Comedy

‘I’m Not Choking Her!’: Andy Kaufman and the Unlikely, Controversial Rise of Intergender Wrestling

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Forty years ago this weekend, comedian Andy Kaufman wrestled a woman on “Saturday Night Live,” and inadvertently popularized a controversial idea.

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