Steve Martin Explained

Steve Martin
Birth Name:Stephen Glenn Martin
Birth Date:14 August 1945
Birth Place:Waco, Texas, U.S.
Active:1966–present
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Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and an Honorary Academy Award,[1] in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards. He also received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.[2] The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.[3]

Martin first came to public notice as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1969, and later as a frequent host on Saturday Night Live. He became one of the most popular U.S. stand-up comedians during the 1970s, performing his brand of offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before sold-out theaters on national tours. Martin went on to star in film roles, including such films as The Jerk (1979), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The Man with Two Brains (1983), All of Me (1984), ¡Three Amigos! (1986), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), L.A. Story (1991), Bowfinger (1999) and (2003). He played family patriarchs in Parenthood (1989), the Father of the Bride films (1991–1995), and the Cheaper by the Dozen films (2003–2005).

Since 2015, Martin has embarked on several national comedy tours with fellow comedian Martin Short.[4] In 2018, they released their Netflix special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life which received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2021, he co-created and starred in his first television show, the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building, alongside Short and Selena Gomez, for which he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award nomination, and a 2021 Peabody Award nomination. In 2022, Martin and Short co-hosted Saturday Night Live together with Gomez making an appearance.

Martin is also known for writing the books to the musical Bright Star (2016) and to the comedy Meteor Shower (2017), both of which premiered on Broadway; he co-wrote the music to the former. He has played banjo since an early age and has included music in his comedy routines from the beginning of his professional career. He has released several music albums and has performed with various bluegrass acts, including Earl Scruggs, with whom he won a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 2002. His first solo music album, (2009) received the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.[5]

Early life and education

Stephen Glenn Martin was born on August 14, 1945[6] [7] in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1913–2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914–1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor.[8] [9] He has an older sister, Melinda.[10]

Martin is of English, Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish, German, and French descent and grew up in Inglewood, California, with his sister and then later in Garden Grove, California, in a Baptist family. Steve was a cheerleader at Garden Grove High School.[11] One of his earliest memories is seeing his father, as an extra serving drinks onstage at the Callboard Theater on Melrose Place in West Hollywood, California. During World War II, in the United Kingdom, his father appeared in a production of Our Town with Raymond Massey. Expressing his affection through gifts like cars and bikes, Steve's father was stern and not emotionally open to his son. He was proud but critical, with Steve later recalling that in his teens his feelings for his father were mostly of hatred.[12]

Steve Martin's first job was at Disneyland, selling guidebooks on weekends and full-time during his school's summer break. The work lasted for three years (1955–1958). During his free time, he frequented the Main Street Magic shop, where tricks were demonstrated to patrons. While working at Disneyland, he was captured in the background of the home movie that was made into the short-subject film Disneyland Dream, incidentally becoming his first film appearance. By 1960, he had mastered several magic tricks and illusions and took a paying job at the Magic shop in Fantasyland in August. There he perfected his talents for magic, juggling, and creating balloon animals in the manner of mentor Wally Boag, frequently performing for tips.

In his authorized biography, close friend Morris Walker suggests that Martin could "be described most accurately as an agnostic ... he rarely went to church and was never involved in organized religion of his own volition". In his early 20s, Martin dated Melissa Trumbo, daughter of novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

After high school, Martin attended Santa Ana College, taking classes in drama and English poetry. In his free time, he teamed up with friend and Garden Grove High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to participate in comedies and other productions at the Bird Cage Theatre. He joined a comedy troupe at Knott's Berry Farm. Later, he met budding actress Stormie Sherk, and they developed comedy routines and became romantically involved. Sherk's influence caused Martin to apply to the California State University, Long Beach, for enrollment with a major in philosophy. Sherk enrolled at UCLA, about an hour's drive north, and the distance eventually caused them to lead separate lives.

Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. Being at college changed his life. Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think: Martin periodically spoofed his philosophy studies in his 1970s stand-up act, comparing philosophy with studying geology.

In 1967, Martin transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater. While attending college, he appeared in an episode of The Dating Game, winning a date with Deana Martin. Martin began working local clubs at night, to mixed notices, and at twenty-one, he dropped out of college.[13]

Career

Stand-up comedy

Late night

In 1967, his former girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, helped Martin land a writing job with the show by submitting his work to head writer Mason Williams. Williams initially paid Martin out of his own pocket. Along with the other writers for the show, Martin won an Emmy Award[14] in 1969 at the age of twenty-three. He wrote for The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Martin's first television appearance was on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1968. He says: During these years his roommates included Gary Mule Deer and Michael Johnson. Gary Mule Deer supplied the first joke Martin submitted to Tommy Smothers for use on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour show.[15] Martin opened for groups such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (who returned the favor by appearing in his 1980 television special All Commercials), The Carpenters, and Toto. He appeared at The Boarding House, among other venues. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke and Company in 1976.In the mid-1970s, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and on The Gong Show, HBO's On Location, The Muppet Show,[16] and NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL). SNL audience jumped by a million viewers when he made guest appearances, and he was one of the show's most successful hosts. Martin has appeared on twenty-seven Saturday Night Live shows and guest-hosted sixteen times, second only to Alec Baldwin, who has hosted seventeen times . On the show, Martin popularized the air quotes gesture.[17] While on the show, Martin grew close to several cast members, including Gilda Radner. On the night she died of ovarian cancer, a visibly shaken Martin hosted SNL and featured footage of himself and Radner together in a 1978 sketch.

Comedy albums

In the 1970s, his television appearances led to the release of comedy albums that went platinum. The track "Excuse Me" on his first album, Let's Get Small (1977), helped establish a national catch phrase. His next album, A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978), was an even bigger success, reaching the No. 2 spot on the U.S. sales chart, selling over a million copies. "Just a wild and crazy guy" became another of Martin's known catchphrases. The album featured a character based on a series of Saturday Night Live sketches in which Martin and Dan Aykroyd played the Festrunk Brothers; Yortuk and Georgi were bumbling Czechoslovak would-be playboys. The album ends with the song "King Tut", written and sung by Martin and backed by the "Toot Uncommons", members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was later released as a single, reaching No. 17 on the U.S. charts in 1978 and selling over a million copies.[18] [19] The song came out during the King Tut craze that accompanied the popular traveling exhibit of the Egyptian king's tomb artifacts. Both albums won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording in 1977 and 1978, respectively. Martin performed "King Tut" on the April 22, 1978, SNL program.

