now comes as close as he’s ever going to get to opening up about his life, his thoughts and his feelings in this absorbingly detailed two-part Apple documentary by director Morgan Neville.
Part two shifts from first-person to third-person; there’s no voiceover commentary, but a series of interviews with Martin in his home, solo, or with his wife Anne Stringfield or buddy and performing partner Martin Short – a documentary style closer to the celeb-on-celeb podcast or Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
The first half fascinatingly shows how Martin was deeply influenced by his childhood job working at Disneyland, more important than any school or college: selling the theme park paper and then working in the magic shop. He just spent all his off time wandering around the enchanted kingdom and was thrilled by in-house Disneyland comedian Wally Boag who played the Golden Horseshoe Revue.
As for the legendary standup set on which Martin’s legend rests … perhaps you really did just have to be there to watch him capture lightning in a bottle. His live show reached its nirvana when he would lead the audience out of the theatre into the street, improvising wacky alfresco events, taking the crowd into fast-food joints and ordering hundreds of burgers, and on one occasion getting everyone to climb into an empty swimming pool and let him crowd-surf overhead.
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