'Taxi' comedian Andy Kaufman faked his 1984 lung cancer death, brother claims
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[quote=bbc][B]Cult comedy star Andy Kaufman faked his own death in 1984 and is still alive, his brother has claimed.
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Kaufman, best known for playing the incompetent Latka Gravas on the 1970s sitcom Taxi, officially died from lung cancer in 1984.
But, appearing at an award show named in Andy's honour, Michael Kaufman said he received a letter from his brother, confirming he was alive, in 1999.
He then introduced a woman who claimed to be Andy's 24-year-old daughter.
Her age would mean she was born five years after his death.[/quote]
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whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!!!
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/14/showbiz/andy-kaufman-alive-or-not/[/url]
Kaufman's brother now claims to have been hoaxed.
[quote]Tapper pressed him: "Just to reiterate, you now don't think that it's true -- you think that this is a hoax and you were a victim of the hoax?"
"Correct," Kaufman said.[/quote]
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I wonder what brought him to do this?
[B]Ah - it's fake apparently [/B]
What a dick move to the brother
It's been mumbled about for years but I won't believe it till I see it.
ffs bbc get on the ball
Yeah, already posted the CNN link to the admittance that this is all most likely fake.
Kaufman's brother is notably pissed off.
Isn't faking your own death a crime..
..or at least have crimes that are attached to the consequences.
He'd most likely be hit with fraud and tax evasion.
he looks just like phil fish
woah
[QUOTE=Bradyns;42866375]Isn't faking your own death a crime..
..or at least have crimes that are attached to the consequences.[/QUOTE]
i don't know specifically if faking your death is a crime but disappearing, assuming you're not avoiding something like bail or a debt, isn't illegal
This has been a crazy fan theory for years.
[QUOTE=Chaohord;42866514]he looks just like phil fish
woah[/QUOTE]
Phil Fish used his face as his Twitter profile picture.
[QUOTE=Chaohord;42866514]he looks just like phil fish
woah[/QUOTE]
I'm going to take that as a joke and leave it at that.
Awww, got my hopes up and everything.
[URL="http://scholarsandrogues.com/2012/06/13/breaking-donald-trump-is-a-hoax/"]There's already a conspiracy theory that he faked his death and took over Donald Trump's identity[/URL] (while the real Trump retired peacefully out of the public eye with his money on a tropical beach somewhere). (And the author [URL="http://scholarsandrogues.com/2012/10/24/latest-stunt-provides-further-evidence-donald-trump-is-really-andy-kaufman-pretending-to-support-mitt-romney/"]doubled down when Trump backed Romney.[/URL])
[QUOTE=Chaohord;42866514]he looks just like phil fish
woah[/QUOTE]
It's the chops isn't it
[QUOTE=Bradyns;42866375]Isn't faking your own death a crime..
..or at least have crimes that are attached to the consequences.[/QUOTE]
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his boy davey will help him out
So, his death was supposedly faked, but the report of that is the real fake.
Andy Kaufman gets the last laugh on us again.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;42868139]So, his death was supposedly faked, but the report of that is the real fake.
Andy Kaufman gets the last laugh on us again.[/QUOTE]
So it's a real fake report instead of a fake fake report after all? :v:
[quote=CNN]"Now that it's Thursday, not Monday anymore, I believe I am part of a hoax," Kaufman said in a bizarre, rambling interview where he spoke in a monotone not unlike his brother.
"I don't believe she's acting on her own, though," Kaufman said of the woman he introduced Monday night. "But, you know, that's all I know."
Tapper pressed him: "Just to reiterate, you now don't think that it's true -- you think that this is a hoax and you were a victim of the hoax?"
"Correct," Kaufman said. He denied he was part of the hoax.
The Smoking Gun reported the woman is actually an actress named Alexandra Tatarsky, and her father is a 58-year-old psychologist. The website reported that Michael Kaufman met her earlier this year at a Manhattan gallery and recruited her to pose as his brother's daughter.
"That is not true," Michael Kaufman told CNN. Attempts to reach the Tatarskys were unsuccessful.
Asked if he was angry, he said, "I'm still processing it. As Andy's brother, you learn over the years, you know, to go with the flow, kind of. So I have mixed emotions. I never allowed myself to get too excited, but I was always slightly skeptical."[/quote]
there's definitely something bizarre going on here at the least
My philosophy professor was close friends with Kaufman in his college days and was big in the meditation scene. He mentioned this in class today and said there's a 1% chance he thinks he's still alive, and that's only because it's not [i]impossible[/i], but not possible either.
He tells us lots of stories about Kaufman, like the time he got out of a speeding ticket by convincing a Boston cop he was black and was tired of all the racism.
Man on the Moon 2, let's do it!
Has nobody watched Man on the Moon?
I hope this is true would be the biggest troll in all of mankind.
gene test is only solucion
he's probably hiding with Elvis and Micheal Jackson somewhere
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;42870745]he's probably hiding with Elvis and Micheal Jackson somewhere[/QUOTE]
He's chilling on Dracula's moon base with Tupac and the real Paul McCartney. They make FANTASTIC music together.
Elvis doesn't do shit though.
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