Steve Martin#Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass

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Stephen Glenn Martin was born on August 14, 1945,{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sKCfomKSa74C&pg=PA204 |page=204 |last=Whiteley |first=Sandy |title=On This Date |publisher=McGraw-Hill Professional |year=2002 |isbn=978-0071398275}}{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bGjsvmNt8UgC&pg=PA94 |page=94 |title=Universal Men |magazine=Spin |date=September 1999 |volume=15 |number=9 |issn=0886-3032}} in Waco, Texas,{{sfnp|Walker|1998|p=1}} the son of Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1911–2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914–1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ieVj9Z-w12UC&q=%22steve+martin%22+waco&pg=PA2| title=Steve Martin: The Magic Years| first=Morris| last=Walker| year=2001| page=2| publisher=SP Books| location=New York| isbn=978-1561719808}}{{cite web |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/martin.html |title=Ancestry of Steve Martin |publisher=Wargs.com |access-date=November 13, 2011}} He has an older sister, Melinda.{{Cite web|date=June 11, 2015 |author=Jennifer Garcia |title=Steve Martin's Life in Pictures in PEOPLE|website=PEOPLE.com |url=https://people.com/movies/steve-martins-life-in-pictures-in-people/|access-date=February 12, 2022}}

Martin is of English, Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish, German, and French descent. He and his sister grew up in a Baptist family in Inglewood, California, and later in Garden Grove in Orange County;{{sfnp|Martin|2007|pp=20–39}} he was a cheerleader at Garden Grove High School.{{cite news |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/20/top-5-famous-former-male-cheerleaders/ |title=Top 5: Famous former male cheerleaders |date=February 20, 2009 |work=The Washington Times}} One of Martin's earliest memories is seeing his father as an extra serving drinks onstage at the Callboard Theater on Melrose Place in West Hollywood. During World War II in Britain, his father appeared in a production of Our Town with Raymond Massey. Expressing his affection through gifts like cars and bikes, Steve's father was stern and not emotionally open to his son. He was proud but critical, with Steve later recalling that in his teens his feelings for his father were mostly of hatred.{{cite web |last=Wills |first=Dominic |title=Steve Martin – Biography |url= http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/steve-martin/biography/118 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209043647/http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/steve-martin/biography/118 |archive-date=February 9, 2010 |publisher=TalkTalk |access-date=May 15, 2010}}{{cbignore}}

Steve Martin's first job was at newly opened Disneyland, selling guidebooks on weekends and full-time during summer break. The work lasted for three years (1955–1958). During his free time, he frequented the Main Street Magic shop, where tricks were demonstrated to patrons. While working at Disneyland, he was captured in the background of the home movie that was made into the short-subject film Disneyland Dream, incidentally becoming his first film appearance. By 1960, he had mastered several magic tricks and illusions and took a paying job at the Magic shop in Fantasyland in August. There he perfected his talents for magic, juggling, and creating balloon animals in the manner of mentor Wally Boag,{{sfnp|Martin|2007|pp=18–19}} frequently performing for tips.{{sfnp|Martin|2007|p=39}}

In his authorized biography, close friend Morris Walker suggests that Martin could "be described most accurately as an agnostic ... he rarely went to church and was never involved in organized religion of his own volition".{{sfnp|Walker|1998|p=40}} In his early 20s, Martin dated Melissa Trumbo, daughter of novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

After high school, Martin attended Santa Ana College, taking classes in drama and English poetry. In his free time, he teamed up with friend and high school classmate Kathy Westmoreland to participate in comedies and other productions at the Bird Cage Theatre. He joined a comedy troupe at Knott's Berry Farm. Later, he met budding actress Stormie Sherk, and they developed comedy routines and became romantically involved. Sherk's influence led Martin to apply to the California State University, Long Beach, for enrollment with a major in philosophy. Sherk enrolled at UCLA, about an hour's drive north, and the distance eventually caused them to lead separate lives.{{sfnp|Martin|2007|p=65}}

Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. Being at college changed his life. {{cquote|It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non-sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist the non-sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up.{{cite magazine |last1=Fong-Torres |first1=Ben |author1-link=Ben Fong-Torres |title=Steve Martin's New Song and Dance (Steve Martin Sings) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwIbBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT33 |access-date=June 18, 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=18 February 1982 |isbn=9781626743212 |via=Conversations with Steve Martin (University Press of Mississippi)}}}} Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think: {{cquote|What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation.{{cite magazine |last=Martin |first=Steve |date=February 2008 |title=Being Funny: How the path-breaking comedian got his act together |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/being-funny-17061140 |archive-date=December 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227133322/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/funny-martin-200802.html?c=y&story=fullstory |magazine=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=December 21, 2022}}}} Martin periodically spoofed his philosophy studies in his 1970s stand-up act, comparing philosophy with studying geology. {{cquote|If you're studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.{{IMDb name|0000188}}}}

In 1967, Martin transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater. While attending college, he appeared in an episode of The Dating Game, winning a date with Deana Martin. Martin began working local clubs at night, to mixed notices, and at twenty-one, he dropped out of college.{{Cite web|url=http://www.stevemartin.com/stop_the_presses/newsweek_78.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227054918/http://www.stevemartin.com/stop_the_presses/newsweek_78.php|url-status=dead|title=SteveMartin.com | Stop the Presses|archive-date=February 27, 2009|access-date=April 8, 2020}}

In 1967, his former girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, helped Martin land a writing job with the show by submitting his work to head writer Mason Williams.{{sfnp|Martin|2007|p=76}} Williams initially paid Martin out of his own pocket. Along with the other writers for the show, Martin won an Emmy Award{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/steve-martin|title=Steve Martin|work=Television Academy}} in 1969 at the age of twenty-three. He wrote for The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Martin's first national television appearance was on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1968. He says: {{cquote|[I] appeared on The Virginia Graham Show, circa 1970. I looked grotesque. I had a hairdo like a helmet, which I blow-dried to a puffy bouffant, for reasons I no longer understand. I wore a frock coat and a silk shirt, and my delivery was mannered, slow and self-aware. I had absolutely no authority. After reviewing the show, I was depressed for a week.}} During these years his roommates included Gary Mule Deer and Michael Johnson.{{sfnp|Martin|2007|p=77}} Gary Mule Deer supplied the first joke Martin submitted to Tommy Smothers for use on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour show.Freeman, Marc – [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/smothers-brothers-comedy-hour-oral-history-1060153/ 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' at 50: The Rise and Fall of a Groundbreaking Variety Show]. Hollywood Reporter. November 25, 2017 ("It has been shown that more people watch TV than any other appliance.") Martin opened for groups such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (who returned the favor by appearing in his 1980 television special All Commercials), The Carpenters, and Toto. He appeared at The Boarding House, among other venues. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke and Company in 1976.

