I can't count how many times I've watched All of Me. His physical comedy was inspiring. And I've been able to spell "Albuquerque" since I was young thanks to Roxanne.

i was in high school..all us nerds knew every one of his album routines verbatim. they were funny then, but havent aged well.

@@douglaslowe5 How would you say they haven't aged well? I don't necessarily disagree, but how would you articulate it?

He was a Jerk.

Soooo true

Yeah, I was shocked when he did it. I thought it was going to be part of the bit that he would NOT jump through a ring of fire.

Me too, the ANALOG WORLD. Technology will destroy us .

Great, But what does that have to do with this monolouge?

It would be hilarious if he dyed his hair when he got older. Then he'd really mindfuck everyone lol

@@Drew__Films I don't think he's done that for any projects. That would completely blow my mind. He should do one as a ginge. That'd be incredible

@@fordsgirl8096 I once met a guy who cracked his head pretty good when he was a young kid. Where he hit his head the hair grew white, while the rest of his hair was chestnut brown. Pretty strange huh?

Bill was an SCTV alum, like Ackroyd, Belushi and Radner.

What blows my mind is that Steve Martin was never actually a cast member at SNL. It sure seemed like it with the amount of sketches he was in, but he was only a special guest/host. I suppose it was the combination of sketch comedy being in its infancy back then, so there weren't a lot of guest hosts to call up who SNL or themselves felt confident in their ability to do comedy, and also that Steve Martin was so damn good that his sketches stand out above nearly every other guest host during that era of SNL that these are almost all we see nowadays so it's easy to assume he was a regular castmember.

SNL has sucked for the last 20 years.

@@johngullo9420 wow so original. I liked the 2000-2013 SNL

The 90’s were pretty good too

@@johngullo9420 totally disagree. Kate Mckinnon is best cast member ever. SNL was always hit and miss..it's never been more consistently funny than right now. (I do think it's become overly political though).

sunnylilme - Yeah, it’s amazing how in 1977, we all looked younger. I looked like I was 11! Crazy.

@@wildwoodandonyx is it just me, or does Steve Martin look EXACTLY the same age then and now?

Ya think? Maybe later well go through baby pictures and comment on their rolls of fat too?

I think it's the hair. My brother-in-law has the same white hair since he was a child. It's caused by a vitamin deficiency. No biggie, but we all perceive white hair as only something old people have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@tyro244 Neighbor growing up had grey/white hair at 13. One kid in my class had such white hair it glowed in the dark on a trip to the aquarium.

Ok but never at dusk!!

A portrait of the future

It’s 8:30. smoking a doobie....still 2020..mornings.....best time

@@marthawerbiansky3353 still 2021

Funnier now, huh?!

He had to pour all his money into crackers.

One of my big turn ons is a handsome face with premature gray hair. Steve Martin is the greatest.

Cotton-Polyester blends seemed to be popular that decade

ultrakool oh yeah!!!!!

I see this and think of Fantasy Island and Ricardo Montalban, every time.

I'd wear this suit

It was brilliant branding. If you saw him once you instantly knew it was Steve if you saw him again on tv.

I was born in 83,so I'm not sure what context that is?

The Cad. How could he be so cruel.

No dummy, he's feeding him treats, like trained dog.

@@everready19373 thanks Captain Obvious

Well, you didn't think those were just *regular* crackers, did you? They're laced with sugar!

@@everready19373 "...he's feeding him treats, like a trained... DOG" 🤣🙃😂🙃🤣😎😁😎😁 Funny... I thought Murray was mimicking A SEAL -- The placebo joke is way above your 6yr old pay grade 🤔

Gary Stump Sr but meatballs was way better than Groundhog Day.

Did not think he was going to go through the hoop.

That would’ve been Golden

IKR!

2of the best then &now

My daughter who is 20 always has loved Steve Martin. She never saw this skit. When she was 11 I embarrassed her at a hardware store when I walked around with a clamp on my head until we checked out. Years later she saw it and finally got it.

was that a pun? if it was good job mate

200? more like 2,000.

This is season 4. From November, 1979. Not 1974.

@@hectorheathcote9495 1979. I know the marijuana bit comes straight from one of Steve's albums. My guess is Wild and Crazy Guy, his second, but it could be from Comedy Is Not Pretty, the third album.

SNL didn’t even start until 1975, so yes, obviously 1979 not 1974, since there was no SNL yet.

Well.... maybe.... so is Keith Richards, except Steven Martin looks *great*. (Keith looks like he's.... hanging on.)

was it funny way back then?

Me Also

Same! Yes, it was hilarious. But of course we were smoking in the late early afternoon morning evening.

Me too! Every show was golden back then. And then on Monday at school we would talk about and go over every sketch.

@@paullawrence9056 that’s so cool!! I sometimes feel like I’m one of the only people my age that watches SNL (I’m 16) and every time I talk about it with people at school, some of them don’t even know what it is! 😟 I wish SNL was still in it’s prime, so people my age would still probably watch it, and I could talk about it with my friends at school

What’s the name of the book? I’m interested in reading it

@@Cosmocarreon3045 born standing up

@@zaidilyas6663 thank you

Was that show at the Arie Crown theater at McCormick Place? If so, I was there, too. John Sebastian was the opening act.

@@tomryan4968 Yes! That was the show. Small world.

Yes but his biggest downside is, um, he was, he, nevermind.

instablaster

The cocaine was pretty good. Thanks Chevy.

@@pplrstrange he was what?

@@jeneraljax29 exactly. You got it.

It was never live.

Jürgen Sven Fuchs almost.

He got it young. That's why he doesn't seem to age.

Somewhere there’s an old clip of Steve Martin as a contestant on “The Dating Game” pre-white hair.

He doesn't have silver hair in Little Shop of Horrors. It was jarring to see him without it.

@@millennialsdelight I know. He was so young then.

they're briefly in Little Shop of Horrors together, but that's it

The Movie Loft

* Lotusblume * still is

Linda Clark ehhhhhhhh

Can't fault you on that. We did have to learn to appreciate Buck Henry. Our reward was Andy Kaufman. (Plus, we never had to listen to Kanye West, and that made our adolescent years absolutely golden.)

Also, George Carlin and Bowie were always worth the wait. We knew how to be patient. We didn't enjoy it any more than you do, but the payoff was a lot better.

Here's an example. This is what was expected out of George Carlin on the Smothers Brothers: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bN6aqdCKu62miZc.html And this is how he was allowed to expand later on SNL: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8uSrK-cqMelfGQ.html Before cable was widely available, this made a big difference. It was engaging to see someone who might get bleeped or amusingly misunderstood by our parents, instead of having to sit through someone like Bob Hope...and most of the musical guests like Devo and Gary Numan were more interesting than getting the warmed-over Patti Page we could expect elsewhere.

Jesus, just writing this has reminded me of how dim variety shows used to be. God bless SNL; they raised the bar, and now nobody has to sit through the DeFranco family singers or a bunch of sad vaudevillian clowns on unicycles unless they decide to go slumming on KZfaq.