Rent The King of Comedy (1982)

Stalking Fame - The King of Comedy review by CP Customer

King of Comedy is no laugh; instead it features a sinister, uncomfortable undercurrent. It’s said everyone has five minutes of fame, some accidental; others grasp an opportunity or take matters into their own hands and court infamy. Rupert Pupkin tries them all without much success, despite his comedy talent. If only he put more effort into show business than stalking Jerry Langford. The real performance comes from Bernhard, very disturbing and crazed! A very interesting take on celebrity and something different from Scorsese.

All Hail - The King of Comedy review by griggs

Some films take time. This wasn’t love at first watch, or even second — but somewhere around now, The King of Comedy stopped being a film I admired and became one I adore.

Scorsese holds the whole thing at a tension you can’t quite name. Excruciating and funny, often in the same scene. A film about delusion so precisely calibrated that you’re never sure where the satire ends and the dread begins. Nothing else feels quite like it.

Robert De Niro abandons every familiar tic and replaces it with something stranger: pure, airless conviction. Among his very best. And Sandra Bernhard — a force of nature — turns obsession into performance art.

It took me three watches to get here. I suspect the fourth will hurt more.

A comedy ??? Are you sure? - The King of Comedy review by BA

Robert di Nero is one of my favourite actors, however the script of this film is - for a 73 yrs old Englishmen like myself - absolutely DIRE!   I didn’t laugh once, it’s about as funny as a wet Saturday in a crematorium.  i can’t recall where we saw it as a recommended film, but whoever it was must have been from North America i think, where no doubt they find it priceless.