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The King Of Comedy (1983)

In 1983, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese had already collaborated on four films together, culminating in De Niro’s Oscar for Raging Bull in 1980. This dynamite team had been at the forefront of the groundbreaking decade of cinema known as the 1970s, and when they made The King Of Comedy in ‘83, the pair had reached a level of singular sophistication in their method and delivery…

Bill Hicks – Rant in E-Minor (1997)

Bill Hicks was one of those rare comedians (like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin before him) with the ability to turn our hypocrisies and our ignorance into hilarious material that walked an edge that was at once outrageous, but also (more importantly) enlightening. Nothing seemed taboo or off-limits. Everything was grist for the mill…