Born standing up a comics life5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() When he went to a hospital in the midst of one of the panic attacks he had begun suffering, a nurse asked him to autograph a printout of his EKG. And the critical backlash had begun: he had gone from being a wild and crazy guy, in his own phrase, to “a mild and lazy guy” in the none-too-original minds of reviewers. In 1979 he was booked solid for the next two years and playing auditoriums too large for his sly, intimate stage act to be understood. ![]() ![]() In his lean, incisive new book about the trajectory of his life in comedy, Steve Martin describes some of the danger signs that made him realize his career in stand-up had peaked. ![]()
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