In 1982, a comedian and a wrestler created the most convincing staged rivalry in entertainment history—so convincing that even David Letterman didn't know what was real. We dissect how Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler pulled off the ultimate long-con, fooling audiences for decades and rewriting the rules of what comedy could be.
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