no joke, which was the joke

Early Tim and Eric experiments.

He, honestly, kinda looks like a morph halfway between Tim and Eric.

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gortlank t1_j6mxtc0 wrote

Tim Heidecker has spoken about him being a big influences bunch of time, even at length in some academic settings lol

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g_r_a_e t1_j6ld8p9 wrote

yep that's one of the many layers of Kaufman's genius

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Greenhoused t1_j6llnu5 wrote

Same here . Never could see what the genius there was personally.

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IHateCamping t1_j6mwdwl wrote

I grew up watching Taxi and I loved him on there. I didn't really get his stand up, it just seemed odd - but it probably was over my head.

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BlasphemousButler t1_j6m3c77 wrote

I'm so glad I'm not alone...and neither are you friend.

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ghostface176 t1_j6mjzya wrote

We can do this. Together. Lol. I thought I was gonna get downvoted to hell. Glad we are not alone

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trvlur t1_j6krni6 wrote

Now he’s a cartoon named Bob who makes and sells burgers.

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gravejay77 t1_j6kciyi wrote

Who has considered the possibility that Andy , who absolutely lived for and lived the put-on , staged his own premature, sudden , and unlikely death from lung cancer ( he was a non-smoker ) as the ultimate send-up ? He had the money to pull it off . His routines had been getting farther out there and longer lasting ( trans gender wrestling ) and less popular , and this might have been his way of retiring with an untoppable act

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Automan2k t1_j6kffjf wrote

At one time, I would have considered that possibility. Then a good friend of mine (also a non-smoker) died of lung cancer at the age of 39.

Kaufman also worked the nightclub scene in the 70s, so he was exposed to massive amounts of secondhand smoke.

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ChildhoodLeft6925 t1_j6lskrv wrote

Yeah I think unless you experience it, it’s hard to understand what the smoke was like back then. Those comedy clubs aren’t well ventilated, often underground. You make a good point.

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Catchthedisc t1_j6klq15 wrote

> he was a non-smoker

People who do not smoke do get lung cancer. Sadly.

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RealJonathanBronco t1_j6mnva2 wrote

That's why he had friends who slapped his corpse during his viewing. Had to be sure.

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SlinkyTail t1_j6lvcn4 wrote

I thought the same for many years, since his other persona showed up after his death multiple times, but I'm not sure andy would attempt fate either just to get out of the lime light, he had a weird paranoia about him.

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Maduro25 t1_j6p0th5 wrote

Yeah, but he would have come back by now.

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kennystetson t1_j6mfnz1 wrote

This guy invented trolling before it was even a thing. the OG troll.

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tnfrs t1_j6krs6g wrote

lol this looks like my dad but on cocaine

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hook_killed_pan t1_j6lu0rr wrote

Loved Man on the Moon, but for anyone thinking Jim Carrey was the perfect choice, go back and compare scenes from the movie to the real life clips. He's known as an over actor for a reason, and should have taken it down a notch or two. That being said, I still loved the movie and can't think of anyone that would have done better, so I'm just bitching about it for the sake of bitching about it. The reddit way.

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devonchaos t1_j6mvlqa wrote

I felt Jim poking through a LOT. It was much more obvious in the theatre, but it still kinda bugs me. He is just a centimeter over the top in quite a few scenes.

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Lon72 t1_j6kgft4 wrote

Who doesn't love a latke

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Afytron t1_j6kybgz wrote

Your Walgreens Nicolas Cage.

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AvuncularPederast t1_j6lddx8 wrote

I was really hoping he’d show up as Letterman’s last guest.

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HeyHo__LetsGo t1_j6lgnoq wrote

All hail the greatest World's Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion.

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heatx44 t1_j6lh4o6 wrote

Guy looks like a psychopath

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Kingston0809 t1_j6ll9bz wrote

I thought it was Nicholas Cage playing Pablo Escobar

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TypographySnob t1_j6lyvz5 wrote

Never seen chest hair extend so far beyond a shirt collar.

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ellefleming t1_j6mc4cx wrote

People closest to AK said he was the sanest man they ever met.

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hiker2go t1_j6mq9z3 wrote

Monopoly, 21 checkers and chess!!

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jimboTRON261 t1_j6nu3mg wrote

30 years later… travolta with Cage’s face sewn on… so hot right now

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GimmeAMalt t1_j6kfzf6 wrote

Why were there so many unibrows back in the day?

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Wigeon1 t1_j6kr3hm wrote

He’s still alive! No not really, hate conspiracy theories

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Raa03842 t1_j6lf4vf wrote

Here I come to save the day!