In the mid-1970s, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and on The Gong Show, HBO's On Location, The Muppet Show,{{cite book |last1=Garlen |first1=Jennifer C. |last2=Graham |first2=Anissa M. |title=Kermit Culture: Critical Perspectives on Jim Henson's Muppets |year=2009 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0786442591|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Rac9xis0BIgC&q=%22Steve%20Martin%22 16]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rac9xis0BIgC&q=%22Steve%20Martin%22}} and NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL). SNL{{'s}} audience jumped by a million viewers when he made guest appearances, and he was one of the show's most successful hosts. Martin has appeared on twenty-seven Saturday Night Live shows and guest-hosted sixteen times, second only to Alec Baldwin, who has hosted seventeen times {{as of|2017|February|lc=y}}. On the show, Martin popularized the air quotes gesture.{{cite book |title=How We Got Here: The '70s |last=Frum |first=David |author-link=David Frum |year=2000 |publisher=Basic Books |location=New York City |isbn=0-465-04195-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/36 36–37] |url=https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/36 |url-access=registration }} While on the show, Martin grew close to several cast members, including Gilda Radner. On the night she died of ovarian cancer, a tearful Martin hosted SNL and featured footage of himself and Radner together in a 1978 sketch.

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In the 1970s, his television appearances led to the release of comedy albums that went platinum. The track "Excuse Me" on his first album, Let's Get Small (1977), helped establish a national catch phrase. His next album, A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978), was an even bigger success, reaching the No. 2 spot on the U.S. sales chart, selling over a million copies. "Just a wild and crazy guy" became another of Martin's known catchphrases. The album featured a character based on a series of Saturday Night Live sketches in which Martin and Dan Aykroyd played the Festrunk Brothers; Yortuk and Georgi were bumbling Czechoslovak would-be playboys. The album ends with the song "King Tut", written and sung by Martin and backed by the "Toot Uncommons", members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was later released as a single, reaching No. 17 on the U.S. charts in 1978 and selling over a million copies.{{cite magazine |last1=Corliss |first1=Richard |title=Steve Martin, a Mild and Crazy Guy |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1684540-1,00.html |access-date=December 31, 2022 |magazine=Time |date=November 15, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220021910/http://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1684540,00.html |archive-date=December 20, 2007 |url-status=live}}{{YouTube|wgTPH5y1-ZI|"King Tut" Video}}. Retrieved August 14, 2010. The song came out during the King Tut craze that accompanied the popular traveling exhibit of the Egyptian king's tomb artifacts. Both albums won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording in 1977 and 1978, respectively. Martin performed "King Tut" on the April 22, 1978, SNL program.

Decades later, in 2012, The A.V. Club described Martin's unique style and its effect on audiences:

{{cquote|[Martin was] both a consummate entertainer and a glib, knowing parody of a consummate entertainer. He was at once a hammy populist with an uncanny, unprecedented feel for the tastes of a mass audience and a sly intellectual whose goofy shtick cunningly deconstructed stand-up comedy.{{cite web |last=Rabin |first=Nathan |author-link=Nathan Rabin |title=Steve Martin: The Television Stuff |website=The A.V. Club |date=November 7, 2012 |url=https://www.avclub.com/steve-martin-the-television-stuff-1798174880|access-date=December 30, 2022}}}}

On his comedy albums, Martin's stand-up is self-referential and sometimes self-mocking. It mixes philosophical riffs with sudden spurts of "happy feet", banjo playing with balloon depictions of concepts like venereal disease, and the "controversial" kitten juggling (he is a master juggler; the "kittens" were stuffed animal toys). His style is off-kilter and ironic and sometimes pokes fun at stand-up comedy traditions, such as Martin opening his act (from A Wild and Crazy Guy) by saying: {{cquote|I think there's nothing better for a person to come up and do the same thing over and over for two weeks. This is what I enjoy, so I'm going to do the same thing over and over and over [...] I'm going to do the same joke over and over in the same show, it'll be like a new thing.}} Or: "Hello, I'm Steve Martin, and I'll be out here in a minute."{{cite magazine |last=Anderson|first=Sam|author-link=Sam Anderson (writer)|date=November 18, 2007|url=https://nymag.com/arts/books/features/40968/|title=Rationalist of the Absurd: Steve Martin's extraordinarily calculated comedy |magazine=New York |access-date=August 12, 2010 |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818095622/http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/40968/ |archive-date=August 18, 2010}} In one comedy routine, used on the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, Martin claimed that his real name was "Gern Blanston". The riff took on a life of its own. There is a Gern Blanston website, and for a time a rock band took the moniker as its name.{{sfnp|Martin|2007|pp=176–177}}

Martin's show soon required full-sized stadiums for the audiences he was drawing. Concerned about his visibility in venues on such a scale, Martin began to wear a distinctive three-piece white suit that became a trademark for his act.{{cite news |last1=O'Reilly |first1=Terry |author1-link=Terry O'Reilly (broadcaster) |title=How A Wardrobe Change Transformed Steve Martin's Career |url=http://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/how-a-wardrobe-change-transformed-steve-martin-s-career-1.4525782 |access-date=February 18, 2018 |work=Under the Influence |agency=Pirate Radio |publisher=CBC Radio One |date=February 8, 2018}} Martin stopped doing stand-up comedy in 1981 to concentrate on movies and did not return for thirty-five years. About the decision, he said, "My act was conceptual. Once the concept was stated, and everybody understood it, it was done... It was about coming to the end of the road. There was no way to live on in that persona. I had to take that fabulous luck of not being remembered as that, exclusively. You know, I didn't announce that I was stopping. I just stopped."{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=Alex |title=After losing a bet to Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin performs his first stand-up comedy set in 35 years. |url=https://consequence.net/2016/02/steve-martin-performs-his-first-stand-up-comedy-set-in-36-years/ |website=Consequence |date=February 19, 2016 |access-date=December 30, 2022}}

In 2016, Martin made a low-key comeback to live comedy, opening for Jerry Seinfeld. He performed a ten-minute stand-up routine before turning the stage over to Seinfeld.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/19/jerry-seinfeld-steve-martin-review-standup-comedy-new-york |title=Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin standup comedy review – superbly honed |first=Elise |last=Czajkowski |date=February 19, 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian}} Also in 2016 he staged a national tour with Martin Short and the Steep Canyon Rangers, which yielded a 2018 Netflix comedy special, Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life.{{cite magazine |last=Husband |first=Andrew |date=May 25, 2018 |title=Steve Martin And Martin Short Embrace The Past Even When They Shun It |magazine=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewhusband/2018/05/25/steve-martin-martin-short-netflix-special-review/ |access-date=May 27, 2018}} The special received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations with Martin receiving two nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and Outstanding Music and Lyrics for "The Buddy Song".

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By the end of the 1970s, Martin had acquired the kind of following normally reserved for rock stars, with his tour appearances typically occurring at sold-out arenas filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans. But unknown to his audience, stand-up comedy was "just an accident" for him; his real goal was to get into film.

