Split Picks: Scorsese Pt. 1: 'The King of Comedy'

In the first two-part Split Picks, Robert Delany, Bennett Glace, and host Craig Wright take a deep look at two Martin Scorsese films that share little on the surface. The first, The King of Comedy (1982), features a Scorsese/Robert De Niro pairing that follows a wannabe comedian who takes a chance encounter with his hero to the ultimate extreme. The upcoming second episode focuses on Silence (2016), the third religious epic of Scorsese's career. Though 1980s comedians and 17th Century Christian missionaries in Japan share few similarities, Rob, Bennett, and Craig explore the filmmaker's traits that appear across his body of work and link these films with those of his mob epics.