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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The standup, who’s the subject of a new documentary, expanded the ambition of comedy. These videos show how far ahead of his time he was. By Jason Zinoman Andy Kaufman became one of the most ...