God's Lonely Funny Man: Martin Scorsese's 'The King of Comedy' and America's Pathological Obsession with Fame • Cinephilia & Beyond

By Tim Pelan In this age of television wannabes and quick fix celebs, it is fitting to look back at The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese’s dark comedy of squirming embarrassment—a prescient examination of the modern age’s obsession with fame, and a film he himself acknowledges as a sequel of sorts to Taxi

God's Lonely Funny Man: Martin Scorsese's 'The King of Comedy' and

God's Lonely Funny Man: Martin Scorsese's 'The King of Comedy' and

God's Lonely Funny Man: Martin Scorsese's 'The King of Comedy' and

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God's Lonely Funny Man: Martin Scorsese's 'The King of Comedy' and

God's Lonely Funny Man: Martin Scorsese's 'The King of Comedy' and

The King of Comedy (1983 )

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