Andy Kaufman returns..is he alive?

[Andy_Stephenson]

Or is this a bad joke?

http://andykaufmanreturns.blogspot.com/

[oldhat]

1. No. It's a hoax

Check Snopes.

[Andy_Stephenson]

2. Made Yahoo news.

snopes?

[oldhat]

3. PR Wire

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/kaufman.asp

That was the Yahoo press release wire. You pay $700 to PRWire and they'll run anything.

It's a hoax.

Kaufman is dead. And he wasn't that funny when he was alive.

[Fenris]

4. Here:

www.snopes.com

[Fenris]

7. Here's a better link:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/kaufman.asp

[AP]

5. I believe that was a press release on Yahoo, and not reporting.

They don't fact check press releases. Anyone can issue one and Yahoo prints it up. The put the logo of the press agency on the release so that you know the source.

[charlie]

10. Of course, it's a hoax

But nonetheless, this is Andy's doing. He's exactly the rare, perverse sort who would lay low for 20 years just to deliver a punchline. And here we are, many of us with a faint niggling that it might actually be him. Andy was a true nonpareil.

[osaMABUSh]

6. Can't be Kaufmann; he called the media 'liberal'

"the non-believers are what make this country great. They accept the spoon fed liberal mass media line all the way to the bank. People wonder why I'm doing this on a blog instead of just appearing on SNL or Dateline or something. Maybe the mainstream isn't ready for me to be back yet. Maybe I don't want to be back in the Hollywood limelight, whoring myself out for some guy in a dark suit at a nameless mega-corporation."

[robbedvoter]

8. I thought Ann Coulter was his new alter ego

:shrug:

[Andy_Stephenson]

9. Scary thought

:scared:

[neebob]

11. Someone needs to get their own material. nt