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[Marty] It's Boxing Day,
and it's a very beautiful day today…
in sunny California.
[tranquil music plays]
-Hello, Nancy. Happy Boxing Day. -Hi, sweetie.
-[knocking] -[Marty] Oh, someone's at the door.
Oh, it's Tom!
-Hey, Merry Christmas! -[Marty] Oh God! Merry Chri…
Oh, mistletoe.
-Oh, where? -[Marty] Right here.
How many Christmases would this be? '72, '92. Twenty years.
-[Marty] Oh. -Whoa!
-[Marty] Too bright? -Not for your wrinkles.
[Marty] Then there's Dave Thomas and Harrison Thomas.
He's plugging his ears. Why?
Could it be you?
[Marty] Oh, I loved you in Home Alone!
You were wonderful!
Steve, how do you do?
I'm really having fun here, Marty. I mean that.
[Steve] I'll tell you something about Marty.
Let's say you're gonna host a dinner party,
and you invite Marty.
[laughter]
And then it turns out Marty can't come.
You cancel the party.
[chuckles]
[man] Look at… Look at Marty!
[indistinct chatter]
[laughter]
[Marty] It's gonna be one of those hatchet awful things that I won't promote.
[music fades]
It is hilarious that we have to pretend we don't know each other.
[man chuckles] Not at all.
-This is based on us knowing each other. -It is.
[man] You and I have talked--
Larry and I, we have had one million dinners.
-One million lunches. -[Larry] That's right.
One million passionate lunches.
[Larry] This is continuing the conversation.
That's right.
[audience laughter]
In my business, there's a traditional career path.
TV, movies,
then Broadway, your own special,
reality show host, Chabad telethon, dinner theater, The Palm Springs Follies,
and then this show.
[laughter]
[Marty] There was no expectation to be a star.
There was no,
"Mama, it's happened!"
There was none of that.
It's just, "There's a mortgage."
"There are kids."
"I'm in the greatest profession in the world. I'm so damn lucky."
"How do I keep it going?"
[knocking on door]
Why am I holding this knife?
[laughter]
[Marty] I work in comedy.
And I do a particular kind of comedy.
-Here comes Uncle Jack. Shoot me! -Agh!
[Marty] It's sketch-oriented, character-oriented.
Not many jokes.
If you were to read a script that I've written,
there's not many jokes in it.
It's all… You just have to trust me.
Master Bonks, I do this for a loving, you know? Trust me.
Where I like my career the least is when I feel like I'm doing something
that 200 other actors could do.
That's where I feel I'm wasting my time.
When I'm doing my… my unusual little art,
and it may not be good art, but it's art because it's specific,
then I'm very happy.
Let the party begin!
The characters he has played,
they're not just parodies of a type.
It's actually quite hard to make a completely bizarre character real.
That's what he does.
And this is a book about what?
It's… it's… it's a love letter, really, I suppose,
with a… with a dash of hatred, in an almost mocha kind of swirl,
if you'll have it.
It's like seeing your best friend in the world,
who happens to be the weirdest person ever.
-[Nancy] How's that character coming? -Oh, the Mad Hatter is coming fine.
I don't know. I haven't figured him out yet.
It might be low and English.
Hello. Any more strawberries down there, Dormy?
Any spoilt sandwiches? I do love spoilt sandwiches, don't you?
-Might be that. -[Nancy] I like the lisp.
Yes, okay. I overslept! Slept!
-[Nancy] You… you over what? -Slept!
-[Nancy] I like that. -[chuckles]
Have you any more food down there, Dormy?
Any spoilt sandwiches or strawberries?
I love strawberries, don't you? [laughs]
You don't realize how much energy it takes
to do what he does.
[upbeat music plays]
[shrieks]
♪ Won't you stay a while? ♪
He hasn't exhausted himself by second-guessing a decision,
by being frightened that he made the wrong decision.
You know how many hours in the day you'd have if you didn't have that?
I'd have 23 more hours.
♪ Hallo! Who are you? ♪
♪ Get away! ♪
♪ I don't like what you say ♪
Now…
[Marty] Oh my God, that's horrible. Not the eyebrow work. That's fantastic.
Ron-Ron, run up to yourself.
I don't think you should start that story with…
If it makes you feel better, you can also be my, uh, Life Alert
in case I fall,
and we can have colonoscopies together.
Hello. How are you?
I didn't notice there was a camera on me.
This is so weird.
I'm not used to being photographed. I'm kind of shy.
-Good morning, sir. -[Marty] Good morning!
I would say my career has been 80% failure,
and I think those are pretty good odds.
Show business is talent, luck, and endurance.
But you can have talent, you can have tenacity,
you can take the hits,
but if you don't have the confidence to get up there and fail,
then you can't do it.
I'm gonna go down to the set. [laughs]
-[Marty exhales] Hey! -[Steve] Hey!
-Can I come with you to the funeral? -Yeah!
Please, God, yes. We… we need you.
You're the glue. You're the Mabel in the Charles/Oliver sandwich.
Without you, we're two pieces of stale white bread.
Exactly. Come on.
We have that scene, but we know that scene.
[Steve] Yeah.
I'm starting to feel very comfortable now
with the lines for the rest of the season.
[Marty] I'm gonna get dressed.
-[Steve] See ya. -[Marty] Bye.
[chuckles] You let them in.
Hey, there's Ron Howard.
-[laughter] -[Steve] Oh boy.
-[chuckles] -Now the fun begins.
So… so let me… let me ask some incisive questions.
-Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. -[laughs]
Like, why? Why do you continue to push yourself?
Well, I don't know. I think I just love the sound of applause.
-I have a different question. -Yeah.
Why do you continue?
[laughs]
I just think it's important, um, if you're "gifted…"
[Ron laughs]
-…to share that gift… -Of course.
…with… with people, I don't know, like you.
[laughs] And we're grateful.
-I know you are. -Forever grateful.
Have you ever thought… What have you done?
[laughs]
[Marty] Yes, it's Whitton Road.
I wonder who that lady is.
That was my bedroom.
It's false for me to say that comedy came from some space of pain.
It's the opposite.
It came from my whole life. People were funny in my family.
You know, I was this youngest of five.
There was five years between the fourth and the fifth.
And I think I got so much attention and so much love,
and everyone told me I was so great, and so funny,
and so fabulous my whole life
that I just boomed into my, uh, uh, teen years
without any kind of concern that I, you know…
I could look like, uh, Bill Schlechman
with pimples and hairdo and, "Hi, lady," and go up,
and somehow, if she didn't ask me, if she didn't say she'd go out with me,
I'd say, "What's her problem?"
And believe it.
I profited from trickle-down comedy.
My brother Michael is a multi-Emmy, Golden Globe winner
from everything from SCTV to MADtv to Schitt's Creek.
The thing that was really encouraged was to make everyone laugh.
-That was always encouraged in our family. -Right.
If you could make someone laugh, even if you hurt a couple of people--
Along the way.
[both laugh]
[Marty] My father was general sales manager of the Steel Company of Canada,
very high position.
Really funny, very sarcastic,
slight Irish accent, came over at 21.
"Hello, Marty."
He was a bit of a handful, you would agree.
Mm-hmm.
[Michael] He would have occasional gin.
-[Marty] Yeah. -Occasional subbing for the word constant.
[Marty laughs]
[Michael] He would be snarky, but it was all meant in… to be funny.
[Charles] Marty, my son,
who has no possible chance in hell to ever develop into a singing voice.
But… but… but the point is that he is interested.
And the person that has a distinctive voice
is the one that's remembered.
Marty was, uh, uh, tremendously talented.
He started doing comedy when he was, like, five.
He was doing jokes, and doing bits, and singing all the time.
You did shows in the attic, literally, did you not?
I used to do the Martin Short Show.
We were on at, uh, Tuesday at 8:30 opposite Andy Williams.
In my mind. I would, uh, type up things.
"Marty will sing… Marty's guests will be…"
I would perform, and I'd be killing upstairs,
someone would call "dinner," and we'd stop and tape later.
Yeah! Thank you, darling.
♪ Broadway, Broadway, Broadway ♪
Kids are playing road hockey, and I'm up in my attic.
-♪ Weather-wise, such a cuckoo day ♪ -Yeah.
People are protesting the Vietnam War, and he's doing Sinatra.
[Marty] ♪ Tell you about Broadway ♪
[Marty exhales]
What Marty does now, he was doing back then.
Please welcome the 100-million-dollar man himself,
my best friend, Eugene Levy.
Eugene Leevy.
-Levy. -Whatever. Please sit.
Look at them over there.
You'd think they'd known each other for years.
[gentle music plays]
[Marty] Truthfully, he's my oldest and dearest friend.
We were roommates together for a while.
We dated for a period of time, but the point is--
Yeah.
You're Canadian. Has that been a burden?
[laughter]
No. No, it has not been a burden.
You understand everything I'm saying? I don't need to speak slower?
[laughter]
We have the same language.
Where do Canadians go when they need to get away?
Do they just go to the border and look and peer and wish?
[laughter]
Marty is my best friend.
-[Jimmy] Is your best friend? -Yes.
I met Marty in 1970 at McMaster University
when we were in school together.
It looks like he's an actor
trying desperately hard to get dramatic work.
-Yeah, he does. -[laughter]
Well, I started out in pre-med, and I switched to social work
because I felt that would be easier.
In high school, I never did any theater.
It wasn't till I switched to social work that I had time and I got more involved.
And I'm doing everything that I can theatrically.
