>>Last night I just caught the tail end of a film biopic essentially about the dissolution of Andy Kaufman, "Man on the Moon", played by Jim Carey.
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>>Now there have been several seminal TV sit-coms from the USA, that were loved over here: Rhoda, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends. And Kaufman, as Latka, was one of the main draws. Apart from this, esp. as he died quite young, I don't think a lot was known of him over here. From this film though it appears that, outside of his role in Taxi, he was, to the British senses, about as funny as a dose of distemper in a dog's home. And he was nutsoid, arrogant, single-minded in his conviction of his own talent and funniness and self-destructive.
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>>Did you guys really find him all that interesting and hilarious, outside his Latka role?
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>I thought that his Latka role was annoying. The more I found out about him the less I liked him.


My favorite character, by far, was Rev. Jim. The one where Alex is trying to feed him answers at Jim's written driver's test was a classic, as was the one where Jim is reminiscing about the 1960s. "I was in the sixties. I did the drugs, I did the communes, I did the peace marches. Did I say drugs? I did the drugs."