Sublime

It took Martin, by his own estimation, ten years for his new act to cohere, but when it did, he became a monster success. It’s clear in his telling that there was no real shortcut to his eventual fame. “[Eventually] you are so experienced [that] there’s a confidence that comes out,” Martin explained. “I think it’s something the audience smells.”

“Being a celebrity can cause an accidental cheapening of the things one holds dear,” Steve Martin once wrote in The New York Times. “A slip of the tongue in an interview and it’s easy for me to feel I’ve sold out some private part of my life in exchange for publicity.”

Marty, who was always amused by my painful