The Winds of Whoopee

American TV series or program

Steve Martin
David Brenner
Bill Cosby
Antonio Fargas
Ron Leibman
Meredith MacRae
Strother Martin
Ed McMahon
Gary Mule Deer
Gilda Radner
Burt Reynolds
Doc Severinsen

Country of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishProductionExecutive producers

Steve Martin
Ken Suddleston

ProducerAlan MetterRunning time60 minutesOriginal releaseNetworkNBCReleaseFebruary 6, 1983 (1983-02-06)RelatedSteve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981)

Steve Martin's The Winds of Whoopee (a.k.a. simply The Winds of Whoopee) is a 1983 American comedy television special on NBC, produced and written by Steve Martin. The title was a take-off of The Winds of War, which premiered as a TV miniseries on the same night on ABC. In a 30-second spot, Orson Welles says: "Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars. Watch Steve Martin's The Winds of Whoopee. See it all in one hour on Sunday."^[1]

The show is a combination of old and new material compiled from past Martin specials and his appearances on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show.^[2]

References

^ Article at Time.com, re. The Winds of War
^ Steve Martin's The Winds of Whoopie at TV.NYTimes.com

External links

The Winds of Whoopee at IMDb

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Films directed by Alan Metter

Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
Back to School (1986)
Moving (1988)
Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Working Tra$h (1990)
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
Billboard Dad (1998)
Passport to Paris (1999)
The Growing Pains Movie (2000)

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Albums

Let's Get Small (1977)
A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978)
Comedy Is Not Pretty! (1979)
The Steve Martin Brothers (1981)
The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo (2009)
Rare Bird Alert (2011)
Love Has Come for You (2013)
So Familiar (2015)
The Long-Awaited Album (2017)

Singles	"King Tut" (1978)

Books

Cruel Shoes (1979)
Pure Drivel (1998)
Shopgirl (2000)
The Pleasure of My Company (2003)
Born Standing Up (2007)
The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! (2007)

Screenplays

The Absent-Minded Waiter (short, 1977)
The Jerk (1979)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
¡Three Amigos! (1986)
Roxanne (1987)
L.A. Story (1991)
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Bowfinger (1999)
Shopgirl (2005)
The Pink Panther (2006)
Traitor (story only, 2008)
The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

Plays

Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1993)
The Underpants (2002)
Bright Star (2014 musical)
Meteor Shower (2016)

Television

The Winds of Whoopee (1983)
Domestic Life (1984)
Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills (1986)
Only Murders in the Building (2021–present)

Other

Aspen Film Society

Category

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