Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life is a memoir, released November 20, 2007, by Steve Martin, an American author, actor, comedian, executive producer, playwright and screenwriter. It chronicles his early life, his days working for Disneyland, working at low tier coffee shops and clubs as a comedic act, his later days of the Bird Cage, his relationships, his eventual fame, and the reason why he quit standup in 1981 all together.
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life is a memoir, released November 20, 2007, by Steve Martin, an American author, actor, comedian, executive producer, playwright and screenwriter. It chronicles his early life, his days working for Disneyland, working at low tier coffee shops and clubs as a comedic act, his later days of the Bird Cage, his relationships, his eventual fame, and the reason why he quit standup in 1981 all together.
The book examines Martin's childhood, his first jobs at the Southern California theme parks, Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm. It includes an interlude about the loss of his virginity to well-known Christian-oriented author Stormie Omartian and his later stand-up comedy career, which lasted until 1981 when Martin retired from stand-up comedy due to his feeling that he had pinnacled his stand up performance, and felt his routine was become bloated and old, and that he was now also starting to become an actor in movies, and to pursue his new film career full-time....
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