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   A memoir by the American comedian, actor, and author, chronicling his early life, career, and retirement from stand-up comedy. The book covers his childhood, his jobs at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, his relationships, his fame, and his reasons for quitting comedy in 1981.

   • Author: Steve Martin

   • Publish Year: 2007

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   Nov 20, 2007 · Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.

   • 3.9/5 (102.1K)

   • Format: Hardcover

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   Jul 7, 2008 · BORN STANDING UP is a funny and riveting chronicle of how Steve Martin became the comedy genius we now know and is also a fascinating portrait of an era.

   • 4.3/5 (6.2K)

   • Author: Steve Martin

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   Sep 2, 2008 · Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life. Paperback – Illustrated, September 2, 2008. The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.

   • 4.4/5
   • Author: Steve Martin

   • Price: $9.99
   • Brand: Scribner

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   Nov 20, 2007 · The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles...

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   Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.

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   What is born standing up?

   • Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time. I DID STAND-UP COMEDY for eighteen years.

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   Is born standing up a good book?

   • Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time. "Absolutely magnificent. One of the best books about comedy and being a comedian ever written." - Jerry Seinfeld, GQ ....

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   Did a methodical approach to humor save a 'born standing up' Star?

   • Perhaps it was a methodical approach to humor that saved him. “Born Standing Up” does a sharp-witted job of breaking down the step-by-step process that brought him from Disneyland, where he spent his version of a Dickensian childhood as a schoolboy employee, to both the pinnacle of stardom and the brink of disaster.

   Steve Martin - Born Standing Up - Book Review - The New York Times

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   What is the book why I did stand-up?

   • This book is, in his own words, the story of “why I did stand-up and why I walked away.” Emmy and Grammy Award–winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Compan y, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been a writer.

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   Nov 15, 2007 · “Born Standing Up” is a tightly focused book, confining its emphasis to the ways in which both his wit and his personal life developed during these formative years. It is...