A review by kaceyymair
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin

I really enjoyed this. His writing style was pretty similar to his writing in “shopgirl”, but seeing this in the context of his life, stand up career, and education made his writing style make more sense? Like it was understandable how he’d reached this point of dry, simple and matter of fact language, and how he used it to express the heavy and funny parts of his life and his “bits”. I appreciated understanding more about his life and career, and in a world of influencer comedians in social media, it was super interesting seeing how he developed his career within the “everyone knows everyone” environment of the 60s and 70s when his career was finally developing into what he wanted it to be.

(Also I watched some bits from “the jerk” and it’s pretty funny tbh)