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For fans of Tim and Eric...

Jordan — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:21:36 GMT

Tim And Eric Awesome Tribe! Great Job. For serious fans only. Sort of... uh... I guess we could talk about other stuff too... as long as we put Tim and Eric somewhere in there...

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wrong!

eddydyer — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:30:40 GMT

Andy Kaufman Memorial Wrestling Room
Coming To The Bunnyranch Brothel

America's favorite Pimpmaster General and cathouse visionary, Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite Bunnyranch, Nevada's premiere legal brothel, is creating the Andy Kaufman Memorial Wrestling Room in honor of the late comic, who regularly paid to wrestle hookers at the famed venue.

Torn between two brothels, Hof recalls how Kaufman would divide his time between the now defunct Mustang Ranch and the Moonlite Bunnyranch -- located on the outskirts of Carson City, Nevada - paying top dollar to wrestle the hookers.

"He'd pay to watch the girls wrestle each other on Friday night, then wrestle the winners on Saturday night," says Bunnymeister Hof. "And he'd always come out on top."

Hookers aside, Hof speculates that the hoards of unsuspecting females whom Kaufman wrestled with on tv were unaware that he was secretly getting off to it and that paying to wrestle girls at the Bunnyranch simply confirmed that his fixation was sexually motivated.

"It was probably another one of Andy's secret little jokes," states Hof, pointing out that wrestling, for some people, produces an adrenaline rush that creates an even more intense orgasm. "It was a one-of-a-kind mind fuck. No penetration necessary."

With a January 17 completion date (which would have been Andy's 51st birthday), the Andy Kaufman Memorial Wrestling Room will be authentic all the way down to the mat, complete with ring, ropes, autographed posters of the enigmatic comic and the R.E.M. soundtrack from Man On The Moon.

Hof is also planning an annual charitable wrestling event in honor of Kaufman hosted hopefully by another Bunnyranch regular, Jesse "The Body" Ventura who has his own suite at the brothel complete with feather boa and Navy seal memorabilia.

How would Kaufman react to all this?

"He'd like it," says Hof. "He was always wrestling with his identity."

Regardless of Kaufman's sexual bent, one thing's for sure, adds the Bunnymeister, "In the phony, hyped up world of professional wrestling, Andy didn't fake it."

To get pinned at the Bunnyranch, call l-888-BUNNYRANCH.

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Fridays

eddydyer — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:06:17 GMT

In 1981, Kaufman made a couple of memorable appearances on Fridays, a variety show on ABC that was similar to SNL. Kaufman's first appearance on the show proved to be the most memorable one. During a sketch set in a restaurant, Kaufman broke character and refused to say his lines.

The other comedians were embarrassed by the position that Kaufman had put them in on a live television show. In response, Michael Richards walked off camera and returned with a set of cue cards and dumped them on the table in front of Kaufman. Andy responded by splashing Michael Richards with water. A stagehand stormed onto the stage, leading to a brawl on camera before the show finally cut away to commercial. The entire incident was apparently a gag conceived by Andy Kaufman, but how many people were in on the gag (if any) was never made clear.

Regardless, Kaufman appeared the following week in a videotaped apology to the home viewers. Later that year, Kaufman returned to host Fridays. At one point in the show, he invited gospel singer Kathie Sullivan on stage to sing a few gospel songs with him and announced that the two were engaged to be married and talked to the audience about his newfound faith in Jesus. It was of course entirely a hoax

(good ol' Wikipedia)

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wrestling

eddydyer — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:01:03 GMT

Kaufman grew up admiring professional wrestlers and the fantasy world that they perform in. For a brief time, Kaufman began wrestling women during his act and was the self-proclaimed "Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion of the World". He offered $1,000 reward to any woman that could pin him. Later, after a challenge from professional wrestler Jerry Lawler, Kaufman would step into the ring (in the Memphis, Tennessee wrestling circuit) with a man - Lawler himself. Lawler's ongoing feud included an apparent broken neck for Kaufman as a result of a piledriver by Lawler, and a famous on-air fight on the Late Night with David Letterman television show. Kaufman and Lawler's famous feud and wrestling matches were all later confirmed as a gag (or, in wrestling parlance, a "work") and not real as many believed at the time. In reality, Kaufman was not injured while wrestling Lawler, and in fact, the two were friends. Remarkably, the truth about it being a work was kept secret for almost 15 years after Kaufman's death until the movie and book "Man in the Moon" revealed the truth in 1999. In his 2002 biography "It's Good to Be the King...Sometimes," Lawler detailed how they came up with the angle and kept it quiet but did relate that Kaufman's explosion on Letterman was the comedian's own idea

(-Wikipedia again)

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Tony Clifton

eddydyer — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:59:30 GMT

Kaufman's second most well known character would be "Tony Clifton", the abusive lounge singer. Clifton began opening for Kaufman at comedy clubs and eventually even performed concerts on his own around the country. Sometimes it was Kaufman performing as Clifton, sometimes it was his brother Michael or his friend Bob Zmuda. For a brief time, it was unclear to some that Clifton was not a real person. News programs actually interviewed Clifton as Kaufman's opening act. The interviews would usually turn ugly whenever Kaufman's name came up, because Clifton would claim that Kaufman was using him to get rich.

Clifton was, at Kaufman's insistence, hired for a guest role on Taxi, but after throwing a tantrum on stage, had to be escorted off of the ABC studio's lot by security guards. Much to Kaufman's delight, this incident was reported in the local newspapers

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Andy Kaufman

eddydyer — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:58:12 GMT

Andy Kaufman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was a New York-born American entertainer. Though many refer to him as a comedian, Kaufman described himself as a "song and dance man", saying "I never told a joke in my life." He is one of the most famous practitioners of anti-humor. He was also a composer. He graduated in 1971 from a now-defunct Grahm Junior College where he studied television and completed projects that informed his later work.

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Andy Kaufman,

eddydyer — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:57:31 GMT

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Here I come to save the day!

eddydyer — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:45:50 GMT

Thank you veddy much!

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