Answer: The Answer: The correct answer is Andy Kaufman.
The Question: What comedian was slapped on the set of "Late Night with David Letterman"?
The Question: What comedian was slapped on the set of "Late Night with David Letterman"? Richard Pryor. Lenny Bruce. Andy Kaufman. George Carlin. The Answer: The correct answer is Andy Kaufman.
In one appearance in 1982 Andy Kaufman (who was wearing a neck brace) appeared with professional wrestler Jerry Lawler who slapped and knocked the comedian to the ground (Lawler and Kaufman's friend Bob Zmuda later revealed that the incident was staged).
Andy Kaufman was an early regular on Late Night and there might not be a more famous moment in its first year than when the professional wrestler Jerry Lawler slapped him. But the daring comic ...
Late Night With David Letterman on the other hand was uncomfortable unpredictable weird and occasionally even violent. Personality-wise its host was no sheet of wet glass. Personality-wise ...
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