Comments on: Giveaway: win two tickets to see Steve Martin at the Palace http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/ Musing & misadventures of a writer, comedian, and local treasure Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:17:00 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Robin http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5896 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:24:51 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5896 For a Christmas party, my husband and his business partner took their employees to diner and then to the movies to see The Jerk when it opened…not many architects did (or so) that! The Jerk is still one of my family’s favorite movies…one son was an infant and the other not yet born when the movie came out. :-)

]]> By: Brownie http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5895 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:56:19 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5895 Loved his balloon animal act from years ago. I can’t stop laughing thinking about the balloon twisted around the microphone stand. Great stuff!

]]> By: Justin http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5894 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:02:04 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5894 When Tom Hanks hosted SNL and showed off the “5 timer’s club” lounge. There he was reading the paper. It was hilarious yet nonchalant.

]]> By: Poppy http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5893 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:36:07 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5893 In my book, Steve Martin is the most talented man alive. I have his picture in my office with those very words written below it. I loved his autobiography, born standing up, wept while reading his novellas Shopgirl and the Pleasure of my Company and behaved like a giddy school girl when my husband and I were lucky enough to see him play his bango and sing–at one point with an arrow through his head–at the Troy music hall. And, on top of all that, he wears Armani–a true man of style and substance, indeed.

]]> By: JG http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5892 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:06:50 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5892 Terrific career, but most memorable has to be role in The Jerk.

]]> By: Ed Gilbert http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5891 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:40:13 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5891 “If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.

If I had two wishes that I could wish for this holiday season…”

Funny as hell and a great commentary on the transient nature of good will

]]> By: Tina http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5890 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:23:22 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5890 “Saturday Night Live”: “We are just two wild and crazy guys!”

]]> By: danaloudoo http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5889 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:51:33 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5889 I was a student working for the Activities Director at Florida Atlantic University in 1976. We were in charge of booking acts and someone proposed an unknown comedian as an opener for a concert. They had seen him in Miami. A few folks went down to see his act and reported that not only was he offbeat and hilarious, but was scheduled to make his first appearance as host of SNL! We took a chance on Steve Martin. He showed up in his white suit with a very atractive woman on his arm. His green room was set up to specification, and he prepared to go onstage. At the last minute, I was sent out to look for a prop for his act – a napkin. Remember how he would hold it up to his face a stick his tongue through it? Funny stuff. Well, the show began and I ran everywhere looking for a suitable napkin. By the time I returned he was well into his arrow-through-the-head banjo routine and I had missed much his act. He never did end up using the napkin, but I do recall him as a perfect gentleman and a classy guy. Ever since then, I’ve followed his career, and have never been disappointed. Hope his show is as good as ever. I wonder if he would remember me…..

]]> By: Daniel B. http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5888 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:58:17 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5888 It may be blasphemy, but I love this one line from My Blue Heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tncd84NYJ1Y

You have to see it, but it’s the one that starts out, “You know, it’s dangerous for you to be here in the frozen food section…”

Actually, I love almost everything about that movie. It’s brilliant.

]]> By: Jessica R http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/giveaway/#comment-5887 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:33:32 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4203#comment-5887 When his banjo record came out a few years ago he appeared on the Tonight Show (or was it David Letterman) with some of the people that were on the record. One of those people was Brittnay Hass, the young up-and-coming fiddle player in my favorite band, Crooked Still. I just thought it was neat that Steve took the time to find some awesome band mates and give some new people exposure. And Brittnay rocked it!

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