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Robert De Niro gives a virtuoso performance in Martin Scorsese's 1983 black satire The King Of Comedy out to buy for the first time on DVD on 19th April 2004 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Rupert Pupkin (De Niro, Taxi Driver, Meet the Parents) is a wannabe comic who will go to any lengths to further his career. A joke writer who has never performed anywhere except his mother's basement, Rupert dreams of appearing on the 'The Jerry Langford Show' hosted by the king of late night talk shows, Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis, The Stooge). After relentlessly hounding both Jerry and the show's talent bookers to no avail, he kidnaps the talk show host with the help of his accomplice Masha (Sandra Bernhard, Dinner Rush) who herself is infatuated with Jerry. Together they hold him hostage in exchange for Pupkin being given a guest spot on the show.

On DVD, The King Of Comedy features a making of featurette, two deleted scenes, theatrical trailer, Canadian TV spot and a stills gallery. A scathing attack on the cult of celebrity, this offbeat and classic comedy is a must-have DVD for all movie fans!