Demented and still totally underrated. The movie was kind of adapted and watered down by ‘the Joker’, which Scorsese ultimately decided not to be a part of - but this film’s character study is much deeper, much funnier, much sadder.
Keith Haring, Madonna and Sandra Bernhard during the Don’t Bungle The Jungle benefit concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn on May 24, 1989.
Jerry Lewis, Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese during the filming of “The King of Comedy”
“ Through it all, needless to say, he was a consummate professional. It was a remarkable and moving experience to watch him at work, improvising with De Niro and the other actors and with his old friend Freddie De Cordova ~I felt like I was watching a virtuoso pianist at the keyboard “. ~ Martin Scorsese describing what it was like working with Jerry Lewis.
Jerry deserves all the praise we can heap on him. People today do not know what an absolute genius he really was.