Martin Scorsese’s Daughter Makes Him Say That ‘The King of Comedy’ Was ‘Slept On’ in Viral TikTok
In the unholy intersection of online film fandom and degenerate Gen Z TikTok terminology, could there ever be crafted a more cursed comment than, “Rupert Pupkin had no rizz”?
When TikTok in which she challenges her revered father to guess the meaning of her generation’s slang by using sample sentences related to some of his masterworks in a five-minute exercise that could give the average Baby Boomer or above a hospital-level migraine.
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When sca quizzed him to define the phrase “slept on” by telling him “The King of Comedy was slept on,” the director’s interpretation was, “People hated it when it came out.”
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“‘It was the flop of the year,’ that’s what it was called. On Entertainment Tonight!” Scorsese recalled with 40-years-fresh frustration. “At New Year’s Eve, ‘83 to ‘84,” he ed vividly while his Zoomer daughter stared into the camera with concerned incredulity.
Despite missing the mark on “slept on,” Scorsese would score very highly on the Gen Z slang quiz, with the only other stumbling blocks being the phrases “sneaky link,” “ship” and “simp.” With his project Killers of the Flower Moon clocking in at a daunting 206-minute runtime, securing the attention of a generation that’s famously deficient in the area is clearly a priority for Scorsese as he seeks to break even on the film’s weighty $200 million budget and indulging his daughter in the slang quiz may increase his clout among the Zoomers.
Of course, if Scorsese ever wants to learn more about what teens-to-20-year-olds are saying, he can always just ask Leonardo DiCaprio to bring his girlfriend to set.
