Andy Kaufman is alive

[tamiO]

How can a staged incident provoke genuine reaction? He fooled his audience to behave like he wanted. How genuine is that?

How genuine was what?

The reaction was genuine, but I am not sure what the adjective genuine is describing in your question.

 

[EGarrett]

How can a staged incident provoke genuine reaction? He fooled his audience to behave like he wanted. How genuine is that?

They didn't know it was fake. So the emotion that they felt was real.

 

[CFLarsen]

Hmmm......

 

[Silicon]

It IS Kaufman's last joke.


His joke is, everyone shows up to be disappointed.

HAW HAW!

 

[shanek]

How can a staged incident provoke genuine reaction? He fooled his audience to behave like he wanted. How genuine is that?

Because it's a reaction the audience wasn't necessarily wanting or expecting to have. It came from their heart. However phony Kaufman's acts might have been, the reaction from the audience was genuine.

 

[Quester_X]

I saw Man on the Moon, and liked it very much. Kaufman seems like an interesting guy, and I wish that I could have seen some of his work while he was still alive. Of course, I love Monty Python as well, so perhaps that kind of humor just appeals to me.