Bill Burr | Steve!

[@porflepopnecker4376]

I got to see Steve's live act in college back in the mid-70s, when he was in his absolute prime and did all the classic gags. It was held in the gymnasium at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX and cost about four dollars per ticket. He performed for about an hour and a half, white suit and all (along with banjo, rabbit ears, arrow through the head, Groucho Marx glasses, etc.) and it was one of the most fun experiences of my entire life. His first album, "Let's Get Small", was released shortly after and was comprised of material he'd done that night.

[@willadams1954]

Axe ‘em

[@Thepinatamma]

That sounds amazing!

[@glyph241]

That’s lit. And legit. When I was in Atlanta going to Georgia Tech around 1998 or 2000, my girlfriend got me tickets for the Kids in the Hall roadshow! 🐺🤏🏽 I had my head, crushed personally!!!

[@Chiller11]

Yeah I saw him at Colorado State in the early 70’s. I thought the arrow through the head was hilarious. I also was into bluegrass at the time and thought he played serious banjo.

[@cisium1184]

It's only four dollars every five minutes

[@ldawg7117]

Love Steve my entire life. Was born in 88, though, so I wasn't around for a stand-up days... had no idea the extent of how much he accomplished / knew little about his early days. This documentary was fucking epic. Respect him more than ever after watching it

[@daveminion6209]

love the Bill Burr graph of a typical google search, lol.

[@branchsnapper2228]

Born standing up is one of the best books ever written on comedy

[@sheilamansell5634]

I was born in 64 and I followed him from 5th grade onward. I remember I had a locker at school - junior high kids posted idols they loved, swooned over, the Tiger Beat heartthrobs. I curiously was drawn to him and no one could persuade me that their idols were better. It was not a swooning view for me it was his clever, bold mind. Over his extensive career he flowered into so much more. Making records, performing live, writing books, plays, movies, collecting art, musician, composer, and marrying an editor. Such a substantive, good natured man. He has such breadth and depth.

[@djdksf1]

I watched Steve! last week. I grew up with the man and really had no idea what was behind it all. Literally made me tear up several times. Dude laid it all out there and still does. Fearless.

[@andrewpereira9271]

I saw Steve Martin at one of those San Francisco gigs in the seventies. At times I was laughing so hard I couldn't inhale. I thought I was literally gonna die laughing. He ended the show like the Pied Piper, leading the whole audience into the streets of San Francisco and kept improving by hailing a cab for 300 people and then taking us into an all night laundry where he fucked with people washing their clothes . . . who were completely baffled and wondering what the hell was happening. We would have followed him to San Jose if had led us there.

[@HershelStimsQuA]

Steve, is one of those special talents and i agree: One of the funniest people on the planet. My late wife adored "The Jerk" and we watched it twice a year, at the least.

[@3luckydog]

“They didn’t just go straight Manchester by the Sea”..😂😂😂😂 Holy shit that’s good.

[@wsjustice]

Holt McCallany. His legend stretches from The Search for One Eye Jimmy to Mindhunter to The Iron Claw. Legendary character actor.

[@micahclawrence]

He’s so great in Mindhunter. Season 3 is coming!

[@QuintonLeo]

Steve Martin is an absolute comedic legend, comedic icon, and overall comedy God. This is my first time hearing about this documentary and I'm absolutely giving it a watch this weekend. I will never ever miss anything that has Steve Martin in it.

[@zorantaylor3190]

The fact that Brian Eno's "On Some Faraway Beach" is playing in the clip that plays at 4:35 is a bold and very interesting choice. It feels like a spot where the generic choice would be some cheesy "Lose Yourself" sound-alike or something in that vein.

[@andrealee8561]

Finally watched it Good movie

[@christopherhuff3123]

The Man With Two Brains, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and The Lonely Guy are my favorite Martin films

[@ross1880]

Don't forget The Jerk

[@henrywallacesghost5883]

​@@ross1880He hates these cans!!😂

[@keithpatrick156]

If you haven't seen "L.A. Story", do yourself a favor and rent it. He wrote and starred in it, and it's got a very unique feel to it. I want to imagine that LA is just like that.

[@schmassbinder]

People really do have big doors...

[@PodyTheCirate]

Steve Martin is one of the best entertainers of all time. An absolute legend! He’s a wild and crazy guy!!! Best fishes Steve!!

[@bYtealiEnSzen]

Blown away by Efron's performance. Was in my sophomore yar of college and bought the album. Followed him as well. Even bought "Cruel Shoes" paperback!!!

[@peterjonas4971]

I, too, was ten when Steve Martin was big ( '78-'79), and I had the same reactions to his comedy. Thank for making this one.

