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 ...

From stand-up to 'Saturday Night Live' to wrestling to death, the confrontational entertainer gets his second documentary showcase in two years. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic I’ve sat ...

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 ...

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 ...