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American comedian, actor, musician and writer (born )

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Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, ) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.

Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and an Honorary Academy Award,^[1] in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards. He also received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in , the Kennedy Center Honors in , and an AFI Life Achievement Award in In , Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the greatest stand-up comics.^[2]The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.^[3]

Martin first came to public notice as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in , and later as a frequent host on Saturday Night Live.

He became one of the most popular U.S. stand-up comedians during the s, performing his brand of offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before sold-out theaters on national tours. He then starred in films such as The Jerk (), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (), The Man with Two Brains (), All of Me (), ¡Three Amigos! (), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (), L.A.

Story (), Bowfinger () and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (). He played family patriarchs in Parenthood (), the Father of the Bride films (–), Bringing Down the House (), and the Cheaper by the Dozen films (–).

Since , Martin has embarked on several national comedy tours with fellow comedian Martin Short.^[4] In , they released their Netflix special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life which received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

In , he co-created and starred in his first television show, the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building, alongside Short and Selena Gomez, for which he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award nomination, and a Peabody Award nomination. In , Martin and Short co-hosted Saturday Night Live together with Gomez making an appearance.

Martin is also known for writing the books to the musical Bright Star () and to the comedy Meteor Shower (), both of which premiered on Broadway; he co-wrote the music to the former. He has played banjo since an early age and has included music in his comedy routines from the beginning of his professional career.

He has released several music albums and has performed with various bluegrass acts, including Earl Scruggs. He has won three Grammy Awards for his music.^[5]

Early life and education

Stephen Glenn Martin was born on August 14, ,^[6][7] in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee (née Stewart; –) and Glenn Vernon Martin (–), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor.^[9][10] He has an older sister, Melinda.^[11]

Martin is of English, Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish, German, and French descent and grew up in Inglewood, California, with his sister and then later in Garden Grove, California, in a Baptist family.

Steve was a cheerleader at Garden Grove High School.^[13] One of his earliest memories is seeing his father, as an extra serving drinks onstage at the Callboard Theater on Melrose Place in West Hollywood, California. During World War II, in the United Kingdom, his father appeared in a production of Our Town with Raymond Massey.

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Expressing his affection through gifts like cars and bikes, Steve's father was stern and not emotionally open to his son.^[14] He was proud but critical, with Steve later recalling that in his teens his feelings for his father were mostly of hatred.^[15]

Steve Martin's first job was at Disneyland, selling guidebooks on weekends and full-time during his school's summer break.

The work lasted for three years (–). During his free time, he frequented the Main Street Magic shop, where tricks were demonstrated to patrons.^[14] While working at Disneyland, he was captured in the background of the home movie that was made into the short-subject film Disneyland Dream, incidentally becoming his first film appearance.

By , he had mastered several magic tricks and illusions and took a paying job at the Magic shop in Fantasyland in August. There he perfected his talents for magic, juggling, and creating balloon animals in the manner of mentor Wally Boag, frequently performing for tips.

In his authorized biography, close friend Morris Walker suggests that Martin could "be described most accurately as an agnostic he rarely went to church and was never involved in organized religion of his own volition".

In his early 20s, Martin dated Melissa Trumbo, daughter of novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

After high school, Martin attended Santa Ana College, taking classes in drama and English poetry. In his free time, he teamed up with friend and Garden Grove High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to participate in comedies and other productions at the Bird Cage Theatre.

He joined a comedy troupe at Knott's Berry Farm.^[14] Later, he met budding actress Stormie Sherk, and they developed comedy routines and became romantically involved. Sherk's influence caused Martin to apply to the California State University, Long Beach, for enrollment with a major in philosophy.^[14] Sherk enrolled at UCLA, about an hour's drive north, and the distance eventually caused them to lead separate lives.

Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian.

Being at college changed his life.

It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect!

There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up.^[20]

Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think:

What if there were no punch lines?

What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation.^[21]

Martin periodically spoofed his philosophy studies in his s stand-up act, comparing philosophy with studying geology.

