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STEVE MARTIN ON STAND-UP COMEDY

Monday, January 21st, 2008

“Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.”

After the exhausting mess of Schulz and Peanuts, I wanted a book that moved quick and didn’t bullshit. Steve Martin’s stand-up memoir, Born Standing Up, did the trick. Great writing, very subtle and smart jokes. Has anybody read his fiction?