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this is a hilarious dvd, the movies are a hoot...you have to enjoy the Taxi days of Andy Kaufmans humor and the rest of his dilusional behavior to understand his great command of comedy, this is a great addition to my movie collection.
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Although "I'm from Hollywood" gets top billing, this DVD is actually made up of two movies: "I'm from Hollywood," which chronicles Kaufman's pro-wrestling career (a career which saw him defeat numerous women and ended when, for the for the first time, he fought someone of his own gender); and "My Breakfast with Blassie," a hilarious spoof of the movie "My Dinner with Andre."
"I'm from Hollywood" is a collage of scenes of Andy Kaufman's involvement in pro-wrestling, taken from television. Kaufman plays a "bad guy" wrestler who taunts the viewing audience about how he is a famous Hollywood star who can beat up any woman who dares challenge him in the ring. He goes to redneck country and insults the viewers, telling them that he is going to teach them about new things, like soap. After he finally meets a male (Jerry Lawlor) in the ring, he ends up in traction.
"My Breakfast with Blassie" is a parody of "My Dinner with Andre," a film that consisted almost entirely of two people having an intellectually stimulating conversation during dinner at an upscale restaurant on Manhattan's Upper West Side. So here, Kaufman made a film about former wrestler/wrestling manager Freddie Blassie and himself having an anti-intellectual conversation during breakfast at a downscale Los Angeles pancake house. We see Kaufman and Blassie conversing about how they don't like shaking peoples' hands because "you never know where their hands could've been - They could have just wiped themselves and their finger could have gone through the toilet paper." In another scene, Blassie rubs the pregnant Thai waitress' belly for good luck, and then, after she walks away, comments, "That's another one we'll be feeding on welfare."
These two films are highly recommended. They're a real gas!
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Andy Kaufmann was known as the comedian's comedian, and for good reason. He found humor in the strangest places, and many stand up comedians claim that he showed them a kind of comedy that they didn't know was possible.
Andy pushes the boundries of what is acceptable, in the name of humor, maybe more strongly here than anywhere ever seen. This is anti-Seinfeld stuff. Seinfeld describes commonplace things in an uncommon way to make familiar situations seem strange and funny, giving you a chuckle - standard standup. In this film, Andy taunts an audience of thousands in a Tennessee ampitheater, after telling them that they are stupid, and unclean. He plays a character - an arrogant "hollywood" guy, who has some need to prove his physical superiority by beating up women. In doing this, he makes himself into a kind of ridiculous villian, and the audience swells with hatred for him. Example of his extravances: he struts around the ring wearing a GIANT crown and velvet cape, claiming to be the "King of Tennessee". Right before getting pummled by the "hero", Jerry Lawler. Andy, wearing long underwear under his boxer shorts, spends most of the match trying to escape Jerry by running and hiding (in the ring).
This character would be easily dismissed if the insults were not so real, and painful, and I think this is what makes the comedy so biting... it comes very close to pain. The very satisfying thing about Andy is that, though you might have to wait a long time for the punchline, it always comes, and it is all the laugh is all the stronger for having to wait so long!
This is the kind of DVD that you have to get to hand off to friends.
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A lot of Kaufman fans may not realize this, but Andy was a died-in-the-wool wrestling fan. Before Taxi brought him fame he would spend time at matches and hanging out with wrestlers (Roddy Piper relays an interesting story in in autobiography). But most of all, as a performance artist, Andy UNDERSTOOD wresting. He understood how to work an audience. Using the techniques he'd been honing in his stage shows, he finally got to be a bad guy wrestler in the feud documented on this mockumentary. In one interview shown on this film, Andy cleverly insults the entire southern U.S. population with comments specifically directed to Lawler. Why would he do this you may ask? Simple- To get all of Memphis to come down to the arena, BUY A TICKET, and see Andy get whats coming to him.
The interviews on this mockumentary are wonderful to watch. One has to wonder if his taxi co-stars were in on the gag, but Robin Williams does this wonderful interview segment where he talks about Andy's wrestling habits as a close friend would show concerns about ones substance abuse habit - pretty funny to watch.
This film is pretty entertaining. Even if you aren't a wrestling fan,its a good way to get introduced to Andy's antics. The film also has some clips of andy's other classic performance bits.
Wrestlers and promoters, If you wanna "put rear ends in seats", then study Andy and Jerry's work in this film. Its a shame Andy didn't live through the wrestling boom that happened shortly after his death. I can only imagine what he might have been able to cook up in the WWF.
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Just wait until Taxi comes out on DVD. Then you'll see how crazy he really is.
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