Unorthodox comedians that explore the absurd (the one's who are sociable enough to hold a conversation out of "character") might tell you that it feels great to make an audience laugh with a bit that, about it, neither of you understand just what it is that was funny.
Perhaps a strange preface?

Entertainers and unmedicated schizophrenics: Both types can perform in essentially the same field.
Fastidious students of the unmappable and unclassifiable. And since the human mind is just shit-jam packed with crap nobody will ever know jack shit about, they sit next to us in class.
But it is their art and It is of a slippery form that may sometimes lay bare even sanity's edge, and the insane man may be most well suited for exam assuming he'd ever lived on the other side of it.

So, to Andy.
Andy Kaufman is proclaimed a genius as a comedian, but I hold, though genius he may have been and laugh we did, we exalt him so for his ability to show us things we do not and cannot understand in ways that did not frighten us.

(though he sometimes was frightening because holmes was cereal box-art nuts)

His ridiculous ways showed us the hidden alien vistas of a timeless immeasurable unknown that is within us; something that is undeniably/provably and objectively without reason, let us stow-away on his boat and glimpse an unnameable land and even if it was not beautiful, we yearned to sail in hopes to see it or another again.

If just for an instant, we rode secure on his shoulders through the empty mirror to watch as the unsettling familiar mass of an ancient, impossible structure rose from a colorless sea and disgorge it's vile king.
Lovecraft had us weep under his scaly lope; Kaufman taped a thumbtack to his door-mat and ran away giggling.

[Edited on May 21, 2013 at 11:23 PM. Reason : again]

5/21/2013 11:22:47 PM

hey you're a great writer, dude.

and you should listen to Tim Heidecker on Duncan Trussell's podcast

5/21/2013 11:27:29 PM

I'm still waiting on him to reveal that he faked his own death and retired.

5/21/2013 11:31:07 PM

5/21/2013 11:31:41 PM

I'll probably do that. Everything I know about him I learned from adult swim though. He and eric whatshisname always got my goat for some reason, when they weren't giving me nightmares.
See: WaitMate

5/21/2013 11:35:19 PM

he's done a lot of podcasts "in character" and they're funny as shit

jon benjamin has done some as well i think

5/21/2013 11:36:36 PM

Your statement is qualified here:

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Definitely document your hold if ya can mane, yadig?

5/21/2013 11:41:33 PM

I should have started numbering them from day one.

Oh and for some very mild entertainment, view Tim's wikipedia page. To see so many people with aspergers fail so terribly to describe the guy with mathematical precision is sort of heartbreaking

omg H. Jon Benjamin!

[Edited on May 21, 2013 at 11:52 PM. Reason : d]

5/21/2013 11:50:42 PM