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1. • • Lev Grossman, Time book critic, ranked the book number 6 on his 2007 "Top 10 Nonfiction Books" list. Fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld praised the book, calling it "one of the best books about comedy and being a comedian ever written."
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   • Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time. 207 pages, Hardcover First published November 20, 2007

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   What is born standing up?

   • Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time. I DID STAND-UP COMEDY for eighteen years.

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   What is the book why I did stand-up?

   • This book is, in his own words, the story of “why I did stand-up and why I walked away.” Emmy and Grammy Award–winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Compan y, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been a writer.

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   Does born standing up make you laugh?

   • So many comedian memoirs tend towards one of two paths: "I am a comic and I will make you laugh" with the entire book being one punchline to the next, or "my life has been horrible, THIS is why I make people laugh". Born Standing Up never tries to make you laugh, nor does it try to make you pity Steve's struggling beginnings.

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   Did a methodical approach to humor save a 'born standing up' Star?

   • Perhaps it was a methodical approach to humor that saved him. “Born Standing Up” does a sharp-witted job of breaking down the step-by-step process that brought him from Disneyland, where he spent his version of a Dickensian childhood as a schoolboy employee, to both the pinnacle of stardom and the brink of disaster.

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   Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life is a memoir, released November 20, 2007, [1] by Steve Martin, an American author, [1] actor, [2] comedian, producer, [2] playwright, [3] musician, and screenwriter. [2]

   • Author: Steve Martin

   • Publish Year: 2007

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   Nov 15, 2007 · 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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   by Steve Martin (Author) 4.3 6,217 ratings. See all formats and editions. The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.

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   Sep 2, 2008 · Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life. The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Timeand Entertainment Weekly.

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   Sep 2, 2008 · by Steve Martin (Author) 4.4 6,594 ratings. See all formats and editions. The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.