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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Steve Martin: Portrait of the Artist

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Science, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

He’s had a legendary life as a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, banjo player, even magician. As Steve talks about these threads in his life, a picture emerges of the thoughtful side of this remarkable entertainer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Alan Olga and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating. When I was 18, I went to work at Natsbury Farm at a theater, a little small theater,

0:20.0

and I met a woman, and I kind of, I fell in love with her and she convinced me at the time that

0:26.3

knowledge was the greatest goal you could have and so I for the first time in my life I got

0:31.8

serious about college you got serious about college,

0:33.4

serious about studying and wanted to study philosophy.

0:37.8

And I did.

0:39.3

I didn't graduate.

0:40.3

I went for four years because in the fourth year I changed my major to theater.

0:45.6

I realized, yeah, I think this is more for me, this theater thing.

0:53.2

That of course is Steve Martin.

0:55.9

He's currently starring in the hit TV series,

0:58.9

only murders in the building.

1:01.2

For more than 60 years, he's had an extraordinary career.

1:04.0

It includes hit movies and incredibly successful career in

1:08.0

stand-up, writing screenplays, creating what I think is a

1:12.0

classic magic act act and playing the banjo like nobody's

1:16.0

business and even now he and Martin Short are playing the huge throngs as they

1:20.7

tour the country with their two-man comedy show.

1:24.2

Steve's extraordinary career is the subject of a wonderful two-part documentary.

1:30.8

This is great to talk with you.

1:32.0

I think we only met twice in person, once at the

1:34.9

beginning of our careers, which you probably don't remember, and once years

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