Martin had a small role in the 1972 film Another Nice Mess. In 1974, he starred in the Canadian travelogue production The Funnier Side of Eastern Canada, created to promote tourism in Montreal and Toronto, which also included standup segments filmed at the Ice House in Pasadena, California.{{cite web |last1=Leeson |first1=Jef |year=2021 |title=The Funnier Side Of Eastern Canada |website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390033|access-date=August 20, 2021}} His first substantial film appearance was in a short titled The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977). The seven-minute-long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Action. He made his first substantial feature film appearance in the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where he sang The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

In 1979, Martin starred in the comedy film The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner, and written by Martin, Michael Elias, and Carl Gottlieb. The film was a huge success, grossing over $100 million on a budget of approximately $4 million.{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Brummel |year=2010 |title=The Jerk: That Movie About Hating Cans |url=http://chrisbrummel.com/the-jerk-that-movie-about-hating-cans |access-date=June 19, 2010 |url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613211647/http://chrisbrummel.com/the-jerk-that-movie-about-hating-cans |archive-date=June 13, 2008 }}

Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin starring in a screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999's Eyes Wide Shut). Martin was executive producer for Domestic Life, a prime-time television series starring friend Martin Mull, and a late-night series called Twilight Theater. It emboldened Martin to try his hand at his first serious film, Pennies from Heaven (1981), based on the 1978 BBC serial by Dennis Potter. He was anxious to perform in the movie because of his desire to avoid being typecast. To prepare for that film, Martin took acting lessons from director Herbert Ross and spent months learning how to tap dance. The film was a financial failure; Martin's comment at the time was "I don't know what to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy."American film Volume 7. 1981. American Film Institute, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation

Martin was in three more Reiner-directed comedies after The Jerk: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982, The Man with Two Brains in 1983 and All of Me in 1984, his most critically acclaimed performance up to that point.{{cite web|title=All of Me|website=Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1000640-all_of_me/ |access-date=November 13, 2011}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/21/movies/steve-martin-in-all-of-me.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624110612/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/21/movies/steve-martin-in-all-of-me.html |archive-date=June 24, 2016 |last=Maslin |first=Janet |author-link=Janet Maslin |title=Steve Martin in 'All of Me' |page=C6 |work=The New York Times |date=September 21, 1984 |access-date=December 30, 2022 |url-access=subscription}}{{cbignore}}{{cite news |last1=Carignano |first1=Tina |title=Martin and Tomlin Get Their Act Together in All of Me |url=https://archive.org/details/greyhound58loyo_1/page/8/ |access-date=September 7, 2022 |work=The Greyhound |publisher=Loyola College |via=Internet Archive Digital Library |date=September 21, 1984}} Martin was by now requesting almost $3 million per film, but Plaid and Two Brains both failed at the box office like Pennies, endangering his young career.{{Cite news |last1=Harmetz |first1=Aljean |author-link=Aljean Harmetz |date=July 26, 1983 |title=The Talk of Hollywood: At The Studios, Star Billing Means a Parking Space |page=C11 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/26/movies/talk-hollywood-studios-star-billing-means-parking-space-talk-hollywood.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524142748/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/26/movies/talk-hollywood-studios-star-billing-means-parking-space-talk-hollywood.html |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |url-status=live |access-date=June 16, 2022 |url-access=subscription |issn=0362-4331}} In 1986, Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels, and singer-songwriter Randy Newman. It was originally entitled The Three Caballeros and Martin was to be teamed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1986, Martin was in the movie musical film version of the hit Off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie), playing the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello. The film was the first of three films teaming Martin with Rick Moranis. In 1987, Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles.{{cite book |title=Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever| isbn=9781984826664 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjXgDwAAQBAJ| last1=Semlyen | first1=Nick de | date=May 26, 2020 | publisher=Crown }} That same year, Martin starred in Roxanne, the film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, which he co-wrote and won him a Writers Guild of America Award. It also garnered recognition from Hollywood and the public that he was more than a comedian. In 1988, he performed in the Frank Oz film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a remake of Bedtime Story, alongside Michael Caine. Also in 1988, he appeared at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in a revival of Waiting for Godot directed by Mike Nichols.{{cite news| last=Gallo| first=Hank| date=December 15, 1988| title=Steve Martin leaves stand-up comedy behind, scans horizon for next role| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8t4cAAAAIBAJ&pg=6918%2C11039018| work=The Pittsburgh Press| access-date=April 8, 2019}} He played Vladimir, with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky. Martin starred in the Ron Howard film Parenthood with Rick Moranis in 1989.

He later re-teamed with Moranis in the Mafia comedy My Blue Heaven (1990). In 1991, Martin starred in and wrote L.A. Story, a romantic comedy, in which the female lead was played by his then-wife Victoria Tennant. Martin also appeared in Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon, in which he played the tightly wound Hollywood film producer, Davis, who was recovering from a traumatic robbery that left him injured, which was a more serious role for him. Martin also starred in a remake of the comedy Father of the Bride in 1991 (followed by a sequel in 1995) and in the 1992 comedy Housesitter, with Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany. In 1994, he starred in A Simple Twist of Fate; a film adaptation of Silas Marner.

In David Mamet's 1997 thriller The Spanish Prisoner, Martin played a darker role as a wealthy stranger who takes a suspicious interest in the work of a young businessman (Campbell Scott). In 1998, Martin guest starred with U2 in the 200th episode of The Simpsons titled "Trash of the Titans", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson, and also voiced Hotep in the animated film The Prince of Egypt.

In 1999, Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners, and Martin went on to star with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Bowfinger, which he also wrote. He also appeared in Disney's Fantasia 2000 to introduce the segment Pines of Rome, along with Itzhak Perlman.

By 2003, Martin ranked fourth on the box office stars list, after starring in Bringing Down the House (2003) and Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), each of which earned over $130 million at U.S. theaters. That same year, he also played the villainous Mr. Chairman in the animation/live action blend, Looney Tunes: Back in Action. In 2005, Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl, based on his own novella (2000), and starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. In 2006, he starred in the box office hit The Pink Panther, as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. He reprised the role in 2009's The Pink Panther 2. When combined, the two films grossed over $230 million at the box office.

In the comedy Baby Mama (2008), starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Martin played the founder of a health food company. Martin also appeared as a guest star in 30 Rock as Gavin Volure in the episode Gavin Volure. He was nominated for an Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. The following year he starred in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy It's Complicated (2009), opposite Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. In 2009, an article in The Guardian listed Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination.{{cite news|last=Singer |first=Leigh |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2009/feb/19/best-actors-never-nominated-for-oscars |title=Oscars: the best actors never to have been nominated |work=The Guardian |date=February 19, 2009|access-date=November 13, 2011 |location=London}}

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During the 2010s, Martin sparsely appeared in film and television. In 2011, he appeared with Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and JoBeth Williams in the birdwatching comedy The Big Year directed by David Frankel. The film was criticized for its lightweight story and was a box office bomb. After a three-year hiatus, Martin returned in 2015 when he voiced a role in the DreamWorks animated film Home alongside Jim Parsons and Rihanna. The film received mixed critical reception but was a financial success. In 2016, he played a supporting role in Ang Lee's war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. He also appeared as himself in Jerry Seinfeld's Netflix series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in 2016. He also appeared in the taped version of Oh, Hello on Broadway (2017) as the guest. He also starred in the Netflix comedy special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life with Martin Short in 2018.

In 2020, Martin reprised his role as George Banks in the short Father of the Bride, Part 3(ish). Martin is an executive producer of Only Murders in the Building, a Hulu comedy series in which he stars with Martin Short and Selena Gomez, and which he created alongside John Hoffman.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/steve-martin-martin-short-comedy-series-dan-fogelman-hulu-1202833557/|title=Steve Martin & Martin Short Comedy Series From Dan Fogelman Ordered By Hulu |website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Nellie |last=Andreeva |date=January 17, 2020|access-date=December 7, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/selena-gomez-steve-martin-martin-short-hulu-only-murders-in-the-building-1234728682/|title=Selena Gomez Joins Steve Martin, Martin Short in Hulu Comedy 'Only Murders in the Building'|website=Variety|first=Joe|last=Otterson|date=August 7, 2020|access-date=December 7, 2020}} In August 2022, Martin revealed that the series will likely be his final role, as he does not intend to seek out roles or cameos for other shows or films once the series ends.{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/steve-martin-will-not-pursue-new-roles-after-only-murders-in-the-building/|title=Steve Martin Will Not Pursue New Roles After 'Only Murders In The Building' Ends|website=Collider|last=Echebiri|first=Makuochi|date=August 10, 2022|access-date=August 10, 2022}}

Martin's first book was Cruel Shoes, a collection of comedic short stories and essays. It was published in 1979 by G. P. Putnam's Sons after a limited release of a truncated version in 1977.

