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Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Waco
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Steve Glenn Martin
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When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
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