There was a theater genius named Antonin Artaud... Frustrated by the boundaries between art and life, he created something called the Theater of Cruelty. He tried to use real violence, real offense, to evoke real feelings in what he saw as a hopelessly sedated bourgeois theater audience. He was willing to sacrifice himself to this ideal, and ultimately I guess he did. Much like Andy Kaufman, and possibly like our portly bombthrower the esteemed and demented Mr. Brown. Here's a bit of Andy doing his bit to blur the bounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAjHULaNy00&feature=related