'A mix of urbane wit and surreal extrapolations - Douglas Adams meets Flann O'Brien' IndependentWho else but Steve Martin could combine irrefutable evidence that Mars is populated by kittens with a treatise on sledgehammers In this brilliantly witty collection of pieces Steve Martin takes a subversive glimpse at the world and a sideways swipe at the conventional. From memory tips for the over-fifties to his insightful exposition of 'Wittgenstein's Banana', never has 'pure drivel' been so entertaining. Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: a seasoned actor, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright, and, of course, the ingenious comedian who turned King Tut into a national craze. In this widely praised collection of humorous riffs, Martin shows he is a master of the written word.From a re-imagining of the Schroedinger's Cat conundrum to a wild meditation on who Lolita would be at age fifty to a skit entitled "I Love Loosely", in which Lucy and Ricky Ricardo play the parts of Hillary and President Clinton, this collection by comic genius Steve Martin--some pieces of which have appeared in The New Yorker--is both hilariously funny and intelligent in its skewering of the topic at hand. <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pure-Drivel/dp/B00C6T0YT0/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1177577851297141&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SFipBr6ueWVB5UvbvzeuS1v4CPgt2Y9YdOge_v-S0lP495dqFpo2AFpbsMJEHCQn.1QhoNWweZ378jOyF3A2iNqvhXWHqcHQBAOH18V4gI_g&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;hvadid=73598818977017&amp;hvbmt=be&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=132041&amp;hvnetw=s&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvtargid=kwd-73598749486636%3Aloc-188&amp;hydadcr=11011_2102806&amp;keywords=pure+drivel+steve+martin&amp;msclkid=1641f5677bbb14f9aa299278d0d32210&amp;nsdOptOutParam=true&amp;qid=1730128751&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Audio Book</a> <ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pure-Drivel-Steve-Martin/dp/0786864672/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1177577851297141&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SFipBr6ueWVB5UvbvzeuS1v4CPgt2Y9YdOge_v-S0lP495dqFpo2AFpbsMJEHCQn.1QhoNWweZ378jOyF3A2iNqvhXWHqcHQBAOH18V4gI_g&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;hvadid=73598818977017&amp;hvbmt=be&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=132041&amp;hvnetw=s&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvtargid=kwd-73598749486636%3Aloc-188&amp;hydadcr=11011_2102806&amp;keywords=pure+drivel+steve+martin&amp;msclkid=1641f5677bbb14f9aa299278d0d32210&amp;nsdOptOutParam=true&amp;qid=1730128798&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Book</a></li><li><a href="https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30958941544&amp;searchurl=ds%3D20%26kn%3Dpure%2Bdrivel%2Bsteve%2Bmartin%26rollup%3Don%26sortby%3D17&amp;cm_sp=snippet-_-srp0-_-title1" target="_blank">Cheaper</a></li></ul> Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support</a>.

'A mix of urbane wit and surreal extrapolations - Douglas Adams meets Flann O'Brien' IndependentWho else but Steve Martin could combine irrefutable evidence that Mars is populated by kittens with a treatise on sledgehammers In this brilliantly witty...

Steve Martin - Pure Drivel