{"id":2154,"date":"2004-12-05T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2004-12-05T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T17:47:22","slug":"steve-martin-clears-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Steve Martin clears the air &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>about King Tut in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/05\/opinion\/05martin.html?ex=1259989200&#038;en=f8197384b21020ea&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">highly funny article <\/a>in <i>The New York Times <\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin sets the record stright:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>King Tut was not &#8220;born in Arizona.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He did not live in a &#8220;condo made of stone-a.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>King Tut did not &#8220;do the monkey,&#8221; nor did he &#8220;move to Babylonia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>King Tut was not a honky.<\/p>\n<p>He was not &#8220;buried in his jammies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God.  I remember seeing him do King Tut on Johnny Carson, roller-skating around, wearing an Egyptian head-dress &#8230; It was one of the funniest weirdest coolest things I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life.  I was &#8230; 11, I think?  Steve Martin, (the Steve Martin of the late 70s I mean &#8211; with the arrow through the head, and the King Tut mania) was a HUGE part of my childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Mere, Beth, Betsy &#8230; member how much we LOVED that Socrates skit of his?  I wish I could see that again.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/05\/opinion\/05martin.html?ex=1259989200&#038;en=f8197384b21020ea&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">read his piece in The Times<\/a>.  Funny, funny.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks for pointing to this one, <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstupidtommy.blogspot.com\/2004_12_01_bigstupidtommy_archive.html#110225450377484599\">Tommy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about King Tut in this highly funny article in The New York Times . Martin sets the record stright: King Tut was not &#8220;born in Arizona.&#8221; He did not live in a &#8220;condo made of stone-a.&#8221; King Tut did not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}