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Born Standing Up

A Comic's Life

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Born Standing Up

Autor: Steve Martin
Czyta: Steve Martin
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Steve Martin's riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved, and highly acclaimed memoir of a life, a vocation, and an era—named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.

In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of “why I did stand-up and why I walked away.”

Emmy and Grammy Award–winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been a writer. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written.

At age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott’s Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes.

Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times—the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies.

Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.©2007 Steve Martin; (P)2007 Simon and Schuster Inc.
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"Absolutely magnificent. One of the best books about comedy and being a comedian ever written." - Jerry Seinfeld, GQ
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I wish Steve Martin had written more about his creative process, material and life after his stand up act was over. Listening to his autobiography read by him gives his book so much more additional meaning and emotion. Every minute is worth it and I will listen to this audio book at least once more. Bonus: Banjo interludes played by Steve Martin himself.

Moving and insightful

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Wild, funny and yet touching and profound with a great, nostalgic trip down memory lane to the birth of modern standup comedy culture in the 60s and 70s. Loved every second of it!!!

Required reading/listening for every standup comic

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I liked it a lot. First it was just Allright, but the more I heard the more I liked it. I laughed, I cried, I got surprised, and definitely learned a couple of things.

I am a stand-up comedian, so it was a good match. And Steve's performance on his own book is awesome.

Recommended for creatives and comedians

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honest, profound, stunning

A true artist takes us on a journey through all the highs and lows that this profession entails, with all its uncertainties and self-discoveries,
all in a calm and unobtrusive way.

profound

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Inspirierend, ehrlich, biografisch. Es macht Spaß dem Leben und den Erinnerungen von Steve Martin sein Gehör zu schenken.

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