The Comedy Man is a 1964 British kitchen sink realism drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff and starring Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price and Billie Whitelaw.

More said that "the public won't accept me as a stevedore or as a Liverpool truck driver, so I've been prevented until now from making a realistic subject, although its something that I've been longing to do".

The mood totters uneasily from farce (leaking roofs, lavatory jokes, witless running gags) to tragedy (Jack's suicide, his widow's grief, the funeral).

The dialogue could have been left over from a second-rate play of the Thirties, and an attempt has been made to add the contemporary touch by sprinkling it with "bastards" and adding two of those irrelevant naked-between-the-sheets scenes which are now standard X certificate fare.

"[8] According to Robin Karney, writing for Radio Times, the film was "written by Peter Yeldham with a nice balance between irony and drama, and directed by Alvin Rakoff with an accurate eye for the dingy environments and brave bonhomie of unemployed actors".

[9] Allmovie wrote that "matching More's terrific starring performance are such British 'regulars' as Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Cecil Parker, Norman Rossington and Frank Finlay".