A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) was an album by American comedian Steve Martin. It reached number two on a Billboard's Pop Albums Chart. The album was eventually certified double platinum. It contains the hit novelty single "King Tut", which Martin also performed on Saturday Night Live. It also has Martin revealing his 'real' name (due to the myth that his real name wasn't "Steve Martin"), which he admits is the sound of him flipping his lips.

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  • A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) was an album by American comedian Steve Martin. It reached number two on a Billboard's Pop Albums Chart. The album was eventually certified double platinum. It contains the hit novelty single "King Tut", which Martin also performed on Saturday Night Live. It also has Martin revealing his 'real' name (due to the myth that his real name wasn't "Steve Martin"), which he admits is the sound of him flipping his lips. The album was released just as his celebrity status grew and the format reflects this. The first half of the album was performed in front of a small audience at The Boardinghouse in San Francisco, California, where his previous album had been recorded. The second half of the album was performed at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The switchover between venues is handled in a clever segue in the opening minute of the track "A Wild and Crazy Guy" which opened Side Two of the original vinyl long-player - Steve reads a bogus financial disclosure report to the audience at The Boardinghouse nightclub, and when he gets to calculating concert revenues he reveals his desire to make over $2 million on a single show; the audience reaction quickly segues from the enclosed intimacy of The Boardinghouse to the far more raucous open amphitheatre of Red Rocks near Denver. Martin reprises his role as one of the Festrunk Brothers (a role he'd popularized on Saturday Night Live) on two tracks - the second half of "A Wild and Crazy Guy" and "You Naive Americans. " It contains one of the arguably best comebacks ever to a heckler at the end of track 2; "Yeah, I remember when I had my first beer. " This album won the Grammy Award in 1979 for Best Comedy Album. A Wild and Crazy Guy is currently available in its entirety on iTunes.
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