A Wild and Crazy Guy

Steve Martin

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 14, 1989)
• Original Release Date: 1978
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002KJ0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,773 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Media Type: CD
Artist: MARTIN,STEVE
Title: WILD & CRAZY GUY
Street Release Date: 07/18/1989
Domestic
Genre: COMEDY

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars From Frisco To Denver Goes The Wild & Crazy Guy, October 22, 1999

By	Michael Daly "Monkeesfan" (Wakefield, MA USA) - See all my reviews

Steve Martin's second comedy LP begins somewhat inauspiciously and then segues to a more raucous performance before an audience as wild & crazy as the titular Festrunk brother.

W&CG begins at The Boardinghouse nightclub in San Francisco; the first three tracks sound like outtake material from the Let's Get Small performances. Here, though, Steve sports a rougher, less inhibited edge, such as when he boasts that he gets his drinks at half-price. He runs down a list of bogus books he's authored - the funniest is How To Get Along With Everyone, which he coauthored with someone he doesn't get along with - and then pontificates on language in his own inimitable fashion.

He tackles language again late in the second track amid pieces on philosophy, religion (Steve finds that The Lord has tallied the times he's used His name in vein, and it numbers 1,000,006), and college - feeling humiliated over the greatness of Leonardo Da Vinci, Steve takes up juggling, then outlines a dirty trick to play on impressionable three-year-olds and comments on his awkward negotiation with the French language during a recent vacation to Paris.

After denouncing the audience as paranoid, Steve does a nice banjo riff before mangling a portion of I'm In The Mood For Love.

The opening minute of track Four takes place at The Boardinghouse with a bogus financial disclosure by Steve; when he notes his desire to sell out a show at $800 per ticket, we then segue to the far more raucous atmosphere of Red Rocks in Denver, where Steve goes into his Festrunk brother routine. He resumes his Festrunk identity when he lectures Americans on their naive methods regarding dating.

Sandwiched between his Festrunk act is a series of pieces on cats - an expose on cat juggling, his need to shackle his own feline because he was embezzling from him, and a hilarious double-entendre regarding a girlfriend and her cat.

After a somewhat sloppy piece on his "real" name, Steve launches into the act's thunderous closer - the King Tut song that likely inspired Pam Tillis' hit Cleopatra: Queen Of Denial - every time I hear Pam Tillis' number I expect Steve Martin to chime in with the famous "Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia" line.

While at times tackier than Let's Get Small, Wild & Crazy Guy nonetheless lives up to Steve's ability with laughs. But hey, he's into the......intellecutal...........KIND of thing.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A WILD AND CRAZY CD!!!!, February 8, 2001

By	ssj (new orleans, louisiana United States) - See all my reviews

This is one of the best, no the VERY BEST Steve Martin work from my point of view. I recently gotten ahold of A Wild and Crazy Guy CD and it brought back some very veeeerrrry funny memories from when it first came out in 1978. I was very young and to this day, I still hear King Tut rolling in my head. I can't go anywhere without hearing this on my headset and not laugh myself silly walking down the street to which people may think I'm crazy. This is a good CD to have if you favor people other than Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, or Richard Pryor among others.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, July 27, 2004

By	J. McAndrew "Jeffrey C. McAndrew" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was a GREAT college album. After seeing its ranking on Amazon, it sounds like it's still doing well. That is amazing.
Martin's humor was a great way to get through tense college days. He is in a world all of his own, but it is an interesting world, that's for sure.