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Why Steve Martin Quit Stand Up Comedy
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2021
- Steve Martin was one of the most successful stand up comedians in the history of comedy. At the peak of his career, in the late 70s and early 80s, he was one of the best-selling concert comic in history, his first albums sold over five million copies, and he was casually selling out arenas. And then he walked away. Let's talk about why.
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Hearing Steve read from his book, seeing clips from Steve's concerts, what an incredible evolution you've shown us. Steve's as an artist, and yours as a growing interpreter of the art form he engulfed! Way to go!
That artistic crisis - the 'sad clown' period - it's just so heartbreaking to think someone so beloved and zany could be despairing inside. Dying for a way out. I think a lot about this, about what it might be like to have everything you may have dreamed of, but also the 'so much more' that inevitably comes with it. Wonderful video, thank you.
Thanks. Such accurate commentary. Your comedy brain is impressive. It’s funny, even though I know he quit, I don’t miss him because he style and humour lives on everywhere.
Hi Katie, thanks for inviting us to enjoy a warm beverage and cast our thoughts back to that wild and crazy guy. Enjoyed learning some things I didn't know about him. There's no way you're old enough to have been there at the time, so I find your knowledge and appreciation of comedy impressive and heart warming. Will surely be following along in your future videos and cheering on as your subscriber count deservedly grows :-) All the best wishes from Canada!
Love this! Keep it coming Katie! I hope you haven't given up on the multi-part Spongebob series.
@@KatieMears You're welcome! I can't wait to see your channel blow up!
Really enjoy your videos! Fellow comedy nerd here. Glad you're making more!
I believe there were two Steve Martins in this situation: the Steve Martin who was free to be himself and the Steve Martin who always felt he had to please others. He was so consumed by the latter i.e. maintaining a certain persona - the very persona he created - in front of thousands of people at a time, he lost touch with the former. He had no choice but to quit, for his mental health and his future. Just imagine if he caved in to those audiences’ demands and maintained that persona today.
Simply put: Steve Martin saved Steve Martin from Steve Martin.
Love your videos. Especially these two about Steve. Such a mega talent in a very humble guy. And to think it all started at Disneyland.
Awesome! You should do a video on Janeane Garofalo at some point. My understanding is she basically created the American alternative comedy scene.
I also think her half hour special is a good as stand up gets. 🙂
This was a really great commentary!!
This is wonderful. You're a lovely soul. Stay blessed!
Thanks for this and also all your videos, your perspective on comedians are interesting and complete, even if we're not super familiar with them.
It made me laugh to see Tim Minchin appear in this. He hasn't really defined himself as a comedian, even at the time, but do you plan to talk about musical comedy more specifically?
Steve Martin didn't quit anything-he's an artist who looked for other canvases, mediums.
Artists sculp, paint, etch, charcoal drawings... They all come from the same brain and end up on a different canvas
Doing stand-up show on stage limits your comedy- having an entire canvas of a movie, various characters allows his talent to come out.
He knows how to read the room!
His Netflix special with Martin Short was great, but I'm glad he switched to movies. His stand-up was too Steve Martinish. It would have gotten boring
REASONS STEVE QUIT: 1. He said interviews-very surprising-that he never actually set out to be a standup comedian. He said it just happened by accident. 2. He felt he was getting too old to keep playing the zany frantic comic. 3. He found it was getting too tough being on the road and too expensive as well. 4. He wanted to start a film career.
If you go to one of his banjo/blue grass shows, he does a bunch of joking between songs. So it kind of feels like a mini standup set.
I love your videos, greetings from Mexico!
You are a bright and entertaining young lady. I enjoy your videos.
I was thinking of the Tim Minchin line and then you dropped it in.
Love this I'm from Latinoamérica and I want to do stand up so I'm doing my homework with you thank you
also loooove the narrated bits from his audio book
"Steve Martin('s standup) didn't die, it just changed form and became Rory Scovel and James Acaster and Mike Birbiglia"
- me as a middle school standup teacher
Don't forget one person that was during his time that was also really off the wall Robin Williams 1978 and was indeed younger and unique. Richard Pryor 1979 also snl Monty python George Carlin and the one who died for this freedom Lenny bruce
I'm not going to compare the two, but Steve Martin was the original long before Robin Williams.
You're missing the most important decade of Martin's career, we fans of his entire career, remember him from the early 70s. He made his mark on the smothers Brothers show in 1967? 68?
Although they're wearing suits, they were pushing the boundaries for TV.
SNL, back when it was funny.
You probably don't know in your lifetime, but there was censorship. SNL & Smothers Brothers pushed that-Steve Martin became a writer. His type of comedy had great influence on Lorne Greene
But I think most take something for granted-
There would be censors right on the edge of the stage ready to shut down the show. they would quickly cut to commercials.
Being funny under censorship and those constraints? That takes talent, intellect.
Rolling Stones had to change their lyrics on The Ed Sullivan show- "Let's spend some time together" instead of "let's spend the night together"
They covered up the bottom half of Elvis when he was on the show cuz of the gyrating hips.
You think they sold out? You wouldn't know who they are if they didn't compromise.
You're totally missing his best work and most significant influence on many of us. They were very limited with words, so he also used magic, music, physical humor.... All the words have been said.
With all due respect, Robin Williams came after Steve Martin, and was fueled by something very dark.
Martin came out during the height of Vietnam, Munich Olympics assassinations, Cold war, gas crisis, the terrorism, hijackings and kidnappings were horrific
He knew he had to make us all laugh.
We didn't have government entitlement programs & hand outs. People had to work. Lot of people hitchhiking to work during the gas crisis era..
We knew somebody who knew somebody whose son or cousin did not return from Vietnam.
Life was heavy and Steve Martin was making us laugh for a decade before Robin Williams came along.
By the mid-70s, bicentennial, Rocky, Star wars took us to another place
Comedy became very cynical, Redd Foxx, Archie Bunker, George Carlin, MASH, dumb blondes...
Steve Martin took a different approach. He laughed at all of us, himself first.
the late sixties and early seventies were when we needed someone like Steve Martin.
After that, he became a TV & movie star. We saw Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams come in behind him.
I'd say Richard Pryor was about the same career timeline as Steve Martin.
Another example of a comedian gone too far
Yet martin obviously didn't go too far with that stuff, always seemed to have his feet planted on Earth.
This man will always hold a special place in our hearts-he gave us the gift of laughter when we faced some of the most challenging financial times since the depression, horrific scenes this new fangled thing called "a TV", showed us.
Life was tough. Long before Robin Williams came & went
not a big deal but just so you know The Jerk came out in 1979
Steve Martin was and has always been my favorite. wish i could have seen him with his band.
@@KatieMears all good
I still have the original albums comedy is not pretty and wild and crazy guy i was like 7 or 8 i think not exactly sure i was young.
It's the bluegrass awards for me :')
I honestly had always seen a bit of him in Bo Burnham's specials
U-R-B-A-UTIFUL
I was actually unfamiliar with steve martin's stand up, after this series of videos I will be checking it out for sure
I don't think Steve Martin has ever made me laugh, ever.
what are you doing watching this video then?