That’s HILarious!
A few days back, I saw that Steve Martin had written a book on his comedy career, which surprised me because Steve Martin hasn’t been funny in my lifetime. In fact, the most recent thing I’ve seen where he was prominently involved was Shopgirl, possibly the worst movie I’ve seen in the last three years or so. Plot development was either forced, non sequitur or nonexistant; the characters were one-dimensional, unsympathetic and unlikeable; there were zero laughs, unless you count laughing at what a pompous asshole Steve Martin comes off as, since he wrote and starred in it. Sorry for the negativity - check out King of Kong for good times.
However, the quote from the aformentioned link about Mr. Martin actually having a comedic method is interesting. An attitude I’ve gotten from Bruce Mau is that process is more important than outcome, because process takes you new places, whereas shooting for an outcome only takes you places you can imagine being. I personally prefer being in an inner tube, drinking Utica Club, floating down the river of life as compared to swimming through it. Let the river do the work, dig?
I just got a great spam, which I think is a great manifestation of the extreme form of Martin’s joke-telling strategy. Here is it, in unabashed glory:
From valencia to kirkwall, the englishah, the from dorrimore’s carriagenay, he may have caught do, you know. They know the most extraordinary one by one, stepped forward, and dropping on both tron, and were fighting hard, when the provost, and, as i said before, you know john, so, after the virtuous young matron. Am i to be trusted? He sat down before it, turned the key, and pressed more out in the ozone, marching abreast with shining in bridgetown, y’understand, which he is sick and peeped down the path which the elephant had and staring with round unwinking eyes full in do you think?’ ‘in his study, of course.’ ‘yes only through vague rumours. Neither the brotherhood there’s where the pants come in, she added as.
I think they were trying to sell me something, but that part wasn’t as comprehensible.
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