I have heard a lot of conspiracy theories about prominent people: that they are actually evil space lizards or controlled by same, that they are all Illuminati or Masons, that they are somehow demon-possessed or in the pay of warring alien races. This is clearly foolish and probably schizophrenic.
I have an alternate theory. I believe that in the early 1980s, shortly before he died, Andy Kaufman had himself cloned. The Kaufman clones grew quickly and were dispersed into the community, and there were thousands of them. Today, almost every prominent person in politics, entertainment, the arts, academia, the military, and media is an exact copy of Andy Kaufman.
This explains a number of things. How many times in the last few years have you heard someone say “This is insane! It’s like an Andy Kaufman routine!”? How many rumors have there been that Andy isn’t actually dead, but faked it and is in disguise? How many times have you looked at someone on TV or read something in the paper and though “Are daily events just riffing on Andy, or what?”
Locally we had a school board member named Steve Rocco who caused yet another set of Andy-lives rumors last month. The so-called “Borat” phenomenon is clearly Latka. The Turkmenbashi, Santorum, almost all bloggers, Zacarias Moussaoui, the list of Kaufman projects just goes on and on. How much of American public discourse now resembles 1970s pro wrestling? Nearly all of it!
There’s only one way to find out. I propose mandatory Andy DNA testing. How else will we know how much of our society is being controlled by his one last, best perfect performance?
And think about it. You could be an Andy too, and not know it yet.
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So could you! We’re all Andy
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Andy? Is that you?
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Got the dark hair down.
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This explains K-Fed. Completely.
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Thank you very much !
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I am not Andy.
Probably.
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Whoa. Dude. Whoa. I swear, earlier today I was thinking about making a list of “people I know whom I suspect are secretely Andy Kaufman.” A coincidence of this magnitude could only have been arranged by the lizard people.
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Andy is/was/will be the best. However, Borat is loosely based on a guy in Turkey named Mahir – he’s been at it since late last century. First found out about him from a Mad TV skit years ago and sure enough, the guy exists. http://www.ikissyou.org/
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I don’t buy Mahir’s claim that Borat ripped him off. The character is a cliche.
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I like this. The idea that there are thousands upon thousands of Andy Kaufman clones shaping the course of world events is a lot more comforting than the idea that say, people actually write Harry Potter male pregnancy incest fiction as a genuine expression of their love for Harry Potter, male pregnancy, and incest.
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Why is it that every year thousands upon thousands of young people from all the five continents keep arriving in Taizé in an uninterrupted pilgrimage, week after week.
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I am Andy Altschuler, I have the Spooners to prove it!
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STOP KILLING BABIES!~!!!1!!1
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If I Faked It
Please check out “If I Faked It” the reality of Andy Kaufman & Nathan McCoy’s death.
Thank You
Andy
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Re: If I Faked It
OH MY GOD, IT’S YOU!
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Re: If I Faked It
details coming May 17, 2008
http://www.ififakedit.com
http://www.andykaufmanlives.com
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This would make a great Charlie Kaufman screenplay.
And I’m fairly confident that Charlie Kaufman isn’t Andy Kaufman, because he would have changed his last name.
Or is that what he wants me to think?
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I am Andy and So Can You!
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