This morning, there's been an awful lot of buzz about Steve Martin on the big blue bird app (Twitter, we mean Twitter) and we want to get to the bottom of it.

If you opened up the Steve Martin tag on Twitter's trending lists this fine Monday morning, what you were probably greeted with were a bunch of tweets that looked like these:

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The complaints in question are an apparent response to the resurfacing of this old video of a Steve Martin sketch on Saturday Night Live from the 70's, in which he sings a song about the King Tut exhibit touring museums in the U.S.

The complaints about this being a nonsensical reason to cancel a comedian - especially one as beloved as Martin - are incedibly valid, as they almost all explain that if you listen to the monologue he gave before the sketch, you learn that he was actually criticizing the commercialization of this important bit of history with things like T-shirts and trinkets.

The song was an extension of that complaint - the way Martin uses campy, cheesy set dressings, costumes, and choreography are meant to echo the same feeling he gets from those trinkets - just kinda icky. What's also interesting about this trend, though, is, despite all the complaints like these:

There doesn't seem to be a single trace of whatever original tweet started the cancellation complaints too. It looks like, despite the massive trending topic and the huge argument surrounding it...it's an argument that nobody is on the other side of.

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Surely, at some point, SOMEONE said this was a problematic video, but whoever they are, their argument got lost in everyone else's resounding "NO." Steve Martin will remain one of comedy's Golden Boys - forever, we hope.

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