Steve Martin on 'Give Me the Banjo'
In music, there are few things more insane than an amateur going and trying to sit down with a real player. But that's just what John Hockenberry did earlier this week, when he went to the house of...
View ArticleSteve Martin and Edie Brickell; More Iggy Pop Stories; REM from Worst to First
In this episode: Comedian, actor and banjo player Steve Martin has teamed up with singer-songwriter Edie Brickell for a new album called Love Has Come For You. They perform live in our studio.Plus: Why...
View ArticleSteve Martin And Edie Brickell, In The Studio
When a song opens with a banjo solo, you don't expect the first verse to contain the word "E-mail." But that's exactly how comedian, actor and banjo player Steve Martin and singer-songwriter Edie...
View ArticleSteve Martin: Our Wild and Crazy Guest
On Memorial Day, people all over America will scarf down hot dogs at cookouts, take in the sunshine and the beach, and — of course — sit in crippling, bumper-to-bumper traffic. This weekend, spend your...
View ArticleAn Over-Stuffed Steve Martin Musical
Steve Martin has quite a resume: comic, actor, writer, art collector, banjo player and now, musical book writer and musical theater co-creator. Martin and his collaborator, singer-songwriter Edie...
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Steve Martin and Edie Brickell team up for Broadway-bound musical
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Finally tonight: Cue the banjo, as two leading entertainers make their first foray into musical theater. We go back to Jeff, who has our look at the...
View ArticleSteve Martin’s “A Wild and Crazy Guy”
Steve Martin is a comedian, actor, writer, and banjo player — the consummate performer. But before he made a name for himself as a standup comedian, he wanted to be a magician. As a 15-year-old, Martin...
View ArticleAlejandro Iñárritu, Steve Martin, & David Bowie
The director Alejandro González Iñárritu explains why filming “The Revenant” under punishing conditions made it the film that it is — a box office smash nominated for 12 Oscars. Also, we hear the story...
View ArticleWhy Haven't You Watched "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" Yet?
Steve Martin is a beloved goofball, but for most of my life I never really took to him. It wasn't so much that I disliked him, as much as I felt deeply ambivalent about his humor.Until I saw "Dirty...
View Article'Bright Star' by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell Shines on Broadway
With a book by comedian/actor/author Steve Martin, lyrics by singer/songwriter Edie Brickell and a bluegrass-inflected score by both, Bright Star comes to Broadway music with its creators as the most...
View ArticleSteve Martin and Edie Brickell on ‘Bright Star’ and Bluegrass
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell discuss their new Broadway bluegrass-inspired musical, “Bright Star,” along with the show’s breakout star Carmen Cusack. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina...
View ArticleSteve Martin, Edie Brickell on 'Bright Star.' Jesse Tyler Ferguson is 'Fully...
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell talk about their bluegrass-inspired musical, “Bright Star,” along with the show’s breakout star Carmen Cusack. Five-time Emmy Award nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson returns...
View ArticleSteve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers (From the Archives)
Actor, author, and comedian Steve Martin released his debut album as a banjo player in 2009, but he first picked up the instrument as a teenager and later incorporated it into his hit stand-up act...
View ArticleTwo Comedians Walk into a Zoom Meeting
Between them, Steve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld have a combined century of experience in the delicate art of the joke. During a conversation with The New Yorker’s Susan Morrison, they talk about their...
View ArticleSteve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld Walk into a Zoom Meeting
Between the two of them, Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin have nearly a century of experience in the delicate art of telling jokes. In a conversation with Susan Morrison during the 2020 New Yorker...
View ArticleSteve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
Between the two of them, Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin have nearly a century of experience in the delicate art of telling jokes. In a conversation with Susan Morrison during the 2020 New Yorker...
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