If you're studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.^[22]

In , Martin transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater. While attending college, he appeared in an episode of The Dating Game, winning a date with Deana Martin.

Martin began working local clubs at night, to mixed notices, and at twenty-one, he dropped out of college.^[23]

Career

Stand-up comedy

Late night

In , his former girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, helped Martin land a writing job with the show by submitting his work to head writer Mason Williams.

Williams initially paid Martin out of his own pocket. Along with the other writers for the show, Martin won an Emmy Award^[25] in at the age of twenty-three.^[14] He wrote for The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Martin's first national television appearance was on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in He says:

[I] appeared on The Virginia Graham Show, circa I looked grotesque.

I had a hairdo like a helmet, which I blow-dried to a puffy bouffant, for reasons I no longer understand. I wore a frock coat and a silk shirt, and my delivery was mannered, slow and self-aware. I had absolutely no authority. After reviewing the show, I was depressed for a week.^[21]

During these years his roommates included Gary Mule Deer and Michael Johnson.

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Gary Mule Deer supplied the first joke Martin submitted to Tommy Smothers for use on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour show.^[27] Martin opened for groups such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (who returned the favor by appearing in his television special All Commercials), The Carpenters, and Toto. He appeared at The Boarding House, among other venues.

He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke and Company in

In the mids, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,^[21] and on The Gong Show, HBO's On Location, The Muppet Show,^[28] and NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL).

SNL's audience jumped by a million viewers when he made guest appearances, and he was one of the show's most successful hosts.^[14] Martin has appeared on twenty-seven Saturday Night Live shows and guest-hosted sixteen times, second only to Alec Baldwin, who has hosted seventeen times as of February&#;^[update].

On the show, Martin popularized the air quotes gesture.^[29] While on the show, Martin grew close to several cast members, including Gilda Radner. On the night she died of ovarian cancer, a visibly shaken Martin hosted SNL and featured footage of himself and Radner together in a sketch.

Comedy albums

In the s, his television appearances led to the release of comedy albums that went platinum.^[14] The track "Excuse Me" on his first album, Let's Get Small (), helped establish a national catch phrase.^[14] His next album, A Wild and Crazy Guy (), was an even bigger success, reaching the No.

2 spot on the U.S. sales chart, selling over a million copies. "Just a wild and crazy guy" became another of Martin's known catchphrases.^[14] The album featured a character based on a series of Saturday Night Live sketches in which Martin and Dan Aykroyd played the Festrunk Brothers; Yortuk and Georgi were bumbling Czechoslovak would-be playboys.

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The album ends with the song "King Tut", written and sung by Martin and backed by the "Toot Uncommons", members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was later released as a single, reaching No. 17 on the U.S. charts in and selling over a million copies.^[14][30] The song came out during the King Tut craze that accompanied the popular traveling exhibit of the Egyptian king's tomb artifacts.

Both albums won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording in and , respectively. Martin performed "King Tut" on the April 22, , SNL program.

Decades later, in , The A.V. Club described Martin's unique style and its effect on audiences:

[Martin was] both a consummate entertainer and a glib, knowing parody of a consummate entertainer.

He was at once a hammy populist with an uncanny, unprecedented feel for the tastes of a mass audience and a sly intellectual whose goofy shtick cunningly deconstructed stand-up comedy.^[31]

On his comedy albums, Martin's stand-up is self-referential and sometimes self-mocking. It mixes philosophical riffs with sudden spurts of "happy feet", banjo playing with balloon depictions of concepts like venereal disease, and the "controversial" kitten juggling (he is a master juggler; the "kittens" were stuffed animal toys).

His style is off-kilter and ironic and sometimes pokes fun at stand-up comedy traditions, such as Martin opening his act (from A Wild and Crazy Guy) by saying:

I think there's nothing better for a person to come up and do the same thing over and over for two weeks. This is what I enjoy, so I'm going to do the same thing over and over and over [] I'm going to do the same joke over and over in the same show, it'll be like a new thing.

Or: "Hello, I'm Steve Martin, and I'll be out here in a minute."^[29][32] In one comedy routine, used on the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, Martin claimed that his real name was "Gern Blanston".

