Episode · SmartLess · 2024-05-06
Steve Martin & Martin Short on SmartLess: books mentioned
Steve Martin & Martin Short
Double the power, double the math; for our 200th episode, it’s double-trouble with Steve Martin and Martin Short. The talk-show anecdote, the best use of a time-machine, and have you ever heard of the word “combo?”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Born Standing Up
“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!”
Plugged Born Standing Up
“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”
Passing I Must Say
“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”