[@kostephan9442]

Was hoping for this one….thanks Izzy

[@STINKY-74-FRESH]

Props to U bos this is what he talked about on today's podcast. Just realized today is Tuesday 😂

[@Pickyjonez]

Steve Martin out here edgin' us all

[@mcbaby]

Hope 'Billy at the Movies' becomes a thing one day.

[@VincentAgostino-gy6hr]

I was a PA (production assistant) on The Jerk. Still one of the best working experience of my career.

[@meerkat7406]

Have to agree with Bill, I was in 4th grade when Steve Martin exploded. Everything he did especially when he guested on SNL left me in stitches. I even convinced my mild-mannered father to bring most of the family to see him in Concert an the Nassau Colliseum in Long Island, NY. Rave on Steve!!!

[@VagabundoXtra]

Steve was my first concert! 1978! It was amazing and at the height of his stand up success. He was up for an hour and 20 minutes, didn't really replicate his album stuff except for King Tut.

[@blameitonyaboi]

ol billy at the movies lately lmao

[@0xyartes]

Shout out to Izzy SoDope, these are well done shorts of Ol' Billy Freckles.

[@mistertre80]

Props to Bill see he gon b playing the president in the pop tart movie wit seinfeld

[@cisium1184]

I was eight or nine when my father received _Let's Get Small_ as a Christmas gift. I played it more than he did. By springtime I had the whole album memorized. Steve Martin was the Norm Macdonald of his generation. Not because his style was similar - it wasn't at all - but because he was doing something no one else was doing in a way no one else was doing it, and happily waiting for the rest of the world to catch up and figure it out. Actually he was like Macdonald in one other sense: all the stuff he was doing that seemed haphazard was in reality meticulously timed and practiced.

[@dalevintage]

It's true, I remember, I was about the same age when he just appeared. Like a magic crazy bunnyman! 😆 I too watched his career flourish into the man he was to become. A complicated funny serious man. So grateful I got to grow up during this period in comedy!

[@Canadiantiger23]

Great edit 🙏🏻

[@take5th]

I loved that his first show on HBO was entirely saying ok, here we go, big show time…and then do something else, misdirect, joke, apologize, land back at, ok, here we go, here comes the show.

[@CinHotlanta]

Yeah, I grew up in a world where Steve Martin was one of the gods sitting atop Comedy Mount Olympus - seeing how much he struggled in Part 1 of that documentary absolutely blew my mind as well.

[@mnemonichotpocket]

The original Steve will do it... Helluva banjo player too

[@Football__Junkie]

Not a big Steve Martin fanboy , but dang it, I do love Three Amigos

[@igano111]

They uploaded a Steve Martin video on Letterman's channel, then I saw this... I thought he fucking died ffs.

[@BobbySacamano]

Ditto

[@andrealee8561]

I use to always say it's like Steve Martin comedy to explain a certain sense of humor That's what most comedians want

[@baloonfart8082]

great edits :)

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Going by the traditional definition of a "comedian" I always considered Steve Martin as a "comedic entertainer" rather than comedian. He was an all-rounder when it came to his act. He could sing, dance, was a musician, actor, clown, and a story-teller. A true legend of the stage and screen.

[@52BLUE]

i wanna Bill spill the beans on what he thinks about Manchester By The Sea tho. That film ripped my heart out.

[@2dub2steady]

How is every video consistently better than the last?

[@halbhalbhaIb]

His book "Born Standing Up" is a great look into being an entertainer/artist. Martin rwites really well.

[@kgus123]

Has anyone else noticed that as Steve Martin has entered his golden years, he looks just like Malcolm MacDowell?

[@mnemonichotpocket]

The part 2 is missing ... There was a 4 min upload on Steve and it's gone now. I came back to find it b cause the outro slapped

[@john-nx4xn]

At a really quick glance. The face of Steve Martin on the left looks like Eli Manning to me 😊

[@brothajohn]

I agree with Bill. I don’t remember when Steve Martin first appeared, suddenly he was just…there. And he was great. King Tut just swept the nation.

[@Teeveepicksures]

Holy McCoughlin 😂

[@AnonymousAccount514]

i love Steves acting....but i never understood his stand up

[@D-Fens_1632]

Same here.

[@tpop3723]

Kinda the point.

[@bigoshify]

​@@tpop3723talk about not educated, lol

[@lvbluestreak]

Steve Martin opened up my comedy mind I love love love him - saw Joan rivers when I was fifteen (fake ID) saw so many comedians including you Bill who I also love 💛

[@jfjoubertquebec]

He says he writes "nihilist" jokes... the magician bit where woman says her original card and he says "Ace of Spades, well you are WRONG!" How is that not a joke hahaha?

