The ultimate comeback FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, ANDY KAUFMAN IS HAVING THE LAST LAUGH JUST LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD

The greatest act in the myth-making career of Andy Kaufmanoccurred on May 16, 1984.

On that day - after years of pantomimed and lip-synched "MightyMouse," dead-on Elvis Presley, nebbishy Foreign Man, sing-along "TheCow Goes Moo," intergender wrestling, execrable Tony Clifton, cuddlyLatka Gravas, after-the-show milk and cookies, and so many more out-of-bounds antics - Kaufman, at only 35, succumbed to lung cancer anddied.

And in the greatest collective eulogy in show business history,much of the world thought it was a gag.

"The first reaction most people had when they heard that Andy diedwas laughter. They thought that he just left to go somewhere and …