It still did not seem realistic to be an actor.
Eugene Levy was the one who said,
"You should try to do this professionally. Come to Toronto."
So I literally gave myself a one-year contract.
I thought, "I'll give it a year,
and if nothing happens,
then I can apply and go back to university."
[Eugene] Post-graduate work?
No, high school.
I'm having some degree of difficulty getting through high school.
-I see. Well, good to have you-- -[Marty] But I'll do it.
I'm sure you will.
Because I have certain goals in life I feel compelled to complete.
[Eugene] Very good.
One of which is becoming a circuit court judge.
Good. Good to have ambition.
[Marty] I don't think you're ever aware that you're in a particular group
or a particular time.
Toronto certainly had a creative boom.
Is this coincidental, or is there some Canadian comedic sensibility
that particularly appeals?
Well, I do think that Canada, uh, Toronto particularly, it's, uh, at a hub.
You know, we would get the Pythons before the States got the Pythons.
Eugene Levy and I shared a house,
1063 Avenue Road in Toronto.
And this house had more parties.
Paul Shaffer would get up and play the piano,
and people would sing,
and everyone kind of dated each other, and partied with each other,
and worked with each other.
It was really kind of fantastic, when you think of it.
We all were performers,
and we all loved to laugh.
There was a lot of enthusiasm and fun,
and a great love of performing.
[Paul] At the Catskills in these summer resorts,
there was a guy called the tummler.
In Yiddish, that means a guy who causes a tumult,
gets action going.
I don't think Marty was in the Catskills, but he sure is, you know…
He is the tummler of… of our dreams.
[Eugene] Everything was there with Marty. His voice was there. His comedy was there.
I said, "There's a show opening, Godspell."
"You should come in and audition for it 'cause it's a big musical."
We went to the callback together,
and that's where I introduced Marty to Andrea.
Godspell was looking for people that weren't acting.
That were just genuinely, um, effervescent,
uh, comedic, uh, warm.
-♪ Day by day ♪ -♪ Day by day ♪
♪ Day by day ♪
[Marty] Gilda Radner, it was the first time she'd worked,
and Andrea Martin and Eugene Levy and Victor Garber
and Jayne Eastwood and a lot of--
-[man] An amazing cast. -Yeah. Paul Shaffer was the piano player.
[man] Right, right. You dated, uh, Gilda.
[Marty] Yes, I did. Everyone fell in love with Gilda. She was adorable.
She was so funny, and she was just so self-deprecating.
First day, she came up to me and went, "Hi, my name's Gilda. Nice to see you."
She had a pimple here, and she kept holding it and talking to me.
-Everyone fell in love with Gilda. -[man] Yeah.
[Marty] It's a safe thing to say.
You later fell in love with her understudy and married her.
Yes, I… Uh, Nancy Dolman, who was, uh, Gilda's understudy.
That's true. In Godspell.
[Larry] Apparently, you had decided, "Anyone who plays that part,
I'm gonna get involved with." Uh, is that…
[chuckles] That was… Yes, that was my decision.
["You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio" by Joni Mitchell plays]
[Nancy] When I came into Godspell, I was auditioning as understudy.
I came in. It was very difficult for me because the group was already set.
They were all best friends.
And there was Gilda, and she was just so spectacular.
And Andrea Martin, who I was in awe of.
All these… You know, Marty…
Marty, I wasn't that keen on at first, actually.
♪ You turn me on, I'm a radio… ♪
[Marty] And Nancy was
drop-dead beautiful. It was insane.
♪ I'm a wildwood flower, waving for you… ♪
And she owned an antique clothing store.
She had smuggled clothes in from Detroit through the border.
And it was the era… You know, that Joni Mitchell…
And she had a Joni Mitchell look. It was long, blonde hair.
♪ When you're loving and kind ♪
And she'd come in with a velvet cape and sign in, "Hi."
And the guys'd go,
"Yeah, okay then." But it didn't bother me 'cause I was with Gilda.
[music fades]
We'd broken up a few times, and we'd now had a fight.
We'd broken up again.
And I go to The Pilot bar,
and there's Nancy Dolman.
She was funny and had edge.
And we got talking.
She'd just broken up with her boyfriend, but that wasn't…
I just, "Oh. Yeah, I just broke up with Gilda."
I was doing a play, and Nancy came. It was the summer.
And she was wearing short shorts and a halter top.
And I was wearing short shorts and a T-shirt.
And we went to the Four Seasons Hotel.
And I said to the guy, "My wife and I would like a room, please."
And even he started laughing because we looked about 12.
And that was it. That was it.
♪ From this moment on ♪
-What? -Hi, this is my wife, Nancy.
[indistinct singing]
[gentle music plays]
Beauteous Duchess.
Who is presently listening to the cast album of The Goodbye Girl.
Is that Nancy, or is that Bo Derek?
I'm listening to your song.
♪ So perverse ♪
♪ Better call a nurse ♪
[woman] Marty and Nancy.
Yeah, what a team, eh?
I keep saying they're an amazing team, but they really were.
He's very outer child.
And… [laughs] And she was very outer adult.
Oh my…
[Marty laughs]
My husband and I went through a rough patch in our marriage.
We went to therapy, and one of the questions she asked is,
"Do you have friends, do you know a couple,
whose relationship you would love to have, or you'd love to emulate?"
We said, "Oh, we have these friends, Marty and Nancy."
And she said,
"I can't tell you how many people have named them…"
[laughs]
"…when I've asked this question."
Hi, sweetie.
-My darling, how are you? -[Marty] I'm fine, darling. How are you?
Are we having a romantic time together?
[Marty] Yes, we are.
After all these years.
We really are, you know.
[Larry] This is slightly relevant.
It's about time.
[Larry chuckles]
[Larry] Tell me what led to the break that changed your life.
The thing about Canadian entertainment then,
it was you got to do everything.
It was like being at a consistent university of show business.
So in Canada, you could do Shakespeare and radio,
and you might do a voice commercial.
On sale for just $39.95.
And then you'd do your cabaret show.
♪ I'll never love again ♪
♪ I'm so in love with you ♪
In the summer of 1973,
Second City, the legendary improvisational group from Chicago,
formed its first sister company in Toronto.
[Andrea] Gilda Radner worked there. Dan Aykroyd worked there.
It was kind of the… the cool place where you'd meet.
[Marty] Everyone auditioned for it, and everyone got in.
Andrea and Catherine and Joe and Eugene and Dave and John Candy.
I did not audition.
I didn't like the idea of being funny on demand
'cause I was basically afraid of it.
I wanted to be Sinatra.
I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be an actor.
♪ I've got to be ♪
♪ Where my spirit can run free… ♪
But I was now starting to feel like I'm behind everyone.
I have limited myself,
and I'm going in a kind of circle.
I don't feel momentum.
♪ Of the sky ♪
I remember going down to the subway in Toronto.
Every time I went down there, the subway was leaving.
I would run toward the subway.
I'd walk really slow. It was leaving.
And I thought, when the subway's pulling in, my luck will change.
But right now, the subway is pulling away.
Nancy had a record deal in LA, so I was gonna join her.
[announcer] Now, Miss Nancy Dolman.
[upbeat music plays]
♪ This is it ♪
♪ This time I know it's the real thing ♪
[Eugene] And she really broke through and was on national television prime time,
even before Marty.
She was the whole package.
A beautiful voice, perfect pitch with perfect diction,
looks like a movie star, and the nicest person.
[sings]
[Marty] There's a moment I call Breakdown Corner.
Paul Shaffer and Bill Murray were staying in LA.
♪ Did he scare you As much as he scared me? ♪
[shrieks]
[Marty] At that time, Bill Murray had already been a big hit
and just started on SNL that year.
…my seventh winter up here!
♪ Star Wars ♪
[Marty] And Paul said, "Bill and I are going to dinner, so you and Nancy join us,
and we'll swing at my place, the Sunset Marquis."
And Nancy and I are walking there.
And I just was overwhelmed with,
"I can't. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't."
I'm out of work now. Hadn't worked for a couple of months,
had no prospects, and didn't really know where I was going.
And I said, "I can't go and pretend to be happy for Bill
because I don't know what I'm doing."
"I need to sit down."
[man] Son,
why are you sitting here all alone?
Why aren't you outside having fun and joining in?
-Well, I just don't feel like it, sir. -Ah.
I guess I'm kind of down in the dumps.
We sat there for about ten minutes and didn't speak.
Finally, Nancy said,
"How long are we going to stay here?"
I said, "I don't know."
So we went back to the apartment,
and I woke up in a funk.
And then we saw War Babies, who were an improvisational group.
I was… It was so funny. It was so fresh. It was inspiring.
I felt inspired just witnessing it.
It was like a… The… the light bulbs went off.
"Of course this is what I should be doing."
I phoned Andrew Alexander the next morning and said,
"I wanna go into Second City."
He said, "All right."
[gentle music plays]
Marty Short was so strong, like, immediately when he came in the cast.
Most people… When he joined the cast.
Most people would come in and sort of try to find their place.
When you come in in the middle of the show, coming into someone else's roles,
most people would basically try to imitate the person whose roles they're doing.
He just immediately put his own ridiculously strong characters
into these scenes and, like, just…
Just such great self-confidence, and so funny.
[Marty] I always figured if you walked on stage and you look totally insane,
you'd get a laugh.
And then you were halfway there.
All these characters, I think, come from people you know,
or combinations of people you know.
And it's kind of good that they do, because that creates…
even though there might be absurdist characters,
it creates a three dimension to them.
