Steve Martin's new book "Born Standing Up!"

I was 17 in 1977 and Steve Martin was the hottest thing in comedy.
I walked around doing his bits and talking like him all the time. My friend Danny K and I would "get small" and listen to Steve Martin records and howl.
By howl I of course mean laugh like the high chimps we were.

The first time I did stand-up at a real comedy club was Punchlines in Vancouver and I walked on stage with a tennis racket cover on my head.
It was because I wanted to be Steve Martin.
(The tennis racket cover bit has since been retired. Btw I was pretending I was the Pope playing Tennis. Hilarious right?)

Anyway in 1981 Steve Martin stopped doing stand-up and never went back again.
The book Born Standing Up is about his life leading up to and including that amazing time in the late 70's when he was playing arenas and selling millions of albums.
I read it in two days.
If you remember Steve Martin as more than the dad in the Cheaper by the Dozen movies you will love this book.

For those of you who have never heard him do his act have a listen.