Steve Martin, Ramy Youssef, and Paula Pell on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes comedy legend Steve Martin, whose hit series Only Murders in the Building will soon enter its fourth season on Hulu. Martin is currently Emmy-nominated the third season of Murders, and is the subject of the also Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ documentary STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces. Then, actor, comedian, and director Ramy Youssef stops by to talk about his latest standup special More Feelings. And on The Treat, Girls5eva star Paula Pell talks about going viral for the first time.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.0	It's the Treatment.
0:15.4	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.9	The last time our guest Steve Martin was here is when he's doing that period of what I like to call Sadovace films, such as a Spanish prisoner and shopgirl.
0:25.5	Since then, he's gone into some success of his banjo work and, of course, the comedy specials with Martin Short and a little show called Only Murders in the Building, which is now about the start's fourth season and also an Emmy nominee.
0:41.0	But he's also a nominee for the film, Steve, a documentary in two parts, which is on Apple TV Plus, directed by Morgan Neville.
0:49.6	He's also an Emmy nominee.
0:51.6	And it takes us back to that period of a long time ago when he was the biggest thing in the comedy world and in the pop culture world.
1:00.5	And he's one of the people who I can actually say that we've almost spent another time with the introduction.
1:04.9	Steve, first of all, thanks for coming back to do the show.
1:07.3	Thank you.
1:08.0	We have known each other for so long.
1:28.3	I mean, I feel like in the documentary, it's reminded me this, I feel this period of the past 10 years or so, that reflecting, we can see that this side of you coming up in the book, Born Standing Up, but also in an object of beauty and pleasure of my company, this reflective side of you and this side of you that's willing to sort of like look deeper at things, that you're willing to express publicly
1:32.2	in ways that you hadn't before this documentary? Well, yes. I'm embarrassed talking about myself,
1:38.8	but on the other hand, I guess that's why I'm on this to talk about myself. But Adam Gopnik told me or said in an interview,
1:47.8	he said, I have changed more than any other person he's ever known. You know, in the early days of
1:53.7	being reluctant and shy and solitary and definitely unamusing off screen, that I just started to relax.
2:03.7	And when I started my memoir, Born Standing Up, I thought, when I stopped my stand with my career,
2:11.4	I say this in the book, I'm just quoting myself, that I never looked back.
2:15.7	I never thought about it.
2:17.3	I moved on. And I just didn't really
2:21.0	think about it for one reason or another. But then around 2005 or six, I started to think,
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