Martin Short Is ‘Pure Joy’

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Comedy icon Martin Short somehow turned 70 this year. And while he’s still capable of the unbounded energy he first showed the world on shows like ‘SCTV’ and ‘Saturday Night Live,’ he can also be more sincere and reflective than his biggest fans might expect. In this in-depth conversation, the man who’s known as just “Marty” to his famous friends tells hilarious stories about working with Steve Martin, performing for David Letterman, embodying Jiminy Glick and more. Plus, he breaks down what it took to transform himself into a #MeToo monster for his Emmy-nominated role on ‘The Morning Show.’

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0:00.0	He just might be the funniest person who's ever lived.
0:05.0	And he's on this podcast today.
0:12.1	This is the Last Laugh.
0:14.4	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast,
0:16.5	and with me today is the legend himself, Martin Short.
0:24.6	This summer, Martin received the 18th Emmy nomination of his career for outstanding guest actor in a drama series on The Morning Show.
0:30.9	He appears in just two scenes of that Apple TV series as a filmmaker who's been hashtag
0:37.0	me-toed, and he is phenomenal in it.
0:41.0	It's an unusually subtle and dramatic role for the comedy icon, who first broke through
0:46.0	on SCTV before spending just one hugely impactful season on Saturday Night Live.
0:53.2	From there, he went on to star in movies like Three Amigos,
0:56.2	Interspace, and Father of the Bride. Martin Short turned 70 years old this year, but as you will
1:03.3	hear in our in-depth conversation, he hasn't lost a step and is funnier than ever. I really am so excited for you to hear this episode, so let's not
1:14.3	waste any more time. Here's me with Martin Short. What's going on? I feel like you're known as
1:20.9	being a very social person, so I've been curious how you've been handling this isolation.
1:25.1	No, so I'm listening to the doctors so that if friends of mine haven't left
1:29.2	of 14 days and I haven't, we can social have a dinner outside.
1:33.1	We can do that, social distance.
1:34.4	That's good.
1:35.0	It's not complicated.
1:36.4	It's just for some bizarre reason, it became political.
1:40.8	Yeah.
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