The Winds of Whoopie

Steve Martin's The Winds of Whoopie
Title screen
Genre	Comedy television special
Written by	Steve Martin
Directed by	Alan Metter
Starring	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 origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Alan Metter Steve Martin (exec. prod.) Ken Suddleston (exec. prod.)
Running time	1 hour
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	February 6, 1983 (1983-02-06)
Chronology
Preceded by	Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981)

Steve Martin's The Winds of Whoopie, a.k.a. simply The Winds of Whoopie, was a 1983 one-hour comedy TV 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 Whoopie. 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

The Winds of Whoopie at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Alan Metter

The Winds of Whoopie (1983) 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)

Steve Martin

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)

Singles	"King Tut" (1978)

Books

Fiction	Shopgirl (2000) The Pleasure of My Company (2003) An Object of Beauty (2010)

Humor	Cruel Shoes (1979) Pure Drivel (1998) The Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten. (2012)

Memoir	Born Standing Up (2007)

Children's	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 (1993)
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)

Other

The Winds of Whoopie (television special, 1983)
Bright Star (musical, 2014)

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