Funny how a PG film manages to be more disturbing than an R rated one. Lol imagine when this first came out. Parents were probably like "Oh the king of comedy, its rated PG, sounds like a funny family film".
I think people miss the whole Tony Randall speech written by Rupert. He had his pulse on what the viewer's wanted. That was shown/heard by the audience cheering when Tony said "There will be no sensational;, rambling monologue this evening." And it was further shown by Tony's reaction. I wish there was a follow up to this movie, but this movie is priceless and my favorite Scorsese film, even better than Goodfellas.
Nobody caught that .... His Mom has been dead for 9 years .... thru the whole movie when the mom was yelling , it was all in his head . That's why we never got to see his mother in the film . Wouldn't be surprised if the corpse remains was still laying in her bedroom .
@@GMMReviews i see this movie back in october 2019 and i caught that at the first time too. According what he saying in the show (his real life) the mother is not alive . . .
2:03 - 'Let's do something crazy tonight, just get insane! I wanna be crazy! I wanna be nuts! I want some fun! Goddammit, my doctor says "Don't have any fun, you can't have fun, no, you're not allowed to have a good time, you can't get crazy"! See, I have to be in control, and I like being in control, but you know, for one night I'd like to see myself out of my head! Wouldn't you like to see me out of my head?! WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT?! WOULDN'T IT BE FABULOUS?!'
Rupert Trumpkin Marcia pleas: "Jerry, come back here!" Jerry replies: "Oh, sure, I'll be back in a few minutes, Marcia...I just need a little break, okay?"
5:17 --- When he finishes his set, Rupert should have been asking everyone --- the producer, the talent coordinator, the FBI man (!), "How was I? Did you hear that applause and those laughs? Do you think they liked me?" I used to appear onstage at local functions and community plays, and that was all I could think of when I came offstage --- "How did I do?". Over and over, I would replay my routine/skit in my head to evaluate myself. I think Rupert should have displayed this same (neurotic?) trait.
The jokes are not bad. As Rupert says earlier in the film during one of his fantasy sequences, he creates jokes from the bad experiences in his life. These jokes show that he's had a very traumatic childhood. Bullied at school. Insulted by teachers. Separated parents. Suicidal alcoholic mother. The list goes on. It's actually very sad, even tragic. He's been beaten down his entire life and he copes by obsessing over Jerry Langford and escaping into fantasy. In an earlier scene in the film, he yells out to his mother when she calls him, but here he says she's dead. He's hearing voices in his head, he's that messed up
Winter Haydn she acts more like Harley Quinn and Rupert acts like the killing joke with a comedian down on his luck desperate to be known as being funny.
@@flyingpenandpaper6119 most of the modern day joker storylines came out in the mid to late 80s comic books. I believe this movie definitely inspired the modern Joker we have today. That being said, the original Joker from the 40s was violent, if my memory serves me correctly. Joker eventually became campy do to changing of the time. In the 90s cartoons he was both violent and campy.
@@brandonellis8111 I don't know for sure, but I am aware that comics definitely delve deeper into their characters' psychologies than before. I just saw another comment which was talking about how Pupkin could be The Joker, which would naturally make Masha Harley Quinn. Not the strongest parallel, but possible.
Sandra says she on medication but I guess she forget to take it before abducting Jerry Langford. Yep, Scorsese is a damn good director Tony Randall got remarried in the 90's and had a couple of kds before he died. Rupert was dressed like Pee Wee Herman's long lost brother. The actors who played the cops and the Langford staff members were excellent.
Rupert Trumpkin No question about it...Trump is a much more sinister and demented version of Rupert. Rupert would have been a saner and safer choice for POTUS.
@@guidadiehl9176 The only 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' (as with 'Bush Derangement Syndrome') is the belief that he's actually fit for the office he holds.
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Rupert's first meeting with Jerry, as he was leaving, said, "Jerry, you're a prince!" I think that meant Rupert saw himself as "The King"
This is almost scarier and more uncomfortable than Taxi Driver, which is saying something. A classic gem of Scorsese's
Deniro made a completely amiable guy with great inter personal skills, completely terrifying, which does say something about his ability as an actor.
