We have here an excerpt from Steve Martin's intriguing new book on his life and old comedy act. I discussed the book in this posting but now you can read a key section over at this website…and should if you're at all interested in comedy.
And what you should really do is watch the video they have there (the link's on that page) of one of Martin's early appearances on The Tonight Show. He's very funny…though not as funny as Johnny Carson's jacket. Thanx to Jeff Abraham for telling me about all this.