The King of Comedy
It's No Laughing Matter.
Plot:Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
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Crime, passion and lust for power.
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Cast & Crew
Robert De Niro
Jerry Lewis
Sandra Bernhard
Diahnne Abbott
Shelley Hack
Frederick de Cordova
Kim Chan
Ed Herlihy
Lou Brown
Margo Winkler
Ralph Monaco
Catherine Scorsese
Cathy Scorsese
Loretta Tupper
Peter Potulski
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Robert F. Colesberry
Robert Greenhut
Thelma Schoonmaker
Cis Corman
Amy Sayres
Art
Boris Leven
Directing
Martin Scorsese
Camera
Fred Schuler
Writing
Paul D. Zimmerman
Editing
Thelma Schoonmaker
Crew
Barbara De Fina
Costume & Make-Up
Richard Bruno
Sound
Dick Vorisek
Fun Facts of Movie
- Martin Scorsese has said that he thought Robert De Niro‘s best performance under his direction was in this film.
- Much of the scene where Rupert (Robert De Niro) shows up at Jerry’s house was improvised. Kim Chan improvised his lines when Jonno calls Jerry. The part where Jonno has troubling opening the front door was not planned. Chan really could not open the door, and Jerry Lewis improvised his reaction.
- When Jerry Langford is walking down the street, he is stopped by a woman talking on the telephone. When Jerry refuses to talk to someone on the phone, the lady says, “I hope you get cancer”. This incident actually happened to Jerry Lewis. According to Scorsese, Lewis directed this segment himself.
- Martin Scorsese said later that making this film was an “unsettling” experience, in part because of the embarrassing, bitter material of the script. Scorsese said that he and Robert De Niro may have not worked together again for seven years because making The King of Comedy (1982) was so emotionally gruelling.
- Robert De Niro used anti-Semitic remarks to anger Jerry Lewis while filming the scene where Rupert Pupkin crashes Jerry Langford’s country home. Lewis, who had never worked with method actors, was shocked and appalled, but delivered an extremely credible performance.
(Source: IMDb)
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