Steve Martin is one of the funniest comedians ever. My mother and I went to see him live, in-person here in Utah. I can't remember what year, but somewhere between the late 70s and early 80s.
I can't count how many times I've watched All of Me. His physical comedy was inspiring. And I've been able to spell "Albuquerque" since I was young thanks to Roxanne.
What blows my mind is that Steve Martin was never actually a cast member at SNL. It sure seemed like it with the amount of sketches he was in, but he was only a special guest/host. I suppose it was the combination of sketch comedy being in its infancy back then, so there weren't a lot of guest hosts to call up who SNL or themselves felt confident in their ability to do comedy, and also that Steve Martin was so damn good that his sketches stand out above nearly every other guest host during that era of SNL that these are almost all we see nowadays so it's easy to assume he was a regular castmember.
@@johngullo9420 totally disagree. Kate Mckinnon is best cast member ever. SNL was always hit and miss..it's never been more consistently funny than right now. (I do think it's become overly political though).
This monologue was on an SNL compilation tape that came out in the 90's at some point, and I watched it (and I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this) ALL THE TIME. I am so glad to be able to see it again. Love Bill, love Steve, and I still say things like, "But never at dusk..." every once in a while just to see who notices.
Saw this and just had to watch!! My mom had his comedy album on 8-track, A Wild and Crazy Guy, and we always listened to it on the way to Charleston. Loved it when he hosted SNL.
@@fordsgirl8096 I once met a guy who cracked his head pretty good when he was a young kid. Where he hit his head the hair grew white, while the rest of his hair was chestnut brown. Pretty strange huh?
I'd pay a lot for that clamp... I adore Steve Martin! My uncle is 18 years older than me, so I became a huge Steve fan at 2 years old. "King Tut" was one of the first songs I knew. Love his banjo work also, he is very talented!
My daughter who is 20 always has loved Steve Martin. She never saw this skit. When she was 11 I embarrassed her at a hardware store when I walked around with a clamp on my head until we checked out. Years later she saw it and finally got it.
I'm so glad I got to see Steve Martin in person in 1978 in Chicago. What a great show; a number of audience members wore the 'arrow thru the head' prop Steve used. He took time for some serious banjo playing, too.
I think it's the hair. My brother-in-law has the same white hair since he was a child. It's caused by a vitamin deficiency. No biggie, but we all perceive white hair as only something old people have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Steve is one of a kind ! What a legend. And he is still going strong today. The Only murders in the building show is in an another class than most , if not all other tv shows today.
@@everready19373 "...he's feeding him treats, like a trained... DOG" 🤣🙃😂🙃🤣😎😁😎😁 Funny... I thought Murray was mimicking A SEAL -- The placebo joke is way above your 6yr old pay grade 🤔
The old 6B studio where Dave Letterman had his show for years.... and in the back I can see Paul Shafer.... And of course Bill was the first guest on that show..... Steve was the best, funny as can be... Get him with Bill and it is a comedy dream team...
For our “May Day” routine in 6th grade we did the King Tut song and dance. We spent late 70’s imitating Steve Martin. We were all just wild and crazy guys.
I just finished steve’s martin‘s autobiography book about stand-up comedy and I have to say is one of the best books I’ve ever read about mastering a craft
@@hectorheathcote9495 1979. I know the marijuana bit comes straight from one of Steve's albums. My guess is Wild and Crazy Guy, his second, but it could be from Comedy Is Not Pretty, the third album.
@@paullawrence9056 that’s so cool!! I sometimes feel like I’m one of the only people my age that watches SNL (I’m 16) and every time I talk about it with people at school, some of them don’t even know what it is! 😟 I wish SNL was still in it’s prime, so people my age would still probably watch it, and I could talk about it with my friends at school
I was 10 years old and a major fan ( I even understood most of the jokes ) and he played for a week at the Garden States Arts Center of August 1979 .... Anyone else ?
Can't fault you on that. We did have to learn to appreciate Buck Henry. Our reward was Andy Kaufman. (Plus, we never had to listen to Kanye West, and that made our adolescent years absolutely golden.)
