From his early days as television's ``wild and crazy guy'' to his recent career as a writer of plays and screenplays, short stories and magazine articles, he has always revealed an original and intelligent sense of humor. The Connecticut premiere of his critically acclaimed play ``Picasso at the Lapin Agile,'' presented by the University of Connecticut's Connecticut Repertory Theatre for its summer season finale, provides a brilliantly conceived, comically cerebral representation of Martin's artistry.