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MY LIFE IN 10 PICTURES STEVE MARTIN

Steve Martin developed an appreciation for comedy at an early age. “I was raised with Laurel and Hardy and I Love Lucy and Jerry Lewis – and I just loved it,” the funnyman recalls.

But it took a while for Steve to find his own place in that pantheon. He’d perform magic at Disneyland and act at Knott’s Berry Farm before his college major in philosophy put him on the path.

“[Studying it] you start to realise, ‘Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no

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