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Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 498th episode of The Hollywood Reporter's

Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the funniest

people in show business and has been for the past half century. He's a writer, actor and variety

specialist who has been nominated for 14 M.E.s and two Tonys winning one of each. In 1994,

the New York Times described him as a comic chameleon. In 2018, Esquire called him a living legend,

one of the last real utility players of comedy. In that same year, New York magazine labeled him

a comedy god, noting that he's carved out a singular career as a show business jack-of-all trades

and is the type of funny where talk show hosts introduce him as the funniest man alive. Adding,

it's a testament to his talent that he's attained pantheon status in the comedy world while never

quite solely carrying one thing, blockbuster movie or hit sitcom or live special, that was a true

mainstream success. Well, five years later, that caveat can be removed from the equation,

as he is one of a trio of stars, along with longtime friend and collaborator Steve Martin

and Gen Z. Queen Selena Gomez, who have made Hulu's only murders in the building over the course

of two seasons one of the most celebrated series on television. The man who on that show plays

Oliver Putnam, a bankrupt Broadway producer now working with two neighbors to solve murders

in their New York City apartment building. Martin, short. Over the course of our conversation from

his home in Pacific Palisades, the 73-year-old Canadian and I discussed his lifelong passion for comedy,

even in the face of tragedy. Indeed, between the ages of 12 and 20, he lost his oldest brother

in a car crash, his mother to cancer, and his father to complications of a stroke. And 13 years ago,

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