Also, George Carlin and Bowie were always worth the wait. We knew how to be patient. We didn't enjoy it any more than you do, but the payoff was a lot better.
Here's an example. This is what was expected out of George Carlin on the Smothers Brothers: ua-cam.com/video/6xjvmYVGBYc/v-deo.html And this is how he was allowed to expand later on SNL: ua-cam.com/video/5ebyLkCaAL0/v-deo.html Before cable was widely available, this made a big difference. It was engaging to see someone who might get bleeped or amusingly misunderstood by our parents, instead of having to sit through someone like Bob Hope...and most of the musical guests like Devo and Gary Numan were more interesting than getting the warmed-over Patti Page we could expect elsewhere.
Jesus, just writing this has reminded me of how dim variety shows used to be. God bless SNL; they raised the bar, and now nobody has to sit through the DeFranco family singers or a bunch of sad vaudevillian clowns on unicycles unless they decide to go slumming on UA-cam.
It's amazing how similar Bill Murray used to look to Jim Belushi. I was always confusing them, until one day I didn't. I was coming home from high school, and I spotted a man on a motorcycle and could identify him as Jim Belushi. It was awesome, considering it probably wasn't him at all and didn't even look like him. But from then on, I could tell them apart. It helped that they didn't appear together in too many movies, and the ones they were in I didn't see. It really helps you identify which is which when you don't have to look at them. Maybe we need more celebrities like that.
When Steve Martin starts joking about how he smokes pot... like never at dusk, sometimes late afternoon,. Always at night and what not... that's how I am with my weed.. that dialogue really stood the test of time!
I only smoke during the day at the same time as Steve Martin smokes. Also, I only smoke at night at the same time as Steve Martin. Along with that, if I smoke in the early, middle or late afternoon I only do it at the same time as Steve Martin would do it. I no longer know what I’m saying because I’ve smoked so much pot that I’ve lost all cognitive thought.
Why is nobody talking about how great Steve and Bill were in this? Two of the most underrated comedians of all time. That part where Steve was giving Bill the crackers and then Bill jumped through the ring of fire and didn't get a cracker. omg I'm dead. I can't believe nobody laughed at that.
I went back to look again, because it appeared that the circle of fire turned sideways, so he was running past it, not jumping through it. If you stop the video at 5:36, you can see that's the case, though Idk how they moved it. You know he's not going through it because, if he were, his body would block part of the flaming circle as he passes in front of it. He is behind it the whole time. The only way that's possible is that the flaming circle is parallel to him.
Kim N you are CORRECT!!!!! FINALLY MAKES SENSE. I always knew (or strongly suspected at least), that something was up. There had to be some camera trickery going on because the entire bit is filmed straight on. They only move to a 2/3 angle so that one shot. The only possible reason is because there's some kind of camera trick happening. Your theory makes perfect sense.
He did jump through. If you pause it you can see that his upper body is blocking the flames while his feet are behind. Only way that happens is if he's going through the hoop. Plus this show is aired live. They don't stop.
Steve Martin is one of the funniest comedians ever. My mother and I went to see him live, in-person here in Utah. I can't remember what year, but somewhere between the late 70s and early 80s.
If you didn't live through the 1970's it's hard to imagine how popular Steve Martin was.
I can't count how many times I've watched All of Me. His physical comedy was inspiring. And I've been able to spell "Albuquerque" since I was young thanks to Roxanne.
i was in high school..all us nerds knew every one of his album routines verbatim. they were funny then, but havent aged well.
@@douglaslowe5 How would you say they haven't aged well? I don't necessarily disagree, but how would you articulate it?
He was a Jerk.
Soooo true
The 1970's SNL was the absolute, best cast ever! Steve Martin is one of my favorite Comedians!
What blows my mind is that Steve Martin was never actually a cast member at SNL. It sure seemed like it with the amount of sketches he was in, but he was only a special guest/host.
