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  • The best part of this act is how he acts so smoothly that you wonder whether he actually meant to pop the balloons or not.

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  • I for one do not find SM funny at all. Maybe its my generation but watching a cokehead prance around on stage relying solely off gags just doesn't do it for me. And people always cite "The Jerk" when this issue comes up. It's like Steve Carrel, oh your great at being and idiot, that's not comedy. Sorry, any funny he has was all up his nose.

  • @Chardie420 Sorry, but Steve Martin wasn't part of the 70s coke culture. In fact, he's been described as "relentlessly square" during that time period. He did indulge in Marijuana, but gave that up early on in his career. I can accept that you don't like it, everyone has their opinions, but don't call him a cokehead. This is a guy who honed his comedy chops at Disneyland, not underground clubs.

  • @Chardie420 You're right, Chardie. Steve Martin was pretty unfunny, and I realized it then. It always frustrated me that all the teen-age potheads just went along with the trend, much like they did with Howard stern in the 1980's. I'm glad some people, albeit a minority,  realize that some of the emperors have no clothes.

  • I don't know why this is so funny but I keep laughing my ass off..

  • not funny...george carlin is better...

  • Greatest stand-up comedian EVER.

  • He pulls off the white hair better than anyone

  • I've learned so much!! Haha this was awesome!

  • Hey this is gettin expensive

  • Steve Martin is by far the best comedian alive. He's intelligent, well-versed, multi-talented, and you know what – an amazingly nice guy. He's one of the greatest performers in our modern age, and I absolutely love him.

  • Dude was a f*cking rock star.

  • Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ricky skaggs comes to watseka theatre watseka illinois on aug 26

  • I am in love with this man. Just sayin.

  • holy crap was this guy good

  • hihihihi

  • freakin classic - who the hell is @pettyjones?

  • lets get small.

  • "Well excuuuuusse meeee!!!" Steve Martin FTW!

  • @bgarza9188 wat does FTW actually mean? iv always wondered.

  • @filmgeek22 i believe its for the win

  • ho does he tie them so god damn fast, it takes me ages to tie a balloon

  • @Tomahawknutter Most people wrap the open end of the balloon around one finger, and try to force the tip through the loop. If you wrap it around two fingers, there's a natural opening. With an hour of practicing twisting animals, you can tie balloons in under a half second pretty easily. Hell, I used to teach summer camps where six year old kids learned to tie a balloon in 2-3 seconds.

  • only steve martin

  • He did this in Parenthood.

  • it looks like mr martin has penis shaped balloon hat 2:36

  • @JERRYAOK

    hahaha

    i think we'd get along jerry

  • he's the man!

  • 'hello Mr. Johnson is Sally home?'.....hahahahaha

  • He studied philosophy and has an IQ of 142.. and he just wants to make people laugh.. love it.

  • such class, you don't see dane cook wearing a suit when hes doing stand up

  • He's like the Harrison Ford of comedy.

  • @rockhoppergames Totally agree. Not sure if for the same reasons tho lol!

  • how does he make that pink balloon curl?

  • what a master!!!

  • he does remind me of robin williams!

  • he does remind me of robin williams!or vice versa

  • Oh no! I'm going to get pregnant now!

  • Leslie Nielson's gone? Man, what is going on this month?? Seriously, 3 friends of mine have each died in the last couple weeks (One of them I found out about this morning), and now Leslie Nielson too. Nothing makes sense anymore.

  • 53 people have a venereal disease.

  • funny as fuck

  • If one sign of intelligence is humor than Steve Martin is a genius

  • I know it's supposed to be absurdist humour, but I didn't find this very funny... Ah well. He's still an excellent comedic actor, especially in Pink Panther, IMHO.

  • Thanks to what he did in the late-70's, Steve Martin is on my list of the ten greatest comedians of all time. My list is as follows: 1. Lenny Bruce 2. Bob Newhart 3. Bill Cosby 4. Richard Pryor 5. George Carlin 6. Steve Martin 7. Rodney Dangerfield 8. Don Rickles 9. Red Foxx 10. Mort Stahl Honorary Mention: Shelley Berman
  • My opinion? Unfortunately, acts like Steve's here would rarely ever sell out these days, since all the good venues would be handed to comedians who only make jokes about sex and killing children. It's abhorrently sad, isn't people?

  • thanks for posting.. Awesome seeing Steve rolling with what goes his way with the balloons.

  • This man used to do this stuff at Disneyland back when he was first starting out.

  • This man used to do this stuff at Disneyland back when he was first starting out.

  • @MayPhoenix he used to serve food at the Main Street Cafe.

  • Only man ever to be born with grey hair, he is the man

  • @JDMURDERERS Leslie Nielson.

