I only know of Andy Kaufman from your examples. Wasn’t some of his work very much reliant on what he didn’t say directly? An argument one could make would be t

I only know of Andy Kaufman from your examples. Wasn’t some of his work very much reliant on what he didn’t say directly? An argument one could make would be that the information density is still high in terms of what is perceived or experienced. That would still be a kind of compression but it involves the context and audience to a very high degree. I think he sometimes made his performances so intense, that it would be unbearable not to engage with them.