April 1st 2008 Steve Martin: The Great Flydini
Ok, it’s not an April Fool’s joke, but it’s funny. Steve Martin performs on the Tonight Show as the Great Flydini. This is the skit where various object emerge from Martin’s crotch such as eggs, a cigarette, and a phone…all sexual symbols. Then an unknown actress makes an appearance, and Steve’s crotch emits a stuffed animal and a drink for her.
Martin’s comedy always has had a cutting edge to it, a sophistication that comes from his experiences and education (he was a philosophy major at California State University, Long Beach). He stated in Rolling Stone (1982) that:
College totally changed my life. 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 I up, that it’s easy… and it’s thrilling.”
The year this skit was performed is unkown…
