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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Director Alex Braverman attempts to define the undefinable career of the comedian and master hoaxer. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Nearly 40 years after outré comedian Andy Kaufman‘s ...

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 ...