AUSTIN KLEON » steve martin http://www.austinkleon.com Austin Kleon is a writer and artist living in Austin, Texas. He's the author of Newspaper Blackout and Steal Like An Artist.. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:55:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 STEVE MARTIN ON STAND-UP COMEDY http://www.austinkleon.com/2008/01/21/steve-martin-on-stand-up-comedy/ http://www.austinkleon.com/2008/01/21/steve-martin-on-stand-up-comedy/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:26:07 +0000 Austin Kleon http://www.austinkleon.com/2008/01/21/steve-martin-on-stand-up-comedy/

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

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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?

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