Andy Kaufman

Consider him being a comedian, actor, performance musician, or prankster, however the legendary Andy Kaufman was also a documenting musician along with his debut album getting almost 30 years after his death. Delivered and raised within the upper-class Longer Isle suburb of Great Throat, NY, Kaufman was a standup comedian who was simply “not wanting to become funny” (“I simply wish to play with viewers’ mind”). His profession required an upswing within the middle-’70s when he was a normal guest around the humor sketch show Sunday Night Live, as the past due ’70s noticed him sign up for the solid of the tv screen sitcom Taxi cab where he’d stay until 1983. He passed on in 1984 from a uncommon type of lung malignancy, but because the 1990 Milos Forman biopic THE PERSON around the Moon demonstrated, prankster Kaufman experienced always loved the thought of a “loss of life hoax” as well as the rumor that he previously faked his personal loss of life remained active for many years. Good friends and family members have repeatedly refused the hoax, however the idea was a favorite talking stage in 2013 once the Drag Town label released Andy’s “debut humor recording,” Andy and His Grandmother. The recording was put together and edited by Rodney Ascher, who drawn the materials from 82 hours of micro-cassette recordings Kaufman experienced captured between 1977 and 1979.