Woody Allen wrote about his beloved New York City, making the classics Annie Hall and Manhattan to name just two. With the same zeal and affection, Steve Martin did the same for his adopted home Los Angeles. The city of angels, with its quirks and idiosyncrasies seen through the eyes of Martin’s existential book of gags, is depicted as a town built on illusion and excess. In Bowfinger Martin pokes fun at the industry that made him a star, in L.A. Story he parodies a pastiche of moments, traits, and people that make Los Angeles unique.

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 …