Throughout the 1990s, Martin wrote various pieces for The New Yorker. In 2002, he adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants, which ran Off Broadway at Classic Stage Company, and in 2008 co-wrote and produced Traitor, starring Don Cheadle. He has also written the novellas Shopgirl (2000) and The Pleasure of My Company (2003), both more wry in tone than raucous. A story of a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills, Shopgirl was made into a film starring Martin and Claire Danes.[https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,998225,00.html But Seriously, Folks: Steve Martin talks about his first novella, a delicate, poignant modern romance about a shy shopgirl. Time article. October 16, 2000]. Retrieved August 14, 2010 The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005 and was featured at the Chicago International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival before going into limited release in the US. In 2007, he published a memoir, Born Standing Up, which Time magazine named as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at {{abbr|No.|Number}} 6, and praising it as "a funny, moving, surprisingly frank memoir."{{cite magazine |last=Grossman |first=Lev |author-link=Lev Grossman |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1686204_1686244_1691787,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212163211/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686244_1691787,00.html |url-status=live |archive-date=December 12, 2007 |title=Born Standing Up review |magazine=Time |date=December 9, 2007 |access-date=December 31, 2022}} In 2010, he published the novel An Object of Beauty.{{cite news |last1=Maslin |first1=Janet |author1-link=Janet Maslin |title=A New York Tale of Art, Money and Ambition |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/books/29book.html |access-date=October 24, 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 28, 2010}}

Beginning in 2019, Martin has collaborated with cartoonist Harry Bliss as a writer for the syndicated single-panel comic Bliss.{{cite web |title=Steve Martin teaming with Harry Bliss on 'Bliss' cartoons |work=Tribune Content Agency |url=https://tribunecontentagency.com/steve-martin-harry-bliss/ |publisher=Tribune Content Agency |access-date=May 12, 2019 |date=April 2, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Polston |first1=Pamela |title=Cartoonist Harry Bliss Collaborates With Comedian Steve Martin |url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/cartoonist-harry-bliss-collaborates-with-comedian-steve-martin/Content?oid=27207712 |access-date=May 12, 2019 |work=Seven Days |date=April 17, 2019}} Together, they published the cartoon collection A Wealth of Pigeons.{{Cite magazine|title=Book Review: A Wealth of Pigeons|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-26289-9|access-date=October 27, 2020|magazine=Publishers Weekly}} In 2022, they collaborated again for Martin's illustrated autobiography, Number One is Walking.{{Cite web |title=Number One Is Walking |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250815293/numberoneiswalking |access-date=October 12, 2022 |website=Macmillan |language=en-US}}

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In 1993, Martin wrote his first full-length play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile. The first reading of the play took place in Beverly Hills, California at his home, with Tom Hanks reading the role of Pablo Picasso and Chris Sarandon reading the role of Albert Einstein. Following this, the play opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and played from October 1993 to May 1994, then went on to run successfully in Los Angeles, New York City, and several other US cities.[http://www.steppenwolf.org/ensemble/history/productions/index.aspx?id=122 History: Picasso At The Lapin Agile. Oct. 13, 1993 – May. 12, 1994. Steppenwolf Theatre Company] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526114120/http://www.steppenwolf.org/ensemble/history/productions/index.aspx?id=122 |date=May 26, 2011 }}. Retrieved August 14, 2010 In 2009, the school board in La Grande, Oregon, refused to allow the play to be performed after several parents complained about the content. In an open letter in the local Observer newspaper, Martin wrote: {{cquote|I have heard that some in your community have characterized the play as 'people drinking in bars, and treating women as sex objects.' With apologies to William Shakespeare, this is like calling Hamlet a play about a castle [...] I will finance a non-profit, off-high school campus production [...] so that individuals, outside the jurisdiction of the school board but within the guarantees of freedom of expression provided by the Constitution of the United States can determine whether they will or will not see the play.[http://www.lagrandeobserver.com/opinion/4066493-151/of-arts-and-sciences "Of arts and sciences". by Steve Martin. Article in The Observer (Oregon). March 13, 2009]. Retrieved December 19. 2017}}

Inspired by Love has Come for You, Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on his first musical, Bright Star. It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945–46, with flashbacks to 1923. The musical debuted on Broadway on March 24, 2016.{{cite news |last1=Pearson |first1=Vince |title=Edie Brickell, Steve Martin Broadway Bound With 'Bright Star' |newspaper=NPR.org |url=https://www.npr.org/2015/12/25/461005614/edie-brickell-steve-martin-broadway-bound-with-bright-star |publisher=NPR |access-date=December 29, 2015}} Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised its score by Martin and Brickell writing, "The shining achievement of the musical is its winsome country and bluegrass score, with music by Mr. Martin and Ms. Brickell, and lyrics by Ms. Brickell...the songs — yearning ballads and square-dance romps rich with fiddle, piano, and banjo, beautifully played by a nine-person band — provide a buoyancy that keeps the momentum from stalling."{{Cite news|last=Isherwood|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Isherwood|date=September 29, 2014|title=Love, Loss and Local Color Make a Bluegrass Musical|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/theater/bright-star-is-steve-martin-and-edie-brickells-new-show.html|issn=0362-4331}} The musical went on to receive five Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. Martin himself received Tony nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score and received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and the Outstanding Critics Circle Award for Best New Score. He also received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Martin's next work as a playwright was the comic play Meteor Shower which opened at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in August 2016,{{cite magazine |last1=Viagas |first1=Robert |title=New Steve Martin Play Meteor Shower Opens in California Tonight |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/new-steve-martin-play-meteor-shower-opens-in-california-tonight-com-368526 |access-date=October 24, 2016 |magazine=Playbill |date=August 7, 2016}} and went on to Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre later the same year.{{cite magazine |last1=Rizzo |first1=Frank |title=Connecticut Theater Review: 'Meteor Shower' by Steve Martin |url=https://variety.com/2016/legit/reviews/meteor-shower-review-steve-martin-1201883671/ |access-date=October 24, 2016 |magazine=Variety |date=October 10, 2016}} The play opened on Broadway at the Booth Theater on November 29, 2017. The cast features Amy Schumer, Laura Benanti, Jeremy Shamos and Keegan-Michael Key, with direction by Jerry Zaks.Cox, Gordon. [https://variety.com/2017/legit/news/amy-schumer-broadway-steve-martin-meteor-shower-1202517334/ "Amy Schumer to Make Broadway Debut in Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' "] Variety, August 7, 2017Gerard, Jeremy. [https://deadline.com/2017/11/broadway-review-amy-schumer-meteor-shower-1202216558/ "Broadway Review: Amy Schumer Splashes 'Meteor Shower' With A Burst Of Starlight"] Deadline Hollywood, November 29, 2017 Critic Allison Adaot of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Meteor Shower is a very funny play. Keening-like-a-howler-monkey funny. Design-a-new-cry-laughing-emoji funny...In the confident hands of writer and comedy maestro Steve Martin, the premise is polished to sparkling."{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/theater/2017/11/29/meteor-shower-broadway-review/|title= Amy Schumer delights in Steve Martin's new comedy Meteor Shower: EW review|magazine= Entertainment Weekly|accessdate= June 30, 2021}}

Martin hosted the Academy Awards solo in 2001 and 2003, and with Alec Baldwin in 2010.{{cite press release |title=Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to Host Oscar Show |url=https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/collection/p15759coll9/id/9942/ |website=Margaret Herrick Library |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=November 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091107104456/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/hosts.html |archive-date=November 7, 2009 |date=November 3, 2009 |url-status=live}}{{void|comment|Fabrickator|original url http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/hosts.html has been replaced by a live url}}{{cbignore}} In 2020, Martin opened the 92nd Academy Awards alongside Chris Rock with comedy material. They were not previously announced as that year's hosts, and joked after their opening monolog, "Well we've had a great time not hosting tonight".