Just the thought of it makes my heart beat
like a distant little jungle drum, I must say.
I'll do Grimley, but I'm not sure if they want me to.
No, they would…
[audience cheers]
Oh my goodness.
Oh, give me a break!
I couldn't be more excited being on the David Letterman show, I must say.
[Catherine] There was a scene about a man and a woman applying for a job.
And the woman is beyond experienced and educated.
And the… the guy is the biggest dumbass in the world.
-Now, Barbara, maybe you'd like to begin. -[Catherine] All right.
[man] Why don't you tell me about your educational background?
Uh, well, I have my bachelor degree in mathematics from Columbia University.
And I have my master's in business administration from Stanford.
Oh. Um, now, Ed, how about your work experience?
F… for the past several years,
I've been employed by the Union Oil Company.
Really? Uh, in what capacity, Ed?
I work at Al 76 at the corner of Cahuenga and Melrose, you know?
[Catherine] He'd done it in the improvs,
but it was the first time he put Ed in a scene.
And he just blew the scene apart.
In a good way. In the best way.
Made it just ridiculously funny.
It allowed me to play too.
Like, this is insane that I'm losing to this guy.
[man] Ed Grimley always wore the same shirt.
It was my shirt from 11th grade.
[laughter]
I knew a guy in high school who always talked…
He wanted to be a photographer.
He was going to, um…
He was always taking slides.
And, um, uh, often, he wouldn't always develop them
because he knew what they looked like 'cause he'd taken them.
[low drawl] I got a brother-in-law, Ralph. And Ralph talks like this.
"Hey, babe, how are you doing? Get you a drink?"
So I kind of combined, uh, the voices.
Next, I was talking like this, I must say.
Peter Aykroyd said, "Marty…" I greased my hair a little bit.
He said, "Boy, that hair is standing taller every performance."
So as a joke to make him laugh, I put it in a point.
And one night, I just did this.
And the audience laughs.
What if someone asks you to play your triangle at the reception?
It could happen. I'd best practice in preparation.
[laughter]
[classical music plays]
Ed is always fascinated by life.
That's very seductive because it's a great quality.
I remember him doing, and still doing, that dance,
the Ed Grimley dance, from when I first met him.
[Marty] That show was a revelation, doing Second City,
because I now, for the first time, was creating characters.
[laughter]
[man] So…
I thought, "If I look, I'm gonna laugh." So I looked just slightly off of his face.
Then he would do this, trying to get into my eyeline.
[laughter]
And am I madly in love with Catherine? Yes, and always have been.
But every guy was.
-No. I love Marty. -It's true.
When someone makes you laugh, that's the sexiest thing.
-[Marty] Absolutely. -You're all making each other laugh.
You think, "We're laughing. We are so connected. We gotta try dating."
-Yeah, didn't everybody love each other? -Yeah, absolutely.
I used to be able to, in the Godspell picture, go,
♪ Day by day ♪
-♪ Oh dear Lord ♪ -[Catherine] No!
-Oh yeah. -Wait, but you did all those women?
No, I didn't do all those--
I was just saying everyone who had done each other.
[gentle music plays]
I just left Second City. I just left two weeks ago after being there…
[audience groans]
…for two years.
I mean, it really is true that it's the best place
to learn a great deal of information.
Then, once you learn it, you have to do something with it.
You just can't stay there. So that's why I moved on.
And since then, I… I've… I've
done really nothing with it, but I… I'm…
I would do guest spots on Taxi,
but it was getting a little sparse.
Hi, do you remember me? I'm the guy in television.
Then I got a call. Would I join SCTV?
[announcer] We interrupt this program to bring a special SCTV News announcement.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Guy Caballero.
Owner and president of SCTV.
And this is my station manager, Edith Prickley.
Hello, how's it hanging?
[chuckles]
And the consensus at the CBC is it's going to be gangbusters.
Well, how couldn't it be? It'd have to be, wouldn't it?
It was on fire with creativity.
I don't know what the ratings were, but from a critical standpoint,
and if you were in comedy and show business,
the perception of it couldn't have been higher.
[funky music plays]
How do you parody Canadian television,
make it at all interesting to Americans,
who don't know what you're parodying?
[Larry] Tell me about when Marty entered.
Do we have to? We're… we're on such a roll.
Marty came in with, of course, this energy that became infectious.
But at a certain point, we started to despise the energy.
-We did. -Enough's enough.
[announcer] The crowd is literally buzzing with excitement
as Mr. Rodgers enters the ring.
Oh, look out there, Fred.
[announcer chuckles]
Rodgers is chasing her around the ring.
She's running in terror.
Coq au vin or no coq au vin, this woman is in trouble.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Queen Haters.
[punk music plays]
[sings in style of punk rocker]
[Marty] It was thrilling to be in it, but it was also a little daunting
because I knew everyone in the cast.
Andrea Martin was my sister-in-law.
Boy, are you stupid!
I like that in a man.
My brother Michael was one of the writers.
[easy listening music plays]
I knew these people,
so their accomplishments so far made it daunting.
[music fades]
Your play is deemed by critics unadulterated trash.
But now, less than two years later,
the lady has bounced back with courage and chutzpah
to direct herself in her own film.
What intrigues me is one word.
Motive.
You really struck a nerve, Brock.
[Marty] What SCTV was doing was creating characters.
And everyone's instinct from Second City training
was to give it kind of a three dimension.
Even if it was an abstract, broad character,
it still was grounded in some kind of truth.
What have you been up to?
You know, just playing around, babe. Trying to get things happening.
Everybody, smiles tonight now.
Hollywood party!
Everybody's…
And suddenly, your whole world was just these people.
The demon dad of Fleet Street.
♪ Doo, du-doo-loo, du-doo-du-doo ♪
♪ Don't come near me ♪
[Marty] ♪ Doo-loo, du-doo-loo, du-doo ♪
♪ I'll cut you up and eat you ♪
-Are these talkies or… -[Marty] These are talkies.
-Are these still… JVC still photos? -[Marty] No, they aren't.
-Impressive unit. -[Marty] Thank you.
It's the McKenzies! They're together. I just panned back.
We can't be together unless the price is right.
Sorry. You gotta be…
[Marty] Now, SCTV was a massive hit.
And we won an Emmy for writing.
It was fantastic.
Quickly, our careers became our families.
And, uh… And that's actually a literal, uh, truth.
[upbeat music plays]
[Marty] Nancy and I got married on the 22nd of December in Toronto.
And then five days later,
Andrea got married to Nancy's brother, Bob.
[sings]
[Marty] The great strength of that group was that they were friends and close,
and some of them related.
[Andrea] We spent every holiday together.
There was just a hub of activity, and nobody was thinking,
"Am I gonna make it? Is he gonna make it? Is that person going to get it?"
I don't ever remember any of that.
Am I getting paid for this? I'm a pay-or-play.
[gentle music plays]
Would you stop, please?
It's quite a group of people, isn't it? From Godspell and Second City.
[Marty] Hi, Harold.
[Andrea] They're just being themselves.
Goofing off and talking, like you are with friends.
[woman] Nancy and I lived on the same street growing up in Toronto.
And I first heard of Nancy through my brother and his goofy friends.
They were goo-goo and ga-ga over her because she was so beautiful.
We were very good friends before.
But then, when I started dating Eugene, we became family.
Hi, honey. How you doing?
-Is it on? -[Marty] Yes, it is.
Well, we've had a wonderful morning.
[Marty] Some relationships
just keep getting stronger and stronger and stronger.
We were stunned. Suddenly, we couldn't get pregnant.
That was…
Th… that… We hadn't even considered that.
And then we found out that Nancy had endometriosis.
So she had to go on drugs. And your moods are heightened.
So one night, she was cleaning. I'd made a peanut butter and jam sandwich.
"Look, when you clean the sandwich,
you've got to wipe the peanut butter off this counter."
I said, "Okay, you have to stop those drugs."
"And we're gonna adopt a baby."
"Can we?" You know.
And out the drugs went. And we adopted Katherine.
And then Oliver. And then Henry.
Oh, my baby. I just have to kiss my baby. One second.
Dada.
♪ Dada-da-da-da ♪
[Andrea] To see him as a father is so, uh, genuine,
authentic to who he is.
My next-best girlfriend to my wife.
It's as fluid and as genuine as… as his breath.
That's how much he loves being a dad.
[music stops]
[Marty] I never would have left SCTV.
But it was canceled.
[howls]
Then I got a call saying, "We'd like you to join Saturday Night Live."
[announcer] It's Saturday Night Live
with Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
Harry Shearer,
Martin Short.
The first two pieces I worked on were with Harry Shearer.
[dramatic music plays]
[laughter]
[man] Oh, it's… it's not gonna be easy.
I don't swim.
He doesn't swim.
So, I mean, no, of course not.
Nobody is just gonna walk up and hand us a gold medal,
especially since men's synchro isn't even in the '88 Olympics yet.
That's okay 'cause we could use the time.
'Cause I'm… I'm not that strong a swimmer.
[laughter]
The next piece we shot was Lifestyles of the Relatives of the Rich and Famous.
[announcer] …Central Park, New York's tree-lined melting pot,
sits the hot dog stand
managed by Katharine Hepburn's maternal third cousin, Nelson.
We caught up with him recently.
We don't communicate at all. Never did.
I tried through letter,
through phone call, anonymous sometimes, and she'd hang up.
One time, she stopped by here,
and I said, "Kate, don't you know me?"
She just looked at me, and she said, "More mustard, please."
