Is Steve Martin Funny

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 17 May 2006 01:40

Do you find Steve Martin funny? I never find him funny. Also everytime I see his movies reviewed the reviewer says something like "I'm a big fan of Steve Martin and he's a really funny guy usually but this movie isn't funny at all etc." Has he ever actually been in a funny movie or is this an elaborate conspriacy to make me spend money going to movies that aren't funny? I've also heard him to stand up and thought that wasn't funny either.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 17 May 2006 01:49

one word. delfin.

janis · Post by **janis** » 17 May 2006 02:21

james_dean wrote:one word. delfin.

one word. rofl.

mc · Post by mc » 17 May 2006 07:26

I don't know what delfin is, but I've heard his standup and I think he's hilarious. I'm not a big fan of his movies. He's a nasty banjo player.

Splint · Post by **Splint** » 17 May 2006 08:19

"The Jerk"
"Three Amigos"
"Parenthood"
"LA Story"
"Bowfinger"
"Father of the Bride"
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
"Roxanne"... hellllloooo
"My Blue Heaven"

Those are all great Steve Martin movies that were definitely funny.

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » 17 May 2006 09:15

I used to like him, but I don't have the drive these days to make sense of his comedy. I did like "The Invisible Man" for the cool special effects.

BainbridgeShred · Post by **BainbridgeShred** » 17 May 2006 09:39

"The Jerk"
"Three Amigos"
"Parenthood"
"LA Story"
"Bowfinger"
"Father of the Bride"
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
"Roxanne"... hellllloooo
"My Blue Heaven"

Get's a yes for Three Amigo's.

carl winslow · Post by **carl winslow** » 17 May 2006 09:45

Splint- your forgetting my favorite steve martin movie.
Planes Trains and Automobiles.
with John Candy. hillarious.

Zeke · Post by **Zeke** » 17 May 2006 10:52

Steve Martin and John Candy are sharing a bed together...
SM: Where's your hand?
JC: Between two pillows.
SM:... those aren't pillows!
JC: <screaming>
SM:<screamng>
ME: laughing almost to the point of urinating on myself

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 17 May 2006 12:14

Man, Trains plains and automobiles is THE best movie ever. I grew up watching that shit man.

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 17 May 2006 13:38

Yeah, I agree... Steve Martin has done some funny films. Planes, Trains..., Three Amigos, Roxanne, Bowfinger - all great films. Novocane is awesome, too.

junkyardjew · Post by **junkyardjew** » 17 May 2006 14:40

Novocaine? Did you actually like that movie? Man, I found it seriously boring. Lots of other good ones though.

I've watched The Three Amigos a couple of times a year since i was old enough to remember it, and it just keeps getting funnier.

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 17 May 2006 15:28

I liked the jerk. It was really stupid and I thought it was funny.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 17 May 2006 15:40

Janis, rofl is not a word. it's four words.

Bowfinger was hilarious

dyalander · Post by **dyalander** » 17 May 2006 16:21

One of my mates asked me this exact question not long ago - he hadn't seen L.A. Story, which is my favorite Steve Martin film, and a very good film in general - not a comedy of the same ilk as many of his other films, perhaps thats why i like it more? I also like some of the other stuff already mentioned, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a classic (my next favorite Steve martin movie), and I like The Three Amigos, and Planes, Trains... Although its difficult to attribute these films entirely to Steve Martin who is just one cog in their humour machines, unlike L.A. Story which I think he wrote. I didn't really like Bowfinger or Roxanne - though its tough to like Roxanne if you've seen the original. I think in some of his less funny films, he playes the same type of character - Parenthood was its beginning (which is O.K. but then it later becomes The Father of the Bride, Cheeper by the Dozen, Bringing Down The House character) and lacks a good foil and/or intersting plot. I watched Shopgirl recently, he adapted it from one of his novella's, its not really a comedy per se, I thought it was pretty good, it's closer to L.A.Story than any of his other films though less funny (its not supposed to be).
Some of his standup is really funny, sometimes not. I haven't read any of his novels and have heard mixed reports.

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 17 May 2006 22:34

Hahhahaa THE JERK!! One the best movies ever. Planes Trains and Autos rocked the house too...So funny that John Candy sold shower curtain rings lol. Roxanne was good, but I can't remember it at all. His SNL stuff was pretty sweet too. Oh yeah, and Three Amigos. Man I have to watch that again. Good times.

Splint · Post by **Splint** » 18 May 2006 10:33

I left out Trains Planes and Automobiles intentionally because I really didn't like it. IT was one of those movies where almost every funny part was played over and over again in the TV trailers, so that when I finally saw the movie it bored me.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 18 May 2006 17:02

What was that other movie he was a dentist in, not novacaine, he was like, a bad dentist with a leather jacket, i think rick moranis was in it too.

dyalander · Post by **dyalander** » 18 May 2006 17:16

Not sure what you're talking about there.
I also remember liking The Man With Two Brains, full of bad puns and sight gags though nowhere near the level of the marx brothers, chaplin or keeton - sort of old school pie in the face funny.
Haven't seen Dead Men Wear Plaid, might watch it at work on Sunday.

Outsider · Post by **Outsider** » 18 May 2006 17:22

What was that other movie he was a dentist in, not novacaine, he was like, a bad dentist with a leather jacket, i think rick moranis was in it too.

Little Shop of Horrors

My Blue Heaven is my favorite Steve

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