Name: Rogan & Burr Discuss the Legendary Steve Martin
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rogan & Burr Discuss the Legendary Steve Martin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rogan & Burr Discuss the Legendary Steve Martin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-08. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- The worst thing that can happen to a comic
is you get real soft because everybody loves you
and they go to see you and they laugh at anything you say.
That's one of the reasons why
Steve Martin said he stopped touring.
- Right.
- 'Cause Steve Martin, when I was a kid,
Let's Get Small was out and he would come out
with the bunny ears on and play the banjo.
Fuck, he was so good.
These kids today, these motherfucking kids today,
they don't know that Steve Martin was a monster.
- No, they don't know about that,
but they know, they're doing hell rooms.
Nobody just shows up at the comedy.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, that's not what I mean.
I mean, they don't know how good Steve Martin was.
Like people forgot when Steve Martin was doing arena,
we wasn't doing, I don't know if he was doing arena.
- No, he did.
He did like Nassau Coliseum.
- Oh, okay.
- He got that big.
- When he was doing his albums,
like they were so silly and so fun and so different.
He had his own unique style, you know?
And when he just felt like anything he did,
they laughed at and he lost track
of whether or not it was good or not.
And he just stopped doing it.
And I remember thinking when I was first starting
doing comedy, I can't imagine A,
that that could ever happen.
Or B, that you can't, there's not a workaround, Steve.
You're the fucking man.
- I think it really was he also had all these ideas for film
and all the stuff that he did.
- Yeah.
- But you know, it's kind of interesting, like where he is,
where, what he used to say about like it was such a serious
time that he was coming out of all like, you know,
the previous decade, all the assassinations, the Vietnam War,
the gas prices and all that.
And all these comics were talking about all this heavy shit.
And he was just super silly.
They just, it was like a mental break.
Somebody came to us with a pilot idea for something.
And it was over the top, like absurd and silly.
And like, that was my reference.
I'm going, dude, this is like the Steve Martin bunny ear thing.
Everybody's like going with Trump and the virus.
And it's like, this thing is just silly.
There's no, there's no me too, cancel call.
There's nothing in here.
You can just sit down like that dumb and dumber type of thing.
That type of stuff that I love.
- Yeah, there he is, look at him.
I'm telling you people, people today,
it's hard to appreciate how big he was.
And I was a kid, right?
So that when, when Steve Martin was huge,
I mean, what year was this?
- Late '70s. - The one thing in '84,
but yeah, this is probably before that too.
- Yeah.
- Was he still doing comedy in '84?
I thought he-- - I found a video that said
it was a standup performance from '84.
- Oh wow, I thought-- - That's probably
right around the time when he stopped,
but I thought he stopped before that.
But when I was in high school,
was when Steve Martin was born standing up.
He's got a great book too.
- That's the book, that's the book, Born Standing Up.
You know what kills me is I loaned that to somebody.
- There you go, gave it up in '81.
- I never got it back.
- '81.
So he gave it up when I was a freshman in high school.
The book is great, Red Band gave me the book
for Christmas one year, it's really good.
It's really interesting too because,
like I said, I think when you talk about great comics
of all these generations, for whatever reason,
people just think of him as a great movie star.
They think The Jerk, which is unbelievably funny movie,
and all those amazing movies that he did.
That was a great movie.
- He doesn't like these cans.
- So stupid.
- He was so good, he was so silly.
What was the Mafia movie he played?
What was that one?
The guy with the big hair?
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he goes into the supermarket and he just,
he gets the price gun and everything's like 99 cents,
and he's kind of standing there,
he's scanning all this filet mignons and everything.
- What was that?
- I blew heaven.
- I blew heaven, yeah.
- Yeah, Rick Moranis.
- With Mick Moranis.
That was a great fucking,
that bit that you did on Saturday Night Live,
about Rick Moranis getting punched in the face.
I was fucking howling.
- Do you know, I thought that, if anything,
I thought, 'cause everybody loves Rick,
which I do too, of course.
I was just, you know, it was the perfect.
- That's a joke.
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