Decades later, in 2012, The A.V. Club described Martin's unique style and its effect on audiences:

On his comedy albums, Martin's stand-up is self-referential and sometimes self-mocking. It mixes philosophical riffs with sudden spurts of "happy feet", banjo playing with balloon depictions of concepts like venereal disease, and the "controversial" kitten juggling (he is a master juggler; the "kittens" were stuffed animal toys). His style is off-kilter and ironic and sometimes pokes fun at stand-up comedy traditions, such as Martin opening his act (from A Wild and Crazy Guy) by saying: Or: "Hello, I'm Steve Martin, and I'll be out here in a minute."[17] [20] In one comedy routine, used on the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, Martin claimed that his real name was "Gern Blanston". The riff took on a life of its own. There is a Gern Blanston website, and for a time a rock band took the moniker as its name.

Martin's show soon required full-sized stadiums for the audiences he was drawing. Concerned about his visibility in venues on such a scale, Martin began to wear a distinctive three-piece white suit that became a trademark for his act.[21] Martin stopped doing stand-up comedy in 1981 to concentrate on movies and did not return for thirty-five years.[18] About the decision, he said, "My act was conceptual. Once the concept was stated, and everybody understood it, it was done... It was about coming to the end of the road. There was no way to live on in that persona. I had to take that fabulous luck of not being remembered as that, exclusively. You know, I didn't announce that I was stopping. I just stopped."[22]

Return to standup

In 2016, Martin made a low-key comeback to live comedy, opening for Jerry Seinfeld. He performed a ten-minute stand-up routine before turning the stage over to Seinfeld.[23] Also in 2016 he staged a national tour with Martin Short and the Steep Canyon Rangers, which yielded a 2018 Netflix comedy special, Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life.[24] The special received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations with Martin receiving two nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and Outstanding Music and Lyrics for "The Buddy Song".

Acting career

1970s

By the end of the 1970s, Martin had acquired the kind of following normally reserved for rock stars, with his tour appearances typically occurring at sold-out arenas filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans. But unknown to his audience, stand-up comedy was "just an accident" for him; his real goal was to get into film.

Martin had a small role in the 1972 film Another Nice Mess. In 1974, he starred in the Canadian travelogue production The Funnier Side Of Eastern Canada, created to promote tourism in Montreal and Toronto, which also included standup segments filmed at the Ice House in Pasadena, California.[25] His first substantial film appearance was in a short titled The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977). The seven-minute-long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Action. He made his first substantial feature film appearance in the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where he sang The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

In 1979, Martin starred in the comedy film The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner, and written by Martin, Michael Elias, and Carl Gottlieb. The film was a huge success, grossing over $100 million on a budget of approximately $4 million.[26]

Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin starring in a screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999's Eyes Wide Shut). Martin was executive producer for Domestic Life, a prime-time television series starring friend Martin Mull, and a late-night series called Twilight Theater. It emboldened Martin to try his hand at his first serious film, Pennies from Heaven (1981), based on the 1978 BBC serial by Dennis Potter. He was anxious to perform in the movie because of his desire to avoid being typecast. To prepare for that film, Martin took acting lessons from director Herbert Ross and spent months learning how to tap dance. The film was a financial failure; Martin's comment at the time was "I don't know what to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy."[27]

1980s

Martin was in three more Reiner-directed comedies after The Jerk: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982, The Man with Two Brains in 1983 and All of Me in 1984, his most critically acclaimed performance up to that point.[28] [29] [30] Martin was by now requesting almost $3 million per film, but Plaid and Two Brains both failed at the box office like Pennies, endangering his young career.[31] In 1986, Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels, and singer-songwriter Randy Newman. It was originally entitled The Three Caballeros and Martin was to be teamed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1986, Martin was in the movie musical film version of the hit Off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie), playing the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello. The film was the first of three films teaming Martin with Rick Moranis. In 1987, Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles.[32] That same year, Roxanne, the film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac which Martin co-wrote, won him a Writers Guild of America Award. It also garnered recognition from Hollywood and the public that he was more than a comedian. In 1988, he performed in the Frank Oz film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a remake of Bedtime Story, alongside Michael Caine. Also in 1988, he appeared at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in a revival of Waiting for Godot directed by Mike Nichols.[33] He played Vladimir, with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky. Martin starred in the Ron Howard film Parenthood with Rick Moranis in 1989.

1990s

He later re-teamed with Moranis in the Mafia comedy My Blue Heaven (1990). In 1991, Martin starred in and wrote L.A. Story, a romantic comedy, in which the female lead was played by his then-wife Victoria Tennant. Martin also appeared in Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon, in which he played the tightly wound Hollywood film producer, Davis, who was recovering from a traumatic robbery that left him injured, which was a more serious role for him. Martin also starred in a remake of the comedy Father of the Bride in 1991 (followed by a sequel in 1995) and in the 1992 comedy Housesitter, with Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany. In 1994, he starred in A Simple Twist of Fate; a film adaptation of Silas Marner.

In David Mamet's 1997 thriller The Spanish Prisoner, Martin played a darker role as a wealthy stranger who takes a suspicious interest in the work of a young businessman (Campbell Scott). He went on to star with Eddie Murphy in the 1999 comedy Bowfinger, which Martin also wrote.

In 1998, Martin guest starred with U2 in the 200th episode of The Simpsons titled "Trash of the Titans", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson. In 1999, Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners.

2000s

By 2003, Martin ranked fourth on the box office stars list, after starring in Bringing Down the House (2003) and Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), each of which earned over $130 million at U.S. theaters. That same year, he also played the villainous Mr. Chairman in the animation/live action blend, . In 2005, Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl, based on his own novella (2000), and starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. In 2006, he starred in the box office hit The Pink Panther, as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. He reprised the role in 2009's The Pink Panther 2. When combined, the two films grossed over $230 million at the box office.

