Editing Steven Wright (section)

=== Stand-up success ===
Wright's 1985 comedy album ''[[I Have a Pony]]'' was released on [[Warner Bros. Records]], received critical acclaim and was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album]]. The album's success landed him an [[HBO]] special, in the ''On Location:'' series, taped at [[Bill Graham (promoter)|''Wolfgang's'']] in San Francisco. It was broadcast as ''A Steven Wright Special.''<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/16/arts/steven-wright-comic-on-location.html| title=Steven Wright, Comic, 'On Location'| first=John J.| last=O'Connor| date= September 16, 1985| newspaper= The New York Times| access-date=November 3, 2021}}</ref>

By then Wright had firmly developed a new brand of obscure, laid-back performing and was rapidly building a cultlike following and an onstage persona characterized by an aura of obscurity, with his penchant for non sequiturs and impassive, slow delivery adding to his mystique. The performance became one of HBO's longest-running and most requested comedy specials and propelled him to great success on the college-arena concert circuit.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}