Holy crap, I remember seeing this when I was a kid. We were talking about it at school the next day, I think. I never thought that I'd be able to see it again. For me, this video clip is like a miracle.
@@sandrafaithThat dive is a classic, for sure! But simply the way that Steve does the basic cannonball dive is truly mesmerizing. Somehow, he does even simple dives like that with pure elegance, don't you think?
@@laureencriss8220 Same where I lived...I remember having so much fun with friends copying them. I can't recall another comedian whose physical comedy inspired me like Martin.
If I recall correctly (at my age, the mind tends to get a bit fuzzy), he had a closing skit on this special where he thanked the audience for inviting him ‘…into their living room…’ A few moments later, a Producer handed him a note listing the ‘…people who didn’t invite him to their living room.’ He then goes to each house asking the homeowners ‘why not?’ U have to see the scene to appreciate it, but wow, what a LOL funny skit.
I like his bit when he tells the audience "I'd like to thank everyone for coming to the show tonight" and proceeds to point at each person really fast and saying "thank you" to every person one at a time quickly.
Sad to me that i see no comments about the fact that the legendary Carl Reiner was one of the sportscasters. He was a huge part of much lf the comedy deceloped in sitcoms in the fifties and sixties. They didn't try to make him overtly funny in this show because part of the humor was for the audience recognizing it was HIM impersonating a then well known sportscaster.
Allen, It was from a 1 hour special in, like the 80's. I remember a western sketch with Stother Martin and he couldn't stop from laughing. He literally was gasping for breath and couldn't say his lines.
I'd totally forgotten about his routine but once I'd started watching it the 'sandwich in the shorts' part came back to me immediately. Classic Steve Martin.
It's insane how something can remain dormant in your memory for over 40 years. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I immediately remembered the screaming like a maniac dive, stuffing the sandwich in the shorts for later and pretending to drown after missing the beach ball!🤣
This was when sports stars were totally unpretentious, this should played at every level of sports as an example of championship dedication and execution.
You’re obviously young if you don’t know who Steve Martin is most notable in the 1980s and 1990’s. Although he is still acting in a few things today… “Only Murders In the building” 2022 to present. being one of them. Look him up his most known movies are father of the bride part 1&2, dirty rotten scoundrels, cheaper by the dozen.
My favorite Steve Martin movies are Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Jerk, and Roxanne. Truth be told, I don't think I have ever seen a movie of his I didn't like.
Just glancing through the comments I thought at first you said: The Captain Awkward we deserved... which I thought was brilliant. I don't know how you changed it to Captain America so fast!🤣😁
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a good while. It's all the stuff we used to do off the old oyster house. I invented the screaming like a maniac dive.
You can literally tell how old Martin is by his grey hair: 24 yrs: No grey. 27 yrs: Half grey. 30 yrs: 3/4ths grey. 30.5 yrs: Totally grey. He looks about 28 in this video.
@@1969wareid for pointing out that the Isralie Govt (not the world wide Jewish Community) exactly as the Nazis did to the Jews in the 1930s- and 40s?. I am a very religious person and supporter of Israel and know the horror of the holoucast.But becoming what you abhoor is not the answer..
I can't believe I once had to explain to some twenty year olds who Steve Martin is. They only recognized him when they realized he was the guy that did the remake of the Pink Panther. I died a little that day,
*Steve Martin is such a funny guy. lol.* *I think I'm gonna watch- "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."* *I'm too depressed. So I'll watch it just to make myself happy.*
As impressed as I am by the quality of Steve’s cannonball, time moved on and he was clearly outclassed by the Top Bombing of the UK’s Peter Kay, or John Smith as he was known at the time. His remarkable performance can be viewed on YT.
A diver with an oxygen tank and a body suit the color of the pool was underwater holding him by one leg. If you watch it 23 times on a big screen you will be able to barely see him. Honest.
@@michaeltaylor2270 I came here to read your comment this morning, then watched this delightful video again. Then the very next ad TH-cam served me was for Steve Martin's Masterclass! Which I didn't know existed and now need to have.
Holy crap, I remember seeing this when I was a kid. We were talking about it at school the next day, I think. I never thought that I'd be able to see it again. For me, this video clip is like a miracle.
