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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Alex Braverman's Thank You Very Much does its best to break through the performance and get to know the real Andy Kaufman.

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 ...

“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 ...

Thank You Very Much is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Alex Braverman. A portrait of Andy Kaufman's personal ...

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 ...