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The book was "The Great Gatsby" that Kaufman read on stage. By most accounts, he read the entire book and it was about 3 in the morning that he finished. By then, almost the entire audience had gone home after spending hours booing and jeering him.

Another time, he had 20 buses lined up outside one of his shows and afterwards, much of the audience were taken to some sort of cafeteria where they were served milk and cookies.

Andy's humor always appealed to me. He was really out there. I think another time, he brought his ex-girlfriend up on stage to interview her and all kinds of personal stuff came out like when he stole all her pantyhose and gave it to a girl that was living in his apartment building at the time.

23 posted on 03/20/2023 4:38:57 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,942,927 Truth | 87,539,833 Twitter)
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To: SamAdams76; SaveFerris
The book was "The Great Gatsby" that Kaufman read on stage


24 posted on 03/20/2023 4:43:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SamAdams76

For the most part, I was not entertained, except for the wrestling, and that surpassed every other comedian of his era, for a long, long time. He knew how to get his hooks into the Lawler crowd and get them to hate him. While in the ring, he introduced the people of Tennessee to toilet paper and soap, like they never heard of it before. He also wrestled a large woman by a swimming pool, took her down, then grabbed her by the back of the head and started smashing her head into the ground. One of his famous quotes was “I’m from Hollywood, I’m smarter than you”


31 posted on 03/20/2023 5:38:53 PM PDT by job
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