![]() Or Foreign Man would tell you he’s like to play a song, on his conga drums, that they play in Caspiar every year at harvest time. His crying got more emphatic, his hand kept hitting the conga, and before you knew it, he broke into song playing the conga drums. However, the conga drum was conveniently placed whereby he would accidentally hit it. One direction was to pretend to be upset that his jokes were not going well, and he would start to cry. From there he could take different directions. And just when you were resigned to writing off “Foreign Man’s” “tellible” “emeetations” and jokes, he would bring down the house with his Elvis Presley. ![]() Yes, his original routine was the innocent and lovable “Foreign Man”. Whether he was lip-synching “here I come to save the day”, doing an Elvis impersonation, crying in rhythm to the conga drums, or playing mean while pounding on the conga drums, or speaking in his sweet “ Foreign Man” voice, we didn’t know what Andy’s natural voice sounded like. We had to wait a while before we ever heard Andy’s real voice.His brand was such that the term “ KAUFMANESQUE” is often used today to refer to a performer, or even situation, which falls outside the norm where you wonder if what you just saw is real or not serious or not… After his death, almost immediately people started referring to him as a “performance artist”. Andy’s art was not obvious, it was multi-dimensional Andy operating on a different level than most of us. Though he was aware that his routines most often created uproarious laughter, to be labeled a comedian would be misleading and limiting for him. Rather, he wanted to get you emotionally involved, regardless of which emotion. He loathed the word comedian, since his aim was not to go for the laugh. “About” is designed to give you more of a flavor of Andy, beyond the events discussed in the Timeline. About Andy (Please see the Timeline page for a fuller list of biography)
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