Is Andy Kaufman alive?

[LongTimeListener]

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.

 

[Bubbler]

Maybe he was troubled by the horrible asp? (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

 

[Bradley Guire]

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.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

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

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

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.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

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.

 

[LongTimeListener]

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.

"Keeping his name out there."

He was a 21st-century thinker.

 

[Joe Williams]

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

 

[ifilus]

 

[HejiraHenry]

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

 

[Smallpotatoes]

No.

 

[Vombatus]

Okay you deathers, prove it with a death certificate.

 

[TurnTwo2]

Okay you deathers, prove it with a death certificate.

Not until Obama proves he's an American with a birth certificate!

 

[93Devil]

Here he comes to save the day...



There was never a better wrestling heel. Never.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Okay you deathers, prove it with a death certificate.

 

[Vombatus]

There you have it. Trying to read the handwriting, it looks like the cause of death was (in order of onset):

5 months - primary bronchogenic carcinoma
4 months - metastic carcinoma
48 hours - renal failure

I am not sure if that one word is exactly "bronchogenic." Anyway, sounds like the primary was lung cancer.

I sure hope I go peacefully and not because of cancer. Cancer scares the crap out of me.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Kaufman is on a long list of dead celebrities who became a lot more famous when they died and probably would be barely remembered if they had lived.

 

[lantaur]

To answer the subject - uh, no.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/actress-in-andy-kaufman-hoax-675432

 

[LongTimeListener]

Yeah, it was a fun ruse.

She obviously studied him to come up with similar mannerisms and such.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Dead celebs who aren't dead?

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