In the comedy Baby Mama (2008), starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Martin played the founder of a health food company. Martin also appeared as a guest star in 30 Rock as Gavin Volure in the episode Gavin Volure. He was nominated for an Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. The following year he starred in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy It's Complicated (2009), opposite Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. In 2009, an article in The Guardian listed Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination.[34]

2010s

During the 2010s, Martin sparsely appeared in film and television. In 2011, he appeared with Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and JoBeth Williams in the birdwatching comedy The Big Year directed by David Frankel. The film was criticized for its lightweight story and was a box office bomb. After a three-year hiatus, Martin returned in 2015 when he voiced a role in the DreamWorks animated film Home alongside Jim Parsons and Rihanna. The film received mixed critical reception but was a financial success. In 2016, he played a supporting role in Ang Lee's war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. He also appeared as himself in Jerry Seinfeld's Netflix series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in 2016. He also appeared in the taped version of Oh, Hello on Broadway (2017) as the guest. He also starred in the Netflix comedy special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life with Martin Short in 2018.

2020s

In 2020, Martin reprised his role as George Banks in the short Father of the Bride, Part 3(ish). Martin stars in and is an executive producer of Only Murders in the Building, a Hulu comedy series alongside Martin Short and Selena Gomez, which he created alongside John Hoffman.[35] [36] In August 2022, Martin revealed that the series will likely be his final role, as he does not intend to seek out roles or cameos for other shows or films once the series ends.[37]

Writing

Books

Martin's first book was Cruel Shoes, a collection of comedic short stories and essays. It was published in 1979 by G. P. Putnam's Sons after a limited release of a truncated version in 1977.

Throughout the 1990s, Martin wrote various pieces for The New Yorker. In 2002, he adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants, which ran Off Broadway at Classic Stage Company, and in 2008 co-wrote and produced Traitor, starring Don Cheadle. He has also written the novellas Shopgirl (2000) and The Pleasure of My Company (2003), both more wry in tone than raucous. A story of a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills, Shopgirl was made into a film starring Martin and Claire Danes.[38] The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005 and was featured at the Chicago International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival before going into limited release in the US. In 2007, he published a memoir, Born Standing Up, which Time magazine named as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at 6, and praising it as "a funny, moving, surprisingly frank memoir."[39] In 2010, he published the novel An Object of Beauty.[40]

Beginning in 2019, Martin has collaborated with cartoonist Harry Bliss as a writer for the syndicated single-panel comic Bliss.[41] [42] Together, they published the cartoon collection A Wealth of Pigeons.[43] In 2022, they collaborated again for Martin's illustrated autobiography, Number One is Walking.[44]

Plays

In 1993, Martin wrote his first full-length play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile. The first reading of the play took place in Beverly Hills, California at his home, with Tom Hanks reading the role of Pablo Picasso and Chris Sarandon reading the role of Albert Einstein. Following this, the play opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and played from October 1993 to May 1994, then went on to run successfully in Los Angeles, New York City, and several other US cities.[45] In 2009, the school board in La Grande, Oregon, refused to allow the play to be performed after several parents complained about the content. In an open letter in the local Observer newspaper, Martin wrote:

Broadway

Inspired by Love has Come for You, Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on his first musical, Bright Star. It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945–46, with flashbacks to 1923. The musical debuted on Broadway on March 24, 2016.[46] Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised its score by Martin and Brickell writing, "The shining achievement of the musical is its winsome country and bluegrass score, with music by Mr. Martin and Ms. Brickell, and lyrics by Ms. Brickell...the songs — yearning ballads and square-dance romps rich with fiddle, piano, and banjo, beautifully played by a nine-person band — provide a buoyancy that keeps the momentum from stalling."[47] The musical went on to receive five Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. Martin himself received Tony nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score and received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and the Outstanding Critics Circle Award for Best New Score. He also received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Martin's next work as a playwright was the comic play Meteor Shower which opened at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in August 2016,[48] and went on to Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre later the same year.[49] The play opened on Broadway at the Booth Theater on November 29, 2017. The cast features Amy Schumer, Laura Benanti, Jeremy Shamos and Keegan-Michael Key, with direction by Jerry Zaks.[50] [51] Critic Allison Adaot of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Meteor Shower is a very funny play. Keening-like-a-howler-monkey funny. Design-a-new-cry-laughing-emoji funny...In the confident hands of writer and comedy maestro Steve Martin, the premise is polished to sparkling."[52]

Hosting

Martin hosted the Academy Awards solo in 2001 and 2003, and with Alec Baldwin in 2010.[53] In 2020, Martin opened the 92nd Academy Awards alongside Chris Rock with comedy material. They were not previously announced as that year's hosts, and joked after their opening monologue, "Well we've had a great time not hosting tonight".

In 2005, Martin co-hosted , marking the park's anniversary. Disney continued to run the show until March 2009, which now plays in the lobby of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.

A fan of Monty Python, in 1989 Martin hosted the television special, Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python.[54] [55]

Music career

Banjo music

Martin first picked up the banjo when he was around 17 years of age. Martin has stated in several interviews and in his memoir, Born Standing Up, that he used to take 33 rpm bluegrass records and slow them down to 16 rpm and tune his banjo down, so the notes would sound the same. Martin was able to pick out each note and perfect his playing. Martin learned how to play the banjo with help from John McEuen, who later joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. McEuen's brother later managed Martin as well as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Martin did his stand-up routine opening for the band in the early 1970s. He had the band play on his hit song "King Tut", being credited as "The Toot Uncommons" (as in Tutankhamun). The banjo was a staple of Martin's 1970s stand-up career, and he periodically poked fun at his love for the instrument. On the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, he included an all-instrumental jam, titled "Drop Thumb Medley", and played the track on his 1979 concert tour. His final comedy album, The Steve Martin Brothers (1981), featured one side of Martin's typical stand-up material, with the other side featuring live performances of Steve playing banjo with a bluegrass band.

