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Steve Martin was ‘born standing up’: A Brief Introduction
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Steve Martin was born in Texas, 1945. He quickly found a kinship with showmanship and entertainment by performing magic tricks, juggling, and playing the banjo to small audiences at Disneyland. Martin was, in his own words “born standing up”.

His first big break came in 1967. Girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”, submitted some of Martin’s work to head writer Mason Williams. Williams liked what he saw to such a …