In 2005, Martin co-hosted Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, marking the park's anniversary. Disney continued to run the show until March 2009, which now{{when|date=October 2012}} plays in the lobby of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.

A fan of Monty Python, in 1989 Martin hosted the television special, Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python.{{cite news |title=Monty Python: 30 years of near reunions from the comedy troupe |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/comedy/a532589/monty-python-30-years-of-near-reunions-from-the-comedy-troupe/ |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=Digital Spy}}McCall, Douglas (November 12, 2013). Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969–2012, 2d ed. McFarland. {{ISBN|9780786478118}}

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Martin first picked up the banjo when he was around 17 years of age. Martin has stated in several interviews and in his memoir, Born Standing Up, that he used to take 33 rpm bluegrass records and slow them down to 16 rpm and tune his banjo down, so the notes would sound the same. Martin was able to pick out each note and perfect his playing.{{Citation needed|reason=|date=October 2020}} Martin learned how to play the banjo with help from John McEuen, who later joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. McEuen's brother later managed Martin as well as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Martin performed his stand-up routine opening for the band in the early 1970s. He had the band play on his hit song "King Tut", being credited as "The Toot Uncommons" (as in Tutankhamun).{{Citation needed|reason=|date=October 2020}} The banjo was a staple of Martin's 1970s stand-up career, and he periodically poked fun at his love for the instrument. On the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, he included an all-instrumental jam, titled "Drop Thumb Medley", and played the track on his 1979 concert tour. His final comedy album, The Steve Martin Brothers (1981), featured one side of Martin's typical stand-up material, with the other side featuring live performances of Steve playing banjo with a bluegrass band.

In 2001, he played banjo on Earl Scruggs's remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". The recording was the winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the Grammy Awards of 2002. In 2008, Martin appeared with the band, In the Minds of the Living, during a show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/steve-martin-plays-the-ba_n_310858.html "Steve Martin Plays The Banjo Really Well (Video)"]. October 6, 2009. HuffPost. Retrieved May 15, 2010. In 2009, Martin released his first all-music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo with appearances from stars such as Dolly Parton.Itzkoff, Dave (August 5, 2009). [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/05/steve-martin-banjo-dolly-parton/ "Steve Martin brings it all home with his banjo"]. The Guardian. Retrieved May 15, 2010 The album won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2010.{{cite web |title=Steve Martin's 2010 Banjo Tour |url=https://www.stevemartin.com/2010/03/steve-martins-2010-banjo-tour.html |website=SteveMartin.com |access-date=September 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725010402/http://www.stevemartin.com/stevemartin/music.html |archive-date=July 25, 2010 |date=March 4, 2010 |url-status=live}} Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member John McEuen produced the album. Martin made his first appearance on The Grand Ole Opry on May 30, 2009.[https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/269067/steve-martin-to-make-grand-ole-opry-debut "Steve Martin To Make Grand Ole Opry Debut"]. April 1, 2009. Billboard. Retrieved May 15, 2010. In the American Idol season eight finals, he performed alongside Michael Sarver and Megan Joy in the song "Pretty Flowers". Martin is featured playing banjo on "I Hate Love" from Kelly Clarkson's tenth studio album Chemistry . It was released as a promotional single on June 2, 2023.{{cite web|last1=Walcott|first1=Escher|title=Kelly Clarkson Drops New Single 'I Hate Love' — Featuring Steve Martin on Banjo!|url=https://people.com/kelly-clarkson-drops-new-single-i-hate-love-steve-martin-on-the-banjo-7507492|website=People|date=June 2, 2023|access-date=June 8, 2023}}

Alison Brown co-wrote Foggy Morning Breaking{{cite web | last=Despres | first=Tricia | title=Alison Brown Knew She Couldn't Finish 'Foggy Morning Breaking' Alone | website=People.com | date=March 23, 2023 | url=https://people.com/country/alison-brown-steve-martin-foggy-morning-breaking-music-video-premiere/ | access-date=December 3, 2024}} with Martin in 2023, and Wall Guitar in 2024.

File:Stevemartin2-fls.jpg In June 2009, Martin played banjo along with the Steep Canyon Rangers on A Prairie Home Companion and began a two-month U.S. tour with the Rangers in September, including appearances at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, Carnegie Hall and Benaroya Hall in Seattle.{{Cite web|title=Benaroya Hall Calendar, Seattle Symphony Orchestra |url=http://www.seattlesymphony.org/benaroya/browse/eventdetail.aspx?id=2211 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609171757/http://www.seattlesymphony.org/benaroya/browse/eventdetail.aspx?id=2211|url-status=dead |archivedate=June 9, 2011}}{{cite web |last1=Madison |first1=Tjames |title=Steve Martin and his banjo map fall tour |website=LiveDaily |url=http://www.livedaily.com/news/19785.html#selection-391.0-391.40 |access-date=October 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090807180428/http://www.livedaily.com/news/19785.html#selection-391.0-391.40 |archive-date=August 7, 2009 |date=August 4, 2009 |url-status=dead}} In November, they went on to play at the Royal Festival Hall in London with support from Mary Black.Gill, Andy (November 10, 2009). [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/steve-martin-with-the-steep-canyon-rangers-royal-festival-hall-london-1817801.html "Steve Martin with The Steep Canyon Rangers, Royal Festival Hall, London"]. The Independent. In 2010, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers appeared at the New Orleans Jazzfest, Merlefest Bluegrass Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, at Bonnaroo Music Festival, at the ROMP{{cite web |title=ROMP 2011: Bluegrass Roots & Branches Festival |url=http://bluegrassmuseum.org/general/romp.ph |publisher=International Bluegrass Music Museum |url-status=unfit |archive-date=November 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120101843/http://bluegrassmuseum.org/general/romp.php}} Bluegrass Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, at the Red Butte Garden Concert series,{{cite web |title=Concerts: Red Butte Garden 2010 Outdoor Concert Series |url=http://www.redbuttegarden.org/concerts |website=Red Butte Garden |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |publisher=University of Utah |access-date=October 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619145324/http://www.redbuttegarden.org/concerts/ |archive-date=June 19, 2010 |date=2010 |url-status=dead}} and on the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nxbl4 |title=Later... with Jools Holland, Series 35, Episode 9 |website=BBC |access-date=May 15, 2010}} Martin performed "Jubilation Day" with the Steep Canyon Rangers on The Colbert Report on March 21, 2011, on Conan on May 3, 2011, and on BBC's The One Show on July 6, 2011.{{cite web |last=Tobey |first=Matt |url=http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/03/21/this-week-on-the-colbert-report-steve-martin/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309134950/http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/03/21/this-week-on-the-colbert-report-steve-martin/ |archive-date=March 9, 2012 |title=This Week on the Colbert Report: Steve Martin |publisher=Comedy Partners |date=March 21, 2011 |access-date=April 9, 2022}} Martin performed a song he wrote called "Me and Paul Revere"{{cite web |last=Barker |first=Olivia |date=June 29, 2011 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2011-06-29-steve-martin_n.htm |title=Steve Martin's 'Paul Revere' picks away at history |work=USA Today}} in addition to two other songs on the lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., at the "Capitol Fourth Celebration" on July 4, 2011.{{cite web |title=A Capitol Fourth: Watch Steve Martin Sizzle |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/a-capitol-fourth-watch-steve-martin-sizzle/ |website=PBS |access-date=June 23, 2021 |date=July 3, 2011}} While on tour, Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers occasionally performed Martin's 1978 novelty hit song "King Tut" live in a bluegrass arrangement. One of these performances was released on the 2011 album Rare Bird Alert.[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r2106329|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review] In 2011, Martin also narrated and appeared in the PBS documentary "Give Me The Banjo" chronicling the history of the banjo in America.{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Steve |title=Give Me The Banjo (Trailer) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geVDGjTYfPA&list=PL0mlhC98k1EZT92g4nDKuS-h-xzgA1VZB&index=1 |website=PBS |access-date=June 23, 2021 |date=October 31, 2011}}

