I think that when you go through early loss, my brother, David died when I was 12, my mother's 17, my father at 20.

And you have to process that.

And I was in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1970, so there wasn't Beverly Hills where there was a shrink coming each morning.

So you get on your bike and you bike for a couple of miles and you think, can you ponder what is life about?

And I think it gave me this advantage over other 20-year-olds.

Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes.

I'm your host, Jesse David Fox.

This week's guest is Martin Short.

I mean, I can't believe it.

Martin Short needs no introduction, but I kind of just want to give one anyway because this is very exciting for me.

Martin Short is just one of those people, one of those people who people in comedy will casually refer to as the funniest person alive.

That's who Martin Short is.

Short never achieved the box office success of some of his friends, but he has done something even more remarkable,

remained incredibly, unbelievably freaking funny, nonstop for 50 years from SETV, Desanel, to only murders in the building, the new Hulu show he co-stars on.

Marty is, and you call him Marty when you meet him, Marty just as a supernatural or maybe superhuman ability to create characters that somehow seem both entirely alien and instantly getable and hilarious.

It grimly, the pointy hair, acceptable man, child who became his first breakout hit, Nathan Thurm, the overly defensive defense attorney, Jackie Rogers Jr., the grotesque albino blonde bob haircut having vagish lounge singer.

And last and truly most definitely not least, Jimmy Glick, the sick of fantic yet incredibly rude celebrity interviewer.

Jimmy first appeared on the short live the Martin Short show in 1999, though the seeds were first first planted when he hosted SNL in 1996.

We're talking about him today because this year marks the 20th anniversary of the debut of Primetime Glick, which aired on Comedy Central from 2001 to 2003, and was at the time and is currently still one of my all-time favorite things that has ever existed, I love it so much.

Fun fact, at least to me, Martin Short ended up doing Primetime Glick after turning down an offer to co-star in the eventual smash hit Broadway run of the producers,

because he wanted to stay on the West Coast and not be away from his family. A decision comedy is very lucky for.

There are clips on YouTube of Jimmy and every single one has at least one moment that is so funny, it is unreal.

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