I suppose it was the combination of sketch comedy being in its infancy back then, so there weren't a lot of guest hosts to call up who SNL or themselves felt confident in their ability to do comedy, and also that Steve Martin was so damn good that his sketches stand out above nearly every other guest host during that era of SNL that these are almost all we see nowadays so it's easy to assume he was a regular castmember.
SNL has sucked for the last 20 years.
@@johngullo9420 wow so original. I liked the 2000-2013 SNL
The 90’s were pretty good too
@@johngullo9420 totally disagree. Kate Mckinnon is best cast member ever. SNL was always hit and miss..it's never been more consistently funny than right now. (I do think it's become overly political though).
This monologue was on an SNL compilation tape that came out in the 90's at some point, and I watched it (and I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this) ALL THE TIME. I am so glad to be able to see it again. Love Bill, love Steve, and I still say things like, "But never at dusk..." every once in a while just to see who notices.
To see these two geniuses back when they were young...I remember them & still love them today!
Saw this and just had to watch!! My mom had his comedy album on 8-track, A Wild and Crazy Guy, and we always listened to it on the way to Charleston. Loved it when he hosted SNL.
Andy Warhol said it's better to look old when you're young. Then when you're old people will say you look great.
Great, But what does that have to do with this monolouge?
It would be hilarious if he dyed his hair when he got older. Then he'd really mindfuck everyone lol
@@Drew__Films I don't think he's done that for any projects. That would completely blow my mind. He should do one as a ginge. That'd be incredible
@@fordsgirl8096 I once met a guy who cracked his head pretty good when he was a young kid. Where he hit his head the hair grew white, while the rest of his hair was chestnut brown. Pretty strange huh?
@@Muscles_McGee Father of the Bride Part II he died his hair
Bill was the first ever new cast member. The new kid on the block. Everyone got to pick on him
Bill was an SCTV alum, like Ackroyd, Belushi and Radner.
Steve Martin and Bill Murray are hilarious
Love the old bits he did, like - let's get small, the 'I forgot', cat handcuffs, happy feet, arrow through the head, etc
5:33
No cgi, no safety gear, no wires.
Live tv no delay.
Bill could have tripped, set himself, Steve, the audience on fire.
I miss this world.
Yeah, I was shocked when he did it. I thought it was going to be part of the bit that he would NOT jump through a ring of fire.
Me too, the ANALOG WORLD. Technology will destroy us .
Think about the stuff they did in The Blues Brothers during those years. Never again will these kind of things happen.
Steve Martin is undoubtedly the best guest on SNL
I remember seeing this live. Steve Martin is a genius ❤. I was 12 lol
I'd pay a lot for that clamp... I adore Steve Martin! My uncle is 18 years older than me, so I became a huge Steve fan at 2 years old. "King Tut" was one of the first songs I knew. Love his banjo work also, he is very talented!
2of the best then &now
My daughter who is 20 always has loved Steve Martin. She never saw this skit. When she was 11 I embarrassed her at a hardware store when I walked around with a clamp on my head until we checked out. Years later she saw it and finally got it.
I'm so glad I got to see Steve Martin in person in 1978 in Chicago. What a great show; a number of audience members wore the 'arrow thru the head' prop Steve used. He took time for some serious banjo playing, too.
Was that show at the Arie Crown theater at McCormick Place? If so, I was there, too. John Sebastian was the opening act.
@@tomryan4968 Yes! That was the show. Small world.
Bill Murray looks so much younger.. Steve Martin looks the same
sunnylilme -
Yeah, it’s amazing how in 1977, we all looked younger. I looked like I was 11! Crazy.
@@wildwoodandonyx is it just me, or does Steve Martin look EXACTLY the same age then and now?
Ya think?
Maybe later well go through baby pictures and comment on their rolls of fat too?
I think it's the hair.
My brother-in-law has the same white hair since he was a child. It's caused by a vitamin deficiency. No biggie, but we all perceive white hair as only something old people have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@tyro244
Neighbor growing up had grey/white hair at 13.
One kid in my class had such white hair it glowed in the dark on a trip to the aquarium.