And after the first show,
my manager came up and said,
"Well, your stock just went up 3,000%."
[applause]
It was an amazing year. But I remember it was grueling.
Saturday Night Live, it's very intense. A long schedule.
Especially if you're, uh, writing and performing.
I like to write with, you know, Mike there, Dick Blasucci, Paul Flaherty,
and a tape recorder going.
And I would get up and improvise.
And when I was doing SNL, I was just by myself in the office.
-[Michael] You hated it. -Oh, I hated it.
I went into Dick Ebersol's office
and said, "I would like to quit."
He said, "Look, first of all, you have a contract,
but this must be a pretty goddamn tough place
if a good guy like you wants to leave."
"I'll tell you what,
if you feel this way at Christmas,
I'll let you out of your contract."
Because he knew, as he later said,
that by Christmas, I'd see the light at the end of the tunnel,
and I also would have figured out how to do this from week to week.
[man] You seem defensive.
I'm not being defensive. You're the one who's being defensive.
Why is it always the other person who's being defensive?
[laughter]
Have you ever asked yourself that? Why don't you ask yourself that?
If you make them three-dimensional in some sort of human connection,
then you can really go.
Mr. Thurm, we appreciate your willingness to talk with us tonight.
What do you mean by that?
[laughter]
Mr. Thurm, as you are well aware, your critics, and there are many--
No, there aren't.
How do you come up with a character like that?
It was so incredibly original.
There was a… a makeup artist that year on SNL, Marion Siebert.
She was the most defensive human being
you had ever met in your life.
You'd sit in her chair.
And she'd dab. "Look at me."
"Your features don't match. This is tough for me." [mutters]
She's dabbing.
I'd say, "Gee, I look pale. Don't I, Marion?"
She'd say, "I know that. You don't think I know that?"
"I'm a makeup artist. I would know that."
Harry Shearer said, "You should do that character."
I said, "But she's gonna actually be there."
"Oh, that'll be the fun of it," said Harry. And, uh…
And every time we did the piece, I was afraid I would get caught.
I know that. Why wouldn't I know that?
It's my company. I'm quite aware of that.
[scoffs]
Is it me?
It's him, right?
[laughter]
And she never found out until the very end.
Her assistant was drunk at the wrap party.
"Don't you know who Nathan Thurm is?"
"How dumb are you?"
"You're Nathan Thurm!"
She said, "I know that. You don't think I know that? I know that. I would--"
[laughter and applause]
What about Saturday Night Live? Are you going back?
-No. No, I'm not. -[woman] Why?
Because it's a very tough show to do, and it takes your total concentration.
So your family has to kind of wave goodbye most of the year.
[Marty coos]
Hi, Mommy.
Hi, Dad.
You've seen these thighs, haven't you?
♪ …my home And I don't give a damn about tomorrow ♪
♪ I love my little house ♪
♪ It's Toronto ♪
Welcome
to 590 Indian Road.
And this is Martin Short's wife.
The controversially misunderstood
Nancy Dolman.
Or otherwise known as…
[Marty] The Duchess of Dolman.
♪ Bum-bum-bum-ba ♪
[Marty] Martin Short.
He's the one in the middle.
That is Martin at age
nine.
That's Martin, second from the left.
[Nancy] Martin, would you like to pick up a dish towel and give me a hand here?
This is a heavier-set Martin Short in the summer of 1963.
[gentle music plays]
There was a very, very great deal of love in that house.
I was the youngest of five, and everyone was hysterical.
Parents and all the kids, so I just… That was all I knew.
I mean, we would do recordings.
[piano plays]
[woman] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Good evening too.
[Marty] People would sing at the piano, make fun of each other.
Nora, you start being funny.
[Nora] My name is, um…
[Marty] Get a lot of laughs with this name?
[Michael] Why are you trying to get over you can't get a laugh with a name?
[Nora] You want my last name?
[Marty] Might be funny.
[Nora laughs]
[Nora] Jenny Cardinal.
[all laugh]
[Nora] Got a laugh!
[Marty] There was verbal freedom in our house.
So you could talk back to your father,
and he would overpower you with his Irish intellect.
Take the microphone, Dad.
Take the microphone.
Just take it. Sing something.
[Olive] Dad, would you come and sing before he goes crazy?
[Charles] ♪ There will come a day ♪
♪ And youth will pass away ♪
♪ Everyone will say, "I love you" ♪
[man] Now, let's meet Olive Short,
concert mistress of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.
She is also the wife of a Stelco-ite,
CP Short, the general sales manager, screw products division.
[Marty] She was the first female concert mistress, they used to call it,
in North America from 1952 to '62, at Hamilton Philharmonic.
[classical music plays]
My mother was a sweet angel of a person.
My father had so much edge.
I think that with any family,
if you have one grounded, sweet, angelic person,
whether the mother or the father, then that balances everything out.
[music fades]
-[man] You had three brothers, one sister? -[Marty] Three brothers, one sister.
[man] Your brother, David, you were very fond of him, were you not?
[Marty] Yeah, he was my hero.
[man] He was your hero. Why?
[Marty] Because he was, I guess, the eldest brother,
and because he was phenomenal.
I mean, he died when I was 12, so sometimes out of that comes legend,
but the legend in this case was really very deserved, I think.
David was handsome.
He was funny.
He was so sweet, ridiculously sweet,
and adored.
Trumpet player, cool guy.
He was 14 years older.
When he came home, probably at four in the morning,
and now it's 7:30,
I would go up to his room.
A lot of 19-year-olds would say, "Get out. I'm sleeping."
David would let me get in bed with him,
but he would play giant,
where I had to try to steal his pillow
while the giant was sleeping, so it allowed him to continue to sleep.
But as I got the pillow just far out, his arm would come around me,
and the giant would capture me.
That's who he was.
One day, I was at Camp Juaniquita,
and I remember waking up depressed.
The counselor said, "Your brother's been in an accident,
and it killed him."
That's how he put it.
And I said, "Is he okay?"
"No, it killed him."
[poignant music plays]
I mean, it was like nothing made sense.
And then I had a dream.
And I'm telling you, I can see it right now, and it was in Technicolor.
And I was sitting by a stream in the woods,
and David came up.
He looked handsome.
He was wearing this beautiful Ban-Lon shirt.
And he said,
"I'm fine. Everything is wonderful."
"And I'll see you in a minute."
And I woke up.
And a cloud had lifted.
At the funeral, Mom developed a cough. She started coughing at the funeral.
She had had breast cancer in 1957, which I never knew about.
And by the end of that year, she is really going downhill.
Nora tells a story that she was nursing in California.
She knew Mom was going down,
so she flew back to be her nurse.
And Nora was present when the doctor came in and said,
"Olive, you've got three months to live."
And Mom's response was, after he left,
"This can't happen. I have another child to raise."
So she said to Nora, "Pass me the grapes."
And that became a… a symbol of courage in our family,
"Pass me the grapes."
And then she came home
and went into this remarkable, you-can't-explain-it remission,
and was in perfect health for the next two years.
But by the time I was in grade 13, she died.
Mom died, and Dad's health went fast.
It was just strokes that diminished him,
from being the most powerful guy that walked in the room
to just quieter, quieter.
He and I took a world cruise for five weeks, the two of us.
But even when we were in Ireland, he didn't want to see his siblings
because he was not in great shape.
He had arteriosclerosis.
He drank gin and ginger,
but it was the two packs of smokes that he had every day.
You had to handle tragedy when you were a lad.
-[Marty] Right. -You lost a brother. He died.
I lost my brother David when I was 12.
My mother when I was 18. My father when I was 20.
Tough, being the youngest in the family as well.
Right. At that age, or any age, when you lose someone in your family,
you have a choice. You actually have a choice.
"How do I handle this?"
-This is a life lesson. -[man] Right.
And so, do I… do I collapse? Do I become defeated forever?
Or do I actually kind of learn that life is short,
and have a glass of wine and laugh and fun,
and appreciate these people, and never let them go?
See, that's, I think, the great secret.
If you never let them go from your life, then they're always with your life.
Because before you know it, you know, you'll be with them.
[gentle music plays]
My family adores each other to this day.
I think Uncle Mike is probably the most similar to my dad.
They worked a lot together.
-Ugh! -[Marty] What?
[Oliver] Uncle Brian and Aunt Nora, I think, are a little more alike
and probably more like their mother, a little more sweeter.
There's certainly always the laughter and the jokes.
[laughs]
Who do you think is the meanest one in the family?
You. And everyone would agree with that.
-You wouldn't even hesitate for a second? -[Marty] Not a second.
And if you asked Nora, she'd say, "Michael."
Nora has no credibility.
-Brian would say the same. -Brian has no credibility.
Okay, so no one has credibility.
But the answer is, you're the most like Dad,
and everyone agrees.
The four of us get together.
We have hilarity, drink rum and Cokes,
laugh, insult each other, and like nothing's changed.
Very close family.
[Michael] We used to call it "Maintaining the merry theme of life."
And that was it.
And sometimes, it gets hard to do, you know?
But, you know, you have to admire someone that… that continues to do that.
And I think this is why people, uh, really like Marty so much,
'cause he is always trying to maintain the merry theme of life.
[laughter]
-Did you get-- -Yes, it's the four Shorts.
-Yes, it's… -Group… Group hug, group hug.
And here we are, Ken, after so many years.
-What's she doing? -I don't know.
-Group hug! -Group hug, group hug, group hug!
We all came from the same womb.
-Group hug, group hug, group hug! -Group hug!
