Link good and evening so they run as one phrase.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Let me introduce myself.The King of Comedy · 1982 — 第 21 / 21 章 · 3'50" · B2
Rupert Pupkin's Stand-Up Monologue, Explained：down payment
On stage, Rupert plays his miserable childhood for laughs, asking if anyone is from Clifton. The jokes about an alcoholic mother and an absent father are so polished, and so painful, that it's hard to tell where the act ends. "That was the only attention my father ever gave me," he says, and the room keeps laughing.
あらすじ
Rupert Pupkin steps in front of a live audience and introduces himself as a nobody from Clifton, New Jersey. Over the next few minutes he turns his parents' neglect, his mother's drinking and his father's indifference into a tight stand-up routine, closing on the boast that he was the youngest kid in his school's history to graduate in traction.
注目の表現
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このシーンの表現
down payment
an initial payment
Rupert talks about his childhood as something his parents could only partly pay for.
They put a down payment on a small flat and paid the rest for thirty years.
このシーンの他の表現
- federal offense
a serious federal crime
- loaded
drunk; spiked
- clocked
measured the speed
- 2 percent blood
alcohol laced with a little blood
- work something into
insert something into
このシーンのメモ一覧
48 行のセリフに 32 件のメモ
a serious federal crime
I was born in Clifton, New Jersey, which was not at that time a federal offense.nonrestrictive relative clause: The which clause adds a comment on Clifton; the main sentence survives without it.
I was born in Clifton, New Jersey, which was not at that time a federal offense.too to pattern: Too poor links with to afford on the next line to mean too poor to do it.
Now, I'd like to begin by saying that my parents were too poor...drop under a set standard
Once you fall below a certain level, they exile you to Passaic.misunderstand someone
Don't get me wrong.because of, owing to
But like everyone else, I grew up in large part thanks to my mother.counterfactual if-clause: Were signals an unreal condition: she is not actually here.
If she were only here today, I'd say:when classes end
We used to drink milk together after school. Mine was homogenized, hers was loaded.used to past habit: Used to drink marks a past habit that no longer holds now.
We used to drink milk together after school. Mine was homogenized, hers was loaded.Used to often blurs into a single sound, the d almost gone.
We used to drink milk together after school. Mine was homogenized, hers was loaded.drunk — Casual among friends; keep it out of formal talk.
We used to drink milk together after school. Mine was homogenized, hers was loaded.police stopped and detained her Here it means police stopped her, not collected her.
Once they picked her up for speeding. They clocked her doing 50.measured the speed — Common in speech and news; use measure in writing.
Once they picked her up for speeding. They clocked her doing 50.trickle slowly down
...until the tears would stroll down her face and she would throw up! Yeah.tidy or clear away
And who would clean it up? Ha, not Dad.a mark of growing up
In fact, until I was 16, I thought throwing up was a sign of maturity.smoke in secret
While the other kids were off in the woods sneaking cigarettes...forcing oneself to vomit
...I was hiding behind the house with my fingers down my throat.made no progress
The only problem was I never got anywhere, until one day my father caught me.vomit all over
...I managed to heave all over his new shoes!throw up — Very casual, far looser than vomit.
...I managed to heave all over his new shoes!in the end, actually
But, as it turned out, I was wrong.playing a ball game
Yeah, he was usually too busy out in the park playing ball with my sister Rose.developed into
...my sister Rose has grown into a fine man.Picked on links into something like pick-ton.
The only exercise I ever got was when the other kids picked on me.one time per week
They used to beat me up once a week, usually Tuesday.bonus school points
And if you knocked me out, you got extra credit.child — Informal for a child; fine in everyday talk.
Except there was this one kid. Poor kid. He was afraid of me.The t in hit flaps between vowels, close to hid-me.
I used to tell him, "Hit me, hit me! What's the matter with you?want to — Everyday speech only; never in formal writing.
