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The King of Comedy (1983)
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"I love "The King Of Comedy". This was in a run of Scorsese/De Niro collaborations where they could do no wrong. It's an effective portrayal of the delusions of a fantasist , with enough reality ,rooted in the overhyped U.S talk-show scene to grab any pop-culture fiend. It hasnt aged too much yet either,as all the elements of the still precient "The Larry Sanders Show" are there.. and the real-life format is still almost the same with Leno ,Conan and Letterman. The Daily Show puts the most contempory twist on things. British counterpart Jonathon Ross has only really got the more liberal attitude to sexual innuendo and swearing in the U.K. to account for any real variance. These guys remain the highest paid and most famous T.V. stars. Kidnapping one of them would be a big deal and logical for a psychotic stand-up trying to get his foot in the door....what i'm just trying to say is that it's not too dated,jerry Lewis is great,at being almost "himself" Sandra Bernhardt is nuttiness ... "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.The Comedians of ComedyI'm not sure the first time I saw Zach Galifianakis. It may have even been even before his brilliant stand-up act on Comedy Central Presents. But I knew the first time I ever saw him sitting at his piano with his massive beard that his form of subversive humor was about as straight up my alley as I would ever find. When I discovered he was being given a talk show on VH1, I waited with anticipation and have never been more rewarded. Late World with Zach (which unfortunately isn't listed on Spout) began with a song by Frank Black and ended within a matter of months. That was no surprise though. Zach's style and sense of humor went against everything mainstream and typically presented to the public. It was even more subversive in that it wasn't what you typically imagine as being the image of subversive. Zach ... "
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