When Andy Kaufman passed away in May 1984, it was the final full stop in a life that seemed to be endlessly self-regenerating. Or was it? Rumors that this was another of his bizarre stunts were rife ...

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 ...

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 ...