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	The King of Comedy (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Martin Scorsese’s 1983 flick The King of Comedy didn’t delve into such murderous tendencies, but it took a look at the nature of those obsessed with fame.
		Scorsese nicely balances the scary elements with comedy, and Pupkin proves to be an interesting character for De Niro.
		The King of Comedy appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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	The King of Comedy
		When Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy" was finally released in 1983 (it was completed in 1981), the film was a resounding flop, but since then it has grown to become something of a minor Scorsese masterpiece.
		Until this DVD release by 20th Century Fox Home Video, "The King of Comedy" was consigned to the netherworld of lousy transfers, but now, for the first time, it is presented in excellent condition in its original anamorphic widescreen ration of 1.85:1.
		Along with Woody Allen's "Zelig" and Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins," "The King of Comedy" skewers the cult of celebrity with a tart uneasiness.
	www.mediascreen.com /k/kingofcomedy.htm (360 words)

	Amazon.com: The King of Comedy: DVD: Diahnne Abbott,Richard Baratz,Sandra Bernhard,Lou Brown (III),Robert De ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The King of Comedy, which flopped at the box office, is actually a gem waiting to be rediscovered.
		Martin Scorsese's The King Of Comedy is a funny depiction of the dangers of celebrity fandom.
		There are practically no jokes in "The King of Comedy" (except the ones De Niro and Jerry Lewis let off during their stand-up acts, but that's a comedy within a comedy) but this film is just killing.
	www.amazon.com /King-Comedy-Diahnne-Abbott/dp/B00006RCNV (2526 words)

	The King of Comedy - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
		The King of Comedy, is well into the delusional.
		Martin Scorsese finds the comedy in Rupert's desperation while still making the audience a little nervous about just how far he's willing to go.
		The King of Comedy is mentioned in Scott's commentary on:
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	The King of Comedy review (1983) Martin Scorsese - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
		The King of Comedy isn't so much a comedy in the traditional sense, although it might be classified as a twisted, and quite tragic, comedy of errors.
		In the case of The King of Comedy, Rupert Pupkin (De Niro, Taxi Driver) is a prime example of this aspect of celebrity worship.
		"Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime", Pupkin remarks as part of his act, which goes to show the mentality of the modern culture to get themselves seen and heard on television, film, or radio in any way possible.
	www.qwipster.net /kingofcomedy.htm (841 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The King of Comedy (1983)
		The King of Comedy is one of the great misleading titles of all time.
		The King of Comedy stars Scorsese favorite Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin, a 34-year-old loser who lives with his mother and aspires to be a stand-up comedian.
		The King of Comedy is unmistakably a Martin Scorsese picture, and it is his fresh approach that makes the film truly rewarding.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4253 (1305 words)

	American Cinematographer: DVD Playback March 2003
		Released in 1983, The King of Comedy capped a string of rich collaborations between De Niro and director Martin Scorsese.
		Fox has given The King of Comedy a beautiful transfer, and although the disc is short on extras (a 20-minute interview with Scorsese and Bernhard, the theatrical trailer and a Canadian spot), it feels complete.
		Scorsese recalls with chagrin that as he was preparing to go out on New Year’s Eve in 1983, he caught an Entertainment Tonight tidbit that proclaimed The King of Comedy "the flop of the year." Despite the fact that ET’s attention to celebrity bellybutton lint is in part what his film satirized, Scorsese was disheartened.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/mar03/dvd/page2.html (551 words)

	Salon \| Movies
		The film was released in 1983, in the wake of the assassination of John Lennon by a crazed fan and the attempt on President Reagan's life by a deranged admirer of "Taxi Driver" star Jodie Foster.
		"King" knocks down the wall between the famous and the average, but not in the way Rupert, in his imagined friendship with Jerry, desires.
		What prevents "King" from being a filmmaker's elitist rant about keeping the little people in their place is that Scorsese and Zimmerman want us to feel some sympathy for Rupert's pathetic misunderstanding of the order of things.
	www.salon.com /march97/millman970321.html (681 words)