Love Has Come for You, a collaboration album with Edie Brickell, was released in April 2013.{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/04/14/176585791/first-listen-steve-martin-and-edie-brickell-love-has-come-for-you|title=First Listen: Steve Martin And Edie Brickell, 'Love Has Come For You'|last=Thompson|first=Stephen|author-link=Stephen Thompson (journalist)|date=April 14, 2013|publisher=NPR|access-date=April 18, 2013}} The two made musical guest appearances on talk shows, such as The View and Late Show with David Letterman, to promote the album.{{cite news |last=Bauer |first=Scott |title=Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 'Love Has Come For You': Collaboration A Perfect Blend of Traditional, Modern |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/steve-martin-and-edie-brickell-love-has-come-for-you_n_3131704.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222614/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/steve-martin-and-edie-brickell-love-has-come-for-you_n_3131704.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=deviated |work=HuffPost |date=April 22, 2013}}{{void|comment|Fabrickator|updated: June 22, 2013; title as published: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 'Love Has Come For You': Collaboration A Perfrect Blend Of Traditional, Modern}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqbtPIQR3B0 |title=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |website=YouTube|date=March 16, 2016 }}{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/arts/music/steve-martin-and-edie-brickells-love-has-come-for-you.html| work=The New York Times | first=Dave | last=Itzkoff | author-link=Dave Itzkoff | title=Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 'Love Has Come For You' | date=April 19, 2013}}

The title track won the Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song.{{cite web |title=Grammy Awards Past Winners Search (Steve Martin) |url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=%22steve+martin%22&title=&year=All&genre=All |website=The Recording Academy |access-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125183843/http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=%22steve+martin%22&title=&year=All&genre=All |archive-date=January 25, 2013 |url-status=unfit}}

Starting in May 2013, he began a tour with the Steep Canyon Rangers and Edie Brickell throughout the United States.{{cite web|url=http://stevemartin.com/stevemartin/2013/01/steve-martin-and-the-steep-canyon-rangers-featuring-edie-brickell-announce-north-american-tour.html |title=Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell Announce North American Tour |website=SteveMartin.com |access-date=May 28, 2013}} In 2015, Brickell and Martin released So Familiar as the second installment of their partnership.{{cite web|title=Steve Martin and Edie Brickell on 'Unexplored Territory' of New Album |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steve-martin-and-edie-brickell-on-unexplored-territory-of-new-album-20151029 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151030134643/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steve-martin-and-edie-brickell-on-unexplored-territory-of-new-album-20151029 |archive-date=October 30, 2015 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=October 29, 2015 |access-date=January 11, 2023}}{{cbignore}} In 2017, Martin and Brickell appeared in the multi-award-winning documentary film The American Epic Sessions directed by Bernard MacMahon. Recording live direct-to-disc on the first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s,{{Cite news|url=https://www.legacyrecordings.com/2017/04/28/american-epic-collection-american-epic-soundtrack-may-12th/|title=American Epic: The Collection & The Soundtrack Out May 12th|date=April 28, 2017|work=Legacy Recordings|access-date=February 27, 2018}} they performed a version of "The Coo Coo Bird" a traditional song that Martin learned from the 1960s folk music group The Holy Modal Rounders.MacMahon, Bernard (September 28, 2016). "An Interview with Bernard MacMahon". Breakfast Television (Interview). Interview with Jill Belland. Calgary: City The song was featured on the film soundtrack, Music from The American Epic Sessions released on June 9, 2017.

In 2010, Martin created the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, an award established to reward artistry and bring greater visibility to bluegrass performers.{{cite web |title=The Steve Martin Banjo Prize |url=https://freshgrassfoundation.org/steve-martin-banjo-prize/ |website=FreshGrass Foundation |access-date=April 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314063602/https://freshgrassfoundation.org/steve-martin-banjo-prize/ |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |url-status=live}} The prize includes a US$50,000 cash award, a bronze sculpture created by the artist Eric Fischl, and a chance to perform with Martin on Late Show with David Letterman. Recipients include Noam Pikelny of the Punch Brothers band (2010),{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/steve-martin-creates-steve-martin-bluegrass-prize/?ref=arts | title=Steve Martin Creates Steve Martin Bluegrass Prize| newspaper=The New York Times| date=September 15, 2010| access-date=January 24, 2013| last=Itzkoff| first=Dave |author-link=Dave Itzkoff}} Sammy Shelor of Lonesome River Band (2011),{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/steve-martin-prize-for-excellence-in-banjo-and-bluegrass-is-awarded-to-sammy-shelor/| title=Steve Martin Honors Another Banjo Player| newspaper=The New York Times| date=September 6, 2011| access-date=January 24, 2013 |author=Itzkoff, Dave |author-link=Dave Itzkoff}} Mark Johnson (2012),{{cite web |last1=Lawless |first1=John |title=Mark Johnson wins 2012 Steve Martin Prize |url=https://bluegrasstoday.com/mark-johnson-wins-2012-steve-martin-prize/ |website=Bluegrass Today |access-date=April 9, 2022 |date=September 6, 2012}}{{cite news | url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/steve-martin-awards-third-annual-bluegrass-prize/| title=Steve Martin Awards Third Annual Bluegrass Prize| newspaper=The New York Times| date=September 20, 2012| access-date=January 24, 2013| author=Itzkoff, Dave |author-link=Dave Itzkoff}} Jens Kruger (2013),{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/arts/music/steve-martins-prize-for-bluegrass-goes-to-jens-kruger.html| title=Steve Martin's Prize for Bluegrass Goes to Jens Kruger| newspaper=The New York Times| date=September 11, 2013| access-date=October 1, 2013| author=Itzkoff, Dave |author-link=Dave Itzkoff}} Eddie Adcock (2014),{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/arts/music/the-steve-martin-prize-goes-to-eddie-adcock.html |title= Veteran Banjo Player Wins Bluegrass Honor: The Steve Martin Prize Goes to Eddie Adcock |date= September 15, 2014 |author=Itzkoff, Dave |author-link=Dave Itzkoff |work=The New York Times |access-date= September 22, 2014}} Danny Barnes (2015), Rhiannon Giddens (2016), Scott Vestal (2017), Kristin Scott Benson (2018),{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Randy |title=Steve Martin 2018 banjo prize goes to Kristin Scott Benson |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-steve-martin-banjo-prize-kristin-benson-20180924-story.html |access-date=August 29, 2019 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=September 24, 2018}} and Victor Furtado (2019).{{cite news| url=https://bluegrasstoday.com/victor-furtado-wins-2019-steve-martin-banjo-prize/ | title=Victor Furtado wins 2019 Steve Martin Banjo Prize | date=September 11, 2019| access-date=October 12, 2019| author=Lawless, John}}

