Key Points
And he was comedys first double-platinum-record-selling, stadium-touring megastar; he began wearing a white suit on stage only so that he could be seen by fans in the cheap seats several postcodes away..
No one who has seen Roxanne, the modern-day interpretation of Edmond Rostands Cyrano de Bergerac that found Martin investing his comedy with emotional weight for the first time, will dispute the Edward-Lear-like genius of the line earn more sessions by sleeving...
(Martin) covers Martins childhood, his teenage job in the Disneyland magic shop, his innovative early standup, all the way up to when he made his leap from stadiums to screen with The Jerk in 1979 then quit live comedy..
The films title, with its razzle-dazzle exclamation mark, reflects Martins shtick as a one-man showbiz parody: I was an entertainer who was playing an entertainer, a not so good one, he wrote in his early-years memoir, Born Standing Up..
(Martin) to showing low points as well as highlights, it was incumbent on Neville to feature the infamous clip of the British comic Paul Kaye, in the guise of the irksome celebrity-insulting hobgoblin Dennis Pennis, ambushing Martin on the red carpet in 1996..
