{"id":13576,"date":"2010-07-09T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=13576"},"modified":"2010-07-09T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T23:00:13","slug":"tgif-three-by-andy-kaufman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/09\/tgif-three-by-andy-kaufman\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIF: Three by Andy Kaufman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C570byQCLpI<\/p>\n<p><em>Mighty Mouse<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andy_Kaufman\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Kaufman<\/a> died of cancer 26 years ago at the tragically young age of 35.\u00a0 These performances are more than 30 years old but they still retain their liberating strangeness: mime-singing the refrain from a Mighty Mouse record, reading <em>The Great Gatsby <\/em>to an audience that doesn&#8217;t want to be read <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>, and conducting a variety show in a sort of Mediterranean\/Aegean gibberish, and then leading his audience through a sing-along in the same language.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IL3Dp6Oh3Fw<\/p>\n<p><em>The Great Gatsby <\/em>(This video cannot be embedded, but click on the image and hit the YouTube link.)<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Ass1coasd0<\/p>\n<p><em>???<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C570byQCLpI Mighty Mouse Andy Kaufman died of cancer 26 years ago at the tragically young age of 35.\u00a0 These performances are more than 30 years old but they still retain their liberating strangeness: mime-singing the refrain from a Mighty Mouse record, reading The Great Gatsby to an audience that doesn&#8217;t want to be read The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[155,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tgif","category-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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