	THE KING OF COMEDY - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Scorsese has said that he wanted to do The King of Comedy in the style of Edwin S. Porter, a filmmaker from the pre-Griffith silent era, before a cinematic vocabulary had made itself evident.
		Gone is the heavy grain of the VHS and televised versions, which especially benefits a low-light encounter between Langford and Masha late in the picture.
		Excerpted therein but also receiving their own section are two deleted scenes: one finds Langford greeting more fans at a crosswalk, the other Langford delivering a monologue to his televised audience that I suspect was cut because it's an act as opposed to the sort of current-affairs riffing one encounters on a late-night talk show.
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	DVD.net : The King of Comedy - DVD Review
		After repeated rejections from his hero Jerry Langford, The King of Comedy, and finally being brushed off and escorted from the building, Rupert decides enough is enough.
		A Shot at the Top: The Making of The King of Comedy is a recent featurette featuring interviews with Martin Scorsese and Sandra Bernhard (Masha) with some interesting character dissections and discussions on the behind the scenes stuff.
		The King of Comedy isn’t what I would call one of Scorsese’s best films, but it is certainly one well worth checking out for De Niro’s incredibly nerdish yet menacing performance.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4161 (1086 words)

	King of Comedy - Moviefone
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		The King of Comedy Movie -The 80s Rewind « The King of Comedy -The 1983 dramatic movie featuring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis at the award winning 80s Movies Rewind.
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	Comedy Films
		Other memorable romantic comedies of the 1950s include George Cukor's Born Yesterday (1950) about the tutoring of a racketeer's uneducated girlfriend (Judy Holliday), and director Vincente Minnelli's family wedding comedy Father of the Bride (1950) starring Spencer Tracy as the "father of bride" Elizabeth Taylor.
		Sexual comedies were successively enhanced by the appearance of Marilyn Monroe at her prime in The Seven Year Itch (1955) as a Manhattan apartment dweller, and as the lead singer in an all-girls band in director/co-writer Billy Wilder's hilarious and subversive adult comedy
		Screen comedies declined in number and quality in the 1950s, contributing to the rise of TV situation comedies ('sitcoms') and variety shows, and stand-up comedy routines/sketches.
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	The King of Comedy
		The trouble is The King of Comedy's Here and Now cuts too close to the bone for either large-scale mass audience approval or unanimous mainstream critical acclaim.
		Everything about The King of Comedy is honed to an edge that will produce a precise effect.
		In The King of Comedy, the object of desire is fame and fortune now — love's an optional extra.
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	The King Of Comedy Movie, Review, Cast for The King Of Comedy \| TVGuide.com
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	Sandra Bernhard Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the time she was a manicurist to the stars, a vocation she practiced for six years before her comedy stylings enabled her to give up her day job for good.
		She had made her feature debut in "Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams" (19981), but it was her over-the-top turn as the obsessively neurotic groupie who attempts to kidnap Jerry Lewis in Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy" (1983) that brought her to public prominence.
		A regular performer on TV stand-up comedy specials, she ventured into the land of sitcoms with a six-year (1991-96) recurring role as a married woman who came out as a lesbian on the hit ABC sitcom "Roseanne", offering perhaps her most mainstream exposure to date.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/195054 (955 words)

	Monthly Highlight - Kidnapping Classics
		Kidnapping is rarely used as a comic device in movies but in Martin Scorsese's razor sharp satire, The King of Comedy (1983), it seems absolutely appropriate given the obsessiveness of the central character, Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro).
		It wasn't until Scorsese begin shooting The King of Comedy that he began to encounter problems.
		People in America were confused by The King of Comedy and saw Bob as some kind of mannequin.
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	The King of Comedy Movie -The 80s Rewind «
		Don't forget that The King of Comedy is now available to order on Widescreen DVD using our special 80s search device...
		The King of Comedy was filmed at locations in New York, New York.
		The King of Comedy and all movie images are ©1983 20th Century Fox.
	www.fast-rewind.com /kingofcomedy.htm (1154 words)

	AMCTV.com MEMBER REVIEWS: The King of Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This movie is a definite 5...except for what AMC (which used to stand for "American Movie Classics" but now must stand for "Atrociously Mutilated Classics") did to the movie.
		I was thinking when the aholes that took over our once-favorite movie station, that they would trim the movies at the new commercial breaks, but in Scorcese's "King of Comedy"** the cuts are throughout the film segments -- huge cuts.
		Well, I don't know any movie lovers who can stomach seeing a great film like "King of Comedy" be absolutely butchered by these bottom dwellers who took over AMC.
	www.amctv.com /show/review?CID=6625-1 (319 words)

