LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE – The Life and Mind of ANDY KAUFMAN

Audio Renaissance, Los Angeles, CA, 1999.  ISBN 1-55927-564-2.  2 cassette tapes with an approximate playing time of 3 hours.  Still in shrink wrap.  Read by Budd Friedman.  ‘Andy Kaufman rose to prominence in the last original era of American comedy, the 1970s, when a handful of young comedians looked away from the last vestiges of vaudeville to create a new form of the art.  Working situations instead of bits, characters instead of jokes, these young funnymen would draw laughter in ways the entertainment industry had never imagined.  And at the forefront of this movement was Andy Kaufman.  Whether crooning as lounge lizard Tony Clifton, wrestling women, insulting the entire citizenry of Memphis, Tennessee, or starring as the lovable Latka Gravas on the sitcom Taxi, Andy Kaufman lived his life as a relentless performance. … a wild, revealing, intimate ride inside a complicated mind and soul – a ride like none you’ve ever taken before, and one you won’t soon forget.’ (from rear box)