Steve Martin
May, 1974
"I just want to sit there being as mentally ill as I possibly can," says Martin Mull about his new act, which is catching on like--well--wild smoke across the nation. With a mixture of low camp and straight-faced put-on, seated in a vintage Salvation Army armchair and clad in a salmon-colored dinner jacket, Mull effectively deflates the pretensions of rock music and the Woodstock generation with such somber ballads as Blacks and Blues and The Ego Boogie. His motto: "If God had mea...