	The King of Comedy (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As Travis Bickle's universally known line of dialogue from "Taxi Driver" has a deep meaning ("Are you talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here"), Rupert Pupkin's closing speech of his first-ever standup comedy routine in "The King of Comedy" finalizes the entire meaning of the film, wrapping it up in one short sentence.
		Lewis has lost his manic, energetic, annoying comedy rituals seen in films such as "The Nutty Professor" and has moved on to real acting that demands true skill.
		He commands that he will be referenced to as "The King of Comedy" (hence the title), and to further demonstrate the innocence of Rupert's character, when he shows up, he fails to see the gravity of the offence he has just committed.
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	goatdog's movies - The King of Comedy, 1983
		This uncertain blend of satire and dead-on seriousness is one of Martin Scorsese's few forays into comedy, and he made it in reaction to John Hinkley Jr.'s obsession with Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
		I say it is an uncertain blend because, even during the "funny" moments, there is an underlying bitterness that makes them all the more uncomfortable.
		However, when compiling a top ten films of 1983, I didn't think twice about putting it at the top.
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	King of Comedy by Rickie Lee Jones: Song Music Downloads
		Sorry, at this time no downloads have been found for "King of Comedy" on album The King of Comedy.
		Sorry, at this time no streams have been found for "King of Comedy" on album The King of Comedy.
		King of Comedy by Rickie Lee Jones: Song Music Downloads
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	The King of Comedy
		Pupkin in Martin Scorcese's The King of Comedy, a film that did not achieve box office success but is now considered by many to be a classic.
		Like Bill Murray's psychiatric patient in another fl comedy about obsession, What About Bob?, Rupert pursues Langford relentlessly trying to secure a spot on his show, even going to the lengths of dropping in unannounced at his summer home with Rita while Jerry is out playing golf.
		The King of Comedy was a cutting-edge slap in the face at the television celebrity mania in 1983 but may have been ahead of its time.
	www.talkingpix.co.uk /ReviewsKingofComedy.html (457 words)

	The Jerry Lewis Page
		Jerry Lewis is one of the towering figures of comedy, on stage and screen, in the entire 20th century.
		Such is the case for film comedy on nearly every level, all the way from the Three Stooges to Woody Allen.
		But it is precisely this sense of discomfort, of being a square peg in a round hole, that Lewis' comedy captures so successfully.
	www.dhalgren.com /Jerry (1122 words)

	THE KING OF COMEDY
		THE KING OF COMEDY was Scorsese and De Niro's fourth film together and their first and only comic collaboration, which is a real shame considering De Niro has recently been showing a real talent for comedy.
		This film is, of course, given who's behind the camera, more on the dark and twisted end of the comic spectrum, but is very funny nonetheless.
		While Rupert gets ready for his national television debut – one of his demands is to be called the new King of Comedy – Marsha has her way with the taped up super star.
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	crocoPuffs: Movie Review: The King of Comedy
		It's an urban drama with comedic elements, definitely not a comedy.
		Before watching The King of Comedy, I had not heard much about it, but thought "It's Scorsese, it must be worth watching".
		And it is. The running time is about 1 hour, 40 minutes, so it's a quick hit to watch for a little entertainment.
	www.crocopuffs.com /reviews/king_comedy.html (246 words)

	American Masters . Martin Scorsese \| PBS
		With two later films, RAGING BULL (1980) and THE KING OF COMEDY (1983) (both starring De Niro), Scorsese focused on a theme that has permeated nearly every one of his movies—the plight of the desperate and out-of-control individual.
		With the protagonist in RAGING BULL we find a fighter possessed with anger both in and out of the ring, while in THE KING OF COMEDY we find one overwhelmed by the impossibility of breaking into the entertainment industry.
		For many, Martin Scorsese is the most important living American filmmaker—one whose relentless search for the furthest emotional reaches of his genre have led him to the center of the American psyche.
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	dOc DVD Review: The King of Comedy (1983)
		While the film offers several good laughs, what is really in store for viewers is a dark and depressing look at rejection and despair.
		While his camera does not move with the sense of impatient urgency as it does in Taxi Driver or After Hours, Scorsese's unique style always makes the film appear more interesting than it would have if a more traditional style were utilized.
		Those who are able to shed conventional logic might find more depth to the story than one who simply relies on a more straightforward approach to storytelling.
	digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4253 (1305 words)

	The King of Comedy
		You were my college of comedy, Jerry, like a kind of teacher, a friend.
		PUPKIN Now, you're going to call your office and tell them this: that unless a man who identifies himself as the King is allowed on the show tonight as the first guest, they'll never see you alive again.
		After all, this King character is going to have to show up sooner or later.
	www.geocities.com /emruf/koc.html (16343 words)

	The Official Jerry Lewis Comedy Museum and Store
		The King of Comedy", Jerry stars as a talk show host with Robert DeNiro as his obsessed fan.
		Later that year Jerry made 2 live performance tours of Australia and was so warmly embraced by the fans that he has committed to performing there on a continuing basis for years to come.
		On February 13, 1983, Jerry married SanDee "Sam" Pitnick of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
	www.jerrylewiscomedy.com /biography.htm (2382 words)

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