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Scorsese gets serious. “Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime,” says Rupert Pupkin, De Niro’s funny, pathetic and quite terrifying aspiring comedian. Thirtysomething, living at home and harbouring dreams of stardom, Pupkin obsesses over comedian Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) and reaches some disturbing levels of fandom in his quest to emulate his idol. Another study of lunacy, Scorsese’s 1983 black comedy is closer to Taxi Driver than you’d imagine, with Pupkin acting like a benevolent Travis Bickle, had he stayed home watching TV with mom instead of going to ‘Nam. The King Of Comedy, out now on Fox Home Entertainment.
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