Andy Kaufman
Also Known As: Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman, Andrew Kaufman
Biography: Andrew Geoffrey "Andy" Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor and performance artist. While often referred to as a comedian, Kaufman did not consider himself to be one. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it was traditionally understood, referring to himself instead as a "song-and-dance man." Elaborate hoaxes and pranks were major elements of his career. His act maintains a cult following and he continues to be respected among comedians for his original material, performance style, and unflinching commitment to character.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: January 17, 1949
Deathday: May 16, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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God Told Me To
Overview: A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-22
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WWE Hall of Fame 2023
Overview: The 2023 WWE Hall of Fame is scheduled to be held on March 31, 2023, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, the night before WrestleMania 39. It will air live at 10 pm Eastern Time on Peacock in the United States and on the WWE Network internationally, immediately after the airing of WWE's regular Friday night program, SmackDown. On March 10, 2023, Rey Mysterio was announced as the first individual inductee for the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2023.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-31
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I'm from Hollywood
Overview: I'm from Hollywood is about the adventures of late performance artist Andy Kaufman in the world of professional wrestling. This film includes interviews with Taxi co-stars Marilu Henner and Tony Danza and interviews with comedian Robin Williams, wrestler Jerry Lawler, wrestling commentator Lance Russell, and Kaufman's best friend, Bob Zmuda. Other people seen in the film include TV host David Letterman and Jimmy Hart of Continental Wrestling Association. The film's title refers to a phrase spoken by Kaufman to the Memphis wrestling audience.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-15
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My Breakfast with Blassie
Overview: My Breakfast with Blassie is a movie starring Andy Kaufman and professional wrestler "Classy" Freddie Blassie. It is a mostly improvised parody of the popular art film My Dinner with Andre and is set in a restaurant where Kaufman and Blassie have a discussion over breakfast. Also featured is Kaufman's partner Bob Zmuda, who plays a nosy fan. Lynne Margulies, who would later become Kaufman's girlfriend, also plays a role; in fact, she and Kaufman met for the first time on camera.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More
Overview: Rodney Dangerfield special, featuring stand-up and sketches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-29
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Heartbeeps
Overview: Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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The Real Andy Kaufman
Overview: The majority of the footage in The Real Andy Kaufman consists of a 1979 performance the actor/comedian/performance artist performed in the Catskills. In addition to some of his classic routines, the film offers interviews with friends and colleagues.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-06
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R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
Overview: In View: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988–2003 is a DVD featuring videos by the rock band R.E.M. during 1988–2003, released as a companion to the Warner Bros. compilation In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003. All but two of the songs included on the audio CD made the DVD—the exceptions being "All the Right Friends" (which had no official music video) and "Animal" (the video not having been shot until early 2004.)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-23
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Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
Overview: In the late 1950s, a fresh, unconventional style of standup comedy emerged in sharp contrast to the standard "Take my wife, please" approach. It tackled such previously taboo subjects as sex, religion, drugs, and politics, and ushered in an avant-garde era of comedy that was decidedly more cerebral, satirical, and improvisational than before. Here are many of the maverick comedians who took those big risks years ago and paved the way for today’s current crop of outrageous, in-your-face comics. Many of these rare television performances have not been seen in 30 or 40 years. Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks (1966) Jackie Mason (1961) Bob Newhart (1966) Shelly Berman (1966) Bill Cosby (1965) Jonathan Winters (1961) Smothers Brothers (1974) Steve Martin (1977) Rowan & Martin (1964) Lily Tomlin (1975) George Carlin (1967 & 1975) Richard Pryor (1967 & 1974) Andy Kaufman (1977) Hendra & Ullett (1966) Billy Crystal (1976) Jay Leno (1978) David Letterman (1979)
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-10
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Andy Kaufman: The Midnight Special
Overview: The big mystery about Andy Kaufman's work is in trying to figure out what's serious, what's an act, why he is doing what he's doing, and whether he even knows the differences himself. His performances are among those rare examples where you feel extremely uncomfortable watching them, but at the same time you can't pull yourself away because it's hysterical in a twisted and bizarre sort of way.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-23
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In God We Tru$t
Overview: A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show
Overview: Taped in Toronto between August 9-24, 1982, Miss Piggy hosts her own variety show, with special guests John Ritter, George Hamilton and Tony Clifton (Andy Kaufman). Under the direction of Kermit the Frog, the Muppets work in the control room and, amidst chaos, manage to keep the show on the air. Throughout the show, a romantic triangle develops among Piggy, Ritter (who is smitten with the pig) and Hamilton (who is deeply uncomfortable with the star's romantic inclinations).
Genres: TV Movie Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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Andy's Funhouse
Overview: This special was taped in 1977 but did not air until August 1979, on ABC. It featured most of Andy's famous gags, including Foreign Man/Latka and his Elvis Presley impersonation, as well as a host of unique segments (including a special appearance by children's television character Howdy Doody and the "Has-been Corner"). There also is a segment that included fake television screen static as part of the gag, which ABC executives were not comfortable with, fearing that viewers would mistake the static for broadcast problems and would change the channel—which was the comic element Kaufman wanted to present. Andy's Funhouse was written by Kaufman, Zmuda, and Mel Sherer, with music by Kaufman.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-28
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Thank You Very Much
Overview: Trace the life and career of legendary performance artist Andy Kaufman and see a nuanced understanding of what drove the mercurial performer, whose gonzo, boundary-shattering comedy provoked and often outraged audiences, with rare, never before seen footage and audio recordings that shed new light on his creative process; including newly uncovered archival footage and intimate recollections of friends, colleagues, and family members, and interviews with Kaufman’s closest collaborators. Discover the all-too-short life and career of a comedy iconoclast whose impact is felt all the more today with the blurring of artifice and reality that defines our present age.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-28
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The Death Of Andy Kaufman
Overview: The Andy Kaufman Project explores the possibility that avant-garde performance artist Andy Kaufman may have faked his death.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-26
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"Tank You Vedy Much!" - The Many Faces of a Comic Legend
Overview: Andy Kaufman was one of the most original comedians of the 20th century. He definitely danced to his own drummer. He could play a shy, lovable man like Latka Gravas on "Taxi", and then turn around and play Tony Clifton, an obnoxious, crude Lounge Lizzard. He was also one of the Great "Put on Artists" of our time. He also put on the world with his wrestling fiasco involving Jerry Lawler who eventually slapped Andy out of his chair on The Letterman Show. It was all staged!! Come on along with us and follow Andy's career from early childhood, with exclusive family shots, to his untimely death at 35. Even then, his close friends didn't believe it. They thought it was another Andy Kaufman "put on"!!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-18
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The 2nd Annual HBO Young Comedians Show
Overview: Young Comedians Show is HBO's long running showcase of young stand-up comedians.
