For 1979 Steve Martin returned to The Boardinghouse nightclub in San Francisco for his third comedy LP. Comedy Is Not Pretty is rather crude, particularly in Steve's somewhat embarassing sketch on Jackie Onassis. It nonetheless does hold up well, from his accident with a drinking glass onward. His Sound Effects gag is quite funny, and he brings out his Wild & Crazy trademark when he growls that the audience thinks he's A Rubberhead.
The Steve Martin Brothers Editorial Reviews: Steve Martin is the highly successful comedian and actor, with many credits, He issued four excellent comedy albums for Warner Brothers in the late 1970's, one which has never been issued on CD anywhere in the world until now! The Steve Martin Brothers is a unique production, side one of the album contained comedy material from his live shows. Sde two was all bluegrass music, Steve plays banjo along with his cronies John McEuen & Vassar Clements.
In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Steve Martin's gifts were confined to the screen will discover what readers of The New Yorker already know: that Martin is a master of the written word. Hilariously funny and intelligent in their skewering of the topic at hand, these pieces, some of which first appeared in The New Yorker, feature Martin at his finest. With a playwright's ear for dialogue, a sense of irony only Martin could muster, and a first-class comic ability to perfectly time the punch line, Pure Drivel will have listeners crying with laughter, and marveling at the fact that in addition to all of his many talents, Steve Martin is also a superb writer.
"Repeat after me. I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people tell me to repeat!" This is Steve Martin in action. He says something somewhat pseudo-intellectual followed by something silly, observation of the moment in tow. Throughout the Wild & Crazy Guy compilation, Steve Martin continuously caps on himself for being a comedian. Self-reflective, one of his gimmicks is to put on the super suave act and compliment that by then turning into a complete imbecile. Not only do his jokes fall into this unique-to-him format, but the album itself is set up the same way.
Preschooler's can join Steve, Blue and all their friends in Blue's first movie, Blue's CluesTM: Blue's Big Musical Movie on DVD from Paramount Home Video. They'll will help Steve, Blue and the gang get their backyard musical show underway by helping to write a brand new song with G-Clef, the voice of Ray Charles, and of course, by playing Blue's Clues.