At the beginning of his career in comedy, Martin dated writer and artist Eve Babitz, who suggested he dress in what became his trademark white suit.{{cite magazine |last=Anolik |first=Lili |date=March 2014 |title=All About Eve—and Then Some |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/03/eve-babitz-los-angeles-party-scene |access-date=December 10, 2024 |magazine=Vanity Fair |publisher=Condé Nast |quote=There was this great French photographer, Henri Lartigue. He took pictures of Paris in the 20s. All his people wore white. I showed his photographs to Steve. ‘You’ve got to look like this,’ I said.}} From 1977 to 1980, Martin was in a relationship with Bernadette Peters, with whom he co-starred in The Jerk and Pennies from Heaven. He also dated Karen Carpenter, Mary Tyler Moore and Anne Heche, who wrote about their relationship in her memoir.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/387830750/|title=Star tracks|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=December 27, 1982}} On November 20, 1986, Martin married actress Victoria Tennant, with whom he co-starred in All of Me and L.A. Story. They divorced in 1994.{{Cite web |last=Novak |first=Lauren |date=April 12, 2024 |title=Steve Martin Opens Up About the Truth of His Marriage to Anne Stringfield |url=https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/13172/steve-martin-marriage-anne-stringfield-documentary/ |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=Remind |language=en-US}}

Martin went on a USO Tour to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm from October 14 to 21, 1990. He met with military service men and women all over the region signing thousands of autographs and posing for pictures.{{Cite news|last=McCombs|first=Phil|date=November 16, 1990|title=USO's Desert No-Show|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/11/16/usos-desert-no-show/ce72e837-4aa1-40ed-9552-684c4137e904/|access-date=April 19, 2021|issn=0190-8286}} "Everybody coming out here, giving up part of their lives for this effort. I had some time off, and I felt kind of bad just sitting there," Martin said, "so I came."{{Cite news|date=October 17, 1990 |last=Jehl |first=Douglas |title=He Can't Be 'Wild and Crazy Guy': Saudi Arabia: Steve Martin went to the gulf to put on a show for the troops, but all he was allowed to do was press the flesh and sign autographs |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-17-mn-2414-story.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421094628/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-17-mn-2414-story.html |archive-date=April 21, 2021 |access-date=January 11, 2023}}{{cbignore}}

On July 28, 2007, Martin married writer and former New Yorker staff member Anne Stringfield. Bob Kerrey presided over the ceremony at Martin's Los Angeles home. Lorne Michaels served as best man. The nuptials came as a surprise to several guests, who had been told they were coming for a party.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-29-martin-marriage_N.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222210339/https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-29-martin-marriage_N.htm |archive-date=February 22, 2008 |title=Steve Martin weds girlfriend Anne Stringfield |date=July 29, 2007 |agency=AP |newspaper=USA Today}}{{cbignore}} In December 2012, Martin became a father when Stringfield gave birth to their daughter.{{cite web| url=http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/02/13/16953788-steve-martin-becomes-first-time-dad-at-age-67?lite |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411234631/http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/02/13/16953788-steve-martin-becomes-first-time-dad-at-age-67?lite |archive-date=April 11, 2013| title=Steve Martin becomes first-time dad at age 67}}{{cite news |title=Steve Martin is a dad for the first time at age 67| newspaper=National Post| date=February 14, 2013| url=https://nationalpost.com/scene/steve-martin-is-a-dad-for-the-first-time-at-age-67| location=Toronto| access-date=September 25, 2019}}

Martin has been an avid art collector since 1968, when he bought a print by Ed Ruscha.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/arts/art-review-in-vegas-steve-martin-tries-a-different-kind-of-show.html |title=In Vegas, Steve Martin Tries a Different Kind of Show |last=Glueck |first=Grace |author-link=Grace Glueck |date=April 24, 2001 |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418092246/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/arts/art-review-in-vegas-steve-martin-tries-a-different-kind-of-show.html |archive-date=April 18, 2014 |access-date=August 6, 2018 |url-status=unfit}} In 2001, the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art presented a five-month exhibit of twenty-eight items from Martin's collection, including works by Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, and Edward Hopper.Snedeker, Lisa (June 10, 2001), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-10-me-8586-story.html Las Vegas Casinos Gamble on Art as a Crowd Pleaser] Los Angeles Times. In 2006, he sold Hopper's Hotel Window (1955){{cite news |last1=Vogel |first1=Carol |title=Edward Hopper Paintings Change at Whitney Show |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/arts/design/06voge.html |access-date=January 11, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=October 6, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218182223/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/arts/design/06voge.html |archive-date=February 18, 2013}} at Sotheby's for $26.8 million.{{cite news |last1=Pollock |first1=Lindsay |author1-link=Lindsay Pollock |date=November 29, 2006 |title=Steve Martin Hopper, Wistful Rockwell Break Auction Records |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRepCiBBQn7Q&refer=muse |access-date=March 27, 2021 |work=Bloomberg News |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102103923/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRepCiBBQn7Q&refer=muse |archive-date=January 2, 2013 |url-status=unfit}} In 2015, working with two other curators, he organized an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and several other locations called, "The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris," featuring the works of Canadian painter and Group of Seven co-founder Lawren Harris.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150928014321/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/arts/design/steve-martin-adds-curator-to-his-wild-and-crazy-resume.html Martin adds curator to resume], The New York Times. Retrieved June 17, 2022

In July 2004, Martin purchased what he believed to be Landschaft mit Pferden (Landscape with Horses), a 1915 work by Heinrich Campendonk, from a Paris gallery for approximately €700,000. Fifteen months later, he sold the painting at a Christie's auction to a Swiss businesswoman for €500,000. The painting was later discovered to be a forgery. Police believe the fake Campendonk originated from a collection devised by a German forgery ring led by Wolfgang Beltracchi, pieces from which had been sold to French galleries.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,765658,00.html |title=Steve Martin Swindled: German Art Forgery Scandal Reaches Hollywood |magazine=Der Spiegel |date=May 30, 2011 |access-date=March 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130211220951/http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/steve-martin-swindled-german-art-forgery-scandal-reaches-hollywood-a-765658.html |archive-date=February 11, 2013 |url-status=unfit}} Martin only discovered the fact that the painting had been fake many years after it had been sold at the auction. Concerning the experience, Martin said that the Beltracchis "were quite clever in that they gave it a long provenance and they faked labels, and it came out of a collection that mingled legitimate pictures with faked pictures."{{Cite news|last=Child|first=Ben|date=June 1, 2011 |title=Steve Martin victim of German art forgery gang|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jun/01/steve-martin-german-art-forgery|access-date=October 27, 2020 |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web|date=January 24, 2020 |title=The Long Game: how Wolfgang Beltracchi conned the art world|url=https://www.art-critique.com/en/2020/01/the-long-game-how-wolfgang-beltracchi-conned-the-art-world/ |access-date=October 27, 2020 |website=Art Critique}}

