Re: Was Steve Martin ever funny?
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Was he even trying to be funny?
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I remember thinking that it was a little amusing that he could memorize all that crap, but all that crap wasn't funny. It was supposed to be some sort of commentary on consumer culture, I'm sure, but I have no idea what he was trying to say.
Then he moved on to joking about suicide and how people are too busy to do it. This wouldn't have been funny even if it had any basis in truth, and I don't say that because I thought it was distasteful or anything. It just wasn't funny. None of it.
Isn't social commentary supposed to have SOME basis in truth?
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