Amusing Trailer for Robert De Niro's Dark Comedy THE COMEDIAN

The first trailer has been released for Robert De Niro's upcoming dark comedy The Comedian. De Niro stars as "a once-edgy Don Rickles-like stand-up named Jackie Burke. After a successful but safe run on a television sitcom, Jackie charts his haphazard return to the insult-comedy boards."

This isn't the first time that De Niro has played a comedian. Back in In 1983 he starred in a film called The King of Comedy, in which he played Rupert Pupkin, who desperately wanted to be a stand-up comic.

The film was directed by Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman, Ray), and this is what he said about the film in an interview with EW:

“I saw the movie as a dark drama with some comedy, but then we tested it with an audience, and they really laughed hard. So better to call it a dark comedy with drama.”

The film has a great supporting cast that includes Danny DeVito and Patti LuPone as Jackie’s brother and sister-in-law; Edie Falco as his harried business manager; Leslie Mann as his romantic interest; Harvey Keitel as her father; and Billy Crystal as himself.

The Comedian hits theaters on January 13th. I also included a clip from the film that you can watch below the trailer.

The Comedian Official Trailer (2017) Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann Comedy Movie [4K Ultra HD] An aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) has seen better days.  Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played.  Already a strain on his younger brother (Danny DeVito) and his wife (Patti LuPone), Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member.

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