{"id":153,"date":"2008-08-30T00:13:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T04:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-08-30T00:13:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T04:13:59","slug":"born-standing-up-a-comics-life-by-steve-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steve Martin is known in the publishing world for his fiction books so this was a little bit of a departure.\u00c2\u00a0 In Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life<\/em> he chronicles his stand-up career beginning with how he got his start in show business and ending with his decision to pack it all away.\u00c2\u00a0 Literally.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Steve Martin is a private person and the book offers up information on why he tries to keep his personal life separate from his public persona.\u00c2\u00a0 The tone is honest, nostalgic, and somewhat detached.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s obvious he’s moved on to other things in his life so it would be foolhardy to believe he’d do “one last tour” like so many bands that broke up decades ago.\u00c2\u00a0 The book answers questions that I wouldn’t have come up with on my own.\u00c2\u00a0 I was too young to watch Saturday Night Live or The Tonight Show\u00c2\u00a0when he had his stand-up career so my first exposure to him was through his movies.\u00c2\u00a0 One of those questions includes, “Why the white suit?”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was difficult to put down; I read it in one weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 It is my wish that one day he’ll tackle the subject of his varied\u00c2\u00a0writing career with the same regard he’s given his stand-up career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Martin is known in the publishing world for his fiction books so this was a little bit of a departure.\u00c2\u00a0 In Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life he chronicles his stand-up career beginning with how he got his start in show business and ending with his decision to pack it all away.\u00c2\u00a0 Literally.\u00c2\u00a0 Steve… Continue reading Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,34,33],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-book","tag-born-standing-up-a-comics-life","tag-steve-martin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t