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Critics reviews. A thirty-four-year-old aspiring comic still living at home, Rupert Pupkin studies obsessively to be a talk show guest, but has no discernible talent other than a ferocious need for recognition. When he meets his talk show host idol, he sees it as an opportunity for him to reach his dream of stardom.
Mar 25, 2014 · "The King of Comedy" is the complementary "bookend" of another Scorsese masterpiece, "Taxi Driver", with Robert DeNiro playing asocial, near-psychotic fame-obsessed characters in both. Both films play strongly against audience expectation -- "King" even more than "Taxi".
By Tim Pelan In this age of television wannabes and quick fix celebs, it is fitting to look back at The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese’s dark comedy of squirming embarrassment—a prescient examination of the modern age’s obsession with fame, and a film he himself acknowledges as a sequel of sorts to Taxi
Feb 18, 1983 · THE KING OF COMEDY, directed by Martin Scorsese; written by Paul D. Zimmerman; di- rector of photography, Fred Schuler; music production by Robbie Robertson; released by 20th Century-Fox. At the ...
David Hudson 03 Apr 2012. A thirty-four-year-old aspiring comic still living at home, Rupert Pupkin studies obsessively to be a talk show guest, but has no discernible talent other than a ferocious need for recognition. When he meets his talk show host idol, he sees it as an opportunity for him to reach his dream of stardom.
The King of Comedy is a bitterly evil satire of show business. Rupert Pupkins is obsessed with becoming famous so he aims at kidnapping one of the best in the business, Jerry Langford.