I am still talking in school
Wow lol
Welcome to the internet. I've enjoyed showing my kids the cartoons I watched when I was a kid. Grape Ape and Captain Caveman for example.
Wow, the "shot in the chest" dive unlocked a childhood memory for me...
@@sandrafaithThat dive is a classic, for sure! But simply the way that Steve does the basic cannonball dive is truly mesmerizing. Somehow, he does even simple dives like that with pure elegance, don't you think?
I've always been impressed by Steve Martin... comedian, actor, banjo player, diver. What an exceptional man.
And he's a Renaissance man too!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great author too, I love his novel.
this video reminds me that steve martin has always sucked. plus his hair has been white since his 20s apparently
...kitten juggler
"He's putting his sandwich away for later" - I love Steve Martin, my Uncle used to do his routines for me when I was 3, I'm a lifetime fan!
I was probably 12 when this special was first on. Anyone that has grown up with a pool or been around a pool is familiar with these "dives". Classic.
Funniest man of all time.
Put a comma after Uncle and that would make Steve your uncle. How cool would that be?
Takes me back to when I went to the pool as a kid, these were all very popular dives!!
🤣😂🤣😂
@@laureencriss8220 Same where I lived...I remember having so much fun with friends copying them. I can't recall another comedian whose physical comedy inspired me like Martin.
He's a wild&crazy diver
I loved the "slow lane" swimming bit.
Me too! When he said the others were given the slick lanes, I lost it!
He had thicker water.
Steve Martin was born a middle aged man.
Lol
He was born a poor black child
And that’s the way he’ll always stay😁
Hahaha. So true! 😂😂😂
Along with richard gere
If I recall correctly (at my age, the mind tends to get a bit fuzzy), he had a closing skit on this special where he thanked the audience for inviting him ‘…into their living room…’
A few moments later, a Producer handed him a note listing the ‘…people who didn’t invite him to their living room.’
He then goes to each house asking the homeowners ‘why not?’
U have to see the scene to appreciate it, but wow, what a LOL funny skit.
I like his bit when he tells the audience "I'd like to thank everyone for coming to the show tonight" and proceeds to point at each person really fast and saying "thank you" to every person one at a time quickly.
Well, I laughed at your description. Thanks. I would loved to have seen it.
Just two years later his King Tut album - and song - would be under my Christmas tree...I was 9 😂
Lmao crying after not seeing this since the 70s..Steve Martin was so hysterical. Gotta love all the hair and clothes.
Steve Martin is the king of dork comedy.
Steve Martin hasn't aged in 40 years. Of course he looked like 70 then
Amazing one person can master all of those classic kids-horsing-around-in-a-pool dives.
I remember watching this back in the day.
Steve's first tv special.
Around 1977. Far out stuff for the time.
Was that the one with Okra Cola and the car salesman hooked to a lie detector? If you're still checking your comments on this after four years
Sad to me that i see no comments about the fact that the legendary Carl Reiner was one of the sportscasters. He was a huge part of much lf the comedy deceloped in sitcoms in the fifties and sixties. They didn't try to make him overtly funny in this show because part of the humor was for the audience recognizing it was HIM impersonating a then well known sportscaster.
Carl Reiner was legendary
"His face full of grimace" that is clearly the best line of the whole skit
😂😂😂 Yes! That and “he’s putting his sandwich away for later…”
I had a face full of grimace last night. I was all up in those purple cheeks!
@@marcuswinston2522 For me, it was "he was given the slowest lane" lol
For me, it was 'The Romanians are not pretending.'
I had no clue Steve Martin was such an athlete. Even when he was born old
And Black !! Ha.
@@kevinstogner9477And poor! Ha!
And standing up! @@KINDaf
The way he struts along and does the "accidental trip" is hilarious!
that would get a half-hour time-out at our pool
This brought back memories. Not only remembering this skit, but knowing that all kids did each of those dives off the diving board.
Thank you TH-cam for this recommendation in the middle of a pandemic. This changed my mood after the morning news 😂
I can't stop watching this. This will definitely be my go to on down days.
I've never seen this before but it's classical Steve.
Allen,
It was from a 1 hour special in, like the 80's. I remember a western sketch with Stother Martin and he couldn't stop from laughing. He literally was gasping for breath and couldn't say his lines.
