* Tony Clifton, fictional character created by Andy Kaufman

Tony Clifton is a fictitious character created and often played by stand up comedian Andy Kaufman in the late 1970s.

After a disastrous first show, where Clifton took the stage with Tony Bennett's famous " I Left My Heart in San Francisco " and was summarily booed, he reappeared on the second night in riot gear amid a shower of rotten vegetables and other detritus.

Tony Clifton still makes occasional appearances, most notably in the days leading up to May 16, 2004, the twentieth anniversary of Kaufman's death.

It was announced on May 16, 2008 that Comic Relief, in recognition of the 24th anniversary of Andy Kaufman's departure, would present " The Return of Tony Clifton ", with his Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra.

Later that month he began hosting the Tony Clifton Revue at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles.

Kaufman and Zmuda wrote a screenplay for a Tony Clifton biography.

Kaufman's Tony Clifton character has influenced other " anti-comedy " acts, notably stand-up comedian Neil Hamburger, singer / comedian Unknown Hinson, and Canadian singer / comedian Corey Mystyshyn.

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Bob Zmuda occasionally portrayed Kaufman's Tony Clifton character on stage and for television appearances.

In a 2006 interview, Zmuda told the Opie and Anthony Show that it was him as Tony Clifton with David Letterman, and that Letterman did not find out until years after.

The film pays particular attention to the various inside jokes, scams, put-ons, and happenings for which Kaufman was famous, most significantly his long-running " feud " with wrestler Jerry " The King " Lawler and his portrayal of the bawdy lounge singer Tony Clifton.

Invited to catch a different act at a nightclub, Shapiro witnesses a performance from a rude, loud-mouthed lounge singer, Tony Clifton, whom Andy wants to guest-star on Taxi.

One year later, in 1985, Tony Clifton appears at Andy Kaufman's tribute at The Comedy Store's main stage performing, " I Will Survive ".

* Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton

* Paul Giamatti as Bob Zmuda / Tony Clifton

Carrey and Giamatti both played Tony Clifton.

Dressed as Kaufman's alter ego Tony Clifton, Zmuda returned to the Comedy Store in 1985.

Notably, Zmuda is accused of overemphasizing his role in the creation of many of Andy's routines ( such as Tony Clifton ).

In 1999, Giamatti played Bob Zmuda ( and Tony Clifton ) in the Andy Kaufman biopic, Man on the Moon.

Performer Andy Kaufman was chiefly known to fans through several characters, including the Foreign Man ( later Latka Gravas ), Tony Clifton, and Kaufman's impersonation of Elvis Presley.

Kaufman almost never appeared in public, other than as one of his shtick characters, such as " Foreign Man " or Tony Clifton.

Among the significant Irish poets to have emerged in recent years are: Pat Boran, Mairéad Byrne, Ciarán Carson, Patrick Chapman, Harry Clifton, Tony Curtis, Padraig J. Daly, Colin Dardis, Gerald Dawe, Greg Delanty, Séan Dunne, Paul Durcan, Eamon Grennan, Vona Groarke, Kerry Hardie, Randolph Healy, Seamus Heaney, John Hughes, Pat Ingoldsby, Trevor Joyce, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, Thomas McCarthy, Hugh McFadden, Paula Meehan, Billy Mills, Sinéad Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Gerry Murphy, Bernard O ' Donoghue, Conor O ' Callaghan, Caitriona O ' Reilly, Justin Quinn, Maurice Riordan, Maurice Scully, Michael Smith, Geoffrey Squires, William Wall, Catherine Walsh.

Ask Tony was doomed from the moment Kupcinet leveled on it in his Sun-Times column.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

When the wake-up call was issued to the Apollo 16 crew for their final day in space by capsule communicator Tony England, the spacecraft was about out from Earth, traveling just over.

The government, headed by Tony Blair, however, blocked all attempts to revise the succession laws, claiming it would raise too many constitutional issues and it was unnecessary at the time.

It was developed by Tony Brooker and Derrick Morris as a variant of the ALGOL programming language, removing some Algol features such as " passing parameters by name " ( which in Algol 60 means passing the address of a short subroutine to recalculate the parameter each time it was mentioned ).

The scenic and costume design was by Tony Walton.

Together with Ulvaeus, Andersson was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in a category " Outstanding Music " ( for the musical Chess ), and for a Tony Award in a category " Best Orchestrations " ( for musical Mamma Mia !).

On August 18, 1967, Red Sox batter Tony Conigliaro was hit almost directly in the left eye by a fastball thrown by Jack Hamilton of the California Angels.

The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use.

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

After a poor season for Federko in 1988 – 89, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings with Tony McKegney for future Blues star Adam Oates, and Paul MacLean.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

Across the street was Tammany Hall, and next to it Tony Pastor's, where stars of the stage were born.

Costas, along with Tony Kubek, was calling the Saturday baseball Game of the Week from Chicago's Wrigley Field.

Commander Tony Less was the squadron's first official commanding officer.

Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960.

He was seen when Tony Gordon tried to evict him from his property, causing Jed to have a heart attack.

She rightly believed that Tony had murdered Liam, however, no one believed her except Tony's enemy Jed Stone, who was lodging with Emily Bishop.