Steve Martin
speaker
380 appearances
18 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2024
last heard Jun 2025
Steve Martin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I thought it was funny. This is in the 70s when I was getting asked for a lot of autographs. And so I made up a card and it said, because I thought, what do people really want when they get an autograph? They want to say that they met you. That's the main thing. And what was he like?
In, you know, like the 12 seconds that they met you, what was he like? So I wrote, this certifies that you met me and found me warm, charming, intelligent, and funny. And then I had a printed signature on it. And then I found I'd give the cards out thinking it was hilarious. And then they'd say, could you sign this? No way. Yeah. So I thought, well, that's over. Oh, wow.
We always... Well, in fairness, it's slowly evolving. We never throw everything out and then bring everything new in. It would be impossible. So it just slowly evolves.
Yeah, we change things one line at a time. And then every once in a while we'll come up with a new idea and we'll put it in whole.
We'll do Zoom and we'll have a bunch of material in front of us. But, you know, we'll do that. at the beginning of a tour, if we have a lot of new material to go over.
And as you know, Marty is an incredible singer. I mean, I listen to him on stage every night. He's never flat. He's never sharp. And curiously, he's never on the note. But, no, he's incredible. He never misses. He has a beautiful tone.
Absolutely.
Well, oh, Steve's good. I do in a way.
We don't actually sing and play together. We do some songs, but we use piano and we use our orchestra, but we don't have a banjo number. Jason, have you not seen it?
The only stand-up I do is in our show. Yeah. You know, I call it stand-up with Marty, but we each have a section in our show, and I just sort of do monologue jokes and introduce a song on the banjo and play it. But I love doing it. And it took me as long, as much time to work out that ten minutes. as it used to take to work out 10 minutes.
You know, you realize you're three years into this and you've got one little area that's weak and you're trying to fix it. And now it's feeling really good now that it's old and overexposed.
No. I mean, there's jokes that, you know, for example, when we did our Netflix special, then we really started trying to change things out. And then three years later, we're talking, we're going, you know what? I missed that one joke. Right. Blah, blah, blah. And then we would put it back in and then no one knew.
Which one is your favorite? Which one of the three? How is it to deeply prepare using old material?
You should toast yourself because you did your best.
You transferred to the audience.
I'm not sure what you mean. You mean you feel like you're giving away your private life to do a talk show anecdote?
I have a secret fantasy, which is to go on a talk show totally unprepared and just to see what happens.
Didn't know a thing. Didn't know a thing. You just write it according to the premise.
And then when it started to hit the air and you started to get back word that, by the way, it's the biggest debut that ever and, you know, that sort of thing. I don't know how accurate that is. Yeah, it's huge. And that's when you start to get excited. But you don't change anything because of that. You just, oh. And then even a year and a half later, you start to go, what is this?
Right.
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