Ah, good 'ol Steve Martin.
The Jerk was on tv the other day. I love that movie. Only got to watch up until he was trying to hitch a ride from home (first 20 min or so) and had to leave though.
The amazing part about Martin is his ad-lib ability
[edit: would that be, 'adlibility'?]. There's two halariously drawn-out scenes; the one that goes something like "The first day seemed like 10 days. The second day was 8 1/2 days. The third day, well that was just a day because you had to go visit your mother. But you came back on the fourth day, so that was like 4 days." etc. etc., and the "I don't need you! All I need is this lamp! This lamp and this ash tray! This lamp and this ash tray and this chair! I need this Thermos. This lamp this ashtray the chair and this Thermos, that's all i need! And these glasses." etc. etc.
Those were both done "on the fly", and flawlessly executed. Great stuff!
