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mskogly t1_j6k9gkg wrote

Had anyone asked Krist Novoselics mom about this?

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pozicioner t1_j6kactl wrote

HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAAAAAYYY!!!!

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phantomf0x_ t1_j6kc9e9 wrote

Looked like Nicholas Cage for a hot sec

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gravejay77 t1_j6kciyi wrote

Who has considered the possibility that Andy , who absolutely lived for and lived the put-on , staged his own premature, sudden , and unlikely death from lung cancer ( he was a non-smoker ) as the ultimate send-up ? He had the money to pull it off . His routines had been getting farther out there and longer lasting ( trans gender wrestling ) and less popular , and this might have been his way of retiring with an untoppable act

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the_original_Retro t1_j6kdxrb wrote

I personally think he never died but just morphed into Nicolas Cage.

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MSeanF t1_j6keqdx wrote

Cocaine is one hell of a drug.

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Automan2k t1_j6kffjf wrote

Replying to gravejay77 (#1,632,477)

At one time, I would have considered that possibility. Then a good friend of mine (also a non-smoker) died of lung cancer at the age of 39.

Kaufman also worked the nightclub scene in the 70s, so he was exposed to massive amounts of secondhand smoke.

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GimmeAMalt t1_j6kfzf6 wrote

Why were there so many unibrows back in the day?

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Lon72 t1_j6kgft4 wrote

Who doesn't love a latke

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CosmikDebris408916 t1_j6kjjzz wrote

Listening to a podcast and they mentioned Kaufman months after me seeing this picture! Glitch in the matrix!

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1zzie t1_j6kna51 wrote

Kristen Schaal has also credited him as an inspiration, she makes those eyes too.

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ShazadM t1_j6koxo5 wrote

That’s a big pimple on his left cheek.

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Routine-Ratio3551 t1_j6kpr69 wrote

As Letterman once said, “When you look in Andy’s eyes, you get the idea someone else is doing the driving”

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Mehzenta t1_j6kqxxg wrote

Replying to MSeanF (#1,633,041)

Was gonna write this exact thing and thought...I ain't original, someone else as probably written it already. Sure enough. Evrytime I think I'm clever SOMEONE on redit beats me to the punch.

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Wigeon1 t1_j6kr3hm wrote

He’s still alive! No not really, hate conspiracy theories

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trvlur t1_j6krni6 wrote

Now he’s a cartoon named Bob who makes and sells burgers.

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tnfrs t1_j6krs6g wrote

lol this looks like my dad but on cocaine

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trvlur t1_j6kryb2 wrote

Adam Schiff before a trip to the barber shop.

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FILLYFINGERZ t1_j6kx7bj wrote

He is supposedly buried in my home town. I went to visit his grave once. It say Kaufman on the tombstone but who is really in there is the question......Muhahahahahah!

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Afytron t1_j6kybgz wrote

Your Walgreens Nicolas Cage.

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mistyeyed1 t1_j6l023c wrote

Why does this look like a "Roast me" picture?

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EmperorSelassie t1_j6l0g2a wrote

He has Adam Schiff eyes. Such suppressed rage can only lead you to stand up or politics

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james_randolph t1_j6l4rog wrote

Man on the Moon was a great look into how funny and controversial he was. Jim Carrey did an awesome job portraying Andy.

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MFnCG1371 t1_j6l5j7j wrote

I prefer my Andy Kaufman's pile-driven

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Crush73 t1_j6l97s0 wrote

Anybody see my candy bowl full of cocaine?

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ghostface176 t1_j6lb816 wrote

I never got it. People say he’s a genius and I cannot for one second see why. He just seemed like a whacked out actor who did some random shit that people thought was groundbreaking. Feel like I’m on the twilight zone where I’m the only one that doesn’t see the thing.

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RedJudas t1_j6ldcz8 wrote

That's not Andy Kaufman. That's Tony Clifton.

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Raa03842 t1_j6lf4vf wrote

Here I come to save the day!

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HeyHo__LetsGo t1_j6lgnoq wrote

All hail the greatest World's Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion.

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heatx44 t1_j6lh4o6 wrote

Guy looks like a psychopath

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Kingston0809 t1_j6ll9bz wrote

I thought it was Nicholas Cage playing Pablo Escobar

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Greenhoused t1_j6llhr8 wrote

Was he ever actually funny though really?

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DLQuilts t1_j6llk04 wrote

Someone asked in a subreddit today which celebrity would you not be surprised was a serial killer.

