Say what you want about Lewis, but … Together they plot to put Pupkin over the top in the comedy world by kidnapping the most recognizable talk show host on the planet: Jerry Lewis’ Jerry Langford.. During the end of Scorsese’s movie, reality and delusion are blurred when Rupert seems to become, or at least fantasizes about, the future of late night TV. Does the audience hear the sociopathic ravings of a deluded kidnapper killing time in stir or is history played out in a timeline? He was already an American institution who was also a subversive auteur by 1982, especially when he was given a chance to direct himself. The way the announcer repeats his name at the end is like he is lingering on his favourite part of the fantasy. The year after he went to jail, there would probably be a one-year anniversary special report. Out of curiosity, do you happen to go to school in St. Louis? 主人公パブキン（ロバートデニーロ）はコメディアン志望で、超絶人気コメディアンのジェリーの大ファン。 パプキンがジェリーを熱狂的なファンから守るところから物語は始まります。 ジェリーを守ったパプキンはそのまま彼の車に乗り込み、自分を売り込みます。 そうなんです…彼が一番のやばいやつなんです。 ._2cHgYGbfV9EZMSThqLt2tx{margin-bottom:16px;border-radius:4px}._3Q7WCNdCi77r0_CKPoDSFY{width:75%;height:24px}._2wgLWvNKnhoJX3DUVT_3F-,._3Q7WCNdCi77r0_CKPoDSFY{background:var(--newCommunityTheme-field);background-size:200%;margin-bottom:16px;border-radius:4px}._2wgLWvNKnhoJX3DUVT_3F-{width:100%;height:46px} With the movie set in 1981, and Phoenix playing the future Joker as a struggling comedian with aspirations of stardom, it doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots with Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy.” In an interview with IndieWire, De Niro confirmed that his role was a nod to that earlier performance. If we want to be cynical and optimistic, then we can say the ending is truth. They (i.e., Martin and De Niro) plays with your emotions far more here than in other films, where the protagonist plays one straight character and maintains it for the rest of the movie. And all the bit players would have gotten spinoffs by then, including Marsha. His story would have been on the New Year’s Eve best stories of the year. I agree with montypython22. Maybe that's what Martin Scorsese wants, it only adds to the absurdity of American Pop-culture and HOW things become relatively 'famous'--well,well before a time of social media, and internet, so the only thing standing in someone's way of becoming 'famous' is an outrageous act caught on national television. In the film’s final moments, Pupkin is apparently in the big house when a newscast reports, “Rupert Pupkin, kidnapping king of comedy was sentenced to six years imprisonment at the government’s minimum security facility in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, for his part in the abduction of talk show host Jerry Langford. Scorsese's 'The Irishman' Won't Be Finished by Cannes, as Netflix Plans to Skip Festival, CinemaCon: Warner Bros. Conversely, it could just be a final statement on the absurdity of celebrity culture in America and I can genuinely imagine something like this actually happening.