The comedy genre has been harsh on film careers. Pulling off a successful comedy film is not that easy, and many notable comedians had unsuccessful movie careers. The most frustrating was Andy Kaufman who wanted to film a script he wrote called The Tony Clifton Story. Kaufman had some acting experience, a small part in the movie In God We Tru$t ( 1980 ) and over three years as Latka on the series Taxi (1978-1983). Universal Pictures agreed to green light the film provided that Kaufman star in one of their films first. Heartbeeps (1981) was a science fiction comedy about two robots (Kaufmann and Bernadette Peters) who fall in love and end up running away from their human masters. Not only was the movie a critical and financial flop, but Andy Kaufman chose to apologize for the movie during his talk show publicity tour, offering refunds to anyone who saw it. Universal responded by cancelling production on The Tony Clifton Story and Kaufman, who died three years later, never acted in a movie again.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5984882/one_and_done_the_odd_phenominon_of_pg4.html?cat=40

http://www.slipperybrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/rohb.jpg