  • @crabbigail2007 touche

  • @JDMURDERERS RIP Leslie Nielson, funny I was just checking the email on this alternate mailbox and here he has croaked since these messages took place two months ago. That man did dead pan comedy like the best of them could if not the best of them all! Looked so serious and was so silly underneath it all.

  • he's so cute! I love Steve Martin

  • 52 peole kept having pennies go down the drain trying to copy his amazingness.

  • "this is getting expeeeensive!" haha

  • search for this video: dudu the juggling babe. its a a crazy and funny video! but not ass funny ass steve martin!

  • Oh this takes me back. Steve Martin was hot after I graduated h.s. it's as funny now as it was then. This Steve we haven't seen for ages. Now he does a lot of more hi-brow stuff with poetry and stage plays and such.

  • the elvis presley of stand up comedy. he changed the art form. his impact was amazing to see. and won't be forgotten.

  • just finished reading his autobiography...  what a legend

  • @liennto Born standing up? I got it at a half price book store and still have yet to read it.

  • @rawker617 yep. funny i got it at 'book off', a discount book store... read it in two days. i'm not a big reader, so thats fast for me. couldnt put it down! such a cool guy. i'd love to find one of his albums on vinyl...

  • @liennto I got two of his records at the same store for like...3 bucks. Just go to used book stores.

  • Finding Steve Martin records at the record store is like finding buried treasure.

  • I think this was the last time Steve Martin was funny.

  • I was at this show...summer of 1978. The Blues Brothers opened. It was unreal. Belushi was like an acrobat with his dancing. Steve Martin was so funny I was literally crying.

  • The Blue Brothers were the opening act for Steve on this tour. In fact it was during this time at the Universal Amphitheater while they were opening for Steve that they recorded their "Briefcase Full of Blues" record.

  • I went to see him with a blind date. When he did Happy Feet...well, that's the last time I ever saw the guy. No loss. But then Steve continued his show out into the parking lot after the official show was over. The best.

  • It is too bad that this stuff isn't out on dvd, but he did an episode of the first season of the Muppet Show which is...He does a cleaned up balloon animals with a new ending about hunting the balloons. Funny stuff. He also does quite a bit o' banjo pickin'.

  • "And if they pop they go, god damn it!" LOL I love that!

  • This is the best!

  • cant stop laughing

  • Well, excuuuuuuuse me!

  • Steve is absolutely brilliant! He most definitely makes it into my top 3 stand up comedians of all time together with Andrew Dice Clay and Rodney Dangerfield.

  • He's so fucked up there. You can tell.

    I CANT STOP LAUGHING. WHY? WHY?!

  • Why the hell hasnt any of his stand up shows come out on dvd yet?? He was a comedy god i tell you!!!

  • he has done better

  • not that funny...

  • Anyone know where I can get the entire show?

  • :))))

  • this is getting expensive hahaha

  • i love steve martin!!!!

  • One of a kind. That is one wild and crazy guy though!

  • hes look like jim carey ^ ^

  • @halconcollin what are you smoking??? can u give me some??? jim carey?? really??

  • haaaaa! "God dammit!"

  • I think he is DRUNK!

  • Does anyone know if a clip of him pretending to be electrocuted (and, ultimately, enjoying it) when grabbing the microphone is available @ You Tube? Or maybe the video he made for "What I Believe"?

  • this is starting to get expensive

  • Hah the look on his face when the balloon curled around the mic stand was priceless!

  • im going to get pregnant now!! lol! ha ha! i love you steve! :)

  • He's insane! I love it!

  • the man is taleneted

  • In our garage we have a bunch of old albums that belong to my parents. A lot of them came from my dad's friend who passed away and the albums were left to my dad in his will. But anyway, one night when we were outback listening to albums, I was inside the garage looking through the records and found Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small". I put it on and it was hilarious. He's one of the best comedians ever, both in the movie business and the stand up comedy business.

  • Can you get this on dvd?

  • I just read Martin's book BORN STANDING UP, the story of his career as a stand up comic, and I highly recommend it. The amount of serious thought, discipline and hard work required to appear as silly as he does here is surprising and extremely interesting, and Martin details it all very clearly and entertainingly.

    One smart cookie.

  • I love Steve Martin! He's great and hilarious!

    Reminds me of the funny music video called 'The Spanking Machine Song' search it if you wanna.

  • when he said god damn it, it sounded just like herbert from family guy

  • Is there a transcript or something?

  • more further back i watch his videos better he is

  • god dammit! lol

  • I'd like to get serious... just for a moment.

  • im going to get pregnant now!

  • That guy has got to be my personal hero

  • This is getting expensive.

  • Gotta love Steve Martin!

  • One of the best EVER....he was a natural comic...STEVE PLEASE DO A STAND UP TOUR!!

  • Without a doubt. :) I love this show.

  • is he a magician

  • I love Steve. He could be on stage for an hour, tell 10 actual jokes and be hilarious the whole time

  • genius!

    much better than his movies!