The riff took on a life of its own. There is a Gern Blanston website, and for a time a rock band took the moniker as its name.

Martin's show soon required full-sized stadiums for the audiences he was drawing. Concerned about his visibility in venues on such a scale, Martin began to wear a distinctive three-piece white suit that became a trademark for his act.^[34] Martin stopped doing stand-up comedy in to concentrate on movies and did not return for thirty-five years.^[14] About the decision, he said, "My act was conceptual.

Once the concept was stated, and everybody understood it, it was done It was about coming to the end of the road. There was no way to live on in that persona. I had to take that fabulous luck of not being remembered as that, exclusively. You know, I didn't announce that I was stopping. I just stopped."^[35]

Return to standup

In , Martin made a low-key comeback to live comedy, opening for Jerry Seinfeld.

He performed a ten-minute stand-up routine before turning the stage over to Seinfeld.^[36] Also in he staged a national tour with Martin Short and the Steep Canyon Rangers, which yielded a Netflix comedy special, Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life.^[37] The special received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations with Martin receiving two nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and Outstanding Music and Lyrics for "The Buddy Song".

Acting career

s

By the end of the s, Martin had acquired the kind of following normally reserved for rock stars, with his tour appearances typically occurring at sold-out arenas filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans. But unknown to his audience, stand-up comedy was "just an accident" for him; his real goal was to get into film.^[20]

Martin had a small role in the film Another Nice Mess.

In , he starred in the Canadian travelogue production The Funnier Side Of Eastern Canada, created to promote tourism in Montreal and Toronto, which also included standup segments filmed at the Ice House in Pasadena, California.^[38] His first substantial film appearance was in a short titled The Absent-Minded Waiter ().

The seven-minute-long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Action. He made his first substantial feature film appearance in the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where he sang The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

In , Martin starred in the comedy film The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner, and written by Martin, Michael Elias, and Carl Gottlieb. The film was a huge success, grossing over $&#;million on a budget of approximately $4&#;million.^[39]

Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin starring in a screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 's Eyes Wide Shut).

Martin was executive producer for Domestic Life, a prime-time television series starring friend Martin Mull, and a late-night series called Twilight Theater. It emboldened Martin to try his hand at his first serious film, Pennies from Heaven (), based on the BBC serial by Dennis Potter. He was anxious to perform in the movie because of his desire to avoid being typecast.

To prepare for that film, Martin took acting lessons from director Herbert Ross and spent months learning how to tap dance. The film was a financial failure; Martin's comment at the time was "I don't know what to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy."^[40]

s

Martin was in three more Reiner-directed comedies after The Jerk: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in , The Man with Two Brains in and All of Me in , his most critically acclaimed performance up to that point.^[41][42][43] Martin was by now requesting almost $3 million per film, but Plaid and Two Brains both failed at the box office like Pennies, endangering his young career.^[44] In , Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels, and singer-songwriter Randy Newman.

It was originally entitled The Three Caballeros and Martin was to be teamed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In , Martin was in the movie musical film version of the hit Off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie), playing the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello. The film was the first of three films teaming Martin with Rick Moranis.

In , Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles.^[45] That same year, Martin starred in Roxanne, the film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, which he co-wrote and won him a Writers Guild of America Award. It also garnered recognition from Hollywood and the public that he was more than a comedian.

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In , he performed in the Frank Oz film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a remake of Bedtime Story, alongside Michael Caine. Also in , he appeared at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in a revival of Waiting for Godot directed by Mike Nichols.^[46] He played Vladimir, with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky.

Martin starred in the Ron Howard film Parenthood with Rick Moranis in

s

He later re-teamed with Moranis in the Mafia comedy My Blue Heaven (). In , Martin starred in and wrote L.A. Story, a romantic comedy, in which the female lead was played by his then-wife Victoria Tennant.

