Friday, January 25, 2008
More Steve - Excerpt
Just got through reading Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin - hence the earlier post - which if you have a sense of humor I would recommend, no demand, you read as soon as possible.
At any rate, on with the excerpt....
Mixed reviews continued. At the end of my closing-night show at the Troubadour, I stood onstage and took out five bananas. I peeled them, pit one on my head, one in each pocket, and squeezed one in each hand. Then I read the last line of my latest bad review: "Sharing the bill with Poco this week is comedian Steve Martin...his twenty-five minute routine failed to establish any comic identity that would make the audience remember him or the material." Then I walked off the stage.
Labels: Comedy, Excerpt
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