“Andy saw himself as an entertainer, a showbiz personality, a song-and-dance man,” says Braverman. “He once said that he’d never told a joke in his life.” Kaufman had surfaced during a golden era for ...

There are few comedians who polarized audiences like Andy Kaufman. His style of deadpan humor was deliberately designed to make people uncomfortable—and he achieved that with long, pregnant silences ...

Andy Kaufman never wanted to feel too far away from his audience. Early in his career, he found that bussing tables at Jerry's Famous Deli in Los Angeles kept him grounded. But that didn't mean he ...

The new film 'Thank You Very Much' examines the life and work of the polarizing late comedian and star of the 1978–1983 sitcom 'Taxi' Michael Ochs Archives/Getty; Jerod Harris/Getty Andy Kaufman's ...

Andy Kaufman died 41 years ago. Milos Forman’s “Man in the Moon,” in which Jim Carrey played Kaufman, came out 26 years ago. R.E.M., whose title song to the Kaufman biopic was a hit, has retired. So ...

What to make of a man who admits that Howdy Doody was the first friend he ever had and who devoted some of his final years in professional wrestling, wrestling women for amusement? The man was Andy ...