Pure Drivel

Pure Drivel

By Steve Martin
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“Martin’s brilliant, juxtaposed wordplay, sly commentary, and hilarious observations are delivered with such a droll wit that only a dead person will avoid unabashed laughter.” 

Amazon.com, editorial review

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: an actor who's kept us riveted for over 25 years, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright. In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Martin's gifts were confined to the screen will discover what readers of The New Yorker magazine already know: that Martin is a master of the written word.

Hilariously funny and intelligent in their skewering of the topic at hand, the audiobook's pieces, some of which first appeared in The New Yorker, feature Martin at his finest.

With a playwright's ear for dialogue, a sense of irony only Steve Martin could muster, and a first-class comic ability to perfectly time the punch line, Pure Drivel will have listeners crying with laughter, and marveling at the fact that in addition to all of his many talents, Steve Martin is also a superb writer.

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  1. ShortNFuzzy
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    Delightful Martin

    Steve is back to writing humor again! This short (too short) collection of Steve Martin's writing is a sore reminder of how much we miss his style of humor. The only complaint (more of an observation, really) - there are a couple of essays in here that are stylistically, clearly trying to be Woody Allen (specifically from Allen's Without Feathers). Since the writing in THAT can't be compared to anything other than...say...S.J. Perelman, and as the saying goes "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" then Steve Martins writing here proves to be some of the smartest put to page in a good long while.

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