Genres: Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-24
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Jerry Before Seinfeld
Overview: Jerry Seinfeld returns to the club that gave him his start in the 1970s, mixing iconic jokes with stories from his childhood and early days in comedy.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-19
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Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall
Overview: Andy Kaufman's legendary sold-out Carnegie Hall performance, featuring all of Kaufman's classic routines, including Foreign Man, Elvis, conga drums, plus Andy wrestling women and even taking on a real male wrestler! Also appearing is a menagerie of Kaufman's collection of human oddities, including the infamous Tony Clifton, The Love Family (a sub-Partridge Family singing group who do a bang-up version of "The Age of Aquarius" complete with synchronized dance movements), Grant Bowman the "Happy New Year Man" (straight from Times Square, where Andy found him), "cowgirl" Eleanor Cody Gould and an uncredited, surprise big name guest as Andy’s grandmother. Bob Zmuda appears as Andy's referee, and at the end of the show, Andy takes the entire audience out for milk and cookies.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-12
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Andy Kaufman: The Andy Kaufman Show: Soundstage
Overview: From the PBS series "Soundstage" comes this special broadcast of Andy Kaufman's satirical talk show, which includes "The Has-Been Corner," a spoof segment with a washed-up celebrity, and a routine featuring his marionette alter ego, Tony Clifton. In other highlights, Kaufman and ex-girlfriend Elayne Boosler publicly expose their turbulent relationship, and one of Kaufman's guests is unmasked as a charlatan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-15
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Andy Kaufman World Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion: His Greatest Matches
Overview: The story of famed performance artist Andy Kaufman's bizarre quest to find a woman who could defeat him in the wrestling ring. Footage taken from Kaufman's personal archives highlight his reign as the "World's Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion," a title that earned him the wrath of liberated females all across America.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-27
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The Demon: A Film About Andy Kaufman
Overview: Andrew Kaufman (1949 - 1984) was an American entertainer, actor, writer, performance artist and professional wrestler. A charismatic persona poured out of a bucket.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-16
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Cher... and Other Fantasies
Overview: Cher... and Other Fantasies is a 1979 prime time network special starring singer and actress Cher, featuring songs from her latest album "Take Me Home". In this special, Cher finds herself trapped in a strange building, where various fantasies await her behind every door. The memorable opening number “Aint Nobody’s Business” sees Cher on a tour of fashion from Eve in the Garden of Eden to disco at Studio 54 all while parading in dozens of stunning Bob Mackie creations. There's also a roller skating fantasy sequence and a second Garden of Eden moment when Andy Kaufman shows up as Adam and Cher plays the snake. Elliot Gould guest stars as a painter who resides in the building, Shelley Winters turns up in a skit about acting and Lucille Ball plays a cranky old washerwoman. To date this is Cher's last traditional variety-format special. The program was nominated for a 1979 Primetime Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Costume Design for a Limited Series or a Special for Bob Mackie and Ret Turner.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-07
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The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1979
Overview: For the 1979 broadcast, Cash's annual CBS Christmas special returns to Nashville after taping the previous year's program in Los Angeles. This time he features his father, Ray Cash, and older brother Roy Cash in a visit to the small home in Dyess, Arkansas, where Johnny and his siblings were raised. Guests include Canadian pop and country star Anne Murray ("You Needed Me"), who was enjoying the most successful period of her career, and country music's Tom T. Hall, whom Cash introduces as "my very favorite songwriter" before Cash and Hall launch into a medley of Hall's hits "Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine," "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died," "I Love" and "Country Is." The show's comic foil is the late Andy Kaufman, who appears as his character Latka Gravas from the hit network show Taxi.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-06
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Overview: Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.
Genres: Documentary Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-05
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It's Good To Be The King: The Jerry Lawler Story
Overview: You hear his voice calling the action every week on WWE's flagship show, Monday Night Raw, but there is more to being king other than having the best seat in the house! In this regal new documentary, Jerry "The King" Lawler shares the amazing story of his rise to royalty. Follow the WWE Hall of Famer from his early days to his championship-laden career in the ring, his incomparable reign at the broadcast table and a king-sized list of accolades along the way. Friends and peers also join The King for this revealing look inside the life of this enduring and revered figure in sports entertainment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-19
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Stick Around
Overview: It's the year 2055 and things are better for the human race, except for Vance. The Keefer family deals with daily life in the future and their older and malfunctioning robot servant, which Vance is tired of.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-30
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The Best of Midnight Rider
Overview: Best bits of the Midnight Rider late night variety stoner comedy show featuring stand up preformances, short cartoons, voice dubbed sketches & independent short films. Stars Jackie M
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-25
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Overview: Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-27
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