“The Comedian” (**1/2 out of four) was an endearing comedy about an over-the-hill stand-up comic (Robert De Niro) trying to salvage what’s left of his career and subsequently falls in love with a younger woman (Leslie Mann) whose the daughter of his former rival (Harvey Keitel). Uneven and overlong but has some laughs and features a perfect role for De Niro, and provides a reunion for him and Keitel and also him and his former “Midnight Run” co-star Charles Grodin. Danny De Vito also has a good role as De Niro’s brother. An interesting companion piece also to De Niro’s classic “The King Of Comedy”.