There once were five, and now there's only four.
Group hug, group hug!
Misery, misery…
We had a bad eight years.
-That was not a good eight years. -[Michael] Yeah.
[Marty] We had speed dial to the funeral parlor.
-Yes. -But there were laughs during those years.
-[Michael] Yes. -But that's the point.
We're having trouble breaking through that wall of conversation, Larry.
-Steve might join us for dinner. -[Larry] All right.
[Marty] All right, I'll make you coffee.
Eleven, twelve,
thirteen.
As I pour, I'll do my Richard Burton impersonation. Ready?
For God's sake,
let us tell sad stories of the death of kings.
How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
some poisoned by their wives, all murdered.
All right. I'm ready, Lawrence.
What do you want in your coffee? Mustard?
A couple of years ago when you came here, you were just off of SCTV,
then part of Saturday Night Live.
The last three or four times you've been here, you're a leading man.
You're in major, big budget films.
-Pretty good deal. -Yeah, it's good. It's good.
Although I do feel that it's possible for it to just end.
[dramatic music plays]
The first movie I made was Three Amigos.
[music fades]
It was equal billing, but they were two big, big stars.
[laughs]
-I'm Lucky Day. -I'm Ned Nederlander. [laughs]
I'm Dusty Bottoms. Together, we're…
[all] The Three Amigos!
-[all grunt] -[donkey brays]
I was aware of Marty.
He was… To me, he was known.
He always calls himself "The Cheap Amigo."
For people watching who might not know, I think each of us should say our name.
Martin Short.
We did bond very quickly over laughter.
[cheering]
Now, that was a terrific scene you just did with me.
It was fabulous, and I'll tell you why.
It's because you managed to blend into the background
and not stick out and not try and be funny.
That's important when you're in a scene with me, is to do that.
Because if you're out there trying to be funny,
the audience is going to hate you for it.
Because I'll be on the screen, and they'll know my aura will extend out.
You don't want to ever interfere with my aura of comedy.
When you're doing the scene with Chevy, that's when I would go big.
[Marty] Really mug…
Mug, big, and try to take. What is it when you're in a scene with me?
Underplay, go into the background.
With Chevy?
-Mug, mug, mug. -Great. Terrific. Great.
-Thank you, Steve. -It's okay. Aw.
-It's nice. Thank you. -[Steve] It's okay.
[Marty] We'd play Scrabble a lot.
I remember I passed Chevy a note that said,
"I'll let you ball my wife Nancy for an E or a Q."
And Chevy, that fit into his wheelhouse of what he thought was funny.
He said, "I'm gonna pick you up. You and I will drive to work every day."
And so very quickly, we all bonded.
[applause]
In life, sometimes you hit a green light.
And sometimes, for no reason, it's a red light.
Is there something out there that is really so bad?
I can't really recommend Three Amigos.
[audience jeers]
[Marty] Three Amigos opened second to Golden Child with Eddie Murphy.
But it's become so revered by, particularly, boys in their forties.
It's interesting how he feels about failures. You know? It, um…
Uh, Lorne, Steve, and Marty,
if you bring up Three Amigos,
only recently will they embrace that people like it.
When I first met Marty and told him how much it meant to me,
he went, "Yeah, but it didn't open. It lost to Golden Child." Like that.
I remember Justin Timberlake telling him how much Three Amigos meant.
Over time, it started to sink in.
Like, "Hey, we… we don't remember that it lost to Golden Child."
"We just think it's a great movie and you need to accept that."
[Marty] But at that time, no one's saying Marty Short's a movie star.
Then we make Innerspace.
Innerspace is a very, very good movie.
[suspenseful music plays]
It's testing through the roof.
And you don't know anything about the experiment?
[Marty] What experiment?
[man] I've been miniaturized.
I was supposed to be injected into the body of a laboratory rabbit,
and somehow, I got inside you instead.
And then no one goes to see Innerspace.
[groans]
We make Cross My Heart.
If the next five guys that you go out with are worse than me,
will you give me a call?
[sighs]
No, I don't think so.
[Marty] I don't know if you've looked at the receipts of that one.
You make movies with a bunch of people for three months,
then you never see them again.
You and I made it a determination, you were the executive producer,
that we would continue on in a relationship.
That was 40 years ago.
[Larry] People regret things their whole life. But I don't ever get that from you.
No, I'm… I… I… I kind of adhere to the, uh, Sinatra lyric…
♪ Regrets I've had a few But then again, too few to mention ♪
That's kind of the philosophy I like to go with.
I feed the chickens.
And I gather the eggs.
Big boat.
The big boat?
Yeah.
Did you hear it?
-I hear it. -Yeah.
I remember, in 1987, Nancy and I bought our house.
And it was based on two movies I was about to make.
The second I signed the mortgage, one movie fell through.
I thought, "I don't deserve this." You know, "I'm 37."
"I don't deserve to look at the ocean from my living room."
I'd say to Nancy, "What if we can't keep this?"
"What if we can't sustain it?"
She said, "Well, then we'll move." [chuckles]
It's like, "We're the… we're the gimmick."
Us.
And as you can see in his career, something fails…
Sorry, it's the truth.
And he just, the next day, steps right up to the plate
and invents something else.
[Marty] In 1992, I did my first Broadway musical, with Bernadette Peters.
-♪ Paula ♪ -♪ That name has a ring to me ♪
-♪ I'm gaga over Paula ♪ -♪ I tingle when you sing to me ♪
I get complete satisfaction of doing a great take in front of a camera.
But to be in opening night and finishing a big production number
and have the audience cheering, that's out of the movies.
♪ You have a chip on your shoulder The size of the Empire State ♪
[David Letterman] How do you get a Broadway show? How does that happen?
Well, the… the… I was doing a film in San Juan.
-[Letterman] How does that happen? -[laughter]
[Marty] I sing, for example, but I'm in comedy.
If you sing in comedy, you can't legitimately sing.
Because people are waiting for the sandbag to drop on you.
I've seen him before, but never knew he could sing.
-I never knew he could sing. -I didn't know.
I knew it all along.
The world finds out tonight.
It's gonna change your life.
Well, it's certainly a dream I always had wanted to do.
I think that, uh, every actor has to do a stage experience in New York
or he's not truly, truly fulfilled as an actor.
There are so, um, many, many people that I… I really must thank
and should, but
the reality is I did it all myself.
[laughter and applause]
He has a new motion picture, uh, opening up now
all over the country with Steve Martin, entitled Father of the Bride.
Martin…
[audience cheering]
People tell me you're a standout in this film.
That you steal the motion picture.
Well, no, I wouldn't say that's true, but it's a very funny film.
Uh, how would you describe Father of the Bride?
-Well, I think it's a touching film. -Uh-huh.
I think it's a comic film. I think it has very moving emotional moments.
And it has the high comedy, and it has the low comedy.
-[women chuckle] -Hello!
I apologize for keeping you waiting. I'm Franck. A pleasure to meet you.
[Steve] It's another example of being so extreme,
and pulling it off.
[Marty] The idea was that Franck
symbolized for Steve Martin his alienation from the process.
We have problem. Hanck does not now want to prep a chicken.
He doesn't what?
Kimberly Williams and Diane could understand him,
and I couldn't.
But to what degree? What degree?
Start.
You have not made up your list yet,
but you know you want a wedding at home on January 6th, right?
The executives, they were apprehensive about this character.
You have not made up your list yet, but you want a wedding at home on January…
And we would keep dialing it down.
So... you have not made up your list yet,
but you know you want a wedding at home on January 6th, right?
Finally, I remember Steve saying,
"Guys, there's no joke here. I understand it perfectly."
Please, with all due respect, welcome to the '90s.
[laughs]
You can't understand anything you say. Are you saying anything when you speak?
I said to Charles, it's fabulous to be here, you know.
You look very handsome in the tie.
I wouldn't go with that color tie, but that shirt's nice.
Right.
Now, Steve plays the father of the bride,
and, uh, do you like Steve more than you like me?
I'll… I'll tell you this,
and, um, this is going to make me sound shallow, and it shouldn't
because if it is, then I'm being misinterpreted.
Steve can do more for me than you.
[chuckles]
Can you just act like a human boy for one minute here?
Look at me like a person.
You can't do it for more than a few seconds. Look at me like a human boy!
Don't mess around with me.
You're gonna be back on that plane.
You understand me?
I understand that I love you.
I was 40 when I played a ten-year-old named Clifford.
Marty Short is a great actor,
and because he does comedic characters,
possibly people don't recognize that as much,
but, you know, comedic characters aren't easier.
They're harder.
[Larry King] Are you… are you a comedian who acts, Martin,
or are you an actor who likes comedy?
I guess I'm an actor who does comedy,
or anything you have.
[man chuckles]
Kind of impatient for a big-time headshrinker, aren't you?
How about you let me explain it my way, okay?
Thanks, that'd be great.
[Larry] What makes a movie attractive to you?
It's not the money…
Mm-hmm. It's money.
[upbeat music plays]
May I have the camera, please?
Yeah, sure, boss.
[Marty] Well over 90% of my career was a total and utter commercial failure.
But I was in enough successful things to keep the wheels spinning.
You mean they can read our thoughts?
I don't know you.
I don't know your work.
But I think that you are a very, very talented young man,
and I'm never wrong about these things.
I… I've never had a big game plan.
I… I've never been necessarily commercially, uh, savvy.
Asshole.
Yes?
I've had lots of things fail.
