Comedians and comedians, clowns and satirists entertaining the audience, help them relax and forget for some time about their problems. Experts emphasize that entertaining the public is difficult. Andy Kaufman performed on stage with pleasure.
Starting conditions
The famous comedian, comedian and revue artist was born January 17, 1949. The Andy Kaufman family lived at that time in New York. According to the memoirs of close relatives, the boy from an early age was noticeably different from his peers. Instead of various rattles, the gramophone became his favorite toy. He moved the needle through the plate with dexterous movements. There was a creak and crackle, after which the melody changed dramatically. All this was extremely fun for the baby.
Parents tried not to impede the development of abilities in the child. Mother spent all day near. Andy could watch TV all day, and then repeat in the voice of the announcer everything that he heard and remembered. He often demanded to turn off the TV and he himself presented the news to everyone who was at home at that moment. The career of an actor and entrepreneur in fact began as early as ten years. As a schoolboy, he arranged for peers performances, showing cartoons and simple tricks.
When Kaufman was fourteen, he performed with his program in beer bars and summer cafes. Along with poetry and reprise, the young actor managed to write his first full-fledged novel. After secondary education, he began to learn to play the drums of the Cong. Then he is fond of oriental practices and practices meditation. For almost a year, Andy lived in Spain, teaching young people the technique of immersion in a trance.
In the image of a foreigner
From the very beginning, Kaufman’s biography developed successfully. For more than a year he performed on the stage of Broadway, gaining experience and trying out his risky tricks. In his performances, he sought to arouse diametrically opposite feelings in the audience. He made the old woman jump around the stage on a stick to utter exhaustion. The old woman was falling unconscious, and the doctor who left the room recorded death. But then Andy jumped onto the stage in the clothes of an Indian healer and revived the dead.
Such "jokes" in the work of Andy Kaufman were in the order of things. For several years, the comedian literally fooled the public, introducing himself as a foreigner from an island in the Caspian Sea. This island drowned, and the poor fellow who escaped moved to America, and now needs money. The foreigner came to a television show like “let's get married” and began to pester the participants with tears and requests to choose him.
It is interesting to note that a certain part of the audience believed in the authenticity of the stage character. To this state of people can be brought using subtle mechanisms of influence on the psyche. Kaufman was not only distinguished by the ability to transform into a specific character. He effectively used contrasting techniques to bring people out of balance. Many connoisseurs of Kaufman’s work came to the performance in a state of intense expectation of something unexpected.
Comedian in the ring
Andy Kaufman's acting career took shape in a "torn" mode. The reason for the instability is partially due to the nature and behavior of the comedian himself. After the Alien, who was bored with the audience, the artist invented a new figure, which he brought to the stage. This character was positioned as a voiceless soloist with excessive ambitions by the name of Tony Clifton. Outwardly, he looked like a stout subject, with a big belly and heavy dark glasses.
It is interesting to note that Andy appeared on stage in the performance and represented the public a "talented" performer. Tony Clifton went out to the audience with a relaxed gait and began to carry a different nonsense. He was rude, called names and provoked those present in the hall to scandal. Annoyed spectators threw heavy objects at him and promised to beat him. After a while, the actor was recognized. And at the same moment, he Kaufman appeared in the auditorium, sat down in an armchair and continued to listen to the mediocre singer.
In 1977, Andy Kaufman drew attention to a popular show called wrestling. The famous actor, acting in his own style, suggested holding fights between women and men. He was the first to volunteer to take part in the fight and promised the woman who will enter the ring a thousand dollars. To the actor’s surprise, his invitation provoked a stormy and even aggressive reaction. Over the course of his sports career, Andy has spent almost four hundred fights and has never lost.