Martin also appeared in Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon, in which he played the tightly wound Hollywood film producer, Davis, who was recovering from a traumatic robbery that left him injured, which was a more serious role for him. Martin also starred in a remake of the comedy Father of the Bride in (followed by a sequel in ) and in the comedy Housesitter, with Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany.

In , he starred in A Simple Twist of Fate; a film adaptation of Silas Marner.

In David Mamet's thriller The Spanish Prisoner, Martin played a darker role as a wealthy stranger who takes a suspicious interest in the work of a young businessman (Campbell Scott). In , Martin guest starred with U2 in the th episode of The Simpsons titled "Trash of the Titans", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson, and also voiced Hotep in the animated film The Prince of Egypt.

In , Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners, and Martin went on to star with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Bowfinger, which he also wrote.

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By , Martin ranked fourth on the box office stars list, after starring in Bringing Down the House () and Cheaper by the Dozen (), each of which earned over $&#;million at U.S.

theaters. That same year, he also played the villainous Mr. Chairman in the animation/live action blend, Looney Tunes: Back in Action. In , Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl, based on his own novella (), and starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. In , he starred in the box office hit The Pink Panther, as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau.

He reprised the role in 's The Pink Panther 2. When combined, the two films grossed over $&#;million at the box office.

In the comedy Baby Mama (), starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Martin played the founder of a health food company. Martin also appeared as a guest star in 30 Rock as Gavin Volure in the episode Gavin Volure.

He was nominated for an Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. The following year he starred in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy It's Complicated (), opposite Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. In , an article in The Guardian listed Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination.^[47]

s

During the s, Martin sparsely appeared in film and television.

In , he appeared with Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and JoBeth Williams in the birdwatching comedy The Big Year directed by David Frankel. The film was criticized for its lightweight story and was a box office bomb. After a three-year hiatus, Martin returned in when he voiced a role in the DreamWorks animated film Home alongside Jim Parsons and Rihanna.

The film received mixed critical reception but was a financial success. In , he played a supporting role in Ang Lee's war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. He also appeared as himself in Jerry Seinfeld's Netflix series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in He also appeared in the taped version of Oh, Hello on Broadway () as the guest.

He also starred in the Netflix comedy special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life with Martin Short in

s

In , Martin reprised his role as George Banks in the short Father of the Bride, Part 3(ish). Martin stars in and is an executive producer of Only Murders in the Building, a Hulu comedy series alongside Martin Short and Selena Gomez, which he created alongside John Hoffman.^[48][49] In August , Martin revealed that the series will likely be his final role, as he does not intend to seek out roles or cameos for other shows or films once the series ends.^[50]

Writing

Books

Martin's first book was Cruel Shoes, a collection of comedic short stories and essays.

It was published in by G. P. Putnam's Sons after a limited release of a truncated version in

Throughout the s, Martin wrote various pieces for The New Yorker. In , he adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants, which ran Off Broadway at Classic Stage Company, and in co-wrote and produced Traitor, starring Don Cheadle.

He has also written the novellas Shopgirl () and The Pleasure of My Company (), both more wry in tone than raucous.^[51] A story of a year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills, Shopgirl was made into a film starring Martin and Claire Danes.^[51] The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and was featured at the Chicago International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival before going into limited release in the US.

In , he published a memoir, Born Standing Up, which Time magazine named as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of , ranking it at No. 6, and praising it as "a funny, moving, surprisingly frank memoir."^[52] In , he published the novel An Object of Beauty.^[53]

Beginning in , Martin has collaborated with cartoonist Harry Bliss as a writer for the syndicated single-panel comic Bliss.^[54][55] Together, they published the cartoon collection A Wealth of Pigeons.^[56] In , they collaborated again for Martin's illustrated autobiography, Number One is Walking.^[57]

Plays

In , Martin wrote his first full-length play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

The first reading of the play took place in Beverly Hills, California at his home, with Tom Hanks reading the role of Pablo Picasso and Chris Sarandon reading the role of Albert Einstein. Following this, the play opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and played from October to May , then went on to run successfully in Los Angeles, New York City, and several other US cities.^[58] In , the school board in La Grande, Oregon, refused to allow the play to be performed after several parents complained about the content.