In 2001, he played banjo on Earl Scruggs's remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". The recording was the winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the Grammy Awards of 2002. In 2008, Martin appeared with the band, In the Minds of the Living, during a show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.[56] In 2009, Martin released his first all-music album, with appearances from stars such as Dolly Parton.[57] The album won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2010.[58] Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member John McEuen produced the album. Martin made his first appearance on The Grand Ole Opry on May 30, 2009.[59] In the American Idol season eight finals, he performed alongside Michael Sarver and Megan Joy in the song "Pretty Flowers". Martin is featured playing banjo on "I Hate Love" from Kelly Clarkson's tenth studio album Chemistry . It was released as a promotional single on June 2, 2023.[60]

Steep Canyon Rangers

In June 2009, Martin played banjo along with the Steep Canyon Rangers on A Prairie Home Companion and began a two-month U.S. tour with the Rangers in September, including appearances at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, Carnegie Hall and Benaroya Hall in Seattle.[61] [62] In November, they went on to play at the Royal Festival Hall in London with support from Mary Black.[63] In 2010, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers appeared at the New Orleans Jazzfest, Merlefest Bluegrass Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, at Bonnaroo Music Festival, at the ROMP[64] Bluegrass Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, at the Red Butte Garden Concert series,[65] and on the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland.[66] Martin performed "Jubilation Day" with the Steep Canyon Rangers on The Colbert Report on March 21, 2011, on Conan on May 3, 2011, and on BBC's The One Show on July 6, 2011.[67] Martin performed a song he wrote called "Me and Paul Revere"[68] in addition to two other songs on the lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, at the "Capitol Fourth Celebration" on July 4, 2011.[69] While on tour, Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers occasionally performed Martin's 1978 novelty hit song "King Tut" live in a bluegrass arrangement. One of these performances was released on the 2011 album Rare Bird Alert.[70] In 2011, Martin also narrated and appeared in the PBS documentary "Give Me The Banjo" chronicling the history of the banjo in America.[71]

Love Has Come for You, a collaboration album with Edie Brickell, was released in April 2013.[72] The two made musical guest appearances on talk shows, such as The View and Late Show with David Letterman, to promote the album.[73] [74] [75] The title track won the Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song.[76] Starting in May 2013, he began a tour with the Steep Canyon Rangers and Edie Brickell throughout the United States.[77] In 2015, Brickell and Martin released So Familiar as the second installment of their partnership.[78] In 2017, Martin and Brickell appeared in the multi-award-winning documentary film The American Epic Sessions directed by Bernard MacMahon. Recording live direct-to-disc on the first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s,[79] they performed a version of "The Coo Coo Bird" a traditional song that Martin learned from the 1960s folk music group The Holy Modal Rounders.[80] The song was featured on the film soundtrack, Music from The American Epic Sessions released on June 9, 2017.

In 2010, Martin created the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, an award established to reward artistry and bring greater visibility to bluegrass performers.[81] The prize includes a US$50,000 cash award, a bronze sculpture created by the artist Eric Fischl, and a chance to perform with Martin on Late Show with David Letterman. Recipients include Noam Pikelny of the Punch Brothers band (2010),[82] Sammy Shelor of Lonesome River Band (2011),[83] Mark Johnson (2012),[84] [85] Jens Kruger (2013),[86] Eddie Adcock (2014),[87] Danny Barnes (2015), Rhiannon Giddens (2016), Scott Vestal (2017), Kristin Scott Benson (2018),[88] and Victor Furtado (2019).[89]

Personal life

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Martin was in a relationship with Bernadette Peters, with whom he co-starred in The Jerk and Pennies from Heaven. He also dated Mary Tyler Moore and Karen Carpenter.[90] On November 20, 1986, Martin married actress Victoria Tennant, with whom he co-starred in All of Me and L.A. Story. They divorced in 1994.[91]

Martin went on a USO Tour to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm from October 14 to 21, 1990. He met with military service men and women all over the region signing thousands of autographs and posing for pictures.[92] "Everybody coming out here, giving up part of their lives for this effort. I had some time off, and I felt kind of bad just sitting there," Martin said, "so I came."[93] He also dated actress Anne Heche, who wrote about their relationship in her memoir.

On July 28, 2007, Martin married writer and former New Yorker staff member Anne Stringfield. Bob Kerrey presided over the ceremony at Martin's Los Angeles home. Lorne Michaels served as best man. The nuptials came as a surprise to several guests, who had been told they were coming for a party.[94] In December 2012, Martin became a father when Stringfield gave birth to their daughter.[95] [96]

Martin has been an avid art collector since 1968, when he bought a print by Ed Ruscha.[97] In 2001, the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art presented a five-month exhibit of twenty-eight items from Martin's collection, including works by Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, and Edward Hopper.[98] In 2006, he sold Hopper's Hotel Window (1955)[99] at Sotheby's for $26.8 million.[100] In 2015, working with two other curators, he organized an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and several other locations called, "The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris," featuring the works of Canadian painter and Group of Seven co-founder Lawren Harris.[101]

In July 2004, Martin purchased what he believed to be Landschaft mit Pferden (Landscape with Horses), a 1915 work by Heinrich Campendonk, from a Paris gallery for approximately €700,000. Fifteen months later, he sold the painting at a Christie's auction to a Swiss businesswoman for €500,000. The painting was later discovered to be a forgery. Police believe the fake Campendonk originated from a collection devised by a German forgery ring led by Wolfgang Beltracchi, pieces from which had been sold to French galleries.[102] Martin only discovered the fact that the painting had been fake many years after it had been sold at the auction. Concerning the experience, Martin said that the Beltracchis "were quite clever in that they gave it a long provenance and they faked labels, and it came out of a collection that mingled legitimate pictures with faked pictures."[103] [104]

Martin was on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art board of trustees from 1984 to 2004.[105] Martin assisted in launching the National Endowment for Indigenous Visual Arts (NEIVA), a fund to support Australian Indigenous artists in 2021. Martin has supported Indigenous Australian painting previously. He organized an exhibition in 2019 with Gagosian Gallery titled "Desert Painters of Australia", which featured art by George Tjungurrayi and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.[106]

Martin has tinnitus; the condition was first attributed to filming a pistol shooting scene for Three Amigos in 1986,[107] [108] but Martin later clarified that the tinnitus was actually from years of listening to loud music and performing in front of noisy crowds.[109]

Influences

Martin has said that his comedy influences include Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, and Woody Allen.[110] [111]

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he mentioned that Jerry Seinfeld is one of his "retro heroes", "a guy who came up behind me and is better than I am. I think he's fantastic, I love to listen to him, he almost puts me at peace. I love to listen to him talk".[112]

Martin's offbeat, ironic, and deconstructive style of humor has influenced many comedians during his career including Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart,[113] Stephen Colbert, Robert Smigel, Bo Burnham,[114] and Jordan Peele.[115] Singer and composer Mike Patton cited Steve Martin as being an early influence[116] saying that he identifies with Martin.[117]

Filmography

See main article: Steve Martin filmography.

Awards and nominations

See main article: List of awards and nominations received by Steve Martin.

