The most amazing thing is he didn't have white hair.

And to think this man went on to have a career as a distinguished banjo player.

Great memory. Saw this on TV when it originally aired. And by a stroke of magic, not long later, my parents bought a sofa and chair the same color as Steve's shirt :)

I love how he plays as if he put the candle up his left sleeve, even though he clearly didn't! Actually good sleight of hand!

I strongly recommend Steve Martin's book Born Standing Up. It's really inspiring as he tells of his humble beginnings as a magician at a theme park. It's not a self-serving book, just positive vibes.

What a talented young man. Can't wait to see what he makes of himself.

The smothers brothers was a great show. We never missed it.

He started out as a magician but always had more fun doing a parody of it. I built the magic he used in his first show headlining in Vegas.

Steve Martin is a legend.

All charisma and stage presence!

I'm a magician and the Zombie being called a toilet float trick is hilarious to magicians LMFAO

I remember watching this when it aired, as a kid. For weeks, my sister and I got in trouble, from ruining every Kleenex tissue in the house

I had a funny friend who had a hall in her house where she had family photos on the wall, and there, among her family, was a smiling photo of Steve Martin! So unexpected and hilarious

I'm 53 and can't, for the life of me, remember him with dark hair. He's such a gem. 🥰

Steve Martin has been a hero of mine my whole life, because he can make anything funny and amazing.

Smothers Brothers was such a great show!!

I think we need to give him credit for a lot of the success of the Smothers Brothers as he was one of the writers and you can read him all over their routines.

Can we take a moment to appreciate Steve Martin with no gray hair? These are some of his best performances, and I wish more people could see this.

This reminds me of a bit he did, on Carson IIRC. He holds up a scarf and confidently, but obviously uses the scarf as cover for reaching into his suitcoat pocket. But, by his facial expression, you can see whatever he intended to produce, wasn't in that pocket (as the digging in his pocket gets even more obvious). So, he scrambles to regain his composure, and tries again in the opposite pocket. Still not there. He pauses a moment, as he fumbles around under the scarf, and with a dramatic flourish, he reveals... his wristwatch! Then, as he is setting up the next trick, he says "Watch... watch... [indicating his watch]... Watch."

That candle one was awesome!! 🤣🤣🤣

I'm way past idolizing anyone but Martin's body of work is inspirational. Kudos for him for having some success with so much hard work.

You have to appreciate how much time it took for Steve to dye his hair for this performance.

I remember seeing this as a kid and stealing the napkin bit as an ice breaker for years to come. It usually just made people uncomfortable. Took me a lot longer to realize that part.

His autobiography "Born Standing Up" is excellent. Very good reading.

Awesome. He later did at least a few of these gags in his standup, in the '70's. Thanks for posting.

The predecessor of the Great Flydini. Steve Martin's showmanship is second to none.

He such “A WILD AND CRAZY GUY!!!😂

"King Tut!"

Rest In Peace Tommy 😢 I’ll always remember the time we saw the Smothers Brothers perform at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. “Dream the Impossible Dream”.

It's neat to see him from back in the '60's,this,the Dating Game,etc.First I saw him was in '75,so this is great to see.

STEVE MARTIN FROM WACCO TEXAS LOVE HIM❤

The part I love best is how he so perfectly recreated Dwight Schrute's look from the Office.

He must have picked these up from the Disneyland Magic Shop, where he worked!

Oh my god and holy shit. Seeing Steve Martin with no grey hair makes this something to be preserved forever.

I went to taping of The Midnight Special (Helen Reddy & Three Dog Night were there) and Steve Martin was the warm-up comedian. I was laughing my butt off while everyone else around me (including my then girlfriend) just sat there....silent. "He's not funny", she said to me. But I knew he was hilarious and going places!

"While I'm waiting for me to come out..." hahahah

Steve is funny as hell, you just get his humor or you don't, seems ppl like to bag on him and say his not funny, how interesting those ppl say he's not, just because he's not to them. Real mature.

He will never get off the ground 😂

Steve Martin was Unique and Different right from the start Just incredibly funny and different Ten years from this broadcast on the Smothers Brothers he becomes the Biggest and most Successful Comedian in the USA

He was 23 when he did this performance, but he looks 30. Within the next two years, his hair would go completely gray, making him look 45 when he was only 25. And now, at 77 years old, he looks 45.

Rofl! Got a chance to see him perform recently and I have to say, his comedy still holds up lol

No matter how weird and dumb, Martin always makes me laugh.

I notice many commenters are surprised to see Steve Martin here with dark hair. I'm in my 70s and also have white hair. But I dyed mine gradually so no one would notice. (Ba-dah-Boom!) I also saw Martin perform in-person back in the late 1970s or early 1980s at the Paladium Theater in Oakland, CA at the height of his popularity. A bonafide intellectual offstage, much of his banjo-accompanied act back then relied upon lots of off-the-wall physical antics. This included wearing a fake arrow through his head, being constantly plagued by "happy feet" and uttering exaggerated catch phrases such as "Well, excuuuse me." Unexpected twist: At the "end" of his show Martin invited the entire audience, some 1,000 strong (and a half dozen weak), to join him outside the theater for some typically obscure reason. So like lemmings to the sea, we all dutifully obliged by following him into the street where he resumed his now mostly ad-libbed comedy act for another 10-11 minutes. Steve Martin.....a certifiably "wild and crazy guy."

