Steve Martin - Wild & Crazy Guy
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Artist: Steve MartinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1989-07-14
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- I'm Feelin' It
- Philosophy/Religion/College/Language
- Creativity In Action/I'm In The Mood For Love
- A Wild And Crazy Guy
- A Charitable Kind Of Guy
- An Expose
- Cat Handcuffs
- You Native Americans
- My Real Name
- King Tut
Music reviews of Wild & Crazy Guy
Music Review: Not quite Brilliant...
Rating: 4 Stars
Recently I listened to Steve Martin's touching autobiography Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life & was eager to get into his stand-up material (which I'd never even heard of before then). I thought a good place to start would be this CD as it went Double Platinum & is prominently featured in the book.
And though I dreaded that it would be atrocious (after Martin's self-deprecating words), I was actually surprised at how sharp the man was in his day. As an example, there is the excellent last track King Tut (showing that Stand-Up comics CAN write decent songs) & there was also his put-down of a heckler with "Hey, I remember my first beer too!"
Besides this the material comes over surprisingly undated, including his material about cats (Tracks 6-7) & his dialogues on Philosophy in track two ('A Philosophy degree teaches you just enough to screw you up for life'). You can also see how Steve Martin in his day made audiences so comfortable that he could lead them Jesus-like out into the street to get hamburgers etc (e.g. track 4, where he gets the audience to ironically repeat a 'non-conformist oath').
You know what's coming though...
Steve Martin is a great comedy writer (e.g. Planes, Trains & Automobiles, L.A. Story etc), but is not a natural on stage. Though his material is first-rate, he seems somehow stilted & strange. It's hard to put a finger on what it is, but I guess it can only be seen through looking at other comedians.
Ricky Gervais, Bill Hicks, Robin Williams etc are all much easier to laugh AT - you are laughing because everything they ARE is funny.
Something about Steve Martin is hard to laugh at. I'm not sure quite what, but its what stops this work being truly seminal.
Couple this with the effect of age on the craze that surrounded 'Martin at the time, and you can see why some comedy ages like cream...
That said, this CD is still well written & is fairly timeless as it's mostly everyday observations (e.g. going to France & not understanding the lingo). It's also good to see the man in his prime, before he moved away from stand-up to his main skill of writing.
If you want really good comedy from the 70's though, then I recommend George Carlin or Richard Pryor, who are much more at home on stage.
As for this? Give it a go, but read his excellent autobiography first.
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