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"Succession" actor Nicholas Braun stars as Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson in "Saturday Night." Jason Reitman, the film's director, said that Jim Henson was written with Braun in mind to play the role.
Kaufman was born on January 17, 1949, in New York City, the oldest of three children. He grew up with his younger brother Michael and sister Carol in a middle-class Jewish family in Great Neck, Long Island. [10]
Saturday Night is a 2024 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, about the night of the 1975 premiere of NBC's Saturday Night, later known as Saturday Night Live. The film stars an ensemble cast portraying the various Saturday Night cast and crew, led by Gabriel LaBelle as the show's creator and producer, Lorne Michaels .
The stacked cast includes Dylan O’Brien (Ponyboi) as SNL star Dan Aykroyd, Braun as both Henson and comedian Andy Kaufman, and Lamorne Morris (New Girl) as SNL’s first Black cast member ...
Jason Reitman's new film "Saturday Night" chronicles how the first episode of "SNL" came together. The movie stars Gabriel LaBelle as "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels and Cory Michael Smith as Chevy ...
The film alternates between contemporary interviews with Carrey and firsthand footage of the making of Man on the Moon almost 20 years earlier. According to Carrey, Universal Pictures had withheld the behind-the-scenes footage (much of it originally shot by Kaufman's former girlfriend, Lynne Margulies) "so that people wouldn't think [he] was an asshole".
In tracing the development of Kaufman’s act, “Thank You Very Much” includes fascinating footage, like his local-yokel audition for the first season of “Saturday Night Live” (he wound up ...
The story traces Kaufman's steps from childhood through the comedy clubs and television appearances that made him famous, including his memorable appearances on Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, Fridays and his role as Latka Gravas on the sitcom Taxi, which was popular among viewers but disruptive for Kaufman's co-stars.