Thinking Sideways: Andy Kaufmans greatest joke?

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 16 June 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On May 16, 1984 comedian Andy Kaufman died from cancer. Or did he? Kaufman, the king of taking a joke so far that no one knew when it would end, or if it was even a joke, apparently told his friends that he wanted to stage his own death. Almost immediatly after his funeral people started seeing Andy everywhere. Was the dead man really him?

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0:00.0	Thinking Sideways is not brought to you by Croffish Boxing.
0:04.0	Instead, it's supported by the generous contributions of people like you, our listeners, on Patreon.
0:10.0	Visit patreon.com slash thinking sideways to learn more.
0:16.0	Thinking Sideways.
0:18.0	I don't understand.
0:20.0	I do not go cute.
0:22.0	You never know.
0:24.0	It's a big and big difficulty to describe.
0:26.0	What?
0:28.0	The door is a thing we simply do not know the answer to.
0:32.0	Well, hey there.
0:34.0	And welcome again to another episode of Thinking Sideways.
0:38.0	As always, I'm Steve, joined of course by...
0:40.0	Devon.
0:42.0	And Joe.
0:44.0	And once again, we've got a mystery.
0:46.0	What?
0:48.0	Yeah, we do.
0:50.0	It's a pretty scary one too.
0:52.0	Well, no, it isn't.
0:54.0	But you know what the thing is, I had so much fun last week or not last week.
0:56.0	It seems like it's been...
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