Steve Martin

Los Angeles
1973

I relocated to LA as Creative Director of United Artist Records in 1971 and rented a house in Laurel Canyon. Steve lived in a bungalow on my street and Steve’s manager gave me a video of Steve sitting on a toilet telling jokes. I took it to the execs at UA. They looked at it and said they didn’t think he was funny and passed on him. Shortly after that, Steve became a runaway success. I worked with Steve multiple times and my biggest problem was to hold the camera steady – I would laugh all the way through.