Indeed, there are many different ways to be funny. Scorsese and De Niro’s 1983 collaboration, The King of Comedy, is certainly funny at times, but, despite the name, it is far from a comedy.

This 1988 comedy stars Tom Hanks as Steven Gold, a struggling medical school student who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. When Steven meets mother and housewife Lilah Krytsick (Sally Field), the ...

King of Comedy and Fight Club both capture a particular American zeitgeist: the former is about celebrity worship in the 1980s, while the latter is about the backlash against consumerism in the 1990s.

From the 1983 movie The King of Comedy to the 2019 biographical film Dolemite Is My Name, there are a number of pics that tell the stories of characters that work in the stand-up comedy industry.