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1. www.goodreads.com › book › showBorn Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin | Goodreads

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   Nov 20, 2007 · 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.

   • 3.9/5 (102.6K)

   • Format: Hardcover

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   Nov 15, 2007 · “Born Standing Up” is a tightly focused book, confining its emphasis to the ways in which both his wit and his personal life developed during these formative years. It is illustrated with...

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   The book examines Martin's childhood, and his first jobs at the Southern California theme parks Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm. It includes his later stand-up comedy career, which lasted until 1981.

   • Author: Steve Martin

   • Publish Year: 2007

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   Nov 20, 2007 · 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. In the...

   • 3.5/5
   • Edition: illustrated

   • Author: Steve Martin
   • Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2007

5. www.amazon.ca › Born-Standing-Up-Comics-Life › dpBorn Standing Up: A Comic's Life Paperback - Amazon.ca

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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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   • Author: Steve Martin
   • Brand: Scribner

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   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.

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   Is born standing up a good book?

   • 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 about?

   • “Born Standing Up” is a tightly focused book, confining its emphasis to the ways in which both his wit and his personal life developed during these formative years. It is illustrated with photographs that show Mr. Martin grasping for a durable physical style.

   Steve Martin - Born Standing Up - Book Review - The New York Times

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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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   Apr 30, 2024 · In the realm of comedy, few books offer as vivid and inspiring a journey as Steve Martin’s memoir, Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life. This isn’t just a book — it’s an expedition into the ...