Because of the money, visibility, and chance to do his own television special, Kaufman acts on Taxi, but secretly hates it and works a second menial job as a restaurant busboy. His autistic, eccentric style catches the eye of talent agent George Shapiro (Danny DeVito), who signs him as a client and immediately gets Kaufman on a new sitcom, 'Taxi' in 1975, much to the dismay of sitcom-hating Kaufman. This is the first of many times we see Kaufman trick the audience, as "fooling the audience" is his performance style. The audience bursts into applause, realizing Kaufman had tricked them making his big Elvis payoff all the more enjoyable. Just as it becomes clear that Kaufman may have no real talent, he puts on a rhinestone jacket and does a dead-on Elvis impersonation and song. Flashing forwards to New York City, 1973, Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey) is a struggling performer whose act fails in nightclubs because, while the audience wants comedy, he sings childrens songs and overuses his "foreign man" character. He then proceeds to show the actual movie on a film projector starting with his childhood home, in Long Island, New York 1957. Kaufman then comes back on in his normal voice saying he "Had to get rid of the people who don't understand me, and don't want to try". At the beginning, Kaufman's foreign man comes on saying (due to massive editing) it is the end of the film and plays a record alongside the end credits before walking off.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
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