📚 2 Books mentioned in "Steve Martin & Martin Short | SmartLess" of SmartLess
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Born Standing Up
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Um, and number one is walking, uh, Steve's new book is for Tracy. Uh, that's—that's what they call two years old!
In the podcast, Martin Short humorously refers to Steve Martin's new book, suggesting it's old news by claiming it's already two years old.
So, but when I wrote my autobiography, I did have one little plastic box where I just threw things in, and that had things like a receipt from a hotel in Salt Lake City in 1971, so you knew where you were at that date and you could remember her name though. It was like, uh, it was like archaeological because you could, as it went down, you would go past and go past time, go through time.
Steve Martin shares a humorous story about writing his autobiography, highlighting how he kept a small box with mementos from different times that helped him remember the past. Although he doesn't explicitly name his autobiography in the anecdote, it is known to be titled 'Born Standing Up'.
I Must Say
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Yeah, I went, um, speaking about receipts, I went to the, when Marty's biography came out, um, he didn't send me one, so I went to the bookstore, bought it, and while I was at the cash register, put the book and the receipt, took a photo of it, emailed him and said that's okay, I got it. [Laughter] Very good.
The speaker recounts a humorous experience of buying Martin Short's biography when it was released. They mention that Martin didn't send them a copy, so they decided to get it from the bookstore themselves. At the checkout, they took a photo of the book alongside the receipt and sent it to him, playfully letting him know they had it.