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Steve Martin Checks His Messages on The Tonight Show

submitted by jonny

1 decade 6 years 9 months ago

Steve has some surprising messages on his new answering machine.

9 Comments

wow. extra-old footage. johnny's smoking.

probably my two favorite stand-up comedians, back then.
steve martin & richard pryor.

Schattdaddy says...

i love Steve Martin, good shit

dag

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Great clip. I guess answering machines would have been pretty novel back then.

He used a device to sound a tone over the line to play his messages... I've never seen or heard of that before.

xax, in this case, his answering machine probably DID cost a crap load of money. These days machines respond to touch tones because all phones are touch tone, but back then many wernt, so instead you get a device that plays the tones. If you didn't realize, touch phones are actually just a tone generator. Calls are made with the tones (as well as automated selections from services over the phone). I had a pda program that would dial a contact in my address book by holding the receiver end up to the speaker.

Ahhhh back when Steve Martin was funny! Those were the days

He smokes on the tellie? wow, that was long ago...

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