How ‘SNL’ Saved Steve Martin
Steve Martin and Lorne Michaels approached the early 1970s, that tumultuous time of Vietnam and Watergate, from completely different directions. “For Michaels, it was a call to arms, banishing big dumb comedy,” according to Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live. “For Martin, it was a chance to poke at the pieties of the counterculture.”
That’s why Michaels resisted booking Martin as an SNL host at first, considering the comedian’s so-stupid-it’s-smart stand-up to be mostly stupid. Before long, however, Michaels came around. “I was completely off about Steve,” he remembered. “You forget that there have to be jokes. His work, I began to see, had a joyousness. And we were deadly serious.”
Saturday Night Live came at just the right time for Martin. After leaving a writing job with the Smothers Brothers, he’d been on the road doing stand-up for about 10 years. That’s a...
That’s why Michaels resisted booking Martin as an SNL host at first, considering the comedian’s so-stupid-it’s-smart stand-up to be mostly stupid. Before long, however, Michaels came around. “I was completely off about Steve,” he remembered. “You forget that there have to be jokes. His work, I began to see, had a joyousness. And we were deadly serious.”
Saturday Night Live came at just the right time for Martin. After leaving a writing job with the Smothers Brothers, he’d been on the road doing stand-up for about 10 years. That’s a...
- 13/3/2025
- Cracked
Noticias similares
Roy Wood Jr. Mocks White House, CNN and Patti LuPone in Peabody Awards Monologue
- 2/6/2025
- de Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lorne Michaels Speaks From the Heart, Investigative Reporters Sound the Alarm on Trump Upheaval at Peabody Awards
- 2/6/2025
- de Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Amy Poehler, Jon Hamm, Kerry Washington & More Walk The Red Carpet At The 2025 Peabody Awards
- 2/6/2025
- de Natalie Oganesyan
- Deadline Film + TV
The 10 Best Actor-Director Collaborations Of All Time
- 31/5/2025
- de Hunter Cates
- Slash Film
The 96% Rated TV Show Created by Steve Carell Is the Edgier Version of ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ That No One Has Watched
- 31/5/2025
- de Jasmine Dean
- FandomWire
5 Most Interesting Wes Anderson Movies, Ranked
- 30/5/2025
- de Sohini Mukherjee
- FandomWire
Selena Gomez, Martin Short, Steve Martin and the ‘Only Murders in the Building’ cast share their personal highlights from Season 4
- 2/6/2025
- de Scott Huver
- Gold Derby
“Don’t make me do this again”: The 13% Rated Nora Ephron Movie Sandra Bullock Considered the Worst Regret of Her Life
- 30/5/2025
- de Pratik Handore
- FandomWire
Only Murders in the Building Confirms an Oscar-Winning Fan Favorite Will Return in Season 5
- 29/5/2025
- de Lee Freitag
- CBR
IMDb.com, Inc. no asume ninguna responsabilidad por el contenido o la precisión de los artículos de noticias, Tweets o publicaciones de blog anteriores. Este contenido se publica únicamente para el entretenimiento de nuestros usuarios. Los artículos de noticias, Tweets y publicaciones de blog no representan las opiniones de IMDb ni podemos garantizar que los informes en ellos sean completamente objetivos. Visita la fuente responsable del artículo en cuestión para informar cualquier inquietud que puedas tener con respecto al contenido o la precisión.