Born Standing Up
Author: Steve Martin
Release: November 20, 2007
Tagline: a comic’s life
Publisher: Scribner
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Entertainment, Memoir
ISBN-10: 1416553649
ISBN-13: 978-1416553649
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Born Standing Up celebrates the struggle of Steve Martin finding his genius
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After the shows, however, I experienced long hours of elation or misery depending on how the show went, because doing comedy alone onstage is the ego’s last stand.
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.