“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'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 the ...

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 ...

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 contributing ...

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 ...

From stand-up to 'Saturday Night Live' to wrestling to death, the confrontational entertainer gets his second documentary showcase in two years. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic I’ve sat ...