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Neither. He wasn't that funny. Doing stupid things is not "art." He wasn't ahead of his time since no one now is doing the things he did.
It seems like every time someone dies young people think they would have gone on to greater heights. You hear that a lot about James Dean too. He may have gone on to Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and Password. Many people are famous for awhile and disappear. Since they are not dead people don't discuss them.
Neither. But closer to brilliant than insane I suppose.
I thought he seemed like the type who kept himself entertained, at the expense of the audience a lot of times.
His 'wrestling career' didn't seem at all brilliant to me.
It's my opinion that if he hadn't of died, his schtick would have played itself out rather quick and he'd be another actor desperate for work, like most sitcom stars.
I liked his character on Taxi, but many of his 'comedy' routines I found unfunny. The whole wrestling thing was not funny....and I liked wrestling. I think he would have been a flash in the pan like Tom Green.
The problem with performance artists is that they have to keep topping themselves in order to stay fresh..Their work eventually becomes too abstract or it comes off as pretencious, too clever.
He had painted himself into a corner with the hoaxes. The public doesn't like being fooled. It makes them feel foolish and they associate the artist with that feeling.
I agree that he was a Tom Green type. (Another artist that made me feel like he was entertaining himself first and the audience second.) You can't look away from these type of artist at first, you want to see what they do next, but when you finally do, you turn away completely.
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