Steve Martin

 Steve Martin was born on August 14, 1945, in Waco, Texas, USA as Stephen Glenn Martin to Mary Lee (nee Stewart; 1913-2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914-1997), a real estate salesman and actor aspiring to be. He was raised in Inglewood and Garden Grove in California. He was employed by Disney's Magic Shop in the year 1960. While there they taught him magic, juggling and created balloon animals. He took English poetry and drama classes at Santa Ana College. He was also part of comedies and other shows at the Bird Cage Theatre and was a member of a comedy group at Knott's Berry Farm. He was a student at California State University as a philosophy major, but in 1967 transferred to UCLA as a theatre major.His writing career began on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967) and earned him an Emmy Award. Between 1967 and 1973, he wrote for a variety of other shows, including The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1969) and The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971). Through the 1970s and 1960s, he also appeared on talk and comedy shows. He first appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in which he performed stand-up comedy several times per year. He then hosted guest shows for a short time. In the year 1976, he served for the first time as a guest-host on Saturday Night Live (1975). In 2016, he had hosted 15 times on SNL which is lower than Alec Baldwin's total, and also appeared 12 additional occasions on SNL.