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This Crazy World.

Mrs. Miller: Mary Jane.
Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home.
The Mark of Precision.
Little Rug Bug: Rod Rogers.
John F. Kennedy Was Called Away: Norm Burns.
Leona Anderson: Rats in my Room.

So. We’ve got Andy Devine, John Daker, Hap Palmer, Telly Savalas, Arthur Brown, Mrs. Miller, Industrial musicals, H. R. Pufnstuf {featuring Jack Wild}, Leona Anderson, Charles Bronson, and The Wombles {the creation of pop svengali Mike Batt}.

Addendum: Recently added are immortal performances by James Brown, Eric Violette {Free Credit Report commercial}, and two from Beat of the Traps {Song Poems}.

Added Addenda: The inclusion of Zwol, ME Pearl, and the indomitable Bobby Conn. And, of course, Takeo Ischi. Erlend and Steinjo, yo, also.

All of which falls into/under the Certain Kinds of Things rubric.

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Welles and Kaufman.

Mark Rudolph portrays the great Orson Welles in the above videos; the audio is an authentic tape of a Welles commercial rehearsal, however. Andy Kaufman *is* Andy Kaufman in the subsequent clips, which revolve around the comic performance artist’s involvement with wrestler Jerry Lawler.