{"id":13524,"date":"2017-02-02T10:06:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=13524"},"modified":"2017-02-02T10:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:06:49","slug":"the-king-of-comedy-bombs-in-the-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=13524","title":{"rendered":"The King of Comedy bombs in THE COMEDIAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

There just isn\u2019t much funny about The Comedian<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a movie that takes our old friend Robert DeNiro, puts a microphone in his hand and forces him to pretend to be a grizzled, grumpy stand-up comic for large chunks of the film\u2019s 2 hour runtime. \u00a0He hates his fame. He hates being recognized as the sitcom character he played 30 years ago. He hates getting old and his brother\u2019s wife and other comics and his agent and his fans and \u2026.. et al.<\/p>\n

His name is Jackie and he is a 2-dimensional \u00a0character that Mr. DeNiro has been stuck in too frequently the past decade or so. \u00a0There is nothing much to like about Jackie. He does not grow much as the film meanders on. He just is. And -worst of all considering the premise- he doesn\u2019t say a single funny thing.
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\nThe Comedian <\/em>is a film made by our out-of-touch elders about being out-of-touch. How does Jackie become relevant again? By becoming \u201cviral\u201d. He continues to have ridiculous situations recorded on i-Phones and dispersed through the thing known as The Internet. Once \u201cviral,\u201d he gets to go on stage and do his abuse humor for the \u201cmillennials\u201d who inexplicably chant his name. Silly stuff.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame really. Director Taylor Hackford has made some good films in the past. Ray, An Officer and a Gentleman <\/em>and The Devil\u2019s Advocate<\/em> illustrate the work of a versatile filmmaker whose prime years may have past. The supporting cast is awesome and it would have been nice if they were given something better to do. Danny DeVito and Harvey Keitel share some scenes with Bobby D. but the opportunity is squandered.<\/p>\n

Leslie Mann is the sole spark in the film. She runs circle around the old men around her and delivers a layered performance. She should have been in a better movie.<\/p>\n

While the script was co-written by the hilarious Jeffery Ross it fails to capture the inside world of comedy despite the effort. It\u2019s a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There just isn\u2019t much funny about The Comedian. Here\u2019s a movie that takes our old friend Robert DeNiro, puts a microphone in his hand and forces him to pretend to be a grizzled, grumpy stand-up comic for large chunks of the film\u2019s 2 hour runtime. \u00a0He hates his fame. He hates being recognized as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12274,17149,19618,20300],"class_list":["post-13524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-leslie-mann","tag-robert-de-niro","tag-taylor-hackford","tag-the-comedian-movie"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}