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Steve Martin, (born Aug. 14, 1945, Waco, Tex., U.S.), U.S. comedian and writer. In 1967 he began writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (Emmy Award). During the 1970s he wrote for and performed in shows such as Saturday Night Live. His slapstick and absurdist humour were showcased in The Jerk (1979), which he both wrote and starred in. His other film comedies included All of Me (1984), Roxanne (1987), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Parenthood (1989), Father of the Bride (1991), Bowfinger (1999), Bringing Down the House (2003), and It’s Complicated(2009). He wrote the stage play Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1995) and the musical play Bright Star (2015) as well as several novels. His comedy albums Let’s Get Small (1977) and A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) and his bluegrass album The Crow (2009) won Grammy Awards.

Grammy Award Summary

Grammy Award, any of a series of awards presented annually in the United States by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS; commonly called the Recording Academy) or the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (LARAS; commonly called the Latin Recording Academy) to recognize

musical Summary

Musical, theatrical production that is characteristically sentimental and amusing in nature, with a simple but distinctive plot, and offering music, dancing, and dialogue. The antecedents of the musical can be traced to a number of 19th-century forms of entertainment including the music hall, comic

music Summary

Music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Both the simple folk song and the complex electronic composition belong to the same activity,

acting Summary

Acting, the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a fictional character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television. (Read Lee Strasberg’s 1959 Britannica essay on acting.) Acting is generally agreed to be a matter less of mimicry, exhibitionism, or