Andy's Path To Success

As a kid Andy knew that he would do something great in his lifetime. He started out performing in front of his stuffed animals in his bedroom,also acting as though there were cameras installed in his walls. His father was upset that he was acting so foolishly and told him that if he wanted to perform, he would have to get a real audience. So low and behold, Andy uses his sister as an audience just to get his father off of his back.

As he got older, he began performing at nightclubs and improv's. Andy had an act where he would use the voice of his foreign character (also known from the show Taxi) Ladtka and sound very meek and end his show pretending to be Elvis Presley. Andy was one of the first Elvis impersonators in his time.

During the period of Andy's wrestling career his performing career on television was falling down the tubes. The wrestling matches with women had disgusted his audience so bad that he was voted by fans of SNL to never return as a host, and the show Taxi was cancelled from low ratings.

However, Andy's life-long wish to wrestle Jerry "The King" Lawler became reality in 1983. Andy had suffered a neck injury after the wrestling match.

After the match, both of them were on David Letterman's show and again they got in a fight on television. Lawler laid the "smack down" on Andy and caused him to fly right out of his chair. As Andy got up he began cursing repeatedly at Lawler and threw coffee at him. It appeared that they were the worst enemies ever seen on television. What the viewers didn't know was that it was all staged, as Lawler and Kaufman were in on it together to entertain.

In 1983, Andy was diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer. Andy was stricken with grief as he was not a smoker or drinker and he never used drugs. When he told his friends and co-workers, they just believed that it was another one of his pranks.

Andy experimented with foreign science to try to rid himself of the cancer, but despite his efforts it is believed that his experimenting only shortened his life span.

In the spring of 1984, Mr. Andy Kaufman passed away from lung cancer. Many of his fans believe that it is all a joke, and that he will be back. It was never beyond Andy to make a joke last as long as twenty years as long as he got the reaction he wanted.

Andy was a great inspiration to comedy as we know it, and he will be missed greatly by his fans.