The King of Comedy with Stavros Halkias
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What do the hosts say about Robert De Niro’s performance and mannerisms in *The King of Comedy*?
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I think it's that I look at my whole life and I see the awful things in my life and I turn it into a funny podcast. It just happens. But what about the opening quote? Was that strong enough?
That's a pretty good De Niro in that you're not leaning too heavy on that. Because a lot of the De Niro stuff is right here. I was
thinking watching
this.
You
know, the kind of, yeah.
I think if anyone's trying to impersonate De Niro, this is the one to do. Because it is weirdly, it's right at the center of everything. Yeah, and he's not yelling. No.
It's just talking. He's equivocating
all the time. It's understated enough. We're all doing his hands. He has locked in all of the movie star moves at this point. Everything you would impersonate him doing is in this film in some way, but it's quiet.
Well, that's the thing about De Niro versus Pacino. It's like Pacino is like overnight. He became insane and like yelling at everything. You know what I mean? It really was like a... And you saw... Maybe you saw traces of it, obviously. Like Heat is the absolute middle of that Venn diagram where he's still the man, but he's fucking going crazy. But that's so much later. Whereas you're right. This... this is like De Niro's over the top mannerisms. This is the seedling. And it slowly grew into a big forest of, of really over, over squinting and like
frowning. You know what I mean? Like now, now, right. And it's like, obviously if he's just in the hands of some, you know, Bulgarian guy, who's making a movie called like the gun and the guy,
you know, whatever the,
like, you know, whatever
the De Niro movies are. I feel like he improvised pillar gun recently, which was a good one. That's a fucking awesome movie. Making a movie called Killer Gun.
Yeah. And by the way, I can't wait to buy that on DVD. I
can't wait to buy that on DVD. What's a disc this lower quality than DVD? Can we just have like, you know, DV or whatever? Like
DD?
It's on a
mini DV tape. I have to plug it into an old thing and then put those little yellow, red, and white shits that you
used
to connect a fucking 64 with. but
it is the thing the guys yeah
you know shout shout those little red
red yellow white red yellow white bro and one of them you didn't even one of them didn't do anything white or yellow didn't matter yeah it didn't matter it was right speaker versus uh left speaker but on most tvs at that time it was just the one built-in speaker cruddy speaker maybe
audiophiles knew the difference but me maybe
i
didn't give a fuck when i was playing no mercy I didn't give a
fuck where the
speaker came
from. But my Super Nintendo didn't even have that. It just had the one plug. And you would flip a switch to switch between a video game and TV. I can't even remember this. I
don't remember. I could have swore it had the...
It might have had
it. But I don't remember the Super Nintendo as much. That was more of... No,
it had the red one.
Well, I don't know. Maybe some weird British shit you
were playing.
Might be some weird British shit because I had a British
Super
Nintendo. Yeah. The Queen's Atari or something. The Queen's Atari. You get to practice having tea. The British Super Nintendo looks like the Japanese Super
Nintendo. I got a couple. Sorry. It's like
Frogger, but you're evading your headmaster pedophile.
There you go. You're like little schoolboy shorts and you have to run across the street. You're running across
the street from a ruler. I never got hit with a ruler. I had to do lines, which I do feel like that's a British thing, but
Americans
do that sometimes.
Like Bart Simpson. Oh, sure.
I promised to never talk
in class. Would you do it
at the chalkboard? No, you would do it in detention.
Over and over
again. And then, like, there were, like, the modern, like, woke teachers who were like, I think lines doesn't really teach you anything. And, like, the older school teachers were like, okay, if you say so. I guess
we'll hit him again because this was our compromise.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What do the hosts say about Robert De Niro’s performance and mannerisms in *The King of Comedy*?
0:01–5:55
2
How does the conversation shift to personal memories of being a “Rupert Pumpkin” and the struggle of early‑career stand‑up?
5:55–14:12
3
Why do the hosts spend time dissecting Jerry Lewis’s role and the show’s influence on *The Simpsons*?
14:12–1:00:46
4
What do the hosts reveal about the early development and screenplay history of *The King of Comedy*?
1:00:46–1:28:16
5
How do the conversation shift to the technical side of filmmaking – focus pulling, cinematography, and Scorsese’s shooting schedule?
1:28:16–1:55:11
6
Why do the hosts analyze Rupert Pupkin’s character arc, the parasocial dynamics with Jerry Carson, and Sandra Bernhardt’s role in the film?
1:55:11–2:04:17
7
What’s the story behind the fake gun on set and why do crews have strict safety rules?
2:04:17–2:13:27
8
How do Scorsese’s camera moves and cue‑card tricks shape the weird, unsettling mood of Rupert Pupkin’s kidnapping scene?
2:13:27–3:01:27