Fresh off of doing standup for the first time in 35 years, Martin appeared on The Tonight Show on Monday night to promote Bright Star, a musical he cowrote with Edie Brickell that is not about John Keats and Fanny Brawne. But there was one hitch: Martin did not want to go on because he has run out of clever anecdotes. “I used up all my stories, when I was in my 40s/But now I’m 52 years old and I don’t want to do this show,” he sang.
Martin eventually got over it, went on, and talked to Fallon about what it was like to do standup after all that time: