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Andy Kaufman
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was an American entertainer and performance artist. He has sometimes been called an "anti-comedian". He disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it was traditionally understood, once saying in an interview, "I am not a comic, I have never told a joke. The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him. My only promise is that I will try…
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entertainment · American entertainer (1949–1984) · comedian · professional wrestler · television actor · film actor · showman · screenwriter · singer · writer · dancer · also Andy Kaufman, Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman, Andrew G. Kaufman, Kaufman
Born 17 January 1949 · Died 16 May 1984 · Q299983
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 6 entries
Yahoo: The Rock Comments On Producing Upcoming Andy Kaufman Documentary
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Chicago Tribune: Column: ‘Thank You Very Much’ tries to understand comic Andy Kaufman
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Yahoo: Andy Kaufman Is a Busboy Who Commits to the Bit in ‘Thank You Very Much’ Documentary
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WAMC: Alex Braverman's Andy Kaufman documentary "Thank You Very Much" comes to theaters, on-demand
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collider: 'Thank You Very Much' Review: As Close To Understanding the Method to Andy Kaufman's Madness As You'll Get
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IndieWire: Andy Kaufman’s Comedic Legacy Is Captured by EPs Morgan Neville and Josh & Benny Safdie in ‘Thank You Very Much’ — Watch Trailer
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2024· 1 entry
Deadline.com: Drafthouse Films Acquires Andy Kaufman Documentary ‘Thank You Very Much,’ Penetrating Look Into “The Most Thrilling, Enigmatic Performer”
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2023· 2 entries
Kaufman was inducted to the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2023
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Kaufman was announced as the third inductee into the 2023 WWE Hall of Fame
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2019· 1 entry
It was announced that Kaufman would be honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the television category
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2015· 1 entry
A bottled fragrance called Andy Kaufman Milk & Cookies was created
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2014· 1 entry
Zmuda and Margulies coauthored Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally, a book claiming that Kaufman's death was indeed a prank, and that he would soon reveal himself, as his upper limit on the "prank" was 30 years
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2013· 2 entries
Released album “Andy and His Grandmother”.
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Responding to rumors that Kaufman was still alive and following the appearance of an actress who claimed to be Kaufman's daughter, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office rereleased Kaufman's death certificate to confirm
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2008· 1 entry
Jakks Pacific produced for their WWE Classic Superstars toy line an action figure two-pack of Kaufman and Lawler, as well as a separate figure release with a royal blue robe
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2004· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Comedian Andy Kaufman is still alive, many years after his announced death.” False.
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2002· 1 entry
Kaufman became a playable unlockable character in the video game Legends of Wrestling II and a standard character in 2004's Showdown: Legends of Wrestling
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1995· 1 entry
NBC aired A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman
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1992· 2 entries
That she was Kaufman's daughter when she traced her biological roots
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Bellu-Colonna learned in 1992 that she was Kaufman's daughter when she traced her biological roots.
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1989· 1 entry
Margulies later codirected the 1989 Kaufman wrestling compilation I'm from Hollywood, and published the 2009 book Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!.
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1984· 1 entry
Died 1984-05-16.
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1983· 2 entries
Kaufman appeared on Broadway with Deborah Harry in the play Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap
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A show very similar to Andy's Funhouse and Uncle Andy's Funhouse was filmed for PBS's SoundStage program called The Andy Kaufman Show
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1982· 1 entry
Kaufman brought his professional wrestling villain act to Letterman's show by way of a staged encounter with Jerry "The King" Lawler of the Continental Wrestling Association
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1981· 1 entry
Kaufman made three appearances on Fridays, a variety show on ABC that was similar to Saturday Night Live
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1980· 1 entry
And 11 appearances on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982–83
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1978· 1 entry
In character as Foreign Man, and cried when the bachelorette chose Bachelor No
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1976· 2 entries
On the short-lived show Van Dyke and Company, he adapted the Foreign Man character to a character named "Andy" who kept interrupting Dick Van Dyke's sketches to do his impressions and songs
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In which he portrayed a murderous policeman
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1975· 1 entry
When he was invited to perform portions of his act on the first season of Saturday Night Live
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1971· 1 entry
Began performing stand-up comedy at various small clubs on the East Coast
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1967· 1 entry
Kaufman took a year off before enrolling at the now defunct two-year Grahm Junior College in Boston, where he studied television production and starred in his own campus television show, Uncle Andy's Fun House
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1949· 2 entries
In New York City, the oldest of three children
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Born 1949-01-17.
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