Freedom of Expression #15 (1998)

"A Tribute to Andy Kaufman"

Known by most Americans as Latka "tenk you veddy much" Gravas on the late-1970s/early-1980s television sitcom Taxi (or known not at all), Andy Kaufman was the living embodiment of anarchy. As an entertainer, Kaufman spent most of his brief life flagrantly ignoring the rules of comedy, television and acceptable social behavior before he was struck down by a rare form of lung cancer in 1984.

Some of his exploits (documented in this little book) include wrestling more than 400 women, staging a fight when he was the host of a nationally televised live comedy show, regularly working as a busboy at the height of his television fame, and buying time on a local Memphis television station to insult Southerners in order to make them hate him for no other reason but to advance his wrestling "career."

Why devote so much space to a relatively obscure entertainer? Just order this extensively researched and well designed 36 page booklet (with 50+ pictures!) and you’ll find out why. (By the way, I wrote this long before Man on the Moon was released.)