never “got” his style of comedy, sorry
“never “got” his style of comedy, sorry”
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...and that was the point of his comedy.
He never once told a joke. He was a song and dance man.
He once did a stand-up bit where he opened a book, I forgot the name of it, but it was one of those War and Peace type books, and told the audience he was going to read from it. The audience laughed, and then Kaufman literally started reading from the book and the audience started booing. Yeah, he was a bizarre comedian. Jim Carrey nailed him though in the biopic and should have won the Oscar.
The humor of Kaufman, Python, and Mel Brooks is an acquired taste, a taste that changes with age. Those were my comedic icons through my twenties. Fast forward 40 plus years, aside from a handful of skits, I cannot understand what my attraction was.