Couldn't agree more.
@@MVR326 agree with you here.
Same here!
Funny how a PG film manages to be more disturbing than an R rated one.
Lol imagine when this first came out. Parents were probably like "Oh the king of comedy, its rated PG, sounds like a funny family film".
DeNiro and Lewis were great in this movie, but Sandra Bernhard was unforgettable.
I go back to some scènes pretty often. Same with the Shawshank.
Sandra Bernhard was fantastic
I think people miss the whole Tony Randall speech written by Rupert. He had his pulse on what the viewer's wanted. That was shown/heard by the audience cheering when Tony said "There will be no sensational;, rambling monologue this evening." And it was further shown by Tony's reaction. I wish there was a follow up to this movie, but this movie is priceless and my favorite Scorsese film, even better than Goodfellas.
There is so much connection between After Hours znd King
Nobody caught that .... His Mom has been dead for 9 years .... thru the whole movie when the mom was yelling , it was all in his head . That's why we never got to see his mother in the film . Wouldn't be surprised if the corpse remains was still laying in her bedroom .
I caught that, I've been wondering whether he was hallucinating his mom yelling at him, or if he was joking about her being dead.
@@GMMReviews i see this movie back in october 2019 and i caught that at the first time too.
According what he saying in the show (his real life) the mother is not alive . . .
I always got the impression his mother was real and this was just a joke.
It's all in his head. Her voice is in his head. The ending where he becomes famous is also in his head, according to Scorsese
I think his mom was alive but he's so bitter he joked about her being dead.
Watching the first 20 mins of this film I was already like "Oh he's CRAZY crazy".
Brilliant acting by De Niro.
2:03 - 'Let's do something crazy tonight, just get insane! I wanna be crazy! I wanna be nuts! I want some fun! Goddammit, my doctor says "Don't have any fun, you can't have fun, no, you're not allowed to have a good time, you can't get crazy"! See, I have to be in control, and I like being in control, but you know, for one night I'd like to see myself out of my head! Wouldn't you like to see me out of my head?! WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT?! WOULDN'T IT BE FABULOUS?!'
Thanks for that, can you do the rest of the film please?
Well...I believe it wouldn't be a bit dull.
"...I'm having a good time."
Marcy in After Hours said the exact same words : "i think tonight anything could happen ".
Same praiE by the critics, and same box-office flop.
Ladies and gentlemen this is the true origins of the killing of a joke! This was a true classic and it’s sad new generation will never know.
Actually our generation will see it October 4 🤡
Leo Contreras yeaaaaaaa
MASTERPIECE. An American CLASSIC.
1:18 " I would like to put some color in your face " ROFL
haha...love Scorsese's cameo! Thanks for uploading this movie!
Love this! And, Scorsese's cameo is so real ... his laughter too!
I love how the director plays the director.
Rupert Trumpkin
Marcia pleas: "Jerry, come back here!"
Jerry replies: "Oh, sure, I'll be back in a few minutes, Marcia...I just need a little break, okay?"
Keep in mind that we never see his mother despite her shouting. What if she was dead the whole time.
Wouldn't that be great?
Wouldn't that be fabulous???!?!!
Wow, Bernhardt had a BANGIN' body.
She looks crazy as can be...who knows what she's like in bed
I would have been very tempted to take Marsha up on her offer.
I believe Tony Randall actually did do guest hosting the Tonight Show when Carson was out.
The best ever!
The jokes were actually funny😂
Elion Kilos the 2% blood joke cracked me up😂
This is so sad...this man describing of how his circumstances effected his upbringing. Sad. Just Sad.
5:17 --- When he finishes his set, Rupert should have been asking everyone --- the producer, the talent coordinator, the FBI man (!), "How was I? Did you hear that applause and those laughs? Do you think they liked me?" I used to appear onstage at local functions and community plays, and that was all I could think of when I came offstage --- "How did I do?". Over and over, I would replay my routine/skit in my head to evaluate myself. I think Rupert should have displayed this same (neurotic?) trait.
