“I started to hear clawhammer and I went, ‘Oh, no – I have to learn another style, too, because it’s so good.”
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for eight Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards. Martin received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2…
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Born 14 August 1945 · Q16473
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2026· 13 entries
“I can sort of understand it. I mean, he’s not working at a mine.”
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“I think, wow, this is the sound of the banjo that made me fall in love with it.”
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“represented a little more avant-garde-type player, with jazz influences, although he came from bluegrass.”
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“five or six very worthy names”
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“I don’t really trust legacies,”
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“I guess, at the bottom of my heart, that’s what it’s meant to do.”
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“you automatically catch people’s ear.”
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“They can be like Stradivariuses – some professional players are paying off their instruments by playing.”
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“The contradiction, of course, is he’s one of the best banjo players in the world. So how do I play along with him? I’m trying to work that out. There are ways.”
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“were quite clever in that they gave it a long provenance and they faked labels, and it came out of a collection that mingled legitimate pictures with faked pictures.”
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“people drinking in bars, and treating women as sex objects.”
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The Guardian: Martin Ødegaard happy with Arsenal’s new duo and says team hungry for title defence
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2025· 1 entry
Released album “Safe, Sensible and Sane”.
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2024· 1 entry
Released album “Steve in a Box: The Warner Years (1977–1981)”.
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2022· 2 entries
Martin and Short co-hosted Saturday Night Live together with Gomez making an appearance
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Collaborated again for Martin's illustrated autobiography, Number One is Walking
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A video shows actor Steve Martin playing with a puppy.” Miscaptioned.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
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Co-created and starred in his first television show, the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building, alongside Short and Selena Gomez, for which he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Actors
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2020· 5 entries
Published video “Steve Martin - Office Supplies (with The Philadelphia Orchestra)”.
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Published video “Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers - California (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “"California" (Teaser)- Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers”.
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Martin reprised his role as George Banks in the short Father of the Bride Part 3(ish)
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Martin opened the 92nd Academy Awards alongside Chris Rock with comedy material
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2019· 1 entry
Martin has collaborated with cartoonist Harry Bliss as a writer for the syndicated single-panel comic Bliss
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2018· 8 entries
Published video “Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers | Behind "Strangest Christmas Yet"”.
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Published video “Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers | Behind "So Familiar"”.
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Published video “Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers | Behind "Promontory Point"”.
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Published video “Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers | Behind "Angeline the Barista"”.
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Published video “Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers | Behind "Office Supplies"”.
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Published video “Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers | Behind "Nights in the Lab"”.
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Published video “Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers | Behind "Girl from River Run"”.
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Released their Netflix special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life, which received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations
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2017· 2 entries
Released album ““The Long‐Awaited Album””.
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Martin and Brickell appeared in the multi-award-winning documentary film The American Epic Sessions directed by Bernard MacMahon
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “Bright Star”.
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Played a supporting role in Ang Lee's war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
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Martin made a low-key comeback to live comedy, opening for Jerry Seinfeld
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Staged a national tour with Martin Short and the Steep Canyon Rangers, which yielded a 2018 Netflix comedy special, Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life
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2015· 4 entries
Released album “So Familiar”.
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Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (2015).
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Brickell and Martin released So Familiar as the second installment of their partnership
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When he voiced the villainous Captain Smek in the DreamWorks animated film Home alongside Jim Parsons and Rihanna
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2014).
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Released album “Live”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Love Has Come for You”.
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2011· 4 entries
On Conan on May 3, 2011, and on BBC's The One Show on July 6, 2011
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Released album “Rare Bird Alert”.
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Appeared with Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and JoBeth Williams in the birdwatching comedy The Big Year directed by David Frankel
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Martin also narrated and appeared in the PBS documentary "Give Me The Banjo" chronicling the history of the banjo in America
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2010· 3 entries
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers appeared at the New Orleans Jazzfest, Merlefest Bluegrass Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, at Bonnaroo Music Festival, at the ROMP Bluegrass Festival in Owensboro, Kentuck
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Published the novel An Object of Beauty
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Martin created the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, an award established to reward artistry and bring greater visibility to bluegrass performers
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2009· 4 entries
Released album “The Crow”.
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The school board in La Grande, Oregon, refused to allow the play to be performed after several parents complained about the content
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An article in The Guardian listed Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination
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Martin released his first all-music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo with appearances from stars such as Dolly Parton
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2008· 1 entry
Martin appeared with the band, In the Minds of the Living, during a show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Sehr Erfreut, Meine Bekanntschaft Zu Machen”.
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Published a memoir, Born Standing Up, which Time magazine named as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at No
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2006· 2 entries
Released ep “Steve Martin”.
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Starred in the box office hit The Pink Panther, as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau
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2005· 5 entries
Awarded Disney Legends (2005).
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Awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2005).
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Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl, based on his own novella (2000), and starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2
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The Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Honorary Academy Award in 2013, and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015
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Martin co-hosted Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, marking the park's anniversary
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2004· 1 entry
Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics
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2002· 1 entry
Adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants, which ran Off Broadway at Classic Stage Company, and in 2008 co-wrote and produced Traitor, starring Don Cheadle
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2001· 1 entry
Played banjo on Earl Scruggs's remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
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1999· 1 entry
Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners, and Martin went on to star with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Bowfinger, which he also wrote
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1998· 1 entry
Martin guest starred with U2 in the 200th episode of The Simpsons titled "Trash of the Titans", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson, and also voiced Hotep in the animated film The Prince of Egyp
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1994· 1 entry
Starred in A Simple Twist of Fate; a film adaptation of Silas Marner
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1993· 1 entry
Martin wrote his first full-length play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
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1991· 2 entries
(followed by a sequel in 1995) and in the 1992 comedy Housesitter, with Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany
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Martin starred in and wrote L
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1989· 1 entry
Martin hosted the television special, Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python
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1988· 1 entry
Performed in the Frank Oz film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a remake of Bedtime Story, alongside Michael Caine
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1987· 1 entry
Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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1986· 2 entries
Martin was in the movie musical film version of the hit Off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie), playing the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello
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Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos
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1982· 1 entry
The Man with Two Brains in 1983 and All of Me in 1984, his most critically acclaimed performance up to that point
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “The Steve Martin Brothers”.
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To concentrate on movies and did not return for thirty-five years
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1979· 2 entries
Martin starred in the comedy film The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner, and written by Martin, Michael Elias, and Carl Gottlieb
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Released album “Comedy Is Not Pretty!”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “A Wild and Crazy Guy”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Let’s Get Small”.
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1974· 1 entry
Starred in the Canadian travelogue production The Funnier Side of Eastern Canada, created to promote tourism in Montreal and Toronto, which also included standup segments filmed at the Ice House in Pasadena, Californi
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1969).
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And later as a frequent host on Saturday Night Live
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1967· 2 entries
Martin transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater
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His former girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, helped Martin land a writing job with the show by submitting his work to head writer Mason Williams
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1945· 2 entries
Born 1945-08-14.
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In Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1911–2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914–1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor
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