THE COMEDIAN (2016) ** Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Harvey Keitel, Edie Falco, Danny De Vito, Patti LuPone, Charles Grodin, Cloris Leachman, Lois Smith. (Cameos as themselves: Billy Crystal, Jessica Kirson, Jim Norton, Jimmie Walker, Brett Butler, Hannibal Buress, Aida Rodriguez, Nick Di Paolo) Flat-footed comedy about a has-been stand-up comedian (De Niro light years away from Rupert Pupkin by the by) whose confrontation with a heckler results in community service to serve and meets unlikely love interest Mann in the interim. While De Niro does his best and barely acquits himself the pedestrian direction By Taylor Hackford and hack screenplay by Art Linson, Richard LaGravense and Lewis Friedman (!) and peppered with miss-than-hit jokes by comic Jeff Ross proves that dying is easy and comedy is hard.
Review of The Comedian
The Comedian
(III) (2016)
Proves that dying is easy and comedy is hard.
17 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers