Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

This one kept popping up on my radar. Steve Martin is my favorite comedian and this book is short. Once I started it I just kept going – read it in one day. (Some Saturdays can be like that). It's a very interesting account of his trajectory to being the hottest stand-up performer in 1978. He quit stand-up in 1981. He was not an overnight success. There are many illuminating bits in this short memoir. It also includes the reasons for the white three-piece suit he wore during his heyday in stand-up. And yeah, of course, it's funny... in places. It's not a joke book. But's it's a fascinating account of a comedian's life.