For his performance at a comedy club, Andy Kaufman once brought a sleeping bag onto the stage, curled into it, and spent his entire act napping before the audience.
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Comedian Katt Williams was sued in 2012…
Comedian Katt Williams was sued in 2012 by fans for “non-performance.” He performed a long-winded rant for roughly ten minutes, challenged an audience member to a fight, and angered fans paying upwards of $94.
Howie Mandel got expelled from…
Howie Mandel got expelled from high school for impersonating a school official and hiring a construction company to build an addition onto the school.
While being mad about having to work…
While being mad about having to work on New Years Day, children’s TV host Soupy Sales, during one of his programs, asked children to send him the “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their parent’s wallets and purses. He received thousands of dollars in the mail and was suspended for two weeks.
Silent film comedian Buster…
Silent film comedian Buster Keaton got his start in his father’s vaudeville act at the age of 3. His act would be to goad his father into throwing him across the stage, and he became so good at falling that he rarely got bruises. He was eventually billed as “The Little Boy Who Can’t Be Damaged.”
The first time comedian Jerry Seinfeld…
The first time comedian Jerry Seinfeld walked on stage at a comedy club he froze and was booed off stage.
The Three Stooges, during their 23 years with Colombia Pictures…
The Three Stooges, during their 23 years with Colombia Pictures, were chronically underpaid and never received a pay increase, because the head of the studio convinced them that they were unpopular with audiences.
Andy Kaufman once ended a show at Carnegie…
Andy Kaufman once ended a show at Carnegie Hall by loading the entire audience into 24 buses to take them out for milk and cookies.
A children’s entertainer named Soupy Sales once asked…
A children’s entertainer named Soupy Sales once asked the children who watched his show to send him “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their parents wallets and purses. He was suspended for two weeks when parents complained.
Conan O’Brien has majored in history and literature, graduated with a…
Conan O’Brien has majored in history and literature, graduated with a magna cum laude from Harvard University, and wrote his senior thesis on the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.