The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In what other competition but the Andy Kaufman Awards will you find a juggler competing against a ventriloquist, a street performer, two actors in character and two stand-up comedians? No, not America’s Got Talent. At the Andy Kaufman Awards finals, these Americans really do have talent. There is no Gong …
Congratulations go out to Nick Vatterott, who won the 2011 Andy Kaufman Award on Monday night in New York City. He joins a list of past winners that includes Kristen Schaal, Reggie Watts and Brent Weinbach. Vatterott has enjoyed playing with the structure of stand-up, and famously became a “New …
Look. People are submitting videos this month for the annual Andy Kaufman Award competition (the submission date deadline was this past Monday, I just found out), and I just feel as though in the past couple of years, the awards have become, well, less Andy Kaufmanesque? Less weird. Less special. …
