This is pretty much pop, a culture podcast. We know shit from Shinola, but stroll right through the shit anyway. Today we're discussing the career of Steve Martin from his 70s standup through the jerk, through his many films, through only murders in the building and his various other activities recently.

This is Mark Lintonmeyer, and I do mind if you smoke.

This is Al Baker also proving it's perfectly possible to build a career on likeability over talent.

I'm Sarah Lynn Breck, and I hate and will destroy all cans at all costs no matter what.

This is Lawrence. We're coming to you from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and I am incredibly talented, but am I funny?

My intro had a deep cut in there. Do you know the joke? Hey, do you mind if I smoke? No, not at all.

And the response. Oh, I know it. Yeah. Say it. Do you mind if I fart?

There you go.

So this was a key influence right after Bill Cosby as a child.

And my dad, in fact, took out the naughty parts in recording some LPs onto cassette for me.

But I think this smuggled its way in.

So not only is it a nice fart joke, but it is a much

more succinct way. Another comic might like, you know, when people ask you if they could smoke,

I mean, that's just like, like just blow an noxious air. It's just, you know, so going off about how bad

smoking is. So simplicity, I think there's a genius to that. I'm happy you see the genius. I don't see

it, but sounds great. What's everybody's history with Steve Martin? I've got a passing familiarity

with him, but I've had that passing familiarity with him for a really long time. I was a child in

the 90s, and I feel like I saw one or the other of the father of the bride

movies on TV almost every weekend.

It seemed like it was hard to escape.

I saw the three amigos on opening weekend for some reason.

Yeah, Steve Martin's just always kind of been there in the background and he seems like

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