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MY IMPOSTORS

I'm going to expose here once and for all the impostors that've been making themselves a nice career using my name and fame. They're spineless, no balls invretebraits who took my name to go places they'd never had gotten to if it weren't for me.Well, I got some news for ya buddies, I'm telling the world who you really are and I'm gonna set the record straight.

Ever seen these bug eyes and stupid grin? No wonder if you didn't. That's Andy Kaufman, the biggest lowlife of them all. The only thing he ever done in his career was taking credit for my talent and doing some lousy TV sitcom I wouldn't want to be caught dead on. He saw me once in one of my Vegas concerts and decided to rip off my act. I should've sued him to the last penny for almost destroying my career with his games and tricks envolving my good name.

Here's another one, his pal, Bob Zmuda. They thought it would be a funny idea if they took turns impersonating me. Well, Ah-Ah, I'm laughing my ass off. Just take a look at this guy and you'll know he doesn't have one tenth of my good looks or my singing talent neither.

My good friend Milos Foreman directed a movie about Kaufman for Universal Pictures called MAN ON THE MOON. Of course I starred as myself and my performance was the movie's highlight.

That Carey kid was the one portraying Kaufman but was also me in some scenes, so I kept him under my eye, to make sure he didn't pull any of his speaking-with-the-butt stunts. He wasn't bad, but of course he could never match my performance. The other guy what's his name Giamatti was also okay.

Because my performance was so good, the studio folks decided to push the movie from November to December 22, so it'd be near the Oscars, but those ungrateful Acadamy guys didn't even nominate me and to think I sent the bastards all them crates of Limburger for free!

Here's me in MAN ON THE MOON

Finally, I also want to assure my faithful fans that none of the rumors that came out of the shoot, about me being drunk on the set and making problems with those other cast members, were nothing more then filthy lies spread around by my enemies. I specially want to make perfectly clear that it WASN'T me on that mockery that was the MAN ON THE MOON press junket. It was that damn Zmuda again but you can be sure that was the last time he dragged my good name through the mud. My lawyers are taking care of it.