I've never then looked in the mirror and said,
"I am not worthy. I've been… I've been put in my place."
You are actually a predator.
People are gonna want you to own that.
As opposed to…
What are you exactly, Mitch?
I think it's insane if someone says, "Oh, I had a horrible time making that movie."
"I hated making that movie, but please let it be successful."
If it's only gonna be successful at the box office,
that's very unlikely.
The experience you can have in your soul is the experience of doing it.
Was it creative? Was it fun? Did you have fun dinners?
Was the hang good?
What's that?
Aha!
♪ Entertainment tonight! ♪
[birds chirp]
We're staging a breakfast. I've already eaten.
Oh my God, am I hungry.
[exhales] Famished.
Oh boy.
Mm, it's so good.
It's Snug Harbour,
and I'm having my first vodka tonic of the season.
For, you see, it's the first day of summer.
I s… I s…
I say…
I… I say it's the first day of summer, Henry.
-[Nancy] Are you happy to be here, Daddy? -Yes.
[Marty] Our fabulous cottage that we own in Canada…
[Katherine] Mom, watch how high I go.
[Marty] …was bought by Nancy,
sight unseen by me.
And those are the children.
I remember standing at the counter
while she told Marty that she had bought the cottage.
I said, "Nancy, has he seen the cottage?"
"No, he hasn't seen it."
And I'm thinking, "God, I… Could I do that? Maybe I should do that."
[Catherine] I always did whatever Nancy told me.
That's part of Nancy's character.
"Larry, why don't you go get those, and pick them up and bring them here?"
"Yes, Nancy." Wouldn't you just do whatever she told you to do?
She had such… loving authority.
[laughs]
[Nancy] Hey, say something funny.
Oh… Oh, uh…
Here… Here with the guys…
[imitates choking]
[gentle music plays]
It is one of those places that when you come here,
even if you haven't been here for a year, you feel like you haven't left.
I always thought it was like if heaven existed,
then maybe heaven is your favorite place in eternity.
And that would be this place.
[music fades]
There's Meg Kasdan.
[Nancy] Let go, Ollie.
Hi, Marty.
-[Marty] Hello. Welcome to Snug Harbour. -Thank you. It's quite fabulous.
[Marty] And there, of course,
Larry Kasdan.
Hello, Martin.
[Marty] Hi, Lar.
It's so great here. Congratulations to you on this fabulous place.
[Marty] Thank you. Well, I couldn't have done it without Cross My Heart.
[Meg laughs]
-Well, I feel re… -[Marty laughs]
Responsible for some of it.
[laughs]
[Paul] From the moment that you get there, it's full-on Marty's world.
[cheering]
[gentle music plays]
[indistinct chatter]
[Marty] Excuse me, Andrea. What are you playing, kids?
Monopoly.
Burgers on the barbecue.
We got some Canadian produce being cut up in the kitchen
that Catherine O'Hara is graciously preparing.
[Marty] Wow.
Welcome...
Oh, thank you so much for letting us enjoy…
-[Marty] to Dolshor Manor. -…the beauty of Snug Harbour.
[Marty] It is good. Does your agent know you're here?
Oh, my agent's not interested in where I am at any time.
[Nancy] Have you had any pie since you've been here?
Lots of pie, yeah.
-I… I don't… -Well, I'm... I look like Gleason.
And he gives you this drink that he found in Jamaica.
Ting. Now I'm gonna make you a drink.
Ow.
[jaunty music plays]
Oh, yeah. That's right. You have an alcohol problem.
There we go.
We use the ice.
And by the way, I feel that bathing is for suckers,
so I haven't washed these for a while.
Then you open the Ting.
Ooh. Ooh.
[Larry laughs]
Ooh. There you go.
[indistinct chatter]
[shrieking]
[laughter]
This is my little girl. My little…
[Marty] Come on, Tom. Yes.
-Sixty… -[woman] 73!
Sixty-nine! O sixty-nine!
Oh, Marty. Me with my extra weight.
[boy] Try not to hit it too hard.
Hello? Hi.
[Marty] Yes, it's Snug '96.
-What happened, honey? -I don't know. It's my groin.
Must be something I did last night.
[Marty cackles]
-[Marty] Oh boy. -There she goes.
[Eugene] He's the most connected man here in Hollywood.
He knows everybody from the top to the very bottom of the top.
[plays lively tune]
[Marty] We're as happy as we've ever been.
This is our eldest son, Tom.
Tom, are you ever gonna get a job?
Uh-uh, Daddy. I just love the Canadian woods.
[Marty] We love him, though.
[Tom] When we first met Marty, he got up and did a Tony Bennett imitation
of singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
I had that moment of realizing
I'm gonna hang around with this guy at every opportunity I… I can muster.
[Marty] Tommy!
I love when you mug.
[Rita] Our kids were the same age,
so we would do these big family barbecues and dinners.
And we would just hang out together
because, I mean, who doesn't want to be around Marty anyway?
[indistinct chatter]
-[Walter] Anyone gonna like some red wine? -[man 2] I'd love some.
We were in similar points in our lives.
-Mm-hmm. Yeah, we were. -Yeah.
[Kate] We have Miss Nancy Short.
Happy Mom's Day, Kate.
[Kate] A mom that I truly admire. And we have Oliver.
Mr. Henry Short.
Tom and I go way back with Rita and Kate.
[Tom] We all had kids of the same age. That was a big deal.
So a lot of times, you just work it some way,
"Let's throw these rugrats all together so maybe we can have a conversation."
I think all of us together probably had,
I don't know, 17, 15… It was a lot of kids.
[girl] Pass that to me.
I think the real tell about Marty's heart is how much my kids love Marty.
And from very, very young ages,
how my kids just wanted to be with Marty,
wanted to walk over during a dinner and sit with Marty
and talk to Marty and show off for Marty.
Take that off you, Sawyer!
-That's mine! -Now wait a second. Lucy, Ethel?
Lucy! Ethel!
♪ I will still be… ♪ Oh!
♪ Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da If you're ever… ♪
That's exactly what Ricky did.
[Nancy] Who must they love, darling?
It is my birthday, don't you see?
Well, my request is "Love only me."
Not your stupid parents.
Tom and Rita.
Boring!
[kids laugh]
And Steven and Kate. Been there, done that.
[kids laugh]
He holds friendship right after family as the most important thing.
We're talking about a dynamic that is not easy to pull off,
where I'm best friends with the men, and Steven's best friends with the women.
-So it made it really… -Mm-hmm.
Didn't you make a movie about that, Larry?
Marty! Marty! Come on, you gotta do this dance.
[upbeat music plays]
Now just like…
[Steven] I could never keep up with the repartee
between Tom and Marty and Walter.
So what I resorted to was my video camera.
These are the bloody footprints from the last dive.
Look at the evidence.
Marty and Tom got this idea.
"Hey, let's do that scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
This is very sad, I must say, 'cause we're gonna be killed, you know.
Just get ready to shoot the bad guys.
There's only one way out. So we should jump, I must say.
I know, we'll get shot.
So let's go.
-I'll jump first. -Nope.
-Then you jump first. -No, I said!
-What's the matter with you? -I can't swim!
[laughs]
What, are you crazy? The fall will probably kill ya.
Mama always said jumping off cliffs is like a box of chocolates.
-You never know what you might get. -...might get. Yeah, you're right.
-Come on, Forrest. -I can't swim.
[Marty laughs]
Oh, that's very funny.
For heaven's sakes, the fall will kill us, I must say.
[Butch and Sundance yell]
Oh shit!
-Oh shit! -Oh shit!
[Steven giggles]
[laughter]
[announcer] Now we go out and about with Jiminy Glick.
We have a wonderful full-fledged icon to interview.
Steven Spielberg's with us. Hi, Steven.
-Hello, Jiminy, nice to see you. -Have you won an Oscar?
-Yes, sir. -How come?
And then… And you've made so many films. When are you gonna do the big one?
Wow. How… What do you mean, big one?
Something that clicks with the public.
Yeah. I'd love to see it 'cause I think you're good.
[applause]
[Larry King] Jiminy Glick, a legend in his own mind.
An interviewer far beyond interviewers.
He asks questions nobody wants to answer.
-Would you like a donut? -I would love a donut.
[sneezes]
[sniffs] Oh!
Stupid COVID!
Here you go.
You know, the premise is bad interviewer who doesn't know much about the person.
You're confusing me with the actor Michael Keaton,
who is an acquaintance of mine, who is also a very good actor.
In fact, your styles are totally different because Keaton is very realistic.
And you tend to do that kind of, "Oh, say what?"
Which is wonderful. Hold on, please. Someone's…
Hello?
Oh, hi, Dixie.
He can be that fearless in saying negative things
that are close to home,
and the people he's interviewing can be laughing.
Just 'cause the eyes are so dull
doesn't mean that there's not a machinery of wheels clicking away.
I was hoping for an A-lister,
but I'm thrilled to have you, Bill… Hader.
-It's not really a star's name, is it? -No.
-No, like Leo DiCaprio captures you. -Yes. That's true.
But Bill Hader sounds like a guy who would do inside windows.
[laughs]
You really see what Marty thinks of a career in show business.
-[Marty] When does the film come out? -July 11th.
Oh, I'm gonna be away.
You get a lot of bad reviews.
How does that make you feel and how do you handle it, Steve Martin?
Well, first of all, you know, a lot of people get bad reviews.
Charlie Chaplin got bad reviews.
Mm-mm.
Buster Keaton got bad reviews.
No, not really. Not… not… not on the level you get them.
