>>>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.
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>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."

I've said it for years, and I'll repeat it here. Special award medals should go out to the people who created and produced the characters of "Reverend Jim" and "Larry, Darrel and Darrel".