“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...