Discography

Albums

Steve Martin albums
AlbumYearPeak chart positionsCertifications
[118]
Type
Billboard 200
[119]
US Bluegrass
[120]
Let's Get Small197710
  • US: Platinum
Comedy
A Wild and Crazy Guy19782
  • US: 2× Platinum
Comedy Is Not Pretty!197925
  • US: Gold
The Steve Martin Brothers1981135
2009931Music
Rare Bird Alert[121]
(with Steep Canyon Rangers)
2011431
Love Has Come for You[122]
(with Edie Brickell)
2013211
Live
(with Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell)
20141
So Familiar
(with Edie Brickell)[123]
20151261
The Long-Awaited Album[124]
(with Steep Canyon Rangers)
20171891
"—" denotes a title that did not chart<--, or was not released in that territory -->.

Singles

Steve Martin singles
TitleYearPeak chart positions
US
[125]
AlbumType
"Grandmother's Song"197772Let's Get SmallComedy
"King Tut"197817A Wild and Crazy GuyMusic
"Cruel Shoes"197991Comedy Is Not PrettyComedy
"Bluegrass Radio"
2024Music

Music videos

Steve Martin music videos
VideoYearDirector
"Jubilation Day"[126] 2011Ryan Reichenfeld
"Pretty Little One"[127] 2014David Horn
"Won't Go Back"[128]
(with Edie Brickell)
2015Matt Robertson
"Caroline"2017Brian Petchers
"So Familiar"2018Laurence Jacobs
"Promontory Point"
"Bluegrass Radio"
2024

Stand-up specials

Other video releases

Bibliography

Books and plays

Year!scope="col"
TitleNotes
1977Cruel Shoescollection of essays and short stories, first widely published in 1979
1993Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays:
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for the Floating Lady, WASP
plays
1998Pure Drivelcollection of essays and short stories
2000Shopgirlnovella
2001Kindly Lent Their Owner: The Private Collection of Steve Martinnonfiction
2002The Underpants: A Playplay
2003The Pleasure of My Companynovel
2005The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Zchildren's book
2007Born Standing Upnonfiction
2010An Object of Beautynovel
Late for Schoolchildren's book
2012The Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten.: The Tweets of Steve Martincollection of tweets
2014Bright Starmusical with Edie Brickell
2016Meteor Showerplay
2020A Wealth of Pigeonscollection of cartoons with Harry Bliss
2022Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversionsmemoir with illustrations by Harry Bliss
2023So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martinaudiobook cowritten with Adam Gopnik

Screenplays

Year!scope="col"
TitleNotes
1977The Absent-Minded Waitershort film
1979The Jerkwith Michael Elias and Carl Gottlieb
1982Dead Men Don't Wear Plaidwith Carl Reiner and George Gipe
1983The Man with Two Brainswith Carl Reiner and George Gipe
1986Three Amigoswith Lorne Michaels and Randy Newman
1987Roxannebased on Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
1991L.A. Storyscreenplay first published in 1987 with Roxanne as Two Screenplays
1994A Simple Twist of Fatebased on the 1861 novel Silas Marner by George Eliot
1999Bowfinger
2005Shopgirlbased on his novella of the same name
2006The Pink Pantherwith Len Blum
2008Traitorstory only; with Jeffrey Nachmanoff
2009The Pink Panther 2with Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber

