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.
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- New York City
- Educated at
- Grahm Junior CollegeJohn L. Miller Great Neck North High School
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1949
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