Steve Martin Makes the Phone Book Funny | Carson Tonight Show

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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

Комментарии • 48

  • @joebiggs4387
    @joebiggs4387 Год назад +24

    Not very many comedians can say that they made it through 5+ decades!

  • @peachespavalko1980
    @peachespavalko1980 Год назад +3

    Thanks! Never saw this one before. 😂 He’s so adorable and, of course, a genius.

  • @jakematic
    @jakematic Год назад +37

    LMAO. Kids today wouldn't know what a telephone or phone book is either.

    • @joebiggs4387
      @joebiggs4387 Год назад +8

      Or time. If you tell a kid that it’s a quarter to nine, they will look at you like you have three heads. lol

    • @jakematic
      @jakematic Год назад +5

      @@joebiggs4387 LOL give them a wind up watch with hands like I wear and watch the fun ensue

    • @hwoods01
      @hwoods01 Год назад +1

      Well pops, kids of today wouldnt know what a coal chute in the house is either. Or rotary dial phone, or TG&Y stores, or Bicentennial tyco locomotives... WTF is that got to do with anything?

    • @rhymeswithorange6092
      @rhymeswithorange6092 Год назад

      @@hwoods01 I dunno, perhaps because it was important to the bit, maybe?

    • @melissawood8300
      @melissawood8300 Год назад +1

      They continue count change out if the register doesn't tell em
      Example total is 1.56 you give them 11 bucks They ring the register and then hand them 6 cents and they're simple lost ....
      Isn't Education is great in America

  • @orbison
    @orbison Год назад +19

    In his book, Steve mentions this as an example of one of his lesser routines. He was just beginning to make attention for his stand-up and this was one of his early appearances on Carson. After starting strong, his follow-up spots got, by his own words, less funny. He would be demoted to only appearing with guest hosts for a time before Carson agreed to have him back on with him, and his return appearance with Carson was the one that really broke him through with the mainstream.

  • @jillkjv3816
    @jillkjv3816 Год назад +13

    Sometimes I miss those old rotary phones. 😊

    • @jakematic
      @jakematic Год назад +1

      #5XB was the best. And interops 'what nuhmba ya callin ?'

  • @gamernorcal
    @gamernorcal Год назад +37

    He was 28 here. In 4 more years he'd be the biggest comedian/star in the world!

    • @melissawood8300
      @melissawood8300 Год назад +1

      He was awesome doing King Tut on Saturday Night Live ...remember those days were the best..
      Saturday Night Live isn't funny anymore
      First we loose Johnny Carson
      Then somewhere along the line Saturday Night Live DIED I haven't watched in so many years sad, very sad to loose the best comedians of our time in the real world

    • @vika0194
      @vika0194 Год назад +2

      He looks 40. Then looked the same forever.

    • @gamernorcal
      @gamernorcal Год назад +1

      @@vika0194 ya he always had an old face when he was young. and his premature grey hair always made him look old. I think he said it went all grey when he was 30

  • @bobbyk9815
    @bobbyk9815 Год назад +5

    I like that when you take the mustache off Groucho glasses, they just become Steve Martin glasses.

  • @infowarriorone
    @infowarriorone Год назад +4

    Brilliant.

  • @Michael-zq4mo
    @Michael-zq4mo Год назад +2

    DID HE JUST CHOKE THE CHICKEN ON THE JOHNNY CARSON SHOW? GOOD CLEAN FUN, NOBODY GETS HURT, UNLESS THEY'RE IN THE FRONT ROW WITHOUT A VISER😮

  • @sherricoffman
    @sherricoffman Год назад +1

    LOL 😆 🤣 😂 😹 THANKYOU 4SHARING!!!❤ MUCHLOVE Loves !!!❤ 🎊 🎉I Remember The Episode !!! LOL 😆 🤣 😂 😹 ❤❤❤

  • @Scottwax
    @Scottwax Год назад +2

    Saw raw yet so much obvious potential that blossomed soon after.

  • @DonTruman
    @DonTruman 26 дней назад

    The "young man" Steve Martin. And I see this was 4 years before his smash album, Let's Get Small.

