For me, Steve Martin is a little like Mash. It took some life-mileage under my belt before I really got it. This book deepened my appreciation for him more than any of his albums or movies ever has. Well done, Steve.
Enjoyable enough and a quick read, Steve Martin's memoir of his life to date in comedy includes events and examples that some of us remember, but touches only lightly on his romantic relationships. More than you'd expect about his relationship with his parents, however.
Despite the popular catchphrase associated with him during the peak of his stand-up comedy career in the late 70s, it turns out that Steve Martin never was much of a a wild and crazy guy after all. He actually took being funny very seriously, although until he wrote this book, he hadn't taken a ...
"I was born a poor black child" from the lips of Steve Martin struck me as one of the funniest things I'd ever heard when I was 7. At that young age and for years after, his humor resinated with me and I never fully understood why until reading his autobio, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life. Martin's...
I didn’t read this book I got an unabridged CD from the library and listened to it. I listen to audio books when I cycle so I can still hear the traffic.This one was read by Steve Martin- so it was more like him telling you the story of his life as a stand up comic. I didn’t ut it down – or didn’t t...
At the outset, Martin sets the tone of this by calling it a biography, not an autobiography: "...I'm writing about someone I used to know."I suppose this is true of all autobiography, but this book is really more of a memoir. It's a well-focused examination of Martin's development into a comedian,...
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