about King Tut in this highly funny article in The New York Times .
Martin sets the record stright:
King Tut was not “born in Arizona.”
He did not live in a “condo made of stone-a.”
King Tut did not “do the monkey,” nor did he “move to Babylonia.”
King Tut was not a honky.
He was not “buried in his jammies.”
God. I remember seeing him do King Tut on Johnny Carson, roller-skating around, wearing an Egyptian head-dress … It was one of the funniest weirdest coolest things I’ve ever seen in my life. I was … 11, I think? Steve Martin, (the Steve Martin of the late 70s I mean – with the arrow through the head, and the King Tut mania) was a HUGE part of my childhood.
Mere, Beth, Betsy … member how much we LOVED that Socrates skit of his? I wish I could see that again.
Anyway, read his piece in The Times. Funny, funny.
(Thanks for pointing to this one, Tommy.)
My Favorite Honky
The NYTimes turns to Steve Martin for perspective on the new exhibition of King Tut artifacts:IT is fitting that so many major news organizations have asked me to herald the coming to the United States of the artifacts from King…
That King Tut skit on Johnny Carson stopped the show and made him famous. That’s all anyone could talk about the next day. Someone had given Carson some kind of patchwork jacket that night that was basically hideous. When Steve was asked if he liked the jacket, he said, “I like part of it” without a moment’s hesitation and that also brought the house down. He was on fire that night.
YES!!!I am having flashbacks and laughing my ass off!!
sadly – until this very moment I thought he had a “condom made of stone-a” — damn.
Love, love, love those memories. He is a brilliant actor, smart, funny as hell and quite attractive. Bets- never thought he had a condom made of stone-a, but now that you mentioned that, I feel strangely excited…as Dooce refers to it…”in my bathroom area”.
i’ve got the 45 of tut around someplace…the ‘b’ side is him playing sally goodin’ on banjo, i think
Watched Bowfinger again last night, which he both wrote and starred in: he’s still got it. Practically evrything he does is brilliantly hilarious.
Steve Martin is a comic genius. And sexy as hell too. What else needs saying?
;)
DTG xxoo
Pussy Talk
Betsy:
A stone condom? Now that would be fool-proof birth control.
Mere –
I’m trying to remember some lines from that Socrates skit … but am drawing a blank. Member how we used to know it by heart? Do you remember any of it?>
Steve Martin in 1970 = excellent
However, does anyone remember Steve Martin pre-“King Tut”? Remember “Grandmother’s Song”?
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Be courteous, kind and forgiving,
Be gentle and peaceful each day,
Be warm and human and grateful,
And have a good thing to say.
Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
Be witty and happy and wise,
Be honest and love all your neighbours,
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
Be pompus, obese, and eat cactus,
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
Criticize things you don’t know about,
Be oblong and have your knees removed.
Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimentional,
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.
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That was supposed to read
Steve Martin in the 1970’s = excellent
Yes, I see where you wouldn’t want to limit his excellence to the single year of 1970.
I can’t think of the Socrates skit either. It will come to me. I do remember how funny it was- sitting around and listening to it over and over on the tape recorder…(that we taped it from the TV with)
What about the “I believe” speech with the patriotic music in the backround. I’ve got to get a hold of that old stuff..
And Jesus, when he would stagger around with the arrow thru his head. He was a lunatic. LOVE it.
I just remembered the Socrates sketch.
“None of you ever stopped to say: ‘Socrates, hemlock is poison'”
I liked the two Theodoric of York sketches.