I was always fascinated by morons with power.
You flip around daytime television, and there's a person with a show.
They've got assistants, and that assistant's sweating
because their tuna fish sandwich was late.
And, "What kind of tuna fish is this?"
Wonderful. Call you back.
-Hi. Leah, and how are you doing? -[Leah] How are you today, Mr. Glick?
Yellow highlighters I don't like because they're not fun.
I wanted to create a character who would go to junkets.
I'd made a film called Pure Luck
where I was stung by a bee and I had a reaction.
And I remember Nancy was on the set, saying, "I cannot see you in there."
And I loved that.
And the Emmys were coming up.
Hi, this is Jiminy Glick
of Jiminy Glick's Lalawood.
And I am so excited to be at the Emmy Awards.
I wanted to go out and honestly… And not be seen as myself.
I'm talking with John Legworth… Lig… Lock…
-John. Just John. -Lockwo…
You used to do circus work.
I was a freak for a while.
And often people wear stilts doing that, but you didn't need them.
I didn't need them. I'm a big, gangly freak. And what…
That tastes actually nice. What's on that?
It's great to see you again. You look like you've lost a lot of weight.
Well, I've had liposuction from every possible opening.
I feel like he could improvise Jiminy Glick to eternity.
Couldn't he?
-You… -[Julia Louis-Dreyfus] Yes?
…are a special spirit.
-Thank you very much. -[laughs]
Oh, I hadn't heard the laugh yet.
He's got his highs, and then he's got his lows.
And he never fails to come up with the right word
when he hits his lows.
You know? Kinko-Belobo.
Oh my God, I don't think that's true.
[John Mulaney] It's real Dada entertainment.
It's real, like, this is all bullshit,
and our career is sitting across from a buffoon like this.
-Thanks. -Interview over, man. Done deal.
Oh my God.
Someone phone a replacement.
It's a really punk rock character.
What's your big beef with the Nazis?
What's my big beef?
-[Marty] It seems you're always knocking-- -What's my big beef?
You're always knocking the Nazis. "Oh, let's…"
It's… it's time for Mel Brooks to knock the Nazis, it seems.
You don't want the headlines, do you?
I don't want it, and yet, when I'm home and I see…
When I'm--
[laughter]
But there's such subtlety
with… with Jiminy too.
That soft side, that empathetic side,
and… and just the… the levels.
Every level of comedy is there with Jiminy.
[Marty] You have to keep constantly making it interesting for yourself.
What you have to do is just say, "This will be fun to me."
"I look forward to doing this. This will make me want to work."
"I wanna show my friends this show." That's what you want to do.
This has been absolutely so much fun.
This is the craziest fucking interview I've ever done in my life.
[laughs]
[Marty] It's Christmas 2003.
Fourteen-year-old Henry Short has done the tree basically this year.
[Henry] Yeah, looks good.
-Like that? -[Henry] Uh-huh.
[Marty] We always have a Christmas party at our house,
and people get up and perform.
♪ It's the most wonderful time Of the year ♪
♪ It's the hap… happiest season of all ♪
Is anybody else here?
Marty, who's doing his thing to open the show,
and then commenting on what you did when you left,
as if you didn't feel bad enough.
[Marty] Who remembers Home Alone?
[cheering]
And I'm sure there's been others.
[laughter]
["Sleigh Ride" plays]
[music stops]
[rhythmic slapping]
[jaunty music resumes]
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Danny Aykroyd.
And I'm Glenn Frey, the happy Eagle.
[laughter]
♪ The bells will be ringin'… ♪
[cheering]
♪ The sad, sad news ♪
Sally Field, ladies and gentlemen.
-[Tom] Oh! -[Marty] There we go.
[laughter]
There we go.
Sally Field, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, we have the ultimate jerk here. Steve Martin is with us.
[Steve] It was a little bit of work.
One time, I spent six months learning how to play "Auld Lang Syne" on the banjo.
Well, now, I gotta think of a fucking song to sing.
I just can't go and have some macaroni and cheese
like normal people.
I gotta hire a vocal coach.
[women sing]
♪ May your days… ♪
[Rita] The Christmas party had become so popular, it got too big for their house.
I said, "Nancy, how are you gonna cull the list?"
She goes, "Honey, if they don't know my kids' names, they ain't coming."
♪ Christmases be white ♪
[Marty] The storm is coming.
[door bangs]
[thunder crashes]
It's… it's coming.
Did you hear that?
[door closes]
Should I pick the kids up?
[Nancy] Yeah, I don't want Ollie driving now.
[Marty] Yeah, okay.
[Nancy] So you better phone.
Well, maybe we should just have dinner at the club then.
-[Marty] Let's do that. -All right. Can you phone and see?
[Marty] Oh my God!
Oh my dear Lord in heaven. I…
This isn't really what I look like.
-[phone ringing] -[Marty] Nancy.
[Nancy] Get the phone! [squeals]
I… I heard a shrink talk once that said certain couples
relate directly to each other.
And certain couples relate through things.
And they just relate in a different way.
And they related like this.
She thought everything he said was hilarious.
And it was a sincere laughter.
[laughter]
It wasn't like a wife doing it.
It was like a person laughing.
You know, "Tell that story again."
[Andrea] She was his biggest fan.
Nothing is more touching when you look back at the videos that he has.
And the camera looks at her watching him,
and her laughing uncontrollably.
Not to fill his ego.
Just because she felt he was genuinely
the best in her book.
[gentle jazz music plays]
[Marty] It's mother doing the daddy dance.
[chuckles]
I can't do it like you. What's the other one?
What's the other one? Oh.
[laughs]
[Marty] In 2007, she thought she had a hernia.
She went to a doctor, and he said,
"I think it's a hernia, but we should have it s… scanned."
And it was scanned, and it turned out to be an ovarian cyst.
Of course, then someone picked up a phone and phoned the National Enquirer.
So it was all in the National Enquirer.
Bernie Brillstein phoned me up, my manager, and said,
"Hey, kid, two things. Um…"
"Bad news is it's on page three of the Enquirer."
"Good news. It's a very nice picture."
A couple of days later, we had a scan. It was proved to be cancer.
[poignant music plays]
He was doing some work during that time.
And the family and Nancy and everybody says,
"You're not gonna stop doing your work because this thing is going to…
this malady is going to, uh, you know, do its damage."
[Marty] At one point, I did have to go and shoot Damages.
My clients aren't guilty of anything.
No one knew what was going on. And Glenn would say, "Marty's here!"
I'd go, "Yeah, just give me a second in the dressing room."
[breathes deeply]
[Catherine] They came over for dinner at our cottage.
And Nancy said, "Come into the bedroom. I wanna talk to you."
So of course, I went… [laughs] …into my bedroom with Nancy
'cause she told me to.
And she said, "Well, I have cancer." And told me what was going on.
"Okay." "And it's gonna be fine." And just told me the facts.
"Okay, I just wanted you to know." "Okay."
Then we go back to dinner.
You're kind of hoping everything works out.
At the time, we didn't know in the very beginning.
At a certain point,
we kind of knew that it wasn't gonna work out.
[Andrea] To Nancy's credit,
just because she was the way she was,
fearless, deter…
You know her. Determined.
Um…
A fighter.
The chick could do anything, okay? She could do anything.
Her attitude was,
"Cancer, whatever. This is how I'm gonna live my life."
[Andrea] Through a lot of pain, she was playing tennis.
I was up at Snug Harbour when it was…
It was the summer where she died in September. [clears throat]
-Hi, darling. -[Marty] Hey, baby.
-We're having fun. -[Marty] Beautiful.
[Deb] We just tried to work off her vibe.
She set the tone, and we followed.
[Marty] She tended to be positive in general.
So when she got sick, her approach was, "I can fight it."
And if they'd give her… She'd be on a new cocktail of chemo.
She'd say to everyone, "I'm cured."
She went to the Internet once, read about it, and said,
"I'm not gonna do that anymore."
[Andrea] She didn't wanna know.
She just wanted to just keep going until she couldn't.
And he was a perfect partner because he let her.
It was extraordinary to watch.
["Unforgettable" by Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole plays]
[Marty] Sing it, Nan.
♪ Ooh, unforgettable… ♪
♪ Unforgettable ♪
[recording] ♪ In every way… ♪
♪ In every way ♪
[recording] ♪ And forever more… ♪
♪ And forever more ♪
[recording] ♪ That's how you'll stay… ♪
♪ That's how you'll stay ♪
[recording] ♪ That's why, darling It's incredible ♪
♪ That someone so unforgettable ♪
♪ Thinks that I am unforgettable ♪
♪ Too ♪
[music fades]
[woman] Steve Martin wrote a melody for Nancy Short, who died a year ago.
I, uh, dedicated it to my friend Marty Short's…
[woman] I'm sorry. It's okay.
Sorry.
Come on, I'll play it for you.
[plays "The Great Remember"]
Like any family, it's just a simple fact that loss is something to negotiate.
It's going to happen to all of us, and we must celebrate
and continue that voice and never let it go.
I couldn't imagine Marty without Nancy.
Yeah.
How's he gonna be able to go on without her?
How's he gonna be able to be funny without her?
He first threw himself into his children's lives. Into his family.
Then he threw himself into his work.
[Michael] I looked at Marty, and I thought,
"He's going through it again. Jesus Christ."
"Give me a break."
[Deb] We'll have full-on conversations about Nancy now.
I mean, we… we don't skirt around her.
Sometimes when he's on the phone and he'll be talking about it,
and I won't agree with him, and I'll say, "Put Nancy on the phone," you know.