Martin was on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art board of trustees from 1984 to 2004.{{Cite news| last=Reynolds |first=Christopher |date=June 17, 2005 |title=Crowds Greet Return of the King at LACMA |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-17-me-tut17-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215014042/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-17-me-tut17-story.html |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |access-date=June 18, 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |url-status=unfit}}{{cbignore}} Martin assisted in launching the National Endowment for Indigenous Visual Arts (NEIVA), a fund to support Australian Indigenous artists in 2021. Martin has supported Indigenous Australian painting previously. He organized an exhibition in 2019 with Gagosian Gallery titled "Desert Painters of Australia", which featured art by George Tjungurrayi and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.{{Cite web|last=Solomon| first=Tessa |date=February 11, 2021 |title=Aiming to Grow Market, Steve Martin Helps Launch Fund for Australian Indigenous Artists |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/steve-martin-australian-indigenous-art-fund-1234583513/ |access-date=February 12, 2021 |website=ARTnews}}

Martin has tinnitus; the condition was first attributed to filming a pistol shooting scene for Three Amigos in 1986,{{cite book |last1=Wallechinsky |first1=David |author1-link=David Wallechinsky |last2=Wallace |first2=Amy |author2-link=Amy Wallace |title=The new book of lists: the original compendium of curious information |date=2005 |publisher=Cannongate |location=New York |isbn=978-1841957197}}{{cite web |url=http://www.utahsbesthearingaids.com/with-the-right-help-you-can-learn-to-manage-tinnitus.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140520201632/http://www.utahsbesthearingaids.com/with-the-right-help-you-can-learn-to-manage-tinnitus.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2014 |title=How to manage tinnitus |publisher=utahbesthearingaids.com |access-date=September 8, 2022}} but Martin later clarified that the tinnitus was actually from years of listening to loud music and performing in front of noisy crowds.{{cite web| url= https://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/9742-steve-martin/ | title=Steve Martin – Pitchfork |website=Pitchfork |date=October 27, 2015}}

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Martin has said that his comedy influences include Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, and Woody Allen.{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-archives-carrie-fisher-steve-martin-interview-19990725-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230092713/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-archives-carrie-fisher-steve-martin-interview-19990725-story.html |archive-date=December 30, 2016 |title=It wasn't in the script: Carrie Fisher interviews Steve Martin about writing |date=July 25, 1999 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=June 18, 2022 |url-status=unfit}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |url=https://www.masterclass.com/classes/steve-martin-teaches-comedy/chapters/steve-s-comedic-inspirations |title=Steve's Comedic Inspirations |website=MasterClass |access-date=June 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128234432/https://www.masterclass.com/classes/steve-martin-teaches-comedy/chapters/steve-s-comedic-inspirations |archive-date=January 28, 2020 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he mentioned that Jerry Seinfeld is one of his "retro heroes", "a guy who came up behind me and is better than I am. I think he's fantastic, I love to listen to him, he almost puts me at peace. I love to listen to him talk".{{YouTube|id=w9qJ-nLYBCE|title=Steve Martin Is A Polymath: Click To Find Out What That Means!}} published September 29, 2017 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Martin's offbeat, ironic, and deconstructive style of humor has influenced many comedians during his career including Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhODBAAAQBAJ&q=jon+stewart+steve+martin+idol&pg=PA37|title=Jon Stewart: A Biography|first=Michael|last=Blitz|date=July 15, 2014|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313358296|access-date=April 8, 2020|via=Google Books}} Stephen Colbert, Robert Smigel, Bo Burnham,{{cite web| title=Bo Burnham Lists 'My Favorite Comedians' and Releases a Confessional Video: "Art Is Dead"| url=http://thecomicscomic.com/2010/10/29/bo-burnham-lists-my-favorite-comedians-and-releases-a-confessional-video-art-is-dead/| website=The Comic's Comic| date=October 29, 2010| last=McCarthy| first=Sean L.}} and Jordan Peele.{{cite web| title=Jordan Peele Reveals 2 Major Comedic Influences| url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/jordan-peeles-2-major-comedic-influences.html | last=Lezmi| first=Josh| date=March 30, 2019| website=Showbiz Cheat Sheet| access-date=September 25, 2019}} Singer and composer Mike Patton cited Steve Martin as being an early influence{{cite web|access-date=January 10, 2021|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiNsSmRNtS8| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211027/IiNsSmRNtS8| archive-date=October 27, 2021|work=For Locals Only|time=19:04–19:31|publisher=KFMI|location=Arcata, California|date=June 1, 1988|title=Mr. Bungle Radio Interview (For Locals Only) 1988|publication-date=September 7, 2017}}{{cbignore}} saying that he identifies with Martin.{{cite magazine |number=305 |publication-date=August 25, 1990 |last1=Gitter |first1=Mike |title=Facts Not Fiction |url=http://www.faithnomorefollowers.com/2015/08/faith-no-more-kerrang-issue-305-25081990.html |website=Kerrang! |access-date=April 9, 2022 |date=August 25, 1990}}

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Martin has received several accolades including an Academy Honorary Award, an Emmy Award, five Grammy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for eight Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.{{cite web |last=Singer|first=Leigh|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2009/feb/19/best-actors-never-nominated-for-oscars|title=Oscars: the best actors never to have been nominated|work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=February 19, 2009|access-date=September 16, 2022}}

• Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life, 2018

• Steve Martin-Live! (1986, VHS; includes short film "The Absent-Minded Waiter and footage from a 1979 concert)
• Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin (1998, DVD/VHS; sketch compilation)
• Steve Martin: The Television Stuff (2012, DVD; includes content of Steve Martin-Live! as well as his NBC specials and other television appearances)

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• {{cite book|ref=none |author=Danto, Arthur C. |author-link=Arthur Danto |others=Afterword by Steve Martin |title=Eric Fischl 1970–2000 |location=New York |publisher=Monacelli Press |year=2001 }}
• Modern Library Humor and Wit Series (2000) (Introduction and series editor)
• {{cite magazine|ref=none |author=Martin, Steve |title=Two menus |department=Shouts & Murmurs |date=February 13, 2000 |orig-year=published February 21 & 28, 2000 |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=27 |pages=25 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/06/magazine20000221two-menus |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830114823/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/06/magazine20000221two-menus |archive-date=August 30, 2021 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}

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• {{cite book |last=Walker |first=Morris |year=1998 |title=Steve Martin: The Magic Years |url=https://archive.org/details/stevemartinmagic0000walk |url-access=registration |publisher=SPI Books |isbn=978-1-5617-1980-8}}

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• {{National Public Radio|16629674}}: 2008 Morning Edition interview
• {{National Public Radio|1456566}}: 2003 Fresh Air interview
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• [https://www.ocregister.com/2007/12/14/take-a-tour-of-comedian-steve-martins-orange-county/ Steve Martin's Orange County] Orange County Register A review including some of the earlier gigs in his career.
• [https://texasarchive.org/2013_04976 Interview with Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short about The Three Amigos in 1986] from Texas Archive of the Moving Image

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