The King of Comedy

Aspiring comic Rupert (Robert DeNiro) at home, his nuttiness amplified with cardboard cut-outs of Liza Minnelli and Jerry Lewis as late-night host Jerry Langford, then making a show of following-up Jerry’s insincere instruction to call his office, in Martin Scorsese’s The King Of Comedy, 1983.

Director Martin Scorsese’s opening, with real NBC announcer Ed Herlihy introducing Jerry Lewis as the Johnny Carson-like TV host Jerry Langford, Robert DeNiro as oddball Rupert Pupkin in the stage door crowd and Sandra Bernhard lurking in the limo, in The King Of Comedy, 1983.

Would-be comic Rupert (Robert DeNiro) saying good night after he finagled a ride and made his pitch to late-night host Jerry Langford (Lewis), the handkerchief he swiped and then a scene that reveals itself to be a fantasy, early in Martin Scorsese’s The King Of Comedy, 1983.

Robert De Niro plays a would-be comic who kidnaps a talk-show host (Jerry Lewis) to win a guest shot on his show in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983).