Andy Kaufman

...afternoon. Yoder shows up just to play saxophone. Todd Teacher (the final hidden track on the CD) enters with a Casio keyboard and does Andy Kaufman-esque spoken-word, while soundman Peter Guellard (who capably recorded all the CD tracks) lends...

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...religious mania and send their loved ones to heaven the hard way. (In God Told Me To's most infamous sequence, a beat cop played by Andy Kaufman begins shooting wildly during the St. Patrick's Day parade-a scene filmed guerilla-style during...

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I enjoy and admire a great breadth of comedic styles. But I have always been of two minds with artists like, say, Andy Kaufman. When Kaufman did pieces that were challenging to the audience, bits that were designed to provoke a reaction other...

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The great Andy Kaufman died 25 years ago this year. As many fans know, the comedian caused controversy in 1979 by challenging women to wrestle him. (You can watch a bunch of these matches online; here's one.) Kaufman's request sparked...

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...Scott Alexander) behind such oddball originals as "Ed Wood," "The People vs. Larry Flynt" and "Man on the Moon," a biopic about the late Andy Kaufman. Karaszewski and Alexander are preparing to write and direct "Big Eyes," which would star...

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...it's probably easier to list the stars he hasn't worked with. How many television sidekicks can boast to having played with both Andy Kaufman and his alter-ego, Tony Clifton? Such is the musical career of the lovably nebbish keyboardist from...

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...and the gotcha moment when the audience realized he was kidding with them. In the Foreword to Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!, Kaufman's friend Bob Zmuda talks about how the big woman wrestling stunt on Saturday Night Live...

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...of the comedy festival, notes that many young people today were not yet born or were children when Kaufman died. The Andy Kaufman Award The fifth annual Andy Kaufman Award Show (the finals) takes place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, with six finalists...

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...at Carnegie Hall and would keep it going back and forth between the two notes like forever until the audience was ready to scream. "Andy Kaufman would do the same thing by singing the same round of a song over and over again until the...

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...a likable stage performer who uses her veneer of innocent affability in a bait-and-switch style of stand-up informed by the likes of Andy Kaufman. She visits the Punch Line Comedy Club in San Francisco next Thursday through Nov. 7. Schaal...

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