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(Original airdate: 05/03/11) Steve Martin swings by Conan to discuss his new album "Rare Bird Alert".

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When Steve Martin mentions his stand-up comedy, it feels like the audience doesn't fully grasp how massive he was during the stand-up phase of his career.

In the late 70's, Martin was a juggernaut. I was in junior high during this time, and his comedy was so pervasive--hit singles, album sales, arena shows, and SNL--that to many people in that era, Steve Martin *was* comedy.

Most retrospectives on comedy focus on Pryor and Carlin, and I can't argue with that. They were visionaries in a way that transcends the eras in which they performed.

And Martin wasn't really that. But in terms of reading the zeitgeist of the late 70's, he nailed that period in a way that nobody else did.

It really came down to two basic insights:

The first was the idea that you didn't have to cue the audience's laughter with explicit punchlines but instead could just keep building the comic tension until they broke on their own.

The second was the realization that the "Flower Power" era had ended and that the audience had moved away from the protest/counter-culture cues that had fueled late 60's/early 70's comedy.

So he cut his hair, put on a white suit, and decimated audiences with sheer silly absurdity. And audiences couldn't get enough. An appearance by Steve Martin had the power to increase the SNL audience by a million viewers.

I would even argue that Steve Martin's mega success helped lay some of the groundwork that led to the 80's comedy boom that followed.

Steve Martin did not participate in that boom. When he sensed that his moment was passing, and when he felt that the audience response was no longer really about the comedy itself, he bowed out of stand-up and turned his focus to movies.

But for those of us old enough to remember, Steve Martin *was* stand-up comedy for a very specific period of time.

marknash

People joke about how Keanu Reeves and Paul Rudd are immortal, but Steve Martin has looked essentially the same since the late 70s.

billyeveryteen

Steve Martin STILL hasn’t been on the podcast yet, and that’s a shame.

MarcAquino

Steve has always been the best talk show guest because everything is always carefully prepared for. The bits that sound like an "interview" are just planned interludes between jokes, sometimes very elaborate ones.

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