  • Top three are steven wright, Emo Phillips, and whatever...

  • great!

  • KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL♪

  • The greatest comedic genius to ever live...in my opinion anyway.

  • He did this on the Muppet Show.

  • Carlin's good, but I havent even heard of Bill Hicks... my Top 3 of the older guys are Steve Martin, Richard Pryor... and i guess Carlin

  • WELL EXCUSEEEE ME!!!  He has gotta be just about the greatest stand up comedian of all time. I would have said he was the greatest, but to be fair, theres also Seinfeld and a lot of other good people out there now, and its hard to pick!

  • say have you got the whole of this show?

  • "Hello, Mr. Johnson. Is Sally home" ??

    LOLOLOL

  • I saw him do this show live at SUNY Albany in 1975. He did the same routine on an HBO Special in 1976.

    By this time (1980) the routine had become predictable and, well--routine. But his manic style and goofiness was really a blast of fresh air at first. You had to be there.

  • do you know where i can get the whole show?

  • It's absurdist humor. Some people just don't get it. These people take life WAY too seriously.

  • They aren't smart enough to get it Loyal

  • @LoyalTideFan, agreed these people are suffering and they want to take it out on absurdists like Steve Barton,Steven bright, and the 19th century prime minister of England Benjamin Bisraeli.What's wrong with these people anyway? I'm sorry, but high unemployment and brilliant comedy are like comparing apples and more apples separately eaten by midgets on stilts and dwarfs trapped in revolving doors.And aren't we tired of hearing about those people, but I digress, Steve Barton = Pure genius's.

  • @LoyalTideFan, Oh, by the way, my friend is missing a small minnow who answers to the name of skip. If you see him around, remember to put him in water immediately because I think he's not on his medication and forgets himself when he goes to the titty bars.Also, I'm starting a small fund to help find skip if you'd care to make a contribution of $10,000 to $50.00 or give what you can between $30 and $5.Anything that increases your chances of getting into heaven after you die is advisable.

  • @LoyalTideFan little bita improve thrown in when the ballon wrapped the mic. clever guy.

  • This is great classic stuff. thanks for posting it.

  • the jerk?

  • are you kidding me?

  • "Venereal disease!"

    LoL, this guy is hysterical! Why he won't go back to stand-up, I'll never know!

    XD

  • its an airial disease u dum dum

  • ... no, it's not...

  • airial

  • Venarial disease as in an STD dum dum

  • 1:39, 1:41

  • Steve Martin The Jerk... great movie!

  • i know, sooo funny XD

  • oh its a broken one.... nother pity down the drain

  • You mean "'nother penny down the drain". Still, funny stuff!

  • huh... thought he said pitty... but ya funny either way...hey does anyone know y the invader zim show was kicked off nickleodeon???

  • According to our friends at Wikipedia, it was a combo of low ratings, over-budget animation, and lack of interest in finishing the series.

  • I just finished Steve's autobiography, "Born Standing Up". I cannot recommend this highly enough. For Steve Martin fans, it's a MUST. Even the not-so-big fans will enjoy it.

  • yeah i'm halfway through it at the mo and it's fab he writes so well u just can't put it down!

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  • lolz God damnt XD

  • ahahah when the balloon was wrapped around the mic! genious

  • he was 34 when he did this

  • yeah, it's too bad, he was incredible...but if you want to know why he stopped doing standup read his book, "Born Standing Up".  I had a new respect for the guy after I read it.

  • Gern Blanston Rocks!

    This guy set the stage for comedy.

  • It too bad that today Stevev Martin has been reduced to movies like cheaper by the dozen and the horrible pink panther remakes...

  • Not like anyone else except my brother woud care, but I was there that night.. It was also the night that the Blues Brothers opened for him and when they recorded "Briefcase Full of Blues"... what a night.

  • I envy you...

  • LOLOLOLOLOL "Well EXCUSEE MEEE"!! I love Steve martin to PIECES!! :D

  • lol, he is funny, but balloon animal balloons are expensive, i wish they were a penny each

  • hahahaha steve martin is HILARIOUS....such a genius...he brings tears to my eyes i laugh so hard

  • This video obviously inspires alot of underwear changing-mine as well.........,,,,,

  • Can you remember this from The Mask?

  • Yes i do, You are right. Was funny too.

  • 3:08 that reaction i shat my pants

  • chigro...i think i just shit my pants!

  • He was the greatest comedian of his era. He will truly be missed.

  • he's not dead...

  • Oh, snap! I had him mixed up with Sam Kinison!

    They look so much alike.

    Well, anyway, he WILL be truly missed when he dies. So I wasn't totally wrong.

  • Wow... that's a huge crowd.

    I would never go to movies if I was a stand up comedian that filled stadiums like that.