
People Keep Screwing Up This Detail About Steve Martin’s Life

Steve Martin is known for being an actor, a comedian, a writer, a fancy art lover, a professional Martin Short defamer and a guy who once wrote a novel about a woman who shaves her public hair with toilet water for some unfathomable reason. But is he a member of the international smarty-pants club known as Mensa?
A recent New York Times crossword clue made reference to the “elite group whose members include Steve Martin and Geena Davis.” Since “Illuminati Reptilian Overlords” didn’t fit, the answer was seemingly “Mensa,” the famed organization full of high I.Q. individuals, including at least one four-year-old and a bunch of giant creeps.
The only problem is: Martin isn’t a member of Mensa. We know this because Martin himself took to Instagram to correct the puzzle. “Hey Nyt crossword,” Martin wrote, “Fyi, I’m not a member of Mensa and never have been.
A recent New York Times crossword clue made reference to the “elite group whose members include Steve Martin and Geena Davis.” Since “Illuminati Reptilian Overlords” didn’t fit, the answer was seemingly “Mensa,” the famed organization full of high I.Q. individuals, including at least one four-year-old and a bunch of giant creeps.
The only problem is: Martin isn’t a member of Mensa. We know this because Martin himself took to Instagram to correct the puzzle. “Hey Nyt crossword,” Martin wrote, “Fyi, I’m not a member of Mensa and never have been.
- 4/23/2025
- Cracked
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