When you can rock silver hair at a fairly young age than most young people can do with blue hair, then you know you're gonna be legendary
One of my big turn ons is a handsome face with premature gray hair. Steve Martin is the greatest.
Steve is one of a kind ! What a legend.
And he is still going strong today.
The Only murders in the building show is in an another class than most , if not all other tv shows today.
I was waiting for Bill to say, “Steve, these placebo pills have got me high as a kite I could swear that hoop is on fire.”
Did not think he was going to go through the hoop.
That would’ve been Golden
IKR!
I remember this,I was 22 years old...damn, it still cracks me up!
was that a pun? if it was good job mate
got a lot of mileage out of that suit back then
Cotton-Polyester blends seemed to be popular that decade
ultrakool oh yeah!!!!!
I see this and think of Fantasy Island and Ricardo Montalban, every time.
I'd wear this suit
It was brilliant branding.
If you saw him once you instantly knew it was Steve if you saw him again on tv.
It's jarring to see this after forty years and to remember seeing this sketch in context.
I was born in 83,so I'm not sure what context that is?
Here It is in the early, late, mid morning and I’m smoking marijuana watching ancient SNL clips in early, late, mid 2020
Ok but never at dusk!!
A portrait of the future
It’s 8:30. smoking a doobie....still 2020..mornings.....best time
@@marthawerbiansky3353 still 2021
Funnier now, huh?!
Steve only owned one suit back then.
He had to pour all his money into crackers.
Oh man this brings back an old bad placebo trip i had
Little did we know the whole time Steve was rewarding Bill with a placebo, the gateway drug to self destruction.
The Cad. How could he be so cruel.
No dummy, he's feeding him treats, like trained dog.
@@everready19373 thanks Captain Obvious
Well, you didn't think those were just *regular* crackers, did you? They're laced with sugar!
@@everready19373
"...he's feeding him treats, like a trained... DOG" 🤣🙃😂🙃🤣😎😁😎😁
Funny... I thought Murray was mimicking A SEAL -- The placebo joke is way above your 6yr old pay grade 🤔
The old 6B studio where Dave Letterman had his show for years.... and in the back I can see Paul Shafer.... And of course Bill was the first guest on that show..... Steve was the best, funny as can be... Get him with Bill and it is a comedy dream team...
This is when SNL monologues were good. Steve Martin was and is a genius when it comes to comedy.
Yes but his biggest downside is, um, he was, he, nevermind.
instablaster
The cocaine was pretty good. Thanks Chevy.
@@pplrstrange he was what?
@@jeneraljax29 exactly. You got it.
For our “May Day” routine in 6th grade we did the King Tut song and dance. We spent late 70’s imitating Steve Martin. We were all just wild and crazy guys.
Bill was still 14 years away from Groundhog greatness.
Gary Stump Sr but meatballs was way better than Groundhog Day.
This was 42 years ago, but Steve has aged about 5.
Bill Murray jumps through a FLAMING RING OF DEATH!
I just finished steve’s martin‘s autobiography book about stand-up comedy and I have to say is one of the best books I’ve ever read about mastering a craft
What’s the name of the book? I’m interested in reading it
@@Cosmocarreon3045 born standing up
@@zaidilyas6663 thank you
1974?
Steve Martin must be a
Space Alien that lives for
Over 200 years.
200? more like 2,000.
This is season 4. From November, 1979. Not 1974.
@@hectorheathcote9495 1979. I know the marijuana bit comes straight from one of Steve's albums. My guess is Wild and Crazy Guy, his second, but it could be from Comedy Is Not Pretty, the third album.
SNL didn’t even start until 1975, so yes, obviously 1979 not 1974, since there was no SNL yet.
Well.... maybe.... so is Keith Richards, except Steven Martin looks *great*. (Keith looks like he's.... hanging on.)
I watched this with Dad at age 11 and it was the best. I didn’t understand some of the material, but Dad sure did.
Great times.
I remember watching this the night it originally aired.
was it funny way back then?
Me Also
Same! Yes, it was hilarious. But of course we were smoking in the late early afternoon morning evening.