[@lewismaddox4132]

When he did My Blue Heaven and LA Story I was blown away. He was so different. When he told Sarah Jessica Parker, "Your breasts feel weird." Then she responds with, "Oh, that's because they're real", I knew he was completely different than anyone doing comedy at that time. When he was wearing a $2000 suit while mowing his lawn, and greeting the neighborhood kids, "Hey Joey, Tommy, nice day for a mow!" Nobody was doing that stuff. He's a genius and has never been deterred.

[@jimhays2772]

Go rediscover Steve . Glad you talked about him . The jerk has some lines I've been quoting for 40 years.

[@hammerhead222]

Yup yup yup yup!

[@Ben-bg2lp]

The kids giving their dad advice at the end of the movie and being dicks about why he even felt shame for crying drove me nuts. Zac Efron should've given them some of his jaw treatment.

[@robvangessel3766]

You know why I think Steve Martin's lunatic act in those days was so hilarious? It's because he was still feigning dignity while wearing and doing all those stupid things. His face trying to retain the "I'm above all this" frame-of-mind. He was (and still is) one of the greatest physical comedians in history - with body movement and facial expressions so brilliantly synched (and calculatedly OUT of synch as well).

[@TALKATIVE_CARTOON]

as a kid i never got Steve Apeal

[@jodi2847]

You can be educated or a total illiterate and still "get" Steve Martin. His standup was all about timing, delivery, movement, expression. What he actually said mattered the least. Best of all, NO POLITICS.

[@mistertre80]

Holy macollaney lol

[@NoctuaOlivae]

Weren't there 5 of them? What happened to Chris?

[@IzzySoDope]

The director said he coulda made a godfather length trilogy. They had to cut him

[@Max-zv8hm]

streaming has devalued movies to me

[@mistertre80]

I never knew he had that much hair

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

Holy Maccalony!

[@andrealee8561]

Its on Max

[@RT-qi7rn]

Sometimes it amazes me what Bill doesn't know about comedy history. Like, I know this stuff, I'm a moron

[@ben_mac8670]

Tommy Cooper was the one...his magic and delivery was the best.

[@IZZY_EDIBLE]

Read BORN STANDING UP!

[@chrismiller1718]

First two comedy albums I heard were Reality, What a Concept, and Comedy is not pretty. To this day, I can quote entire bits from both.

[@SteveDave211]

So Steve is like Jazz except its good.

[@onelove1968]

He's looked 55 years old since he was 12.

[@AnonymousAccount514]

love Manchester By The Sea

[@HRRY780]

Dude you gotta cut out the .5 second cuts to memes from 10 years ago

[@thatkid386]

homage to Seinfeld when Susan died and George Constanza OH! Manchester by the sea

[@D-Fens_1632]

Never understood him. I had a 6th grade teacher who was obsessed with Martin and made us watch his old bits. I think I fell asleep. I like him as an actor but never cracked a smile at anything else he's done.

[@tripthemillipede1988]

quickly for iron claw fans, the dark side of the ring do an episode on the von erich's that spells out how much more devastating the real thing was. a few years before the movie and an hour long. so much better.

[@CYBERGRAPHIX-01]

Have you ever been small?

[@JoeRogansForehead]

Or maybe you just typed holy because the Y is right next to the T

[@williamslater-vf5ym]

Wait, they cut out one of the brothers? No thank you. That's just disrespectful.

[@IzzySoDope]

The first cut was 8 hours. They needed to cut it down to 2

[@imuwe]

Nah... Steve isn't much of a comedian, really. But somehow I liked him in movies. Somehow.

[@BobbySacamano]

I really tried to like that new show on Netflix. I did not. He and Martin Short are still awesome, though.

[@Rob-dp3vr]

I grew up a massive Steve Martin fan, and still am a fan. Although I'm not fond of what he has become, which is like a parody of himself. You can see how decades of being famous in Hollywood has turned him into a really superficial, narcissistic celebrity minded personality. Someone he would poke fun of in the 70's. He's not fan friendly, and who he reminds me of is Naven, his character in the Jerk, after he gets rich. Where wealth went to his head, and now he talks like a snob, way too self important. Especially when he's with Martin Short. They're now the type to say "when you're talented, and loved by everyone, it's important to remain humble, even as hard as it may be when reflecting back on all of your success and adoration."

[@hahajones]

The Iron Claw is a great story, a real story, but Efron cannot act anymore. He has had ruination facial surgery and shows no emotion. His features do not move…Everyone else was superb.