The unconventional star of ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Taxi’ is the subject of a brilliant new documentary film. Stevie Chick looks back at the life and work of one of comedy’s true originals ...

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 ...

Howdy Doody was not really Kaufman’s best friend. That role was his grandfather’s and when he died, his parents didn’t tell little 5-year-old Andy and so he would sit for hours, staring out the window ...

I started this whole experience as someone who didn't really know Andy Kaufman ... his friends and family that are as insightful as they can be, considering that even Kaufman's nearest and ...

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 ...

You have a family connection to all of this ... and one of the shows that they produced was the Showtime special ‘Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall’ from 1979. I grew up watching that, and ...

If there is a moment that distills Kaufman’s unique genius ... Instead, Braverman keeps the circle tight: Andy at the center, with interviews from family, friends and co-workers at the edges.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...