2:54-4:54 Love the build up.
** Scorsese's cameo at 1:33 **
That was Martin Scorsese next to Tony Randall
Jesus. He worked his whole life on these childish, cliche, obvious BAD jokes???
I think they're pretty good
They are not that bad.
I think they were pretty good.
They not that bad, quit enjoyable to be honest.
The jokes are not bad. As Rupert says earlier in the film during one of his fantasy sequences, he creates jokes from the bad experiences in his life. These jokes show that he's had a very traumatic childhood. Bullied at school. Insulted by teachers. Separated parents. Suicidal alcoholic mother. The list goes on. It's actually very sad, even tragic. He's been beaten down his entire life and he copes by obsessing over Jerry Langford and escaping into fantasy. In an earlier scene in the film, he yells out to his mother when she calls him, but here he says she's dead. He's hearing voices in his head, he's that messed up
I thought Rupert was playing The Joker, but now I think it's Sandra.
Winter Haydn she acts more like Harley Quinn and Rupert acts like the killing joke with a comedian down on his luck desperate to be known as being funny.
I looooove Sandra
I wonder if this film was even a little bit inspired by The Joker. That would really have come full circle with the new Joker film.
@@flyingpenandpaper6119 most of the modern day joker storylines came out in the mid to late 80s comic books. I believe this movie definitely inspired the modern Joker we have today. That being said, the original Joker from the 40s was violent, if my memory serves me correctly. Joker eventually became campy do to changing of the time. In the 90s cartoons he was both violent and campy.
@@brandonellis8111 I don't know for sure, but I am aware that comics definitely delve deeper into their characters' psychologies than before. I just saw another comment which was talking about how Pupkin could be The Joker, which would naturally make Masha Harley Quinn. Not the strongest parallel, but possible.
"well that is my understanding"
Sandra says she on medication but I guess she forget to take it before abducting Jerry Langford. Yep, Scorsese is a damn good director Tony Randall got remarried in the 90's and had a couple of kds before he died. Rupert was dressed like Pee Wee Herman's long lost brother. The actors who played the cops and the Langford staff members were excellent.
Maybe it's just me but I find Rupert's pathetic series of jokes better than any real-life routine performed by Sandra Bernhard that I have watched.
Say what ?
i swear, as soon as a non-conventional beauty appears she becomes a target despite giving a stellar performance.
The Joker ends up killing Rupert Pupkin. Crazy kills crazy.
It was all for Rita.
What's really CRAZY he killed lol
Maybe the tv crew cued to audience to react. It would be bad for the kidnap victim if he'd flopped - so the producers and policeight think.
all american fun!....
joker=king of comedy in some facets
Most millennials are too stupid to even know about King of Comedy or the connection with Robert De Niro and Joker.
I think that was enough tape
While Aileen Sorkin's performance from Days of Our Lives certainly was the groundwork, I can see the beginnings of Harley Quinn in Sandra Bernhardt.
86 the Pat Boone white shoes
9:33 "Mother?"
Hes funnier than Tony Hinchcliffe
Joker borrows from this and Taxi Driver so much its maddening.
2:00 Who is this hot girl with pink?
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They should of used Johnny Carson instead of Tony randall but what do I know....
Carson as a fill-in host would have seemed weird to the movie audience.
carson is a host, not a guest.
I see Rupert - and I think Trump...
Rupert Trumpkin
No question about it...Trump is a much more sinister and demented version of Rupert. Rupert would have been a saner and safer choice for POTUS.
I too am so crippled and demented by Trump Derangement Syndrome that I see the President reflected in totally unrelated movies from the early 1980s.
Rupert's mannerisms and ego definitely remind me of Trump.
@@guidadiehl9176 The only 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' (as with 'Bush Derangement Syndrome') is the belief that he's actually fit for the office he holds.
Elitist20
Lol you're such a product of your time, it's sad. Stop with your presentism, no one would've cared, and no one will care.