Steve Martin seems like a real prig if you ask me. I
saw him with Martin Short acting very snooty and
condescending toward Tom Green. It was saddening and
shocking. Tom handled it well though. Anyways, how many
mansions does Steve Martin own? Too many if you ask me.
He swims in the sea of mediocrity with the rest of the
Hollywood people. For playing the same part in every
movie he’s ever done? Pathetic.

Steve is smart, but no smarter than he thinks he is.  He exudes a quality of feeling himself to be the smartest guy in the room, not humble at all, and I, apparently with lots of company, find it to be off-putting. And yes, attitudes like this do give the Palins of the world grist for their mills.

MrFreeze…subsititute JEW for Mormon in your comment and someone might think you were anti-jewish. That would be an outrage, bashing Mormons…not so much.

Martin suffers from the many years of wearing an arrow through his head and now trying to discuss the art world.

Martin’s a fraud.He started off like a hip comic then gradually became a Hollywoood asshole. I remember seeing the Father of the Bride movies and I did not see one black or dark skinned person at the wedding reception scenes. The guests were completely lily white. I’m sure it wasn’t his speaking about art that bored the audience. It is that Steve Martin is boring to listen too. I was restless on the night Martin was on Charlie Rose talking about his recent book (Sure, I’ll read it). Thanks Steve, your interview put me to sleep.

Hey Truthdig, this makes you look ignorant and/or careless.  Fix your article!  This
is NOT the YMCA.  It is called the 92nd St. YM-YWHA. All it takes is one second on
Google to figure this out.  The letters stand for Young Men’s and Young Women’s
Hebrew Association. It’s a cultural institution in a long tradition, not a ‘YMCA’.  It
is Jewish, not Christian. They host a huge range of classes, lectures, performances, 
religious observances and social events.  It has its ups and downs like any big
institution, and this affair sounds truly idiotic.  But the 92nd St. Y contributes
enormously to its community and is cherished for that.  This is cheap, weak
reporting, and it’s offensive that this article has been up for a while now, and
although one of your commenters pointed out the mistake, no one cares enough
to fix it.  “Truth” dig my foot.  You don’t have to ‘drill’ much farther than the
headlines to see the shoddy work.  I’ll erase my bookmark.

Isn’t this the uptown YMCA that parents bribe to get their kids into the
preschool? I read it was mostly Wall Street types. For gods sake, Steve
Martin is so much smarter than they care that they probably couldn’t
understand what he was saying. He perhaps should have geared his
performance to MONEY. Just MONEY. That is the only thing these cultural
dunces understand

Steve Martin is so talented it is not fair and he is extremely intelligent. I
have loved him from his first appearance on TV but I guess those New
Yorkers are up to understanding jokes the average TV watcher got easily
years ago. Go Steve.

It’s YMHA not YMCA.

I am not a big fan of Steve Martin’s, but I will spring to his defense. I recently heard him play on t.v. and he is an excellent musician.

I can understand that with his reputation earned as a comedy actor his audience may have had preconceived ideas of what the program would consist of and so they had set themselves up for disappointment.

I don’t think anyone should have gotten a refund. Steve Martin did what he said he was going to do. When we buy tickets we always set ourselves up for “well I didn’t enjoy this as much as I had wished”, but that is just the breaks.

As to those who rail about snotty, intellectualism, maybe if they weren’t so ignorant they wouldn’t be running after Sarah Palin and falling for the distructive programs of the Republican Party.