Essays, reporting and other contributions

General and cited sources

External links

Notes and References

  1. Academy Unveils 2013 Governors Awards: Honorees Angelina Jolie, Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin, Piero Tosi. Deadline Hollywood. September 5, 2013. October 26, 2013.
  2. Web site: Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of all Time. April 18, 2014. Everything2.
  3. Web site: Singer. Leigh. Oscars: the best actors never to have been nominated. . UK . February 19, 2009. September 16, 2022.
  4. Web site: Steve Martin and Martin Short's Friendship Timeline. People. July 1, 2022.
  5. Web site: Steve Martin – Artist. grammy.com. November 23, 2020. June 30, 2021.
  6. Book: Whiteley, Sandy . On This Date . 204 . McGraw-Hill Professional . 2002 . 978-0071398275.
  7. Universal Men . 94 . . September 1999 . 15 . 9 . 0886-3032.
  8. Book: Walker, Morris. Steve Martin: The Magic Years. 2001. 2. SP Books. New York. 978-1561719808.
  9. Web site: Ancestry of Steve Martin . Wargs.com . November 13, 2011.
  10. Web site: June 11, 2015 . Jennifer Garcia . Steve Martin's Life in Pictures in PEOPLE. PEOPLE.com . February 12, 2022.
  11. News: Top 5: Famous former male cheerleaders . February 20, 2009 . The Washington Times.
  12. Web site: Wills . Dominic . Steve Martin – Biography . https://web.archive.org/web/20100209043647/http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/steve-martin/biography/118 . February 9, 2010 . . May 15, 2010.
  13. Web site: SteveMartin.com | Stop the Presses. https://web.archive.org/web/20090227054918/http://www.stevemartin.com/stop_the_presses/newsweek_78.php. dead. February 27, 2009. April 8, 2020.
  14. Web site: Steve Martin. Television Academy.
  15. Freeman, Marc – 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' at 50: The Rise and Fall of a Groundbreaking Variety Show. Hollywood Reporter. November 25, 2017 ("It has been shown that more people watch TV than any other appliance.")
  16. Book: Garlen . Jennifer C. . Graham . Anissa M. . Kermit Culture: Critical Perspectives on Jim Henson's Muppets . 2009 . . 978-0786442591. 16.
  17. Book: Frum, David . How We Got Here: The '70s . David Frum . 2000 . Basic Books . New York City . 0-465-04195-7 . 36–37 . registration .
  18. Corliss . Richard . Steve Martin, a Mild and Crazy Guy . December 31, 2022 . . November 15, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071220021910/http://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1684540,00.html . December 20, 2007 . live.
  19. . Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  20. Anderson. Sam. Sam Anderson (writer). November 18, 2007. Rationalist of the Absurd: Steve Martin's extraordinarily calculated comedy . . August 12, 2010 . limited . https://web.archive.org/web/20100818095622/http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/40968/ . August 18, 2010.
  21. News: O'Reilly . Terry . Terry O'Reilly (broadcaster) . How A Wardrobe Change Transformed Steve Martin's Career . February 18, 2018 . Under the Influence . Pirate Radio . CBC Radio One . February 8, 2018.
  22. Web site: Young . Alex . After losing a bet to Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin performs his first stand-up comedy set in 35 years. . Consequence . February 19, 2016 . December 30, 2022.
  23. News: Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin standup comedy review – superbly honed . Elise . Czajkowski . February 19, 2016 . The Guardian.
  24. Husband . Andrew . May 25, 2018 . Steve Martin And Martin Short Embrace The Past Even When They Shun It . . May 27, 2018.
  25. Web site: Leeson . Jef . 2021 . The Funnier Side Of Eastern Canada . . August 20, 2021.
  26. Web site: Chris . Brummel . 2010 . The Jerk: That Movie About Hating Cans . June 19, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080613211647/http://chrisbrummel.com/the-jerk-that-movie-about-hating-cans . June 13, 2008 .
  27. American film Volume 7. 1981. American Film Institute, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
  28. Web site: All of Me. Rotten Tomatoes . November 13, 2011.
  29. News: Steve Martin in 'All of Me' . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624110612/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/21/movies/steve-martin-in-all-of-me.html . June 24, 2016 . Maslin . Janet . Janet Maslin . C6 . . September 21, 1984 . December 30, 2022 . subscription.
  30. News: Carignano . Tina . Martin and Tomlin Get Their Act Together in All of Me . September 7, 2022 . The Greyhound . . Internet Archive Digital Library . September 21, 1984.
  31. News: Harmetz . Aljean . Aljean Harmetz . July 26, 1983 . The Talk of Hollywood: At The Studios, Star Billing Means a Parking Space . C11 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150524142748/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/26/movies/talk-hollywood-studios-star-billing-means-parking-space-talk-hollywood.html . May 24, 2015 . live . June 16, 2022 . subscription . 0362-4331.
  32. Book: Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever. 9781984826664 . Semlyen . Nick de . May 26, 2020 . Crown .
  33. News: Gallo. Hank. December 15, 1988. Steve Martin leaves stand-up comedy behind, scans horizon for next role. The Pittsburgh Press. April 8, 2019.
  34. News: Singer . Leigh . Oscars: the best actors never to have been nominated . . February 19, 2009. November 13, 2011 . London.
  35. Web site: Steve Martin & Martin Short Comedy Series From Dan Fogelman Ordered By Hulu . Deadline Hollywood. Nellie . Andreeva . January 17, 2020. December 7, 2020.
  36. Web site: Selena Gomez Joins Steve Martin, Martin Short in Hulu Comedy 'Only Murders in the Building'. Variety. Joe. Otterson. August 7, 2020. December 7, 2020.
  37. Web site: Steve Martin Will Not Pursue New Roles After 'Only Murders In The Building' Ends. Collider. Echebiri. Makuochi. August 10, 2022. August 10, 2022.
  38. https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,998225,00.html But Seriously, Folks: Steve Martin talks about his first novella, a delicate, poignant modern romance about a shy shopgirl. Time article. October 16, 2000
  39. Grossman . Lev . Lev Grossman . Born Standing Up review . https://web.archive.org/web/20071212163211/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686244_1691787,00.html . live . December 12, 2007 . . December 9, 2007 . December 31, 2022.
  40. News: Maslin . Janet . Janet Maslin . A New York Tale of Art, Money and Ambition . October 24, 2016 . The New York Times . November 28, 2010.
  41. Web site: Steve Martin teaming with Harry Bliss on 'Bliss' cartoons . . May 12, 2019 . April 2, 2019.
  42. News: Polston . Pamela . Cartoonist Harry Bliss Collaborates With Comedian Steve Martin . May 12, 2019 . . April 17, 2019.
  43. Book Review: A Wealth of Pigeons. October 27, 2020. Publishers Weekly.
  44. Web site: Number One Is Walking . October 12, 2022 . Macmillan . en-US.
  45. http://www.steppenwolf.org/ensemble/history/productions/index.aspx?id=122 History: Picasso At The Lapin Agile. Oct. 13, 1993 – May. 12, 1994. Steppenwolf Theatre Company
  46. News: Pearson . Vince . Edie Brickell, Steve Martin Broadway Bound With 'Bright Star' . NPR.org . NPR . December 29, 2015.
