![]() When Langford returns home to find Rupert and Rita settling in, he angrily tells them to leave. ![]() Hoping to impress, Rupert invites a date, Rita, to accompany him when he arrives uninvited at Langford's country home. Along the way, Rupert indulges in elaborate and obsessive fantasies in which he and Langford are colleagues and friends. He attempts to book a spot on Langford's show, but is continually rebuffed by his staff, particularly Cathy Long, and finally by Langford himself. After meeting Jerry Langford, a successful comedian and talk-show host, Rupert believes his "big break" has finally come. ![]() Rupert Pupkin is a delusional and aspiring stand-up comedian trying to launch his career. It is the first production of Embassy International Pictures, later Regency Enterprises, and is also Jerry Lewis's final film for 20th Century Fox. ![]() The film received mostly positive reviews from critics but was a flop at the box office, grossing only $2.5 million against its $19 million budget. Production began in New York on June 1, 1981 to avoid clashing with a forthcoming writers' strike, and opened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983. 20th Century Fox released the film on February 18, 1983, in the United States, though the film was released two months earlier in Iceland. Zimmerman, the film focuses on themes such as celebrity worship and American media culture. ![]() The King of Comedy is a 1982 American satirical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro (in his fifth collaboration with Scorsese), Jerry Lewis and Sandra Bernhard. ![]()
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