Remember his Oscar opening monologues! Remember. And cry. Stuff like this will never ever come back again.

It's funny b/c at the very beginning, audience not really sure what to make of him. "I'll be out in a minute, but before I get here..." They slowly began to get him. The seeds of greatness there.

He does most of these at the troubadour too. Such a funny guy. I also love the way old cameras captured the light and left tracers with movement.

I remember when he was a supporting goofball on the Sonny and Cher Show!

Never heard of this man, but he seems like a wild and crazy guy.

I know others probably said this too but … THAT BROWN HAIR!!!!!! Can’t get over it

I'm recognizing some Magic Johnathan inspiration. Man I loved that guy. I also truly love Steve, and old tv shows with their notations of recent history. Take note all you fame seeking youngsters out there, (especially if you didn't know who the Smothers Brothers are/were) the metaphor didn't go away: "fame is fleeting"

He's a wild and crazy guy!

man he influenced me so much i remember doing a ridiculous magic show for our 8th grade campout at kingfisher lake, just like this one, in1975

I never heard of Steve until I saw him on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s. By then his hair was silver.

I love the subtlety of the act. You don't have that as much nowadays.

Handsome young man, a great legacy.

Always watched this on Sunday nights

First comedian ever to fill a stadium with audience.

That guy's wild and crazy

I love this man! Thank you 😊

He, later, taught us how to get a million dollars and pay no taxes. I'll always be thankful.

What's weird is that Steve Martin is also John Fogerty. Not sure how he pulled that off!

I honestly think this is the only time I've seen Steve Martin without grey hair.

Oh Dear! Wait a minute while I wipe my tears away! Oh Tommy Smothers you " MR. YOYOMAN" were my favorite brother! 💞🙏🏻 I remember the TV nights when our family would pile into the den to watch " The Smothers Brothers Show"!. It was an hour of truly edgy 60'S entertainment. I remember the night your show had been canceled by the station for pushing the envelope. I think it was about your protesting of the War the US was sending boy's to in Vietnam!? We were heartbroken losing your show! But a few years later along came ROWEN MARTIN'S LAUGH IN TV and they BROKE all the TV regulations! So thankfully they Brought you and Dick on as guest's! Thanks for teaching us YOYO TRICKS and to always to "QUESTION AUTHORITIES"! REST in PEACE and LOVE forever TOMMY! I Thank both of you brother for truly touching my heart and soul as a pre-teen and affected my direction in life. 🕊❤ 💫🕯🎶 🧿 🙏🏻

That was great. The build-up was spectacular.

He is an artist with how he is so funny doing the stupidest things. But meticulous design and timing go into it. Amazing it's all right here right at the beginning.

Life before the internet. Appreciate your lives, kids.

An oldie but goodie had me rolling

He’s the funniest comedian on movies and series in the world. It’s insane that even he had to start somewhere

Interesting to me how the band and crew was trying to follow him or anticipate what he needed -subsequently stepping on a few of his jokes and flow. I’m reminded of how this grew into bits like ‘Excuse Me’ and with Howard Shore on SNL in the 70’s. His making fun of professional show business and satirizing slick entertainers has been widely chronicled. If you haven’t read or gotten the audiobook of Born Standing Up - it’s a wonderful quick read. He also put out a new audiobook on Spotify in Dec 2023 that Is fun for fans or a brief primer for you if you are discovering SM. Cheers

Great band! I was completely unaware of this when I was a kid.

Legend

A unique artist who painted it well.

I grew up on this and Laugh In

Steve Martin is a genius

Simply the best ever

As a young adult, he looks funny with brown hair. He said he started getting gray hair before he was thirty. I watched the 1960s smothers brothers show when new, and I was a child. Same with Laugh-In.

This guy magically turned Steve Martin's hair BROWN. Astonishing.

I'll never, ever, ever forget what Steve Martin told me one time. He said "Never..." No, wait. He said "Always..."

I've never seen Steve without a hint of grey in his hair before,wow!

He was 14 in this clip. 😂

My mom taught me the napkin trick when I was about 5 years old in 1957. I wonder if she taught it to Steve Martin.

Don’t forget Super Dave Osborne was a writer on the Smothers Brothers too..!!!!

Smothers Brothers gave Steve Martin his start, as well as George Carlin

Front to back perfect and brilliant I will pray for America. 🇺🇸 Please pray for me. 🙏🏻 God Bless you. ✝️

I love you Tommy

Steve Martin was in his early 20s here!

Martin at his anticomedy best, loved his LPs from this era

That's not bad! I like the wax candle bit

love him always

He was 23 at the time and I had just been born

I am glad he got better.

Believe it or not Steve Martin has been around for a very long time he even had Elvis in his audience, he was selling out stadiums long before SNL and his movie career.

The new phone book's here!!!

That was fun

HOLY SHIT! He DID have color in his HAIR!!!!!

That is a wild and crazy guy!

He was only about 23 here!

i was hoping this was the Great Flydini!!!

I think this is the first time I have ever seen him with dark hair!

I'm old enough to have watched him all his career. He was kind of an oddball when he started out so I was surprised when he started making it big.