Let's Get Small

Steve Martin - Let's Get Small

Let's Get Small
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Artist: Steve Martin
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-05-20
Music Label: Rhino Flashback
Soundtracks:
  1. Ramblin' Man (Main Theme from the Ramblin' Man)
  2. Vegas
  3. Let's Get Small
  4. Smoking
  5. One Way to Leave Your Lover
  6. Mad at My Mother
  7. Excuse Me
  8. Grandmother's Song
  9. Funny Comedy Gags
  10. Closing

Music reviews of Let's Get Small

Music Review: 30 years later, still hilarious, often side splittingly so....
Rating: 5 Stars

Despite being over 30 years old, this album, Steve Martin's debut and arguably his best, is still amazingly funny. It's filled with some of the most memorable comedy bits in Martin's career, and despite hearing this album over and over again, it still sounds fresh and vital. A lot of comedy is topical, but Martin's standup here isn't. There are a few jokes about Carter, but aside from that, the album hasn't dated at all.

There is classic bit after classic bit here, none of which gets old. There's Martin's "exxxxcccuuuussse mmeeeeeeeeeeeee" bit, his great banjo playing, his lines about Vegas, the fact that the show only costs 4.50 to get in (!), his smoking bit "mind if I smoke? No, mind if I fart?", and the hilarious Grandma's Song, with some of the best lines I've ever heard in a comedy song, like "put a live chicken in your underwear". It also has some of the most surreal lines in a song. What the hell does "live in a swamp and be three dimensional" really mean? Or "be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant" mean? Oh, hell, I don't know, and I don't care. The song is brilliant.

Another remarkable thing here is that Martin hardly ever swears in the routine. When he does, it makes it even funnier. When many comedians of the day were swearing and using coarse language, Martin generally kept it clean, and was still hilarious. Most modern comics, who swear a lot thinking it's automatically funny (it isn't, not by a long shot), should take a listen to this album and learn something from a master.

Description of Let's Get Small

Martin's got the audience in the palm of his hand on this mid-'70s recording of a show at The Boarding House in San Francisco. The comedian and his crowd are on the same wavelength; everyone in the room seems to share a California post-hippie sense of absurdism. Occasionally punctuated by banjo playing, Martin's almost cocky performance somehow manages to ramble with a sense of purpose. He certainly doesn't have to worry about losing the crowd; every tossed-off remark and gesture is readily gobbled up. Some of Martin's material verges on the surreal, and not surprisingly, drug references abound. One subtext of the album is the tension between conventional show biz and the hipper brand of comedy that Martin saw himself as embodying. But the comic doesn't really play favorites: both alternative and mainstream culture are targets for his funny jabs. --Fred Cisterna

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