![]() ![]() "Relax, don't shake," one note said.įor Martin, a big breakthrough came when he realized he wanted to do comedy with no punch lines. When he was about 15, Martin kept a notebook with self-criticism of his early performances in front of the Kiwanis and Cub Scouts. "That sort of change my life because it was a way I could perform," he says. "I had a load of laughs, but not at home."Īs a kid, Martin worked at Disneyland, first selling guidebooks ("I was making a fortune, 2 cents a book"), then as a cowboy trick-roper in Frontierland and later in the magic shop. ![]() Martin spent much of his life looking for affirmation from his father, who didn't speak to him much - "only to criticize or be stern. I didn't have any gifts except perseverance." "I think it's somehow an American story in a strange way, because I started untalented. "I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?" he tells Renee Montagne. Martin now views his early self with surprising warmth. In the end, there were giant arenas and a life suffused, as he puts it, with a "freakish celebrity aura." ![]() In the beginning, there was a string of small, quirky stages like the drive-in movie theater, where the audience honked at the punch lines. Martin calls his new book Born Standing Up a biography rather than an autobiography of a guy he used to know. Steve Martin gave up stand-up comedy in 1981, at the height of his fame, moving on to acting and writing. ![]()
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