Comic, writer and director Emily Maya Mills (By a Thread) joins to discuss Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, and Sandra Bernhard. This disquieting dark comedy follows wannabe comedian Rupert Pupkin and his obsessive drive to win the attention of his hero, a late night talk show host named Jerry Langford. Upon release in 1982, THE KING OF COMEDY's unlikable characters and claustrophobic style baffled critics and tanked at the box office. Today, it is considered one of Scorsese's less appreciated masterpieces. In this episode, we delve into this cringe-inducing classic, along with seriously in-depth tangents into directing technique, dishwashing, Napoleon Dynamite, '70s paranoid thrillers, American Psycho, Fargo, freewheeling '70s drug abuse and much more.