Good Kaufman, Bad Kaufman: Comedy Central’s The Ben Show and Nathan For You
The legacy of Andy Kaufman lives on in more ways than one, as Comedy Central’s Thursday-night pairing of The Ben Show and Nathan For You has proven over the past eight weeks. Kaufman’s comedy as performance art elevated the art form while also subverting the audience’s notions of reality. Ben Hoffman and Nathan Fielder — both marking their first-season finales tonight as series stars — have taken the Kaufman formula and run with it in different directions. Just read the official descriptions of tonight’s finales from Comedy Central. For The Ben Show with Ben Hoffman, “we watch “The Ben Show Blooper...
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