What an amazing story - thank you for sharing it with us!!! If he wasn't such a painfully shy and socially awkward man, he would have stopped by your table and would have offered to pay for you desserts so he could switch to "his table". I once saw him walking on West 49th Street, and he a had his hat pulled down so far, it obscured his face so that people would not recognize him. With all your phenomenal interviews and brushes with celebrities, you should do an article on fame and what it does to some people and what it doesn't do to other people.
Mr. Martin was quite the phenomenon when we were growing up. I found out much later that he started out playing his banjo and telling jokes between songs at Knott's Berry Farm for $2 a day in the early '60s, but then went on to be a staff writer with Bob Einstein on "The Smothers Brothers Show", and later "The Sonny & Cher Show". He reached the pinnacle of popular success with his standup routines and comedy tours, and he wonderful hosting gigs on Saturday Night Live. He gave up doing standup after a bad week at Westbury Music Fair on Long Island. I highly recommend the episode of Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" with Martin as Seinfeld's guest, and they do a good job of dissecting Martin's career.
Glaring down on you during your meal was so rude, but it does not surprise me. He's come a long way from working for $2 a day in the hot sun, but it would do him some good to try to recall them, and appreciate his success and other members of the human race.
What an amazing story - thank you for sharing it with us!!! If he wasn't such a painfully shy and socially awkward man, he would have stopped by your table and would have offered to pay for you desserts so he could switch to "his table". I once saw him walking on West 49th Street, and he a had his hat pulled down so far, it obscured his face so that people would not recognize him. With all your phenomenal interviews and brushes with celebrities, you should do an article on fame and what it does to some people and what it doesn't do to other people.
Mr. Martin was quite the phenomenon when we were growing up. I found out much later that he started out playing his banjo and telling jokes between songs at Knott's Berry Farm for $2 a day in the early '60s, but then went on to be a staff writer with Bob Einstein on "The Smothers Brothers Show", and later "The Sonny & Cher Show". He reached the pinnacle of popular success with his standup routines and comedy tours, and he wonderful hosting gigs on Saturday Night Live. He gave up doing standup after a bad week at Westbury Music Fair on Long Island. I highly recommend the episode of Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" with Martin as Seinfeld's guest, and they do a good job of dissecting Martin's career.
Glaring down on you during your meal was so rude, but it does not surprise me. He's come a long way from working for $2 a day in the hot sun, but it would do him some good to try to recall them, and appreciate his success and other members of the human race.
Glenn
Oh no! I don't want to imagine SM behaving that way! What a brat!