Latka

So how in the name of Latka Gravas do elected officials from Jamestown, or any other distant reach of the state, get to shape a cab industry that concerns only people in the five boroughs?

NYT > Home Page By CLYDE HABERMAN 2011

(Indeed, Latka was originally based on a bit Kaufman called "Foreign Man.")

"Outsourced": An unfunny step back toward the Kwik-E-Mart 2010

But Latka was a foreigner for a kinder and gentler era, when Americans sense of Central Asian geography was far more sketchy than it has become five years into the war on terror.

Mark Levine: The Trouble With Borat 2008

After going through the automated menu, pushing sixteen buttons while having to "listen closely because our options have changed", enduring fifteen minutes of canned music (I think it was from the "Mantovani plays Guns & Roses" album), I finally get connected to Latka, the character Andy Kaufman played on Taxi.

Ken Levine: Tech Support (?) 2008

For most people, this meant the benignly out-of-it Latka on "Taxi."

A Blue Christmas 2008

You don't have to be Jewish to teach here, but in the land of Saul Bellow, Milton Friedman, and the vaunted Latka-Hamantaschen debate, you can hardly avoid it.

Harold Pollack: Now It Must Be Told: Barack Obama's Worst-Kept Secret of the Campaign 2008

Ai fot Rev Jim wuz hairyless, bot Latka was wai 2 funneh

nudder Halmrk commershil - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

The "building list" concept is clearly a comedic mainstay, but that doesn't mean Latka should perform it like Henny Youngman.

Fire Andy Kaufman. Jaime J. Weinman 2006

It's Latka who doesn't know what he's talking about, not Andy!

Fire Andy Kaufman. Jaime J. Weinman 2006

To my eye as well, it is indeed Latka who doesn't know what he's talking about, not Andy.

Fire Andy Kaufman. Jaime J. Weinman 2006