A Remake of The King of Comedy, But With Violence Added

Rating: 5/10 (20 January 2020)

IMHO it looks like the writer has been strongly influenced by The King of Comedy.
It is ironic that Joker and The King of Comedy start the same, but even more so that Robert De Nero's character is nearly exactly the same.
In The King of Comedy De Nero's delusional character imagines himself being a comedian, and by the end of the movie is one (as an audience we don't know if he is imagining it or not).
Fast forward to the time of the Joker and it is plausible that De Nero's "King" character would have his own show by now (and has moved to Gotham).
So much of Joker appears to have been copied from The King of Comedy.
The difference is that the pacing in Joker is so painfully slow, and the Joker has violence added.
Once again the curse of having the same person who has written the script directing as well means there is no one to tell the writer what isn't working.
This is a very dark, slow and almost boring joke.