In an open letter in the local Observer newspaper, Martin wrote:

I have heard that some in your community have characterized the play as 'people drinking in bars, and treating women as sex objects.' With apologies to William Shakespeare, this is like calling Hamlet a play about a castle [] I will finance a non-profit, off-high school campus production [] so that individuals, outside the jurisdiction of the school board but within the guarantees of freedom of expression provided by the Constitution of the United States can determine whether they will or will not see the play.^[59]

Broadway

Inspired by Love has Come for You, Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on his first musical, Bright Star.

It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in –46, with flashbacks to The musical debuted on Broadway on March 24, ^[60]Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised its score by Martin and Brickell writing, "The shining achievement of the musical is its winsome country and bluegrass score, with music by Mr.

Martin and Ms. Brickell, and lyrics by Ms. Brickellthe songs — yearning ballads and square-dance romps rich with fiddle, piano, and banjo, beautifully played by a nine-person band — provide a buoyancy that keeps the momentum from stalling."^[61] The musical went on to receive five Tony Award nominations including Best Musical.

Martin himself received Tony nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score and received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and the Outstanding Critics Circle Award for Best New Score. He also received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Martin's next work as a playwright was the comic play Meteor Shower which opened at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in August ,^[62] and went on to Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre later the same year.^[63] The play opened on Broadway at the Booth Theater on November 29, The cast features Amy Schumer, Laura Benanti, Jeremy Shamos and Keegan-Michael Key, with direction by Jerry Zaks.^[64][65] Critic Allison Adaot of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Meteor Shower is a very funny play.

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Hosting

Martin hosted the Academy Awards solo in and , and with Alec Baldwin in ^[67] In , Martin opened the 92nd Academy Awards alongside Chris Rock with comedy material.

They were not previously announced as that year's hosts, and joked after their opening monologue, "Well we've had a great time not hosting tonight".

In , Martin co-hosted Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, marking the park's anniversary. Disney continued to run the show until March , which now^[when?] plays in the lobby of Great Moments with Mr.

Lincoln.

A fan of Monty Python, in Martin hosted the television special, Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python.^[68][69]

Music career

Banjo music

Martin first picked up the banjo when he was around 17 years of age. Martin has stated in several interviews and in his memoir, Born Standing Up, that he used to take 33 rpm bluegrass records and slow them down to 16 rpm and tune his banjo down, so the notes would sound the same.

Martin was able to pick out each note and perfect his playing.^{[citation needed]} Martin learned how to play the banjo with help from John McEuen, who later joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. McEuen's brother later managed Martin as well as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Martin did his stand-up routine opening for the band in the early s.

He had the band play on his hit song "King Tut", being credited as "The Toot Uncommons" (as in Tutankhamun).^{[citation needed]} The banjo was a staple of Martin's s stand-up career, and he periodically poked fun at his love for the instrument.^[21] On the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, he included an all-instrumental jam, titled "Drop Thumb Medley", and played the track on his concert tour.

His final comedy album, The Steve Martin Brothers (), featured one side of Martin's typical stand-up material, with the other side featuring live performances of Steve playing banjo with a bluegrass band.

In , he played banjo on Earl Scruggs's remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". The recording was the winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the Grammy Awards of In , Martin appeared with the band, In the Minds of the Living, during a show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.^[70] In , Martin released his first all-music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo with appearances from stars such as Dolly Parton.^[71] The album won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in ^[72] Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member John McEuen produced the album.

Martin made his first appearance on The Grand Ole Opry on May 30, ^[73] In the American Idol season eight finals, he performed alongside Michael Sarver and Megan Joy in the song "Pretty Flowers". Martin is featured playing banjo on "I Hate Love" from Kelly Clarkson's tenth studio album Chemistry.

