This is fairly similar to the delusions of Rupert Pupkin (also De Niro) in The King of Comedy movie, in which his idol was Jerry Lewis’ own riff on a Johnny Carson type, there named Jerry Langford. The struggling comedian will ultimately become a superstar as the Clown Prince of Crime, but all Joker ever wanted was to be the King of Comedy. It’s 1981 and Arthur Fleck ( Joaquin Phoenix) wants to bring joy and laughter, just as Murray Franklin’s show has done for him. The new film features Robert De Niro as late night TV talk show host, Murray Franklin, who brings out the best in a young comic who wants to be introduced as Joker. Todd Phillips’ upcoming Batman-adjacent origin movie provides a twisted alternative universe to Scorsese’s celebrity nightmare classic. He may have made off with the conclusion, which was up for grabs anyway. It looks like Joker might have stolen more than a joke though from Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy. “Everyone laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian, but nobody’s laughing now.” Such is the dichotomy of dark comedy, some of the best laughter gets caught in the throat. Tributes are often a polite word for artistic theft and at least one trailer has the heroic villain stealing a timeless line from the British comedian Bob Monkhouse.
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