I honestly think this is one of Nic's best.
it is, mainly because it's also one of the best surreal dark comedies ever made.
I don't think the director intended it to be a dark comedy (I think he had no idea what he was doing) but it turned into this giant WTF with Nicolas Cage as the actor.
this commentary says it all
interesting because the writer, joseph minion, also wrote 'after hours' which is the only good scorsese comedy (i think kings of comedy was considered a terrible movie). also one of the producers (besides the writers at the time girlfriend) was barry shils who lives just a few blocks away from me :)
King of Comedy isn't a comedy.