"'Cause you know what? She'd have a different opinion here."
[Catherine] He handled it with a sense of humor, looked for the laughs.
I hope you're telling everyone how important laughter is.
[poignant music plays]
I was trying to help him. You try to make sure they're okay.
Hi, video.
Until they can stand on their own two feet.
[Walter] I remember he was working a lot.
♪ Holiday time ♪
What are you doing?
[Walter] He did share that when he was on the road,
that's when he was without Nancy normally.
So the loss actually was a little less tangible
when he was out there working,
as opposed to being home and being home alone.
I don't know what he would do if he wasn't on the move.
I think he would think it'd be a disservice to Nancy if he went down.
I was gonna have this meeting with him.
And I wasn't really aware that he had lost his wife
within the past few years at that time.
You're… you're looking at someone's true half gone.
That's how Lorne Michaels explained to me what kind of a loss that was.
I was trying to do one of those stupid live audience sitcoms,
but in a weird way.
And border on corny,
but not be.
[laughter]
My decorator was going for feng shui, but I just wanted to Wang Chung.
[audience laughs]
[laughs awkwardly]
She lives! She's alive!
Sometimes I'd write for him.
He'd say to me, "Well, this is stupid."
I'd be like, "Isn't the smartest thing to do something really stupid?"
He'd go, "Well, why don't I just put on a big red wig and run in circles?"
And some part of me was like, "Oh, would you do that?"
Something about what I was trying to do didn't translate.
I think I ran into him in the hall when reviews and numbers were not good.
And he just grabbed me and said, "John, this is what it is."
He goes, "98% of it is failure."
And he meant it sincerely. Like, he goes, "This is what the job is."
Nothing works, then something works.
Marty is busier and in more demand now than he ever has been.
[applause]
He's responsible for this thing that has made streaming television history.
He goes off and has these shows that he puts on with Steve.
[laughter]
That is not coming out of a desire to stay on top,
or to fill his coffers, or to stay relevant.
It's got none of that.
Marty is doing it
because the opportunity is there to have a blast.
[cheering and applause]
Stop loving me!
Thank you. I'm your guest host for the week, Martin Short.
[cheering]
Oh, hi there.
I'm actor, comedian, philanthropist,
and award-winning adult film star Martin Short.
People always ask me, "Marty, how do you have so much energy?"
Usually I tell those people, "Get the f*** away from me! Thanks."
[phone rings]
I'm putting you on speaker.
-[Steve] Yeah? -Hey, it's Steve Martin, everyone.
[Steve] Hi, Marty.
Hi, Steve.
[Steve] I'm calling to say I don't like you
or the people you hang around with.
[Marty laughs]
And you felt you had to phone and tell me that?
[Steve] No, and I'm telling you, I hope you're not recording this.
No, no, we're not. Absolutely not.
Okay, enough. We're bombing, by the way.
-[Steve] Yeah, we're bombing. -I know.
[Steve] We all know, whether you're in show business or not,
that you can have a friend you don't see for a year,
and you get back together and it's just like butter.
[Marty] Congratulations.
Remember what we did in that movie?
Gee, do you think it could work?
It's got to work.
[Steve] We did this comedy festival where we interview each other.
I have a question.
You do something I don't. You do impressions and…
[laughter]
We thought, "Why don't we do it again?" And I knew Marty had a solo show.
And I had a… a show with a band. A comedy music show.
And I thought, "Maybe we'll try it. We'll blend it."
Steve and I called this show, If We'd Saved, We Wouldn't Be Here.
[laughter]
You know what I love about touring around with Marty Short?
No paparazzi.
[laughter]
Is there any trepidation at all when you come out and start the show?
-None. -None.
[all laugh]
Isn't that a boring answer?
I'm a little more, uh, nervous than Marty is. Marty is extremely relaxed.
-And the reason he is more nervous-- -I care.
-I'm relaxed… Same joke. -Yeah.
Which has kept me out of the big money because Steve actually cares.
When I think of Steve, and it's not often,
but when I do,
the one thing that strikes me more than anything else about you
is how unbelievably pale you are in person.
[laughter]
Like I'm being haunted, you know?
You look like Anderson Cooper froze to death on New Year's Eve.
[applause]
[Steve] You know that sort of insult premise that we have?
He was the first one to do that.
And I thought, "Oh, that's kind of fun."
And so I'd start to learn to do it back, and he'd do it.
And… and that became a way to converse.
And then I noticed, when we started doing Only Murders in the Building,
and we're working with Selena, who's a person we didn't know…
Marty and I have this little rapport thing going on
to sort of kill time between setups.
And a couple of years go by, and then I notice Selena starts doing it. [chuckles]
-Oh, how did you get here? -It was open.
I don't lock my door. Never have.
-That's insane. -It's neighborly.
A murderer probably lives in the building.
But I guess old white guys are only afraid of colon cancer and societal change.
Sad.
Marty says, "I can't believe that we get to do this."
"I get to go hang out with funny people
and laugh all through all rehearsals."
[Marty] Steve feels that this is a moment.
So much for the moment.
[chuckling]
[man] Come around to yourself now, Marty.
-I was covering the camera. -[Steve] Camera was covered.
Marty and I like honing in on a… a joke
to get it more and more precise.
So it's almost exact.
And then within that exactness, there are variations.
Huh?
Oh my God, Mayberry.
-Well, that's not bad. -[Steve] Yeah, yeah.
-You know, to say something-- -[Steve] R.F.D.
[chuckles]
Well, what about, "Oh My God, Opie?" Or…
Richie Cunningham?
That was his character in Happy Days.
But I think it… it steps on your Ollie and Ron-Ron.
I'll just go, "Huh?"
[Marty] The A-lister. You did it.
-Yeah. -[Marty] Okay.
-From the top. -[Marty] Really?
I'm just thinking of this poor man.
I know.
[gentle music plays]
You know, we're gonna be friends to the end.
Oh, God. I'm fine. You don't need to say anything nice about me.
Especially not while making eye contact.
What if we went behind our menus?
That… that c… That could work, yeah.
[Marty] If it would make you feel better,
you can be my Life Alert contact in case I fall.
And we can get colonoscopies together.
I can't ever imagine stopping.
And I'd like to think I was the best version of myself
on the last day of my life.
Marty really showed me
that, um, it's very important how you carry yourself
through all of these experiences.
Marty is good at life.
[exhilarating classical music plays]
[child squeals]
[child laughs]
In this business, in the world of comedy, there's nobody faster.
There's nobody smarter. There's nobody funnier.
He's just been born with an ability to connect.
You just write the word J-O-Y, joy, and it's a steady state.
You know, it's like… it's like a constant. It's the… It's the speed of light.
Marty operates at the speed of joy.
[chuckles]
["Let 'Em In" by Paul McCartney and Wings plays]
[kids speak indistinctly]
[laughter]
[Marty] Hi, baby.
What a glorious day!
[Marty] Michael and Brian Short.
[Nancy] Watch out for the puddles.
[Marty] Yes, the Levys are at Snug Harbour.
Wow. You know what?
I'm damn impressed.
♪ Someone's knocking at the door ♪
♪ Somebody's ringing the bell… ♪
-Hi, Marty. -[Marty] Hi, Andrea.
♪ Open the door and let 'em in ♪
♪ Ooh, yeah… ♪
-Hi, honey. -[Marty] Hi, honey.
-You're taping me, but I'm taping you! -[Marty] Oh!
So this is a press conference, kids.
And they all love me.
[laughter]
♪ Do me a favor ♪
♪ Open the door and… ♪
What are you doing? Are you doing that face?
♪ Yeah, let 'em in… ♪
-[Marty] Hello, Danny. -Hello.
-[Marty] Well, hi, captain. -[laughs]
[Marty] There's the fabulous Catherine O'Hara. Go, baby.
Wow!
Hey, ese.
[Marty] Oh, Dave. Grow up.
-Andrea, look at the ass on mother. -So fat.
How's your vacation, Stevie?
Innkeeper, more wine.
♪ Brother John ♪
♪ Martin Luther ♪
♪ Phil and Don ♪
♪ Brother Michael ♪
♪ Auntie Gin… ♪
I don't think dogs like me, Marty. I don't know why. I just don't think they like me.
-[Marty] Really? -Yeah, I don't really think so.
[Marty] Well, maybe you… Let me see.
Go, baby, go!
♪ Somebody's ringing the bell… ♪
[Marty sings nonsense words]
♪ Do me a favor… ♪
Happy Thanksgiving.
[laughs]
♪ Ooh, yeah, yeah… ♪
[Marty] Stop it.
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo ♪
[indistinct singing]
Camera on.
That's all the news. It is the news. Talk to you later.
-And, uh… Uh… -[laughter]
So until then.
-[Nancy] Are you happy now, Dad? -Yes.
[music fades]
[Larry] Jiminy, you've interviewed so many people. Like, everybody.
But you've never interviewed Martin Short.
No. I don't find him interesting.
I find people who push too hard
and are desperate for the approval
without really presenting any reason for the approval,
I find it offensive.
[Larry] Did you hear they were making a documentary about him?
Yeah, well, they're making a documentary on everyone.
You know, they're making a… a documentary.
Literally every human being that existed.
This is what I think. I think that Martin Short, he…
There's, like, basically, three voices, two hairstyles, and four dance moves.
And you can't build an empire on that. Although somehow, he has.
But I don't buy it. I don't like it.
[gentle music plays]
[music fades]