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Parents need to know that The King of Comedy is director Martin Scorsese's disturbing examination of the corrupting nature of fame and its troubling effect on mentally unstable people who seek it. The language never gets much rougher than "bastard" and "schmuck," but the central character is a sociopath who obeys no boundaries, neither social nor legal. After he resorts to kidnapping a comic whose talk show he wants to be on, his comedy routine reveals a childhood dominated by abusive alcoholic parents, bullying, and beatings at school. A mentally unstable woman strips to her bra and panties in the hope of making love with the celebrity she has kidnapped.