“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 was many things: a performance artist, “song and dance man,” comedian, and also pro wrestler. On March 20, Variety reported that the WWE will honor Kaufman’s wrestling legacy by inducting ...

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 silences ...

Famous comedian, actor, and wrestler Andy Kaufman was recently inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Kaufman is known for his performance art comedy which blurred the lines between reality and fiction.

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 ...

He granted himself the title “World Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion” and managed to keep it. It was all part of his bizarre song and dance, and Kaufman was committed to the idea. In the film, he ...