“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 ...

HOLLYWOOD (KABC) -- Actor, comedian and performance artist Andy Kaufman received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kaufman is probably best remembered for his portrayal of loveable ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — 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 ...