Article Summary Carol Kane shares a prank by Andy Kaufman during their Taxi days. Kane reflects on studying Kaufman's "foreign man" character for Taxi. Kaufman tricked Kane into practicing language ...

According to a report in Cinema Blend, holy f@ck, Andy Kaufman could be alive or maybe he’s still pranking us after all these years: The story begins at the 9th annual Andy Kaufman Awards, which were ...

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 mean he ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most memorable highlights of “Thank You Very Much,” Alex Braverman’s consistently engaging documentary about comedy ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most memorable highlights of “Thank You Very Much,” Alex Braverman’s consistently engaging documentary about comedy legend Andy Kaufman, doesn’t directly involve Kaufman at all. Well, ...