Andy Kaufman Read the Entire Great Gatsby

Hailing from a quiet boondocks in Kingdom of norway, Pen Gutt doesn't quite fit into the brazen incarnation of contemporary rap. Delivering hooks in indie-rapper sadboy fashion, he laces jazzy, languid beats inspired past Norwegian folk music with his native tongue. While his Scandi upbringing is an influence, he's too into philosophy books, Norwegian musicals, Japanese anime and a human he describes as "the male parent of performance fine art," Andy Kaufman, an individual Gutt cites equally the inspiration behind characters in his videos.

"I kickoff discovered him in a time in my life where I was completely obsessed with Riff Raff," Pen Gutt says, "and when people discussed on forums whether he was the real deal or but merely an act pretending to be a rapper. Well, somebody in a forum compared him to Andy Kaufman, and said that he might only be trolling everybody. Curious every bit I was I checked into him, and non long later I'd stumbled into a new obsession.

"Just to clarify, Andy Kaufman has always been somewhat dissimilar. He pretended to brand TV shows in his room when he was a child, and got his father to watch as he invited guests, sang, made jokes and hosted the show all together. He made his major Tv debut on the get-go-e'er Saturday Night Live episode past lip syncing just Mighty Mouse'south parts in the theme song for Mighty Mouse, which is only 3 lines. And this was his specialty, there was a lot of silence in his comedy, both by not doing annihilation or but simply doing something that'southward not specially funny at all. He made the audience feel awkward, weird, and some times even mad, only for the fuck of information technology. There was never a boring office of his career…"

1. Tony Clifton on the set of Taxi

"He had this character called Tony Clifton, which he made with his writer where he was an obnoxious, abusive lounge singer. Sometimes when somebody wanted to volume Andy, they ended up with Tony instead, or sometimes he just insisted that by booking Andy you had to book Tony too. So get-go you'd get a prissy testify with Andy, just afterward a fat drunk would enter the stage and sing then fucking terribly that people would, and if it wasn't enough he always fabricated sure to get into the audition and harass them, cascade a potable over them, whatever to piss them off. So 1 day he decided to go as Tony to the recording of the show Taxi. He showed up completely drunk with 2 hookers by his side and started to wrestle the producer, some of the coiffure and his own co-actors. They fired him for that, merely not Andy, just Tony."

ii. Andy Kaufman on Letterman

"This is why I love Andy. Almost people just keep talk shows to promote their adjacent moving picture or album or whatsoever, but this is just pure gold. He seems and so down, and depressed, and as talk show audiences do when it gets bad-mannered, they commencement to laugh. He doesn't do anything, he'south merely sad. Merely somehow they love it, cause they don't know what to exercise. He then proceeds by proverb that his girlfriend has dumped him and ran abroad with the kids and about all his money, and so it would be of much help if they could lend him some coin, then he walks out in the audience and accepts coins with his sad little confront."

3. Andy Kaufman wrestles the ladies

"He was ever into wrestling, from fashion back when he was a kid. And so later on in life he figured out if he didn't stand a hazard wrestling men he would rather wrestle women. That would make for a better show. He usually started out by talking shit most women to get them actually fired up, then a daughter would volunteer and most of the time he'd get beaten by them, but people would go so excited about it! He played the role of a villain, then they would detest him, and everyone loves seeing the bad guy lose."

iv. Andy Kaufman on SNL

"The reason why I've taken and then much of a liking to him is because he wasn't agape at all to be hated. On the contrary, he used it to his reward and made the 'booing' part of his story. He wanted people to both cloy him and beloved him, and the all-time example of this is when he allow the audition decide if they would allow him continue on SNL or dump him from the show. He got dumped, and never appeared on Saturday Night Live once again."

5. Andy Kaufman readsThe Great Gatsby

"Sometimes he just wasn't keen on being liked at all. He got booked to this university show where he did his famous The Not bad Gatsby sketch. But the thing near this sketch was that information technology wasn't meant to be enjoyable. He starts to read in an English emphasis The Great Gatsby, and at starting time it seems a flake funny, just he doesn't stop, he proceeds to read the book, hushing people when they laugh. He doesn't stop until he has read the whole fucking book, and almost everyone has left the venue. This is a prune from the sketch, but in that location'due south no footage of when he bombed that university, don't call back it would be entertaining watching either way."

6. Andy Kaufman plays Carnegie Hall

"I take bang-up inspiration from how he communicated with the audience, how he broke the bulwark between them and let them into his own world. At the end of his performance at Carnegie Hall he tells the audience he has 20 buses waiting exterior the theatre to bring everyone to accept milk and cookies with him. That'southward how yous're supposed to end a testify. On another note, Action Bronson in one case stopped in the middle of his set to get and eat some chicken at a place down the street, bringing a lot of the fans. He and then got back and finished the rest of the show."

vii. Andy Kaufman does Elvis Presley

"Ane of his nigh famous acts was his Elvis Presley impersonation. He was completely obsessed with him, and actually got the notion by Elvis that his act was his favourite of all the Elvis impersonators. Andy had a talent, sometimes he used it for complete fuckery, but other times he used it just to make people laugh and smile. This was one of those acts. A child showing dearest to his biggest idol."

8. Andy Kaufman interviews his ex-girlfriend Elayne Boosler

"I would judge this is some of the first trolling ever made on television. Information technology'south Eric André before he was even born. On the same Boob tube special the screen suddenly starts to scrub, making people at dwelling adjusting their antenna to make information technology skillful again. This was merely something he had edited in to make them leave their couch. Genius. Later on the show he invites his invitee, which is his ex-girlfriend, and for the occasion he has made the tallest desk in talk-prove history. Making the dynamics look really weird. If in that location's ane Andy clip you should lookout, it's definitely this. Both of them are actually funny, she talks about a stand up-up friend who does a lot of material about decease, and talks shit about old senile people, and without looking at the audience he afterwards realise that it'southward just old people watching. Which is just pitiful, not funny, haha. Might be my favourite clip."

9. The Andy Kaufman apology

"The affair well-nigh Andy is that you never really knew when he was in character or not. He always seemed to be some steps alee, making people actually confused if they were gonna laugh or feel sorry for him. Before any of his acts or shows he demanded 90 minutes of pure silence in a room to meditate. He was deep into meditating, and worked every bit a teacher for a long time, and that's why I call up he had so much control over his situations. I would guess he would visualise everything he was going to do, and remember of the different outcomes of his actions. I think he got into the state which he needed to exist to go along his straight face at all times. Hither he makes his apology later on starting a fight on the Fridays TV show. A cute performance, merely watch."

10. Jerry Lawler vs Andy Kaufman

"The fight with Jerry Lawler was an ongoing thing throughout his whole career. Making appearances on talk shows where Andy threw water on him and said he was merely an idiot from Memphis, Tennessee. Andy also kept proverb that everyone from Tennessee had an IQ of 10 and never washed themselves or had whatsoever toilet paper, and basically walked effectually with shit in their pants.

"This was just to get them fired up, so when the day came when Andy was supposed to fight Jerry the venue was packed and everyone hated Andy. After a hard knuckle driver which made Andy land on his head, he just laid there, completely wrecked. The crowd went crazy and screamed that he had to go dorsum on his feet, merely he wouldn't. Instead he only laid there, and after some time some medics came and put him on a stretcher and collection him away, leaving the audience confused almost what just happened."

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Pen Gutt's debut album arrives late Summer via Luft Recordings.

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