With Audience Volunteers
Hard to believe this was 50 years ago. After working in small comedy clubs in the early 1970s, Kaufman gained national attention in 1975 with an appearance on SNL. He would go on to play Latka Gravas on the TV series Taxi from 1978 to 1984, when he died of lung cancer at only 35.
Some called him an anti-comedian because of his proclivity towards rudeness, which is displayed here. But equally evident is the absurd genius of this idea.