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gortlank t1_j6lo7t6 wrote

Replying to ghostface176 (#1,642,147)

He was a troll. Either you were in on the joke or you were the joke. Most people were not in on the joke even at the time. Often, he was the only one in on the joke. Sometimes there was no joke, which was the joke.

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hook_killed_pan t1_j6lu0rr wrote

Loved Man on the Moon, but for anyone thinking Jim Carrey was the perfect choice, go back and compare scenes from the movie to the real life clips. He's known as an over actor for a reason, and should have taken it down a notch or two. That being said, I still loved the movie and can't think of anyone that would have done better, so I'm just bitching about it for the sake of bitching about it. The reddit way.

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LineChef t1_j6lu6no wrote

Replying to leeuwerik (#1,647,398)

Well that’s just rude innit? I mean if it’s your house and your wall, go nuts, right? But I’ll be damned if your gonna go into someone else’s home and start throwing things at they’re beautiful walls looking for something to stick! I won’t abide it. I won’t abide it one god damn bit…

HAS BASIC DECORUM BECOME BUT A DISTANT MEMORY TO YOU PEOPLE?!

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SlinkyTail t1_j6lvcn4 wrote

Replying to gravejay77 (#1,632,477)

I thought the same for many years, since his other persona showed up after his death multiple times, but I'm not sure andy would attempt fate either just to get out of the lime light, he had a weird paranoia about him.

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teachertb16918 t1_j6lwgzw wrote

My only conspiracy theories

  1. Andy Kaufman faked his own death because he was a twisted guy and it was somehow a joke. But then, he liked the anonymity and simply remained “dead”.

  2. The drug companies actually have the cure…not the treatment to HIV/AIDS, along with several other diseases no doubt, but HIV certainly. They simply won’t release the cure for HIV to the public because it is more profitable to treat you for the disease than to cure you. With HIV, you will be on a regimen of expensive medications for life. If they cure you, you take a few pills and it’s over. No profit in that.

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TypographySnob t1_j6lyvz5 wrote

Never seen chest hair extend so far beyond a shirt collar.

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Soprk_ t1_j6m1xl9 wrote

That’s the face of a man

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elalesound2 t1_j6m7dj4 wrote

You can smell the drugs and the desperation from here.

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ellefleming t1_j6mc4cx wrote

People closest to AK said he was the sanest man they ever met.

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PickAName616 t1_j6meam1 wrote

It’s like if Nicholas Cage and Jason Lee had a baby

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derpferd t1_j6mfdn7 wrote

He would've made a great serial killer

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kennystetson t1_j6mfnz1 wrote

This guy invented trolling before it was even a thing. the OG troll.

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moxie-maniac t1_j6mgfs6 wrote

Replying to RedJudas (#1,642,780)

Long-story short, an IT-ish job, I made a fake user (to test things) "Tony Clifton." A co-worker reported resulting problems two or three times with "Clifton," not getting the reference at all.

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hiker2go t1_j6mq9z3 wrote

Monopoly, 21 checkers and chess!!

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kmpoaquests t1_j6msoaa wrote

Jump into the abyss when staring to closely at the Kaufman

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HostileNative79 t1_j6mvii6 wrote

I may be in the minority here, but Andy Kaufman was never funny. Ever.

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torrfam15 t1_j6mwdlz wrote

He would have been great playing Pablo Escobar.....lol

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gwh811 t1_j6mzwac wrote

Jim Carey really did a great job playing him in the film he was in. But I really would love to see a new one where Sacha Baron plays him.

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noeljrG t1_j6n9w8b wrote

Thank you! Thank you very much!

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jimboTRON261 t1_j6nu3mg wrote

30 years later… travolta with Cage’s face sewn on… so hot right now

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zenithnemt t1_j6o308g wrote

I've always wanted to pop that pimple on his cheek. Fin.

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IlJMFlI t1_j6o5q6p wrote

Overrated is an understatement.

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mikebah t1_j6oca9x wrote

He looks so much like Krist Novoselic

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KidSushi76 t1_j6oen2u wrote

Didn't realize how much he looked like Krist Novoselic from Nirvana gif

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KMB0791 t1_j6ogrrs wrote

The InterGender Wrestling Champion

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Itsameaturd t1_j6p09ya wrote

If Nic Cage and Pablo Escobar had a child…

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Maduro25 t1_j6p11gn wrote

"So... ya wanna see Andy? Anybody gotta flashlight and a couple of shovels? "

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