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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Born Standing Up A Comic's Life - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Steve Martin At age 10, Steve Martin got a job selling guidebooks at the newly opened Disneyland. In the decade that followed, he worked in Disney's magic shop, print shop, and theater, and developed his own magic/comedy act. By age 20, studying poetry and philosophy on the side, he was performing a dozen times a week, most often at the Disney rival, Kno... more »tt's Berry Farm. Obsession is a substitute for talent, he has said, and Steve Martin's focus and daring -- his sheer tenacity -- are truly stunning. He writes about making the very tough decision to sacrifice everything not original in his act, and about lucking into a job writing for The Smothers Brothers Show. He writes about mentors, girlfriends, his complex relationship with his parents and sister, and about some of his great peers in comedy -- Dan Ackroyd, Lorne Michaels, Carl Reiner, Johnny Carson. He writes about fear, anxiety and loneliness. And he writes about how he figured out what worked on stage.
This book is a memoir, but it is also an illuminating guidebook to stand-up from one of our two or three greatest comedians. Though Martin is reticent about his personal life, he is also stunningly deft, and manages to give readers a feeling of intimacy and candor. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs collected by Martin, this book is instantly compelling visually and a spectacularly good read.
Unabridged: 4 CDs, 4 hours, 30 minutes. Read by the author.« less
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We passed this audio book around my whole family - my teen-aged children, my twenty-something children, and older me - and we all really, really enjoyed it.