Download Audiobook Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin in English

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Within the mid-70s, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the most important live performance draw within the historical past of stand-up. In 1981 he give up ceaselessly. Born Standing Up is, in his personal phrases, the story of “why I did stand-up and why I walked away”. At age 10 Martin began his profession at Disneyland, promoting guidebooks within the newly opened theme park. Within the decade that adopted, he labored within the Disney magic store and the Chook Cage Theatre at Knott’s Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen instances per week. The story of those years, throughout which he practiced and honed his craft, is transferring and revelatory. Martin illuminates the sacrifice, self-discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to today. To be this good, to carry out so ceaselessly, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin many years to reconnect together with his mother and father and sister, and he tells that story with nice tenderness. Martin additionally paints a portrait of his instances: the period of free love and protests towards the warfare in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour within the late 60s, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night time Dwell within the 70s.