Absolutely hilarious! I saw this back in 1976 and thought it was funny. Still laughing now.
there wasn't a single laugh in this piece...
@@DJRitty then you weren't watching the same video we were.
@@DJRitty It's silly and funny.
@@DJRitty Haha, I know right. This was not funny at all. I cant believe anyone made this stupid shit. Screaming like a maniac dive was ok, I guess.
With Carl Reiner … priceless
I'd totally forgotten about his routine but once I'd started watching it the 'sandwich in the shorts' part came back to me immediately. Classic Steve Martin.
The mandatory accidental tripping dive...
Hilarious, Steve at his best..
This is genius. I did each and every one of these things off the diving board as a kid! Hilarious!
Now you know you were actually practicing for the Olympics!
Same!
You're sandwich must've tasted horrible, afterward. =)
mmm, soggy sandwich! @@ThrakazogZ haha ok I didn't do the sandwich thing!
It's insane how something can remain dormant in your memory for over 40 years. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I immediately remembered the screaming like a maniac dive, stuffing the sandwich in the shorts for later and pretending to drown after missing the beach ball!🤣
This was when sports stars were totally unpretentious, this should played at every level of sports as an example of championship dedication and execution.
Martin is a comedian , actor and musician but never a sports star.
No kidding?
@@001davem 🤣
You’re obviously young if you don’t know who Steve Martin is most notable in the 1980s and 1990’s. Although he is still acting in a few things today… “Only Murders In the building” 2022 to present. being one of them. Look him up his most known movies are father of the bride part 1&2, dirty rotten scoundrels, cheaper by the dozen.
My favorite Steve Martin movies are Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Jerk, and Roxanne. Truth be told, I don't think I have ever seen a movie of his I didn't like.
Truly the RayGun of his time.
He won over even that judge on the far right with that last maneuver. What a champion.
This was one of two Olympic comedy sketches I remember from my youth. The other was Belushi's "Little Chocolate Doughnuts". Good times.
Check out Martin Short's synchronized swimming skit
The Romanians are not pretending. 🤣 I love these skits. Comedy is truth. And still true today.
I love the shots of the crowd. Curling irons sure were popular.
3:03 “He’s putting his sandwich away for later” 😂😂😂
The Captain America we deserved
Just glancing through the comments I thought at first you said:
The Captain Awkward we deserved... which I thought was brilliant. I don't know how you changed it to Captain America so fast!🤣😁
I thought I was the only one who puts his tuna fish sandwich in his shorts before diving. Vindication!
Steve Martin also puts a pinch behind each ear
😂 I remember this! Screaming like a maniac was frowned upon at our pool.
LOL ours too. Everyone was doing that after seeing this.
😆Steve Martin crazy!crazy! crazy! A wonderful comedian! Like him alot Thanks for the video. Steve Martin 😆
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a good while. It's all the stuff we used to do off the old oyster house. I invented the screaming like a maniac dive.
I love it that they actuall Carl Reiner and that one guy--can't from his name from ABC sports.
The late Dick Schaap.
Im 66 and remember this and its still hilarious 😂😂😂
I have been real sick last few days this made me feel good and laugh thank you!
He made that cannonball look effortless!
"The Romanians are not pretending." jajajajajajaja
I thought this might be real for a split second and then I saw Carl Reiner! 😂
I still have it saved in my phone.
Drowned cliff diving six months later and never made WWOS?
How lucky are we to have been able to watch this nut over all these years. Proud to say He's from Texas 😉
OMG!! Never knew this footage existed. Steve is sublimely funny as F*CK!!!!!
I think I had a tape of his years ago. Did you ever hear his "King Tut" song? So funny. Can't remember if they did a video of that one or not.
I remember doing all those dives as a kid
You can literally tell how old Martin is by his grey hair:
24 yrs: No grey.
27 yrs: Half grey.
30 yrs: 3/4ths grey.
30.5 yrs: Totally grey. He looks about 28 in this video.
Still looks 30.5!
2:51 They actually call this the King Tut.
Well I thought he was a goner, since he didn’t wait a half hour after eating. 😂😂😂
Oh dear Carl Reiner. RIP!
Steve Martin is such an amazing comedian.
Real comedy! You don't see much of this anymore!
The Swedish diver is my cousin Pils.