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DLQuilts t1_j6llk04 wrote

Someone asked in a subreddit today which celebrity would you not be surprised was a serial killer.

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teachertb16918 t1_j6lwgzw wrote

My only conspiracy theories

  1. Andy Kaufman faked his own death because he was a twisted guy and it was somehow a joke. But then, he liked the anonymity and simply remained “dead”.

  2. The drug companies actually have the cure…not the treatment to HIV/AIDS, along with several other diseases no doubt, but HIV certainly. They simply won’t release the cure for HIV to the public because it is more profitable to treat you for the disease than to cure you. With HIV, you will be on a regimen of expensive medications for life. If they cure you, you take a few pills and it’s over. No profit in that.

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anchorluxi86 t1_j6m5z7u wrote

This is not really a cool shot.

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kmpoaquests t1_j6msoaa wrote

Jump into the abyss when staring to closely at the Kaufman

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HostileNative79 t1_j6mvii6 wrote

I may be in the minority here, but Andy Kaufman was never funny. Ever.

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infidel99 t1_j6nt7yc wrote

Then you approve of him because he said repeatedly that he wasn't a comic. He didn't tell jokes.

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HostileNative79 t1_j6o29ul wrote

I think that’s a defense mechanism. You tell people you’re not a comic so that the criticism won’t effect ego.

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torrfam15 t1_j6mwdlz wrote

He would have been great playing Pablo Escobar.....lol

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gwh811 t1_j6mzwac wrote

Jim Carey really did a great job playing him in the film he was in. But I really would love to see a new one where Sacha Baron plays him.

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iz2003iz t1_j6n0wal wrote

Im Castor Troy!!!

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noeljrG t1_j6n9w8b wrote

Thank you! Thank you very much!

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zenithnemt t1_j6o308g wrote

I've always wanted to pop that pimple on his cheek. Fin.

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mikebah t1_j6oca9x wrote

He looks so much like Krist Novoselic

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KidSushi76 t1_j6oen2u wrote

Didn't realize how much he looked like Krist Novoselic from Nirvana gif

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KMB0791 t1_j6ogrrs wrote

The InterGender Wrestling Champion

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Ottos1 t1_j6oqgjg wrote

Did you take drugs?

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Itsameaturd t1_j6p09ya wrote

If Nic Cage and Pablo Escobar had a child…

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Maduro25 t1_j6p11gn wrote

"So... ya wanna see Andy? Anybody gotta flashlight and a couple of shovels? "

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CosmikDebris408916 t1_j6kjjzz wrote

Listening to a podcast and they mentioned Kaufman months after me seeing this picture! Glitch in the matrix!

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ShazadM t1_j6koxo5 wrote

That’s a big pimple on his left cheek.

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FILLYFINGERZ t1_j6kx7bj wrote

He is supposedly buried in my home town. I went to visit his grave once. It say Kaufman on the tombstone but who is really in there is the question......Muhahahahahah!

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deadlyruckas t1_j6l3dr2 wrote

That looks like a crazy Tim McGee (NCIS)

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Soprk_ t1_j6m1xl9 wrote

That’s the face of a man

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Hardi_SMH t1_j6m2x4b wrote

Looks like Escobar to me

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elalesound2 t1_j6m7dj4 wrote

You can smell the drugs and the desperation from here.

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RealJonathanBronco t1_j6mo29y wrote

Kaufman never did drugs. He just looked like that all the time.

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elalesound2 t1_j6mogwr wrote

Oh! So it's all dispare. Cool.

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RealJonathanBronco t1_j6momgl wrote

What is comedy but tragedy + time?

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elalesound2 t1_j6morla wrote

Jerry Lewis told me that comedy is a guy in trouble.

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PickAName616 t1_j6meam1 wrote

It’s like if Nicholas Cage and Jason Lee had a baby

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derpferd t1_j6mfdn7 wrote

He would've made a great serial killer

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soupafi t1_j6mid95 wrote

Is that Nic Cage?

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IlJMFlI t1_j6o5q6p wrote

Overrated is an understatement.

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trvlur t1_j6kryb2 wrote

Adam Schiff before a trip to the barber shop.

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mistyeyed1 t1_j6l023c wrote

Why does this look like a "Roast me" picture?

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Crush73 t1_j6l97s0 wrote

Anybody see my candy bowl full of cocaine?

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EmperorSelassie t1_j6l0g2a wrote

He has Adam Schiff eyes. Such suppressed rage can only lead you to stand up or politics

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Greenhoused t1_j6llhr8 wrote

Was he ever actually funny though really?

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