The Brad Troemel Report

THE KAYFABE REPORT (1x23)

Air date: Aug 15, 2022

In this report I talk about.......... -the history of professional wrestling and how it went from a war-time sport to a carnival-inspired form of theater called kayfabe (0:00 - 16:29) -Andy Kaufman's wrestling-inspired career, how he used babyface and heel characters to get his audience to question the line between fiction and reality (16:30 - 44:43) -3 tiers of transgression and where Andy Kaufman's work fits among them (44:44 - 54:32)