“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 ...

Andy Kaufman is the subject of a forthcoming as yet untitled feature documentary, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Morgan Neville, who directed the Anthony Bourdain documentary Roadrunner, is ...

My favorite Andy Kaufman story — that doesn’t involve wrestling, pouring water on Michael Richards or bringing sex workers on the set of a network sitcom — is the time he shared headphones with Danny ...

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 ...

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 the ...

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 ...