Don't you wanna graduate?"ever recorded in
As for me, hey, I was the youngest kid in the history of the school to graduate in traction.「Rupert Pupkin's Stand-Up Monologue」を読み解く
What's really going on
Everything Rupert says is a joke with a wound under it. He tells the room his father only ever touched him to kick him — "That was the only attention my father ever gave me" — then waits for the laugh instead of the pity, because the laugh is the only attention he knows how to ask for. The routine reads as rehearsal for survival: if he can package the beatings, the drinking and the shame into a story that lands, then none of it was wasted, and the audience's laughter becomes the love his family never gave him. What's chilling is the control: this is not a man breaking down on stage, it is a man who has practiced turning his worst memories into material until they finally pay off.
Theme
Dark humorA brutal childhood gets polished into punchlines; the audience laughs at lines that should only hurt.
LonelinessEvery gag is a plea for attention, and the applause becomes the family he never had.
このチャプターで学べること
- A born-in-nowhere joke can carry a whole act.
- Loaded milk hides a drunk mother in plain sight.
- Every beating is retold until it earns a laugh.
- Traction is the punchline, not the injury.
発音のポイント
- Good evening — Link good and evening so they run as one phrase.
- used to — Used to often blurs into a single sound, the d almost gone.
- picked on — Picked on links into something like pick-ton.
- Hit me — The t in hit flaps between vowels, close to hid-me.
I was born in Clifton, New Jersey, which was not at that time a federal offense.A deadpan put-down of his hometown: he introduces his own birth as a crime he's lucky wasn't prosecutable.
But my parents did put the first two down payments on my childhood.He recasts parenting as a mortgage — his parents only ever paid the first installments on a childhood they never finished buying.
That was the only attention my father ever gave me.The punchline exposes the wound under every joke: a single kick to the stomach was the total of his father's interest in him.
As for me, hey, I was the youngest kid in the history of the school to graduate in traction.He ends on a boast that is secretly a confession — proud of surviving a childhood that put him in a hospital bed.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Rupert joke about his own miserable childhood?
Because laughter is the only attention he knows how to ask for. Turning the beatings and neglect into material lets him control them, so the routine plays less like an outpouring than like an audition.
Why does he ask whether anyone in the audience is from Clifton?
It's a crowd-work move. He makes his embarrassing hometown a shared joke and then 'reassures' the room that no one has to be from there, which buys the audience's sympathy before the darker material.
Is the story about his childhood supposed to be true?
The film deliberately never confirms it. Rupert delivers even the worst memories as a polished act, so you can't tell where genuine memory ends and written material begins.
What does 'in traction' mean in his closing line?
It means being bedridden with weights pulling on a broken bone. His proudest boast — the youngest kid in the school's history to graduate that way — is really a confession about how badly he was beaten.
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第 1 章big breakRupert Pupkin Pitches Jerry in the Car
第 2 章start at the bottomRupert Pitches His Act to Jerry
第 3 章take overRupert Rehearses Taking Over the Show
第 4 章didn't have the nerveRupert Asks Rita Out After 15 Years
第 5 章gift for comedyRupert Signs Rita's Autograph Book
第 6 章the go-aheadRupert's New King of Comedy Speech
第 7 章in a meetingRupert Repeatedly Calls Jerry Langford
第 8 章broke bread withMasha Confronts Rupert in the Street
第 9 章made itRupert Rehearses His Big TV Debut
第 10 章amount to a hill of beansCathy Long Turns Rupert Down
第 11 章drop inRupert and Rita Crash Jerry's House
第 12 章take a hintJerry Throws Rupert Out
第 13 章false moveRupert and Masha Kidnap Jerry
第 14 章a pain in the neckJerry Langford's Hostage Call
第 15 章a two-way streetJerry Apologizes at Gunpoint
第 16 章on the spur of the momentStudio Debates Airing the Kidnapper
第 17 章blow your mindMasha's Lonely Night Confession
第 18 章authorized personnelRupert Bluffs His Way Into the Studio
第 19 章the right to remain silentPupkin Gets Read His Rights
第 20 章a shot atRupert Pupkin's TV Debut
再生中 · 第 21 章down paymentRupert Pupkin's Stand-Up Monologueこの作品の 21 章はここまでです