The man in the white suit could bring a crowds to tears with laughter, unlike the man in the latest Pink Panther movie. Watch as the Steve Martin we all actually love gives a new face to venereal disease.

This particular bit was recorded in 1979 at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles. Not many people could bring to mind Samuel Beckett when blowing up balloons, but even at his wackiest there is some existential humanist tinge to the Steve Martin of the seventies and eighties that today is only seen in his fictional and dramatic writings.