“Jim Carrey didn’t exist at that time,” Carrey admitted in 2017. “The true author of the project is Andy, and his genius – ...

Who the heck was Andy Kaufman? It was question the avant-garde and brazenly silly performer/comedian always wanted to leave audiences asking. The central subject of the new documentary Thank You Very ...

Zmuda’s first book, 1999’s “Andy Kaufman Revealed! Best Friend Tells All” (written with Matthew Scott Hansen), came just before what is the definitive Kaufman biography, “Lost in the Funhouse: The ...

The new film 'Thank You Very Much' examines the life and work of the polarizing late comedian and star of the 1978–1983 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new documentary shows how Andy Kaufman’s upside-down world of anti-comedy prefigured our own. Credit...Photo illustration by Javier Jaén Supported by By Jonah Weiner Jonah Weiner, a ...

Even five decades after Andy Kaufman burst onto the national comedy scene, his friends and collaborators still wrestle, so speak, with what was real and what was part of the act. As you learn in t ...

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

Andy Kaufman's unique brand of comedy could be as confusing as it was original. TV viewers fell in love with the comedian, who died in 1984 at age 35, during his five-season run as Latka Gravas on ...