The King of Comedy (film) The King of Comedy (film) The King of Comedy is a 1982 American satirical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, and Sandra Bernhard. Written by Paul D. Zimmerman, the film focuses on themes including celebrity worship and American media culture. 20th Century Fox released the film on February 18, 1983, in the United States, though the film was released two months earlier in Iceland. Production began in New York on June 1, 1981, to avoid clashing with a forthcoming writers' strike, and opened the Cannes Film Festival in 1983. Rupert Pupkin (Robert
Rupert (play) Rupert (play) Rupert is a 2013 play by David Williamson about Rupert Murdoch. Williamson was approached to write the play for the Melbourne Theatre Company. "If you’re doing big canvas, you’ve got to be passionate that the way the world is heading is not good," he said. "I still buy "The Australian" every morning, to enrage me and give me energy to get through the day... If I can do something before I die that casts some kind of warning, in a dramatically viable way, then that could be useful." Williamson explained his approach to writing: I tried as much