  47. News: Isherwood. Charles. Charles Isherwood. September 29, 2014. Love, Loss and Local Color Make a Bluegrass Musical. The New York Times. 0362-4331.
  48. Viagas . Robert . New Steve Martin Play Meteor Shower Opens in California Tonight . October 24, 2016 . . August 7, 2016.
  49. Rizzo . Frank . Connecticut Theater Review: 'Meteor Shower' by Steve Martin . October 24, 2016 . . October 10, 2016.
  50. Cox, Gordon. "Amy Schumer to Make Broadway Debut in Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' " Variety, August 7, 2017
  51. Gerard, Jeremy. "Broadway Review: Amy Schumer Splashes 'Meteor Shower' With A Burst Of Starlight" Deadline Hollywood, November 29, 2017
  52. Amy Schumer delights in Steve Martin's new comedy Meteor Shower: EW review. Entertainment Weekly. June 30, 2021.
  53. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/hosts.html "Hosts of the 2010 (82nd) Academy Awards"
  54. News: Monty Python: 30 years of near reunions from the comedy troupe . August 25, 2019 . Digital Spy.
  55. McCall, Douglas (November 12, 2013). Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969–2012, 2d ed. McFarland.
  56. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/steve-martin-plays-the-ba_n_310858.html "Steve Martin Plays The Banjo Really Well (Video)"
  57. [Dave Itzkoff|Itzkoff, Dave]
  58. Web site: Steve Martin's 2010 Banjo Tour . SteveMartin.com . September 7, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100725010402/http://www.stevemartin.com/stevemartin/music.html . July 25, 2010 . March 4, 2010 . live.
  59. https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/269067/steve-martin-to-make-grand-ole-opry-debut "Steve Martin To Make Grand Ole Opry Debut"
  60. Web site: Walcott. Escher. Kelly Clarkson Drops New Single 'I Hate Love' — Featuring Steve Martin on Banjo!. People. June 2, 2023. June 8, 2023.
  61. Web site: Benaroya Hall Calendar, Seattle Symphony Orchestra . https://web.archive.org/web/20110609171757/http://www.seattlesymphony.org/benaroya/browse/eventdetail.aspx?id=2211. dead . June 9, 2011.
  62. Web site: Madison . Tjames . Steve Martin and his banjo map fall tour . . October 4, 2021 . https://archive.today/20090807180428/http://www.livedaily.com/news/19785.html#selection-391.0-391.40 . August 7, 2009 . August 4, 2009 . dead.
  63. Gill, Andy (November 10, 2009). "Steve Martin with The Steep Canyon Rangers, Royal Festival Hall, London". The Independent.
  64. Web site: ROMP 2011: Bluegrass Roots & Branches Festival . . unfit . November 20, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101120101843/http://bluegrassmuseum.org/general/romp.php.
  65. Web site: Concerts: Red Butte Garden 2010 Outdoor Concert Series . . Salt Lake City, Utah . . October 4, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100619145324/http://www.redbuttegarden.org/concerts/ . June 19, 2010 . 2010 . dead.
  66. Web site: Later... with Jools Holland, Series 35, Episode 9 . BBC . May 15, 2010.
  67. Web site: Tobey . Matt . This Week on the Colbert Report: Steve Martin . https://web.archive.org/web/20120309134950/http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/03/21/this-week-on-the-colbert-report-steve-martin/ . March 9, 2012 . Comedy Partners . March 21, 2011 . April 9, 2022.
  68. Web site: Barker . Olivia . June 29, 2011 . Steve Martin's 'Paul Revere' picks away at history . USA Today.
  69. Web site: A Capitol Fourth: Watch Steve Martin Sizzle . . June 23, 2021 . July 3, 2011.
  70. Allmusic review
  71. Web site: Martin . Steve . Give Me The Banjo (Trailer) . . June 23, 2021 . October 31, 2011.
  72. News: First Listen: Steve Martin And Edie Brickell, 'Love Has Come For You'. Thompson. Stephen. Stephen Thompson (journalist). April 14, 2013. NPR. April 18, 2013.
  73. News: Bauer . Scott . Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 'Love Has Come For You': Collaboration A Perfect Blend of Traditional, Modern . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222614/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/steve-martin-and-edie-brickell-love-has-come-for-you_n_3131704.html . 2016-03-04 . deviated . . April 22, 2013.
  74. Web site: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert . YouTube. March 16, 2016 .
  75. News: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 'Love Has Come For You' . The New York Times . Dave . Itzkoff . Dave Itzkoff . April 19, 2013.
  76. Web site: Grammy Awards Past Winners Search (Steve Martin) . . June 23, 2021 . https://archive.today/20130125183843/http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=%22steve+martin%22&title=&year=All&genre=All . January 25, 2013 . unfit.
  77. Web site: Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell Announce North American Tour . SteveMartin.com . May 28, 2013.
  78. Web site: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell on 'Unexplored Territory' of New Album . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151030134643/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steve-martin-and-edie-brickell-on-unexplored-territory-of-new-album-20151029 . October 30, 2015 . . October 29, 2015 . January 11, 2023.
  79. News: American Epic: The Collection & The Soundtrack Out May 12th. April 28, 2017. Legacy Recordings. February 27, 2018.
  80. [Bernard MacMahon (filmmaker)|MacMahon, Bernard]
  81. Web site: The Steve Martin Banjo Prize . FreshGrass Foundation . April 9, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220314063602/https://freshgrassfoundation.org/steve-martin-banjo-prize/ . March 14, 2022 . live.
  82. News: Steve Martin Creates Steve Martin Bluegrass Prize. The New York Times. September 15, 2010. January 24, 2013. Itzkoff. Dave . Dave Itzkoff.
  83. News: Steve Martin Honors Another Banjo Player. The New York Times. September 6, 2011. January 24, 2013 . Itzkoff, Dave . Dave Itzkoff.
  84. Web site: Lawless . John . Mark Johnson wins 2012 Steve Martin Prize . Bluegrass Today . April 9, 2022 . September 6, 2012.
  85. News: Steve Martin Awards Third Annual Bluegrass Prize. The New York Times. September 20, 2012. January 24, 2013. Itzkoff, Dave . Dave Itzkoff.
  86. News: Steve Martin's Prize for Bluegrass Goes to Jens Kruger. The New York Times. September 11, 2013. October 1, 2013. Itzkoff, Dave . Dave Itzkoff.
  87. Web site: Veteran Banjo Player Wins Bluegrass Honor: The Steve Martin Prize Goes to Eddie Adcock . September 15, 2014 . Itzkoff, Dave . Dave Itzkoff . . September 22, 2014.
  88. News: Lewis . Randy . Steve Martin 2018 banjo prize goes to Kristin Scott Benson . August 29, 2019 . Los Angeles Times . September 24, 2018.
  89. News: Victor Furtado wins 2019 Steve Martin Banjo Prize . September 11, 2019. October 12, 2019. Lawless, John.
  90. Web site: Star tracks. Chicago Tribune. December 27, 1982.
  91. Web site: Novak . Lauren . 2024-04-12 . Steve Martin Opens Up About the Truth of His Marriage to Anne Stringfield . 2024-07-24 . Remind . en-US.
  92. News: McCombs. Phil. November 16, 1990. USO's Desert No-Show. The Washington Post. April 19, 2021. 0190-8286.
  93. News: October 17, 1990 . Jehl . Douglas . He Can't Be 'Wild and Crazy Guy': Saudi Arabia: Steve Martin went to the gulf to put on a show for the troops, but all he was allowed to do was press the flesh and sign autographs . . subscription . https://web.archive.org/web/20210421094628/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-17-mn-2414-story.html . April 21, 2021 . January 11, 2023.
