Andy Kaufman

Andy Kaufman plays Latka Gravas on Taxi, the bittersweet workplace sitcom where Hirsch’s weary Alex holds a garage of beautiful losers and DeVito’s Louie tyrannizes the dispatcher booth. Brooks character comedy at altitude: Christopher Lloyd, Tony Danza, Marilu Henner. Latka is otherness as a mechanic, not a mascot — a performance that treats the garage as a planet. ABC, then NBC, still the same ache under the joke. The ABC/NBC window (1978–1983) is the weekly clock, and Latka Gravas is already on it. File the run as a 1970s job, not a later merch footnote.

Needle on s01e01. Like Father, Like Daughter opens the Sunshine garage. Hirsch's weary Alex already holds a bench of losers; Brooks character comedy without sugar from night. ABC/NBC kept the lights on; this desk keeps Kaufman because the seating chart still has a pulse.

Keep s02e01 on the stack: Louie and the Nice Girl is DeVito's dispatcher tyranny as a romantic mismatch. The booth remains the series' smallest, meanest stage — workplace farce. Keep s04e01 on the stack (Jim the Psychic lets Christopher Lloyd's Reverend Jim own an hour of beautiful brain damage. The garage's sainted space cadet as seasonal architecture, not). Position, not synopsis. Andy does the weekly work while the poster sells something louder.

The catchphrase is easy; the humanity is the work. On TV Flash Kaufman is 1970s sitcom craft that refuses to stay cute — the immigrant as weather, the garage as a novel, a bit that still reads as a person. Do not flatten him into a filmography. The file is Taxi, 1978–1983, and the codes that still show the turn.