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Stand up to Screen

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Greg Proops looks at four American movie and TV stars who started in stand-up comedy.
1: Steve Martin was a 32-year-old, banjo-playing, balloon-animal-twisting, prematurely grey comic performing before hysterical, rock concert-like crowds of 20,000. Then he got into movies and left it all behind.
Producer Dave Batchelor

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Greg Proops
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Steve Martin
Producer:
Dave Batchelor
Source: Radio Times

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