The King of Comedy — IQ Score 164/200
The King of Comedy has an IQ Score of 164/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Scorsese's 1982 Robert De Niro / Jerry Lewis film whose Rupert Pupkin — a delusional aspiring comedian who kidnaps a late-night-show host — became more culturally legible after social-media-era parasocial-fame dynamics caught up with the screenplay. Sandra Bernhard's Masha is rare female-grotesque performance treated with sympathy rather than as comic punching.
One of Scorsese's most important works; underseen relative to its quality.
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