Was This Man a Genius?
Talks with Andy Kaufman
Chapter One
Not Funny
"I just want the audience to have a wonderful, happy feeling inside
them and leave with big smiles on their faces," Andy told me with a
blank stare the first time I met him. "I can't help it if people
laugh, I'm not trying to be funny," he explained. He said that he
felt insulted when he saw reviews calling him a comedian. "I
wouldn't mind being compared to Charlie Chaplin or W. C. Fields," he
said sadly. "But I don't find most comedy funny."
People were surprised when they heard Andy speak on TV for the first
time. He spoke with a foreign accent, but it was impossible to be
sure what kind of accent it was, because it sounded in between
Pakistani and Jamaican. Someone with the name "Andy Kaufman" was
probably from New York, not Pakistan, and this ... read full excerpt from Was This Man a Genius? ebook
