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Is Andy Kaufman alive?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by LongTimeListener, Nov 13, 2013.

  1. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    His brother says yes, and that he has a 24-year-old daughter. He officially died 29 years ago.

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/andy-kaufmans-brother-says-comedian-655760

    This is weird even for him.
     
  2. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Maybe he was troubled by the horrible asp? (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
     
  3. Bradley Guire

    Bradley Guire Well-Known Member

    Bruce Lee ain't dead you know. They got him frozen in carbonite down under Chatsworth. They're gonna melt him down as soon as the economy gets better.
     
  4. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if he was alive.
     
  5. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    I was only about 15 years old when he "died", so I only remember him as the guy on Taxi and that ridiculous pro wrestling stuff he did.

    Were things really at that level where he would need to fake his own death to get away from being Andy Kaufman? I'd think going to an island in the Caribbean and sitting on the beach sipping umbrella drinks the rest of his life would have been just as effective and a hell of a lot easier to pull off.
     
  6. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    I have a feeling it's more likely he set up this stuff to keep a hoax going decades after he died than it is that he actually faked his death.
     
  7. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    "Keeping his name out there."

    He was a 21st-century thinker.
     
  8. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    "You don't have to fake your death if you want to drop out of celebrityhood and eventually be forgotten."
    -- Craig Kilborn
     
  9. ifilus

    ifilus Well-Known Member

  10. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    We know Elvis is dead, because if he had been alive he would have stopped Michael Jackson from marrying his daughter.
     
  11. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

  12. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Okay you deathers, prove it with a death certificate.
     
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