STEVEN BANKS: Writer, Artist & Outspoken Mime
Creativity in Captivity
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The Importance of Steve Jobs in the World of Comedy
I think people take for granted how much of an impact he had on the world of comedy and I think people definitely he did that thing of really silly stupid if you want to call it but also really smart very intellectual. philosophically he was trying he was cutting a rug where others hadn't gone in terms of the unusual. Carl Reiner directed so many of those Steve movies the jerk and dead men don't wear plaid and man with two brains and all of me. He found those creative partnerships with people who open your mind that allowed Steve really to become a proper matinee idol in a comic sense which was so much more than what he was doing with the silliness.
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