Best of 2021: Steve Martin and Martin Short

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Willie looks back on his memorable interviews of the year. Since starring together in The Three Amigos in 1986, Steve Martin and Martin Short have worked together on the blockbuster Father of the Bride movies, toured the country making relentless jokes at each other’s expense, and most recently they’re starring in a hilarious series about three neighbors working together to solve a murder in their New York City apartment building. In this “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the two comedy legends to talk about that series Only Murders in the Building and their 35 years of friendship.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another special edition of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast where
0:07.0	I'm picking my favorite conversations from 2021 and no list would be complete.
0:12.8	I don't want to say it's my number one favorite but I'm also not saying it's not my number
0:17.0	one favorite.
0:18.1	My conversation with Steve Martin and Martin Short.
0:22.5	Need I really say more?
0:24.0	They co-starred in the Hit Hulu series Only Murders in the Building this year alongside
0:29.2	Selena Gomez as three strangers obsessed with a true crime podcast.
0:34.7	They've been friends for decades since they met on the set of the three amigos where
0:39.9	they co-starred of course, Witch Heavy Chase.
0:42.1	They also did Father of the Bride together.
0:44.8	Their chemistry is beyond unspoken.
0:47.6	It's like two brothers who were born at the same moment, two twins who understand each
0:52.4	other implicitly and live together on some other wavelength.
0:55.9	They are so funny as an interviewer in a case like this you kind of just sit back and watch
1:01.6	them do their thing together.
1:03.1	So please enjoy again.
1:04.9	Steve Martin and Martin Short on the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
1:09.5	Guys thanks for doing this.
1:10.8	Thank you.
1:11.8	We're happy to see you.
1:12.8	Told you I just got caught up last night.
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