Lonely comedian

Dorothy 2022-10-06 21:32:32

Tom Hanks is such a great actor. And what is the most common sentence in the commentary of the movie he starred in? ——"Seriously underestimated."

Words such as "severely underrated", "not surprisingly misunderstood", and "overlooked" appear repeatedly in different low-scoring movies under his name. Tom Hanks has starred in many well-known works, and he also has some less well-known films, with sad ratings and simple appearance. These small round beads are quietly shining under the bright and silky light of many huge pearls, but they are usually covered with a layer of dust. As long as you breathe gently, you can see an absolutely rare beauty.

Punchline is one of the little pearls.


Tom Hanks can perform countless kinds of personalities. His flexibility, exquisiteness and exquisiteness, and agility teaches people amazement, and his ability to dig out beauty in each character is even more surprising. But Steven was originally a beautiful person, even though he was ugly and sick at the same time.

Shining on the stage as freely as a fish bathed in light, Steven undoubtedly has outstanding talents. He easily responded to the audience's laughter, and the thread in his hand moved quickly, as if pulling a puppet. Theater colleagues called him a "natural comedian". After Steven's cynical statement, Lilah naturally yelled out the sentence: "A person like you treats everything in life as a joke."

Steven stern: "No, the reason why I can be a great comedian is because everything in my life is not a joke."

This is a genius comedic attitude. At the same time, as a frustrated young man who was expelled from the medical school, he struggled with the rent, the indifference of his roommates, and the cascading laughter under the stage, remembering to try to feed the birds in front of the window.

Steven's indifference, disdain, and pain are obvious. His dilemma explains a little bit, and then illuminates it. Following his anxious words and nervous brows, we sneaked into his heart and caught a glimpse of a sharp shadow. This thin phantom swelled into a huge, bloated haze in the light of scrutiny that suddenly struck at night. The emotions that don't understand restraint let it burst, so he collapsed, and he got a comment from the boss who once generously gifted his appreciation and closeness to "emotional instability and doubtful ability".

The ugly reality confirmed his comedic posture.

Pain created his fragility, nourished his sharpness, shaped his smoothness, and achieved his defense. But the pain doesn't resolve itself, it just hides it clumsily.


If you want to evaluate Steven's love, you should use these words: passion, determination, and determination. He talked about "marriage" seriously, even though he was indifferent and driven away from her a few days ago, but not long after he fell into her arms, tears fell crazily, like running to a sponge, and the warmth was also not at that time. Love did not breed. To explain Steven's love, the flash of a kind woman, on the stage, in the sight, in the dream, in the nest of comfort and calmness, is the eternal star. More importantly, Steven had to dissect himself in order to paralyze himself, and with a cut of blood, he brought out a smile. And Lilah came to the stage to drive away the numbness, to illuminate himself, to raise laughter. Steven praised her for being really funny because she had the seeds of happiness in her heart. Absolutely noble, absolutely correct. Comedy grew up in his life, and a man who was entangled in laughter could not help but indulge in a woman who can naturally induce laughter.


Lilah had a terrible haircut, and she returned home with tears, surrounded by support, comfort and praise, and love. Lilah himself showed hope, and hope came to her as expected. The doomed split between Lilah and Steven, after performing in a desperate and crazy rain, has been cruelly written, but it will still happen slowly. In the face of embarrassment, life seems like never knowing how to exit, like rain condensed on the skin, a high fever that has not retreated. The final selection in the club appropriately ends, arranging and clearing everything up.

We still ushered in some surprises. Lilah is confident, dazzling, and beautiful, conquering all smiles. But Steven did not lose sight. Perhaps as he said to Lilah before taking the stage-"You make my victory a little harder." For him, victory is never impossible. The talent born for stand-up comedy performance will not be crushed by the audience, judges, and competitions, but will only be soft and angry in front of the source of pain that directly stings the nature of his comedy. After countless soft and soul-shocking scenes, countless words that bind the knife and hide the chronic poison, when the future is clear, the film can also set off a storm at the end. In the last performance, Steven's voice was bleeding, and his eyes were bright chaos. On the screen, the frantic laughter is like a slogan, making everyone uniformly climb steep and happy, but it did not eliminate the unhappiness in the moment. Outside the screen, the corners of the mouth were raised up to become an ugly symbol, accompanied by endless laughter, and the eyebrows and back were cramped, and the unreasonable rain fell in panic in his heart, piercing the ground bit by bit.

Lilah won the championship, and life completed its timely irony. But when success wraps her, hope also wraps her. A happy heart is also rich in tenderness. Lilah returns to the family, and Steven is taken away from love.

Steven was returned to success, and the opportunity he desperately needed fell into his hands in the rotation of fate. Touched by the body temperature of the woman he loved before. This happened after the biggest black comedy. The weak Billy, the warmth of his colleagues, and the only calm laughter have been thrown away. This gift carried twists and turns, and instead of kicking it away, Steven reached out to take it. The gasp in the stairwell was like a gloomy prophecy; the judges were stern and admired, and the endless surging people and things around, like an endless corridor; Steven stood alone in the darkness at the edge of the spotlight, like a desperate posture, burning together Of ice.

The light that had melted the laughter was gone. There is only one lonely comedian left on the stage.

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Extended Reading

Punchline quotes

  • Steven: We are all Gods animated cartoons.

  • Steven Gold: I've been coming down here for 18 months. 18 months! And I have not missed a night. I take the money that my father sends me and I pay for a shrink, and I buy groceries. Now I owe my shrink, and I'm behind in my rent. My roommate's a bastard - he's changed the locks in in my front door - I can't get in! He won't give me a key until I pay him. You wanna play games? I can play games! I can play games. I can play ventriloquist with my underwear. I can play darts while maintaining an erection. I can gargle dishwater and fart O Canada at the same time! I can play piano without being popular. I once had this dream - I was dancing on the streetcorner with a jackhammer up my ass - now that was either a sex dream or I need more fiber in my diet. If any of this is turning you on, just let me know.