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Steep Canyon Rangers

In June , Martin played banjo along with the Steep Canyon Rangers on A Prairie Home Companion and began a two-month U.S.

tour with the Rangers in September, including appearances at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, Carnegie Hall and Benaroya Hall in Seattle.^[76][77] In November, they went on to play at the Royal Festival Hall in London with support from Mary Black.^[78] In , Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers appeared at the New Orleans Jazzfest, Merlefest Bluegrass Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, at Bonnaroo Music Festival, at the ROMP^[79] Bluegrass Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, at the Red Butte Garden Concert series,^[80] and on the BBC's Later with Jools Holland.^[81] Martin performed "Jubilation Day" with the Steep Canyon Rangers on The Colbert Report on March 21, , on Conan on May 3, , and on BBC's The One Show on July 6, ^[82] Martin performed a song he wrote called "Me and Paul Revere"^[83] in addition to two other songs on the lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, at the "Capitol Fourth Celebration" on July 4, ^[84] While on tour, Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers occasionally performed Martin's novelty hit song "King Tut" live in a bluegrass arrangement.

One of these performances was released on the album Rare Bird Alert.^[85] In , Martin also narrated and appeared in the PBS documentary "Give Me The Banjo" chronicling the history of the banjo in America.^[86]

Love Has Come for You, a collaboration album with Edie Brickell, was released in April ^[87] The two made musical guest appearances on talk shows, such as The View and Late Show with David Letterman, to promote the album.^[88][89][90] The title track won the Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song.^[91] Starting in May , he began a tour with the Steep Canyon Rangers and Edie Brickell throughout the United States.^[92] In , Brickell and Martin released So Familiar as the second installment of their partnership.^[93] In , Martin and Brickell appeared in the multi-award-winning documentary film The American Epic Sessions directed by Bernard MacMahon.

Recording live direct-to-disc on the first electrical sound recording system from the s,^[94] they performed a version of "The Coo Coo Bird" a traditional song that Martin learned from the s folk music group The Holy Modal Rounders.^[95] The song was featured on the film soundtrack, Music from The American Epic Sessions released on June 9, ^[94]

In , Martin created the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, an award established to reward artistry and bring greater visibility to bluegrass performers.^[96] The prize includes a US$50, cash award, a bronze sculpture created by the artist Eric Fischl, and a chance to perform with Martin on Late Show with David Letterman.

Recipients include Noam Pikelny of the Punch Brothers band (),^[97]Sammy Shelor of Lonesome River Band (),^[98]Mark Johnson (),^[99][]Jens Kruger (),^[]Eddie Adcock (),^[]Danny Barnes (), Rhiannon Giddens (), Scott Vestal (), Kristin Scott Benson (),^[] and Victor Furtado ().^[]

Personal life

At the beginning of his career in comedy, Martin dated writer and artist Eve Babitz, who suggested he dress in what became his trademark white suit.^[] From to , Martin was in a relationship with Bernadette Peters, with whom he co-starred in The Jerk and Pennies from Heaven.

He also dated Karen Carpenter, Mary Tyler Moore and Anne Heche, who wrote about their relationship in her memoir.^[] On November 20, , Martin married actress Victoria Tennant, with whom he co-starred in All of Me and L.A. Story. They divorced in ^[]

Martin went on a USO Tour to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm from October 14 to 21, He met with military service men and women all over the region signing thousands of autographs and posing for pictures.^[] "Everybody coming out here, giving up part of their lives for this effort.

I had some time off, and I felt kind of bad just sitting there," Martin said, "so I came."^[]

On July 28, , Martin married writer and former New Yorker staff member Anne Stringfield.^[]Bob Kerrey presided over the ceremony at Martin's Los Angeles home. Lorne Michaels served as best man.^[] The nuptials came as a surprise to several guests, who had been told they were coming for a party.^[] In December , Martin became a father when Stringfield gave birth to their daughter.^[][]

Martin has been an avid art collector since , when he bought a print by Ed Ruscha.^[] In , the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art presented a five-month exhibit of twenty-eight items from Martin's collection, including works by Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, and Edward Hopper.^[] In , he sold Hopper's Hotel Window ()^[] at Sotheby's for $&#;million.^[] In , working with two other curators, he organized an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and several other locations called, "The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris," featuring the works of Canadian painter and Group of Seven co-founder Lawren Harris.^[]

In July , Martin purchased what he believed to be Landschaft mit Pferden (Landscape with Horses), a work by Heinrich Campendonk, from a Paris gallery for approximately €, Fifteen months later, he sold the painting at a Christie's auction to a Swiss businesswoman for €, The painting was later discovered to be a forgery.