  94. News: Steve Martin weds girlfriend Anne Stringfield . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080222210339/https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-29-martin-marriage_N.htm . 2008-02-22 . July 29, 2007 . . USA Today.
  95. Web site: Steve Martin becomes first-time dad at age 67. https://archive.today/20130411234631/http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/02/13/16953788-steve-martin-becomes-first-time-dad-at-age-67?lite . April 11, 2013.
  96. News: Steve Martin is a dad for the first time at age 67. National Post. February 14, 2013. Toronto. September 25, 2019.
  97. News: In Vegas, Steve Martin Tries a Different Kind of Show . Glueck . Grace . Grace Glueck . April 24, 2001 . The New York Times . https://web.archive.org/web/20140418092246/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/arts/art-review-in-vegas-steve-martin-tries-a-different-kind-of-show.html . April 18, 2014 . August 6, 2018 . unfit.
  98. Snedeker, Lisa (June 10, 2001), Las Vegas Casinos Gamble on Art as a Crowd Pleaser Los Angeles Times.
  99. News: Vogel . Carol . Edward Hopper Paintings Change at Whitney Show . January 11, 2023 . . October 6, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130218182223/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/arts/design/06voge.html . February 18, 2013.
  100. News: Pollock . Lindsay . Lindsay Pollock . November 29, 2006 . Steve Martin Hopper, Wistful Rockwell Break Auction Records . March 27, 2021 . . https://archive.today/20130102103923/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRepCiBBQn7Q&refer=muse . January 2, 2013 . unfit.
  101. https://web.archive.org/web/20150928014321/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/arts/design/steve-martin-adds-curator-to-his-wild-and-crazy-resume.html Martin adds curator to resume
  102. Steve Martin Swindled: German Art Forgery Scandal Reaches Hollywood . . May 30, 2011 . March 27, 2021 . https://archive.today/20130211220951/http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/steve-martin-swindled-german-art-forgery-scandal-reaches-hollywood-a-765658.html . February 11, 2013 . unfit.
  103. News: Child. Ben. June 1, 2011 . Steve Martin victim of German art forgery gang. The Guardian. October 27, 2020 . 0261-3077.
  104. Web site: January 24, 2020 . The Long Game: how Wolfgang Beltracchi conned the art world. October 27, 2020 . Art Critique.
  105. News: Reynolds . Christopher . June 17, 2005 . Crowds Greet Return of the King at LACMA . https://web.archive.org/web/20210215014042/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-17-me-tut17-story.html . February 15, 2021 . June 18, 2022 . . unfit.
  106. Web site: Solomon. Tessa . February 11, 2021 . Aiming to Grow Market, Steve Martin Helps Launch Fund for Australian Indigenous Artists . February 12, 2021 . ARTnews.
  107. Book: Wallechinsky . David . David Wallechinsky . Wallace . Amy . Amy Wallace . The new book of lists: the original compendium of curious information . 2005 . Cannongate . New York . 978-1841957197.
  108. Web site: How to manage tinnitus . https://archive.today/20140520201632/http://www.utahsbesthearingaids.com/with-the-right-help-you-can-learn-to-manage-tinnitus.htm . dead . May 20, 2014 . utahbesthearingaids.com . September 8, 2022.
  109. Web site: Steve Martin – Pitchfork . Pitchfork . October 27, 2015.
  110. News: It wasn't in the script: Carrie Fisher interviews Steve Martin about writing . https://web.archive.org/web/20161230092713/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-archives-carrie-fisher-steve-martin-interview-19990725-story.html . December 30, 2016 . July 25, 1999 . . June 18, 2022 . unfit.
  111. Web site: Steve's Comedic Inspirations . . June 14, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200128234432/https://www.masterclass.com/classes/steve-martin-teaches-comedy/chapters/steve-s-comedic-inspirations . January 28, 2020 . live.
  112. published September 29, 2017 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
  113. Book: Blitz, Michael. Jon Stewart: A Biography. July 15, 2014. ABC-CLIO. 9780313358296. April 8, 2020. Google Books.
  114. Web site: Bo Burnham Lists 'My Favorite Comedians' and Releases a Confessional Video: "Art Is Dead". The Comic's Comic. October 29, 2010. McCarthy. Sean L..
  115. Web site: Jordan Peele Reveals 2 Major Comedic Influences. Lezmi. Josh. March 30, 2019. Showbiz Cheat Sheet. September 25, 2019.
  116. Web site: January 10, 2021. Mr. Bungle Radio Interview (For Locals Only) 1988. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211027/IiNsSmRNtS8. October 27, 2021. For Locals Only. 19:04–19:31. KFMI. Arcata, California. June 1, 1988. September 7, 2017.
  117. 305 . August 25, 1990 . Gitter . Mike . Facts Not Fiction . . April 9, 2022 . August 25, 1990.
  118. Web site: Gold & Platinum . . June 15, 2022.
  119. Chart History – Steve Martin: Billboard 200 . . October 12, 2020.
  120. Peak positions for Bluegrass albums on Billboards Bluegrass Albums Chart:
    • For "The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo" Bluegrass Albums . . October 12, 2020 . February 21, 2009.
    • For "Rare Bird Alert" Bluegrass Albums . . October 12, 2020 . April 2, 2011.
    • For "Love Has Come for You" Bluegrass Albums . . October 12, 2020 . May 11, 2013.
    • For "Live (with Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell) " Bluegrass Albums . . October 12, 2020 . May 29, 2014.
    • For "So Familiar" Bluegrass Albums . . October 12, 2020 . November 21, 2015.
    • For "The Long-Awaited Album" Bluegrass Albums . . October 12, 2020 . October 14, 2017.
  121. Web site: Rare Bird Alert . https://web.archive.org/web/20110321161633/http://www.rounder.com/2011/03/new-releases/rare-bird-alert . March 21, 2011 . . March 1, 2011 . April 9, 2022.
  122. News: Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers Launch Tour. February 24, 2013. All Access. February 21, 2013.
  123. Steve Martin & Edie Brickell Announce Second Album 'So Familiar' . . August 20, 2015 . September 16, 2015 . Edwards, Fred.
  124. Web site: Album Review: Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, 'The Long-Awaited Album' . Variety . September 22, 2017 . October 3, 2017 . Willman, Chris.
  125. Web site: January 15, 2011. [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p198/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} Steve Martin – Billboard Albums]. AllMusic.
  126. Web site: CMT : Videos : Steve Martin : Jubilation Day. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606023135/http://www.cmt.com/videos/steve-martin/659725/jubilation-day.jhtml. dead. June 6, 2011. Country Music Television. June 7, 2011.
  127. Web site: CMT : Videos : Steve Martin : Pretty Little One. https://web.archive.org/web/20140319072922/http://www.cmt.com/videos/steve-martin/1010090/pretty-little-one.jhtml. dead. March 19, 2014. Country Music Television. March 19, 2014.
  128. News: Carr. Courtney. See Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 'Won't Go Back' Music Video. November 11, 2015. The Boot. October 22, 2015.