  • @ralphharper2414
    @ralphharper2414 Год назад +3

    You know you're going to make when you're on carson

    • @jayclarke6671
      @jayclarke6671 Год назад +2

      Going to make what, whoopy?

    • @joebiggs4387
      @joebiggs4387 Год назад +1

      If you do well. Which Steve Martin did.

    • @roywells5790
      @roywells5790 Год назад +1

      Only if your invited over to the chair

  • @jayclarke6671
    @jayclarke6671 Год назад +5

    Getting laid back then was so much easier than today. For one thing, hiw you looked and your pocket book didn't matter nearly as much!

  • @taydrabrookshire347
    @taydrabrookshire347 Год назад +1

    it’s the Pickwick man

  • @VideoAmericanStyle
    @VideoAmericanStyle Год назад +2

    Steve Martin with (sort of) dark hair. What a treat! Also, if you didn’t find it “funny” - you didn’t really get the point. In this phase of his career, he was often doing a meta-act that was a send-up of traditional comedy.

  • @ElizabethSanchez-oo9nm
    @ElizabethSanchez-oo9nm Год назад +3

    Steve w brown hair!!😅

  • @worsley1
    @worsley1 Год назад +2

    Can you post a clip when Steve hosted and Chevy Chase was a guest?

  • @kijekuyo9494
    @kijekuyo9494 Год назад

    That's why Steve Martin's career would never amount to anything; the punchline to all his jokes began with 555.

  • @DrVonNostrand
    @DrVonNostrand Год назад

    Bro thinks he's Andy Kaufman

  • @selyts4
    @selyts4 Год назад +4

    I loved Steve’s old school slapstick comedy back when comedy was safe and free for every comedian to write and deliver jokes without having the fear of being cancelled by the woke mob!

  • @dkii21
    @dkii21 Год назад +1

    If I could make a request (this video was great, btw): Alden Whitman was the New York Times obituary writer in the 60 to the 70’s. He was featured in a February 1966 Esquire article called ‘Mr. Bad News’ by Gay Talese. It was mentioned in a recent article that Alden Whitman appeared on the Johnny Carson show, so would love to see Johnnys interview with such an interesting man. I’d guess the interview was the late 60’s or early 70’s?

  • @mikem5043
    @mikem5043 Месяц назад

    Seems weird to see him without white hair

  • @600322
    @600322 Год назад +1

    When I was young but after Martin got grey I thougt that he was funny.Not since 2001.

  • @ryanallen5334
    @ryanallen5334 Год назад

    Am I missing something or have times just changed so much that this is not funny at all..? And I like Steve Martin

  • @MegaPrincefox
    @MegaPrincefox Год назад +1

    That sucked real bad

  • @DKCartwright-h4y
    @DKCartwright-h4y Год назад +1

    First time to ever see Steve Martin unfunny.

  • @mittelfruh
    @mittelfruh Год назад +2

    I know, I know, different humor for different folks. But I never could get into Steve's schtick.

    • @VideoAmericanStyle
      @VideoAmericanStyle Год назад +1

      That’s because Steve’s material was more of a postmodernist meta-act - you weren’t supposed to find it funny in the same way as with other comics. It was more in the Andy Kaufman vein.

  • @justayoutuber1906
    @justayoutuber1906 Год назад +2

    I like Steve Martin, but that was one of the dumbest, unfunny skits ever.

  • @USBionicMarine
    @USBionicMarine Год назад

    HE IS NO Robin Williams Steve Just bombed here.

  • @newnoggin2
    @newnoggin2 Год назад

    I didn't laugh once and I really like Steve Martin.

  • @johnhenderson131
    @johnhenderson131 Год назад

    That ended abruptly. I do hope he survived to go home and see his newborn son, but if he survives and continues to fight on the eastern front,…Then his beliefs in the German general staff, the German army and Hitler are going to destroy along with his bigotry, ignorance and total under estimation of the Russian army. I hope he learns and that he doesn’t teach his son the same arrogance, bigotry and hatred .

  • @srvuk
    @srvuk Год назад +1

    I like Martin but on this occasion his act was cringe and really bombed for me.

  • @Wolfshield777
    @Wolfshield777 Год назад

    He must be out of material. I could’ve read the phone book with a silly wig. He was better in the 70s.