Steve Martin

With a Top 10 album and a number of riotous appearances on Saturday Night Live behind him, Steve Martin was at the pinnacle of his stand-up career in 1978. A Wild and Crazy Guy includes Martin's signature "Excuuuuse Me" and "Wild and Crazy Guy" routines, as well as his smash hit, "King Tut."

If you accept the equation that the Seventies are just the Fifties in drag, then you'd expect
this decade -- with its flaccid, zonked-out narcissism practically demanding the satirist's
blow -- to be a great one for laughs. Think about the Fifties. Some of the best comedy this
country ever produced -- the work of men like Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs, and magazines
like the old Mad -- came out of the arch conventionality of the Eisenhower years... More >