Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Paperback – September 2, 2008

To me this is an other selp promotion book by Steve Martine, as he pats himself on the back. Who was the person who called Steve Martin a Guinuess. He is far From it. He holds the worst comedy act in history, Right up there with Jerry lewis, How could this guy get the Kenedy Center Honnor, All he did was ride on the shirt tales of the Saterday Night Live Crew. Most of his Movies Bombed! And who in there right mind would have the Balls to step into Jack Lemmons shoes inthe Out of Towners or take on Petter Sellars roll in the Pint Panther. These guys must be rolling over in there graves. The Pink Panther Bombed so bad that he is makeing Pink Panther II. What an idiot this guy is. The King Tutt thing and the Ex-cuse me Thing, had to be the most stupid comedy sketches. Threr are Comic that deserve praize, Like Robbin Williams, I just feel Steve Martin runs around praizing himself and waiting for people to agree with him. "The Jerk" pretty much somes it up. He is one.

the building he lives in is 80 percent ewish, almost impossible to get into if your not a co op I guess so he's sort of an honorary jew along with Bono and Demi Moore her kids ofcourse

Bill Moyers , Gary Null would explain thier mum commentary on Bloombergs Administratiion , pretty much got on their knees closed their eyes and opened their mouths for big mike ( big bob?)

WOuld expain how the area around west 74th follows police tactics used by IDF to monitor or occupy the west bank , according to Nation Magazine

Would explain why they stayed Mum on the treatement of snwoden and manning, who were pretty much treated as isreali terroist suspects..

would expalin how Obama , owned and operated by ewish Wall street righ wing kooks runs the NSA like mossad

only difference is they have actual threats NSA is a big joke , america has so few threats

WOuld expain Bono getting into forbes.com and Palm , high tech is the owned and operated by the ewish people to a large extant and why for example they are so complicit with goverment spying
by companies like Google and AOL and Verizon and ATT.. rich elitist ewing the average

why I have to use the word ewish

These progressives? have joined with the 5 families that have controlled NY and USA government for the past 30 years..
Rudin
Durst
Lefrak
Rose and
Muss

together they own the equivelent of 80 empire state buidlings the revenouse of which is more than all other large citires combined real eatate.
My estimate is the combined net worth is 200 billion
With an annual revenue of 30 billion

That's right 5 famies make 30 billion a year or mint a new bill gates every 2 years.

and will for the next 30 unless we elect some green party anti gary null and Bill Moyers anti Bono to city council

Rent is too damn high guy would have been much better than Coumo much much better .. jimmy mcmillian

From my last post there was an error the person most responsible for closing 12 hospitals to pro Bono pro NYPD pro Bill Rudin guy was Stepen Berger an investment banker..

not Michael Stocker so much but he helped a great deal and stood by while 2000 hospital beds went poof and Bloomberg Settlements went up

PS The Chuck Plan would be to socialize all real estate in New York.. distrubute it to the people of New York.

PSS look at Simon Cowell alligning with Silverman Real Esate scum.. Paul Mcartney marrying ewish elitist crap

PSSS Im starting to believe Right wing kook is just another name of cheapskate

PSSS Sociapaths (girls) for dummies (women ews) So basically as normal New Yorkers you dont really have empathy or guilt or any the normal emotions humans have that form the basis or an ethical code a legal code . So when you see an Ambulance harrassing someone on the street , profiling someone you have to act and help put a stop to it.. Someone is breaking a serious law and you must even though you dont care dont feel like must follow the law. See your a sociopath , your not going to feel sorry for people being violeated, men being abused your not giong to feel anything.. so you must just follow the rules in order to be a decent, not good just a decent human being.
ok if you dont follow the law and dont feel some laws are just, then your basically a criminial
prisones and banks and private clubs are full of people who have no empathy no sense of guilt... in short New Yorkers..

Why did Steve Martin write this book? I don't know. Why did I read this book? Steve martin was a hilarious hoot who created great self-deprecating comedy for many years (and my sister-in-law gave the book to me for Christmas). Why did I read this book all the way to the finish? I hoped it would get better. It did not.

I had heard that Shop Girl, also by Martin, was well written and reviewed. That is as close as I got. I thought the book would be funny, insightful, entertaining, an escape from reality and filled with quality prose.

Why would you expect well written text from one successful at delivery of one-liners? When we watched Steve Martin, part of the humor was what we perceived was going on in his head. Why, for example, did he think he was a wild and crazy guy? We went along. Why did he wear that arrow thing? We ignored it along with him. When we so exercised our imagination about what was going on in the comedian's head we filled in the blanks with our own willingness to find humor and to laugh. Steve Martin did not have to say too much. No long monologues - outlandish behavior for no apparent reason and street theater carried us along on riffs of laughter. We wanted to laugh and saw no reason to hold back. But this book. What happened?

Okay, so it is his biography (and who has not wondered whether the tale of one's life would be interesting to others) and he did not get along with his Dad. He liked his Mom. You never get the impression that anyone in the family has a big heart pumping out tons of love. There were no hugs, group or otherwise, going on in Southern California when Steve was growing up. If you are looking for profound introspection, it ain't in this book. If you want insight into the human condition, go reread The Good Earth. If you want to find out about Steve Martin, the bio on Wikipedia is likely more interesting and you can see the end of the article without scrolling down too much.

Born Standing Up provides you with information about every job held by Steve Martin, his companions of the female persuasion, and celebrities cresting in popularity at the same time as this comedian. Maybe it was cathartic for Steve Martin to write the book. Maybe the scene of Steve Martin saying goodbye to his father on his death bed was meant to mean more, but the emotion evoked here was as shallow as a one-liner. I do not mean to detract at all from Steve Martin's genius. It just does not show up on these pages.

Some other comedian has a rave blurb on the back of the book. I suspect he read other reviews, has spent too much time reading Superman, and that he never opened this book. Pedantic, plodding, dull, dry, narrowly focused, mildly entertaining, historical, mercifully short, sleeping pill, tinder. Steve Martin deserves a better biography.

I like Steve Martin. He is an interesting performer. He has also written two quite affecting books on the subject of depression. I thought "Shop Girl" was really very perceptive. When he tries the very difficult task of focusing on his own depression, however, he fails. He is so unperceptive about his motivations and neuroses that the account becomes incoherent at times. For instance, he builds up this big story about his father beating him for no reason, and then says that is why he was compelled to become an artist. The thing is that the family he describes is pretty typical for the 1950's. We of that generation all grew up with distant, resentful fathers and weak unfulfilled mothers. It doesn't explain anything. The whole book is sort of like that.