Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
Why Are You Laughing?
Blind Mike Project
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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A breakdown of Steve Martin's 1978 stand up comedy album, A Wild & Crazy Guy. FOR ALL THINGS BLIND MIKEhttp://blindmike.netFOR ALL THINGS CRAIGGERShttp://www.verygoodshow.orgFOR ALL THINGS HACKRIDEhttp://hackridethedemon.comFOR ALL THINGS DJ ELECTRA FRYhttp://djelectrafry.com
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| 0:00.0 | I don't really know how to start shows. |
| 0:02.0 | Come on now, don't start liking me now. So yeah, I'm funny compared to, you know, well you'll see later. I favor mehap! I know a lot of fucking idiots. I think a lot of shit is mean-spirited, just because it goes against what they believe. But the relief of comedy is it take things that aren't funny, and it allows us to laugh about them for an hour |
| 0:21.8 | We got a purple suit to buy in a gigantic coffin. |
| 0:24.9 | Why are you laughing? |
| 0:26.4 | Evening, everybody. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to another episode of Why You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | And today I'm pleased to introduce to you, Steve Martin, a wild and crazy guy, his |
| 0:36.6 | 1978 album. |
| 0:39.7 | You might be wondering, Mike, you haven't done a Steve Martin album yet. |
| 0:43.1 | Why not start with the first one? |
| 0:44.5 | And I don't really have a good reason. |
| 0:46.3 | I don't know why we didn't do that, I guess. |
| 0:49.4 | For some reason, this one just called to me. |
| 0:51.8 | And then I was like, maybe we should have started with let's get small. |
| 0:55.0 | But we'll get to that at some point. |
| 0:56.9 | But I think the main reason I wanted to start with a wild and crazy guy is it is a fascinating |
| 1:02.9 | piece of comedy history. |
| 1:04.7 | I think it's really well done the way that Steve Martin produced this album. |
| 1:09.5 | And I'm kind of surprised how well, just technically, |
| 1:13.0 | they were able to pull it off, |
| 1:14.4 | given that it's 1978. |
| 1:16.2 | So this is, |
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