Me too! Every show was golden back then. And then on Monday at school we would talk about and go over every sketch.
@@paullawrence9056 that’s so cool!! I sometimes feel like I’m one of the only people my age that watches SNL (I’m 16) and every time I talk about it with people at school, some of them don’t even know what it is! 😟 I wish SNL was still in it’s prime, so people my age would still probably watch it, and I could talk about it with my friends at school
They both were handsomer than I remember from back then... and younger!
Two of the best OG actors of all time😆😆😆
Timeless. The art of two genius minds.
One of the best monologues with two people in that I ever saw..
2 of my 3 favorite comedians of all-time...the 3rd being Robin Williams.
Bill alone is the whole Monty Python and more, even when silent:-)
Was Steve Martin born with silver hair?
Jürgen Sven Fuchs
almost.
He got it young. That's why he doesn't seem to age.
Somewhere there’s an old clip of Steve Martin as a contestant on “The Dating Game” pre-white hair.
He doesn't have silver hair in Little Shop of Horrors. It was jarring to see him without it.
@@millennialsdelight I know. He was so young then.
Him describing his weed smoking is me af 🤣💨🔥
I kinda like it better like this. It was more personal like a live comedy show.
Not quite what I was expecting from the description “cracker monologue “. But it’ll do.
Still, one of top-25 openers in SNL history.
Two great actors and comedians.
WOW 1979 SNL in Its Original hey-day
I remember watching live. Funny then, still hilarious now! 🤣🤣🤣
It was never live.
I wish all my friends were this well trained!
That was brilliant. I wish I had been old enough to see this when it came out!
This before Caddy Shack and Ghost Busters. Bill's career skyrocket after this year.
Only occasionally mid, late afternoon. Never at dusk.
Ah the good old days of great comedy
This is the kind of bold experiment which ws somewhat common back then. Ernie Kovacs and Steve Allen were even more outre :)
The two guys Frank Oz seems to love putting in his movies
This is 40 years ago. Not many things to watch on tv. Only about 5 stations to pick from. Joe Franklin was the only thing on after 12.
The Movie Loft
Bill Murray looks like he could have played David Banner or Michael Knight in this
As I practiced, I realized I could do more than I possibly imagined (9/8/79)
Love these guys!!
I was 10 years old and a major fan ( I even understood most of the jokes ) and he played for a week at the Garden States Arts Center of August 1979 .... Anyone else ?
All of me why not take all of me can't you see I'm no good without you.""
Reject modern SNL, embrace tradition
Can anyone hook me up with some placebos? I'll pay top dollar.
Damn steve , you one of the old school puppets...😅😅
As a kid I got my taste of True Humer from this Wonderful man
Funnnnnny, clean humor... Could not have a "Cracker skit these days lol
Look up a Steve M. & Bill M. skit called "WHAT THE HELL IS IT? " it's goofy and funny
Oh, he was already playing the banjo back then. Interesting.
Bill Murray was really cute back then.
* Lotusblume * still is
Linda Clark ehhhhhhhh
Steve, one of the greatest!
Both such talented comedians
You never hear these two guys ever talk about each other, I can't find anything.
they're briefly in Little Shop of Horrors together, but that's it
It’s not a monologue with two people.
it's one man and one trained seal
Steve Martin looked 50 when he was 25, and looked 50 when he was 75.
Musical guest Van Morrison.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Yeah, that's how ground breaking this show was
Can't fault you on that. We did have to learn to appreciate Buck Henry. Our reward was Andy Kaufman. (Plus, we never had to listen to Kanye West, and that made our adolescent years absolutely golden.)
Also, George Carlin and Bowie were always worth the wait. We knew how to be patient. We didn't enjoy it any more than you do, but the payoff was a lot better.
Here's an example. This is what was expected out of George Carlin on the Smothers Brothers: ua-cam.com/video/6xjvmYVGBYc/v-deo.html
And this is how he was allowed to expand later on SNL: ua-cam.com/video/5ebyLkCaAL0/v-deo.html
Before cable was widely available, this made a big difference. It was engaging to see someone who might get bleeped or amusingly misunderstood by our parents, instead of having to sit through someone like Bob Hope...and most of the musical guests like Devo and Gary Numan were more interesting than getting the warmed-over Patti Page we could expect elsewhere.