Police believe the fake Campendonk originated from a collection devised by a German forgery ring led by Wolfgang Beltracchi, pieces from which had been sold to French galleries.^[] Martin only discovered the fact that the painting had been fake many years after it had been sold at the auction. Concerning the experience, Martin said that the Beltracchis "were quite clever in that they gave it a long provenance and they faked labels, and it came out of a collection that mingled legitimate pictures with faked pictures."^[][]

Martin was on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art board of trustees from to ^[] Martin assisted in launching the National Endowment for Indigenous Visual Arts (NEIVA), a fund to support Australian Indigenous artists in Martin has supported Indigenous Australian painting previously.

He organized an exhibition in with Gagosian Gallery titled "Desert Painters of Australia", which featured art by George Tjungurrayi and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.^[]

Martin has tinnitus; the condition was first attributed to filming a pistol shooting scene for Three Amigos in ,^[][] but Martin later clarified that the tinnitus was actually from years of listening to loud music and performing in front of noisy crowds.^[]

Influences

Martin has said that his comedy influences include Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, and Woody Allen.^[][]

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he mentioned that Jerry Seinfeld is one of his "retro heroes", "a guy who came up behind me and is better than I am.

I think he's fantastic, I love to listen to him, he almost puts me at peace. I love to listen to him talk".^[]

Martin's offbeat, ironic, and deconstructive style of humor has influenced many comedians during his career including Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart,^[]Stephen Colbert, Robert Smigel, Bo Burnham,^[] and Jordan Peele.^[] Singer and composer Mike Patton cited Steve Martin as being an early influence^[] saying that he identifies with Martin.^[]

Filmography

Main article: Steve Martin filmography

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Steve Martin

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

Video	Year	Director
"Jubilation Day"[]		Ryan Reichenfeld
"Pretty Little One"[]		David Horn
"Won't Go Back"[] (with Edie Brickell)		Matt Robertson
"Caroline"		Brian Petchers
"So Familiar"		Laurence Jacobs
"Promontory Point"
"Bluegrass Radio" (with Alison Brown featuring Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Trey Hensley, and Todd Phillips)		—

Stand-up specials

• Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life,

Other video releases

• Steve Martin-Live! (, VHS; includes short film "The Absent-Minded Waiter and footage from a concert)
• Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin (, DVD/VHS; sketch compilation)
• Steve Martin: The Television Stuff (, DVD; includes content of Steve Martin-Live! as well as his NBC specials and other television appearances)

Bibliography

Books and plays

Year	Title	Notes
	Cruel Shoes	collection of essays and short stories, first widely published in
	Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for the Floating Lady, WASP	plays
	Pure Drivel	collection of essays and short stories
	Shopgirl	novella
	Kindly Lent Their Owner: The Private Collection of Steve Martin	nonfiction
	The Underpants: A Play	play
	The Pleasure of My Company	novel
	The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z	children's book
	Born Standing Up	nonfiction
	An Object of Beauty	novel
	Late for School	children's book
	The Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten.: The Tweets of Steve Martin	collection of tweets
	Bright Star	musical with Edie Brickell
	Meteor Shower	play
	A Wealth of Pigeons	collection of cartoons with Harry Bliss
	Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions	memoir with illustrations by Harry Bliss
	So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin	audiobook cowritten with Adam Gopnik

Screenplays

Essays, reporting and other contributions

• Danto, Arthur C.

  (). Eric Fischl –. Afterword by Steve Martin. New York: Monacelli Press.

• Modern Library Humor and Wit Series () (Introduction and series editor)
• Martin, Steve (February 13, ) [published February 21 & 28, ]. "Two menus". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. Vol.&#;97, no.&#; p.&#; Archived from the original on August 30,

References