Steve Martin Struggles Going to Comedy Clubs Because He Doesn’t Want to Relive Early Standup Days: ‘I Can Still Taste the Cheap Wine’
variety.comJack Dunn Growing up in Los Angeles, Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville was a “huge fan” of Steve Martin. At 12 years old, he begged his father to drive six hours to Las Vegas so they could see one of Martin’s last stand-up performances at the Riviera Hotel.
Forty-five years later, Neville shared the NeueHouse Hollywood stage with his comedy hero to promote their new Apple TV+ documentary “Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces.” “My main goal going in was just to listen,” Neville said. “We just talked in the beginning and I recorded conversations with no agenda.
Then slowly, shape started to come out of that and I started to think about what a story could be.” “Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces,” chronicles the life of the legendary filmmaker and funny man in two 90-ish minute halves.
Part one follows Martin from his days working at Merlin’s Magic Shop in Disneyland to his final stand-up set in 1980. Part two explores Martin’s movie career and his life today as he approaches age 79.
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