Extended Interview: Martin Short
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
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4.3 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Correspondent Tracy Smith sits down with comedian Martin Short, star of "SCTV," "Saturday Night Live" and "Only Murders in the Building," to talk about how director Lawrence Kasdan convinced him to become the subject of the documentary, "Martin: Life Is Short." They also discuss applying his childhood fantasies in show business; experiencing grief and loss as a young man; his first professional job on "Godspell" with Gilda Radner; and the value of reading his own reviews. He also describes his treasured characters like Ed Grimley, Nathan Thurm and Jiminy Glick.
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| 0:43.3 | This is Jane Paulie. From Saturday Night Live to his hit streaming series, only murders in the building. Martin Short has been entertaining us for decades. |
| 0:49.3 | But along with his many successes, there's been no shortage of heartache. |
| 0:55.0 | Now he's looking back on his life and career in a new documentary |
| 0:59.3 | and talking with Sunday morning's Tracy Smith. |
| 1:03.8 | All right. |
| 1:04.5 | So you've been friends with Lawrence Kasdan for more than 30 years. |
| 1:09.7 | I met Larry. I met Larry. |
| 1:14.4 | I met Larry in 1986. |
| 1:21.6 | We did a film together called Cross My Heart that he executive produced, but he was very, |
| 1:22.9 | very involved on the Saturday Day. |
| 1:26.2 | He was directed by a man named Orion Bernstein, and that's where I first met him. |
| 1:36.3 | And you make movies, and you do projects, and sometimes you're in Yugoslavia with an actor for three months, and you become best friends, and you share stories, and there's gossip, and then you never see them again. But in certain cases, I thought, |
| 1:51.8 | no, I want to keep that person in my life. And Larry Kaston was one of them. |
| 1:57.4 | So has this documentary been a while in the making where you talked about it? |
| 2:01.6 | And why did you decide to say yes to a Martin... |
| 2:04.6 | You know, Larry Foamy a couple of years ago, I guess, and said that... |
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