But his work on the series didn't capture the many aspects of his comedy, which was populated by various offbeat alter egos, including a wrestler named Andy Kaufman. The late, legendary performer ...

Andy Kaufman died 41 years ago ... “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels (who featured Kaufman on the show’s 1975 premiere), comedian Garry Shandling, and, most affectingly, Kaufman ...

Andy Kaufman never wanted ... “Sometimes, in show business, there’s a separation between the performer and the public,” Kaufman says in the archival footage. “They don’t get to walk ...

“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 ...

He performed in some clubs and on college campuses but most people saw him on television, with appearances ... and the last companion of Kaufman’s life, he gives this documentary a personal punch.

A new documentary shows how Andy Kaufman’s upside-down world ... For this article, he interviewed Kaufman’s last girlfriend as well as the director of the documentary of his life.

One moment in Andy Kaufman's life changed everything that came after it. Close friends and family appear in Thank You Very Much, the newly released documentary on the life of the late comedian and ...

Andy Kaufman was one of the ... told me when I interviewed her last summer following the release of her movie, Between the Temples, that Kaufman would give her whole scenes written in the ...

These videos show how far ahead of his time he was. By Jason Zinoman Andy Kaufman became one of the most influential comedians ever in a brief amount of time — really only a decade, from his ...

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 ...

Andy Kaufman as Latka Gravas on 'Taxi' circa 1979 (left); Joe Plummer and Jenifer Westphal in 2020.