First time I've seen this. So many great lines. Love how he won by the fake drowning. 😂
The reign of hilarious idiocy. I love it.
Dick Schaap was a great sports reporter. Whenever he did a story I watched because it was always good.
he has been and is still a jewel!!
@@1969wareid for pointing out that the Isralie Govt (not the world wide Jewish Community) exactly as the Nazis did to the Jews in the 1930s- and 40s?. I am a very religious person and supporter of Israel and know the horror of the holoucast.But becoming what you abhoor is not the answer..
2:50 Steve Martin doing Kung Tut.
This shit used to crack me up when I first watched this special on TV at the age of 13.
Damn, and I thought Rodney Dangerfield’s Triple Lindy was something!
A man of so many talents.
I wonder where this was filmed?
I was hoping he'd do the classic Nestea Plunge.
10m platform cannonball should absolutely be in the Olympics.
I remember seeing this on TV. Especially the sandwich part. Now I know it was tuna and not chicken. Lord I'm old.
I can't believe I once had to explain to some twenty year olds who Steve Martin is. They only recognized him when they realized he was the guy that did the remake of the Pink Panther. I died a little that day,
Not knowing martin is like not knowing carlin or brooks' work. No wonder the world is way it is today. Smh lol.
I just need to think of Steve Martin and start laughing!
It is interesting to me that the cadence of humor back then was slower than it is today.
The cadence of everything was slower
Steve: *dead in the pool*
Judges: HE IS FAKING TO BE DEAD SO HE CAN WIN THE COMPETITION
That last bit had me in tears!
That was such a stunt a little kid would pull out of shame or to get pity. Ironically, it works for adults if you pull it off and really die.
The others copycatting was an even more classic kid move.
I went to the pool and acted a fool today
It’s hard to imagine a time in history when Saturday night live was watchable.
Oh yes, it’s so beneath you, isn’t it.
@@Klutzy68 That would be sarcasm if it wasn't obviously true for all humanity.
Yeah they go pretty much sucked since early 90's
@@Klutzy68 Not at all. I’ll watch just about anything. I still watch every now and then. Weekend Update is funny!
I think this is from "An Homage to Steve" which aired on Showtime
He’s so silly! I love it!
*Steve Martin is such a funny guy. lol.*
*I think I'm gonna watch- "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."*
*I'm too depressed. So I'll watch it just to make myself happy.*
I love that movie!
The 70s are a trip, man.
So funny 😊couldn't stop laughing I remember my brother doing all those dives
Man, now I wish I had made a tuna salad sandwich for lunch.
This is wild that this is from 3 years before I was alive and I'm still watching him on OMITB
He is simply awesome!!!
Raygun thought this was a training video so she entered the Olympics
Steve is a pretty darn good swimmer (coming from a coach).
Quality replacement for the olympics!
He is such a jacka#& I love him❤
As impressed as I am by the quality of Steve’s cannonball, time moved on and he was clearly outclassed by the Top Bombing of the UK’s Peter Kay, or John Smith as he was known at the time. His remarkable performance can be viewed on YT.
Carl Reiner is commentating. Hilarious
Only the Triple Lindy dive could surpass this performance.
😅
Dick Schaap and Carl Reiner on commentary. Nice!
I have no idea why this just popped into my mind and I had to search it.
This is soooooo Steve Martin
Fun fact, the middle judge is a young Michael Cohen.
It really does look like him
Is the "young swede" at 0:31 Jerry Seinfeld?
"Let's look at that one again..." Surpassed only by the triple Lindy.
Is that Diane Keaton in the audience at 1:01 ?? 😂
I think so.
She must have been looking for Mr. Goodbar.
😆 Nope
Okay but how did he swim in place??
I can’t tell if you’re joking. He’s laying on top of something
@@BbGun-lw5viThank you, I wondered that too.
A diver with an oxygen tank and a body suit the color of the pool was underwater holding him by one leg. If you watch it 23 times on a big screen you will be able to barely see him. Honest.
@@michaeltaylor2270 I came here to read your comment this morning, then watched this delightful video again. Then the very next ad TH-cam served me was for Steve Martin's Masterclass! Which I didn't know existed and now need to have.
Sports journalism legend Dick Schaap and comedy legend Carl Reiner playing the announcers!
Steve Martin brought the silly to America. Him and Cheech And Chong,