Jesus, just writing this has reminded me of how dim variety shows used to be. God bless SNL; they raised the bar, and now nobody has to sit through the DeFranco family singers or a bunch of sad vaudevillian clowns on unicycles unless they decide to go slumming on UA-cam.
I remember watching that episode when it was live.
It's amazing how similar Bill Murray used to look to Jim Belushi. I was always confusing them, until one day I didn't. I was coming home from high school, and I spotted a man on a motorcycle and could identify him as Jim Belushi. It was awesome, considering it probably wasn't him at all and didn't even look like him. But from then on, I could tell them apart. It helped that they didn't appear together in too many movies, and the ones they were in I didn't see. It really helps you identify which is which when you don't have to look at them. Maybe we need more celebrities like that.
Good ole Steve!!! Ha, I have 2 of those vice clamps - they're my improve 'vice' to hold things on a steel apt. deck railing I use for projects 😆
King TuT King TuT king TuT!
Well excuuuuseee meeee
Where French Stewart really got his "Harry" face: 1:44
Love Steve Martin- but Bill Murray RULES- a great entertainer and a great person!
When Steve Martin starts joking about how he smokes pot... like never at dusk, sometimes late afternoon,. Always at night and what not... that's how I am with my weed.. that dialogue really stood the test of time!
this beats ANY SNL opening monologue after 2020...all the music stars, celebrities today have not even quarter of the talent of 70-2000s
Wild n crazy guys⚘♥️⚘
I only smoke during the day at the same time as Steve Martin smokes. Also, I only smoke at night at the same time as Steve Martin. Along with that, if I smoke in the early, middle or late afternoon I only do it at the same time as Steve Martin would do it. I no longer know what I’m saying because I’ve smoked so much pot that I’ve lost all cognitive thought.
This made my day
Holy crap . . . NBC allowed that ring of fire on stage (?)
Steve Martin was very popular,he was everywhere.
This isn't November 1979.. Bill Murray got his haircut short by then.. This is November 1978!
Why is nobody talking about how great Steve and Bill were in this? Two of the most underrated comedians of all time. That part where Steve was giving Bill the crackers and then Bill jumped through the ring of fire and didn't get a cracker. omg I'm dead. I can't believe nobody laughed at that.
Believe. It was a stupid show. All of it. I'm surprised it hasn't been cancelled.
@@johngalush8790 You voted for Trump, didn't you?
@@ontheruntonowhere No. I didn't. Steve Martin was not funny.
@@johngalush8790 I dunno. I think he was.
I get such a Lemony Snicket vibe from him (Steve)
oh man, i have notlaughed so hardfor stuff so tame in sooo long!!!
So
45 years late, but ... thumbs up!
I've watched this no less than 10 times and I'm still not clear if he really jumped through that fire or not.
Well, of course he did. His back foot kind of dragged through it. He is lucky that didn't knock it over in his direction.
I went back to look again, because it appeared that the circle of fire turned sideways, so he was running past it, not jumping through it. If you stop the video at 5:36, you can see that's the case, though Idk how they moved it. You know he's not going through it because, if he were, his body would block part of the flaming circle as he passes in front of it. He is behind it the whole time. The only way that's possible is that the flaming circle is parallel to him.
Kim N you are CORRECT!!!!! FINALLY MAKES SENSE. I always knew (or strongly suspected at least), that something was up. There had to be some camera trickery going on because the entire bit is filmed straight on. They only move to a 2/3 angle so that one shot. The only possible reason is because there's some kind of camera trick happening. Your theory makes perfect sense.
He did jump through. If you pause it you can see that his upper body is blocking the flames while his feet are behind. Only way that happens is if he's going through the hoop. Plus this show is aired live. They don't stop.
He's the "Head of Vice Control!"
Bill Murray started the mullet!!!
I remember watching this episode