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"Do What You Know." "Not a lot of people realize," sez Steve, "that the dentist character in Little Shop of Horrors is actually based on me: there's very little acting in that scene. Obviously, I'm not a dentist, but the story about torturing cats as a young boy? 100% autobiographical; and I really do love causing other people pain and huffing nitrous." The takeaway? When it comes to writing or performing comedy, the closer the subject is to you, the more authentic you can be, the easier the laughs! Audiences can tell when you're faking it, so don't fake it: be authentically hilarious! After all, as the saying goes, "it's funny because it's true!"
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EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME!!!
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Apr 8, 2019 20:53
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I learned he ain't funny and never has been
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Apr 8, 2019 20:54
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i loving hate steve martin. no joke can anyone explain what his "big break" as a comedian was? cuz i really dont get how he got into the limelight
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End of Shoelace posted:can anyone explain what his "big break" as a comedian was? cuz i really dont get how he got into the limelight Q: what makes Steve Martin like a banana? A: he's very a-ppealing!!! And he's white-- on the outside AND upside! Upside his head, that is! Per the Maestro himself, his hoary locks are the secret sauce in his penne of success, and he has been bleaching his hair since the 1970s. "I like to purify myself," he adds, "inside and out. I am unblemished, washed in the blood of the lamb." Thanks for the tip, Steve!
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Apr 8, 2019 20:58
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End of Shoelace posted:i loving hate steve martin. no joke Wasn’t it SNL?
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Apr 8, 2019 21:12
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The Tears of a Clown Think you have to be cheerful and happy all the time to make other people laugh? Not so, according to Steve! "A lot of comedians are actually very depressed, very dark people," he says. "Christopher Guest, for instance, now I love the guy but he's just a big stick in the mud in person, and comedy is his job. That's just how he is. And the less said about the demons living in Bill [Murray]'s head, the better." Asked if he himself is one of these "Dark Comedians," Steve pauses and talks about his own struggles. "Everyone's got an emptiness in themselves, a hunger right at their core. And it's gonna eat. It can't not eat. You starve it, it'll eat you. So you feed it. You feed it with other people-- your relationships, and everything that you sacrifice to it -- you feed the beast." Good to know that even sad-sacks can get down to the brass tacks of slinging out yucks and raking in the laffs!
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Apr 8, 2019 21:26
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Steve Martin was extremely fortunate that his wacky shtick hit the world at the exact same time everyone started experimenting with drugs
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Apr 8, 2019 21:45
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A Wild and Crazy Guy? Not So Much. Being a comedian and working in theater or the stand-up rotation can make you rich -- rich with laughter, anyway! Where money's concerned, comedy can be as stingy as Scrooge.1 "Gigs" as comedians call them, individual jobs within the "gig economy" that makes up the comedian's world ("or as I prefer to call it, the giggle economy!" -Steve) are unstable, can end without warning, or leave very little lucre left over for financing your life: buying chow, renting beds, &c. How do you get around this? I'll let Steve take over from here. "Index funds, index funds, index funds. Invest early, invest in equities, have the bulk of your investment be in long-term index and mutual funds. Time in the market beats timing the market ... every time." Wise words from a "wild and crazy guy?" Now I've heard everything! 1. Ebenezer Scrooge, a character from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," and a proverbially enormous skinflint, rich as Dives2 and just as dratèd before a miraculous change of heart inspires him with generosity 2. Dives, or "the rich man," found in Luke 16: 19–31, a proverbially enormous skinflint, who is rich and dratèd to eternal torment for his lack of generosity!
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Apr 8, 2019 22:01
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Lesson #37: It doesn't matter how attractive and blonde you are, he still gets really upset if you ask him to wear the nose from Roxanne when you go down on him.
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Apr 8, 2019 22:24
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rubber chicken: funny regular chicken: noisy, sharp beak
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Apr 8, 2019 22:38
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Fart jokes don't put butts in the seats.
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Apr 8, 2019 22:40
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Colonel Cancer posted:Fart jokes don't put butts in the seats. "You could say farts lift butts out of them, even." -Steve Martin
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Apr 8, 2019 23:15
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I like "steve"
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Apr 8, 2019 23:34
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That arrow through the head thing? TOTALLY FAKE!
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Apr 9, 2019 00:23
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so reddit told me steve martin had a party once where he invited a bunch of celebrities and surprised them it was his wedding. Ha!
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Apr 9, 2019 00:24
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What's this about Bill Murray having inner demons?
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Apr 9, 2019 10:09
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“I hadn't seen a body put together like that since I'd solved the case of the Murdered Girl with the Big Tits.” That’s about his best line. I also like the bit where Michael Caine is smashing him across the shins with a poker. Not a lot to show for forty years in movies.
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Instrumental to Success "Learning an instrument is just about the best thing I've done for my act." Steve learned banjo after seeing the comic potential of famous piano-based comedians like Victor Borge and Liberace. "I was never able to wrap my head around keyboards like Vic," Steve smiles as he reminisces, "never understood the all the jokes about twelve-inch pianists and the like. I settled on the banjo because there's something inherently funny about it. Just say the word: banjo. Banjo. Banjo. Jesus Christ. Why do you think that people are still making jokes about Deliverance? It's all in the b - a - n - j -o." So what makes an instrument funny? Steve can't say for sure, but in Lesson 21 he shares an extensive list of the funniest--and frowniest--instruments to use on stage. Top 3? Banjo (of course!), mouth harp, and theremin. The fou-fou bottom bitches of the bunch? Cithara, aulos, and lyre. "Nobody wants to hear anything Greek," Steve says. "I've never met a funny Greek, or an honest one for that matter. Frankly, the entire culture disgusts me." He pauses a moment. "Too much influence from the east-- first Persia, then the Turks. It's ruined them." Firm, but fair!
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Apr 9, 2019 13:44
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Boy these blurbs are hilarious. I sure will pay 100 bucks for this course in funny
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Apr 9, 2019 13:55
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You know that feeling when the steak is on the grill and your mouth is watering? Do vegans feel like that while mowing the lawn?
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Apr 9, 2019 13:58
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Be high on stage
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Apr 9, 2019 14:00
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End of Shoelace posted:i loving hate steve martin. no joke
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Apr 9, 2019 14:46
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 Lesson: you don't need "Groucho Glasses" to inspire chuckling, chortling, etc.! The mustache is optional!
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Apr 9, 2019 14:52
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KING TUT how'd you get so funky!
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Apr 9, 2019 14:54
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He wrote a short fiction novel about a young woman who worked retail that got into a brief but serious relationship with an older man but then gave it up for a comfortable, relaxed love with a young idiot.
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Apr 9, 2019 15:02
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Steve is an old school guy and I appreciate that he likes to go for laughs, but if you want to make it in the game today you gotta be going for gasps, imho.
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Apr 9, 2019 15:06
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Yes like Louis CKs SNL monologue about how great child sex abuse must be for the abuser to continue sexually abusing the child. Good stuff.
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Apr 9, 2019 15:08
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Bonaventure posted:"Index funds, index funds, index funds. Invest early, invest in equities, have the bulk of your investment be in long-term index and mutual funds. Time in the market beats timing the market ... every time." guillotine
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guillotine? good luck: they already shot the man in the head with an arrow and it only made him funnier. this, along with his "wild and crazy" reputation have earned him the sobriquet "The Rasputin of Comedy"
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