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Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer.

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Early years

Steve Martin was born in Waco, Texas to Glenn Vernon Martin, a real estate salesman and aspiring actor and Mary Lee Stewart, a housewife. Martin was raised in Garden Grove, California and is of English, Scottish and Irish descent.[1]

As a teenager, Martin started out working at the Magic Shop at Disneyland, where he developed his talents for magic, juggling, playing the banjo and creating balloon animals. He teamed up with friend and Garden Grove High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to do a musical comedy routine, performing at local coffee houses and at the Bird Cage Theater in Knott’s Berry Farm.

Martin majored in philosophy at California State University at Long Beach, and for a while, considered becoming a philosophy professor instead of an actor-comedian. In 1967, he transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater. Martin soon began working local clubs at night, to mixed notices. At the age of twenty-one, he dropped out of college for good.[2] Martin periodically spoofed his philosophy studies in his 1970s stand-up act, comparing philosophy with studying geology. “If you’re studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.”[3]

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martu12 wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

Wow, The Crow is fantastic! Steve Martin, you are officially forgiven for every movie you've made in the last 15 years. Even The Pink Panther 2.

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James_Hartley wrote:
7 days ago

tuggin' at my banjo string , making my eyes water

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see_zero wrote:
8 days ago

There's also a Steve Martin who put out Lonely Little Girl / My Little Angel in Disguise in 1963 on Magnasound records. Obviously, the silver-haired Steve Martin is much better-known, but I thought I'd give the other Steve Martin a mention. Who knows, one day he might browse the web while feeling musically eclipsed.

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kiwibeard wrote:
last month

love the banjo

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Josh_Brogan wrote:
last month

A Wild And Crazy Guy is the reason that I'm pursuing a career in writing. Steve Martin made me love language

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trackaghost wrote:
last month

His new album is great, I'm pleasantly surprised. He's one hell of a banjo player.

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martu12 wrote:
September 2009

Religion, you really can't take it seriously because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary... But on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism and by virtue of its method it excludes metaphysics!

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Sulisk wrote:
July 2009

I like all that I've heard so far, Mega

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afamiliarname wrote:
June 2009

I think I have a crush on Steve Martin and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

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dundee12 wrote:
May 2009

can't believe King Tut isn't even in the top 15!

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lindseygop wrote:
May 2009

I had no idea he could play the banjo so well. His new CD is pure love.

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SilviB wrote:
May 2009

Steve Martin is the sole reason that I will be watching American Idol tonight

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davidn87 wrote:
May 2009

Love the Clawhammer Medley :-)

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phoustsince1991 wrote:
March 2009

:)

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SilviB wrote:
February 2009

I'm really diggin' the 5-String Banjo album [=

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MysticalChicken wrote:
November 2008

Waaaay back when I was twelve years old, in 1991, my dad played me his vinyl copy of Let's Get Small. I adored it and finally bought the CD copy a few months ago. It's still hilarious.

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janiejones48 wrote:
April 2008

I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

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ShadyAdy wrote:
March 2008

Language is the... most important....uhhhh....... I think you KNOW what I'm trying to say...

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mikeroach113 wrote:
March 2008

So funny and awesome!!!!

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Eclectic-G wrote:
February 2008

Well, excuse me!

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