Steve Martin is an actor that I was always fond of, not really a huge fan of, until about two years ago. Two years ago, I purchased "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin" on DVD from a used CD/DVD store in Halifax, took it home and watched it one night. I probably shouldn't have watched it ...
This is a quick read. It's engaging in a gentle, conversational way. It is not a celebrity tell-all. It's interesting to read about the origins of various bits that became part of his comedy routine, and fascinating to learn about the arc of his show business career. He comes across as private, ...
I'm not sure how I ended up reading an autobiography of Steve Martin, probably because the cover caught my eye and I think it's cool that he picks a mean banjo. I'm not a huge fan, but despite that, it was a pretty fascinating glimpse into a world and career I knew almost nothing about. Show busines...
Steven Martin's a smart cookie and thoughtful so I expected this book to a bit more than it was. Still I loved listening to it (he narrates), and appreciated that his focus was not on the personal (although that enters a bit) as much as on his development of his comedy routine. He talks about his co...
Basically what Josh said. I liked it, but the language is so still and formal that there were times it actually made me cringe in embarrassment for him. Don't take it all so seriously, guy. Say some jokes about it.
An awesome present!Born Standing Up is Steve Martin sharing the foundations of his own kind of comedy: his preferences in performers, his attention to style, his building of a repertoire and eventually, a name; and Born Standing Up is enjoyable because it doesn’t attempt to be encyclopedic, it doesn...
This funny, heartwarming tale outlines Martin's personal and comic evolution from his first job at Knotts Berry Farm all the way to Saturday Night Live You'll finally find out where all that silliness came from! Read by the author.
In the late 1970's, Steve Martin burst on the scene as if out of nowhere, but he was no overnight success. From his first job selling guidebooks at Disneyland, he was working on his act. Born Standing Up is the story of how a 10-year-old boy evolved a legendary comedy act. [ full review here ]
I like Martin's prose, and I love his comedy--so I read (and relished) this for its crisp style and its occasional very fine assessments of how (his) comedy works. "Works" in the specific material sense--